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by abram 6mo ago
It's pretty sad that Apple's app review doesn't include checking to make sure an app isn't impersonating an existing popular app. Especially for crypto/financial apps!
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A fake Ledger app on the Apple App Store drained $9.5M in crypto(coindesk.com)
8 points by abram 6mo ago|5 comments
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by abram 6mo ago
I've used Linux on desktops/laptops intermittently since the year 2000, but I've been using mostly MacOS in recent years. With Apple not inspiring confidence lately, I wanted to try using Linux as a daily OS again. So I insta
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by abram 7mo ago
The procession of screenshots showing the Pages toolbar changing over the years is incriminating. For years the UI has been sliding in the direction of being simpler and (arguably) prettier, at the cost of being harder to understand and use
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by abram 11mo ago
The Adobe DNG standard for raw camera images is based on TIFF as well. DNG is used in lots of places, including the raw capture support built into all modern iOS and Android smartphones. I’ve been using both TIFF and DNG this very week in m
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by abram 3y ago
Ha! The article made me imagine a scene like this one in Sneakers, where over the course of dinner someone tricks their target into saying the complete set of training phrases for one of these iPhone voices. But then I realized that if the
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by abram 4y ago
I read this article and was surprised it was written yesterday because I could have sworn I read it a few months ago. Turns out I was remembering a post by a different author making the same arguments, discussed on HN here: https:/&#x
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by abram 5y ago
Discussions of photographic materials usually use density instead of opacity. Density is a logarithmic value equal to -log10(transmission), where transmission is the amount of light passed through (or reflected) on a scale of 0 to 1. So to
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by abram 5y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote | Machine Learning Engineer Develop and Fix, Inc. is seeking an AI/ML expert to help us train and deploy machine learning models for identifying, analyzing and segmenting scans of photographic film. Our app
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by abram 5y ago
I find Apple's suggestion to use Siri to control the volume on the AirPods Pro [0] to be worse than some of the ideas on that page. The idea of having a spoken conversation in public in which I must request a volume change via a brande
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by abram 12y ago
It would be interesting to get the stats on fumbles during kickoff/punt returns (when a neutral kicking ball is in use, not a team-supplied offensive ball), and on plays involving interceptions or fumble recoveries (where they would be