awalton

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by awalton 13y ago
If flying cars existed, I'd drive one. If pigs flied I'd never leave home without an umbrella. If it could be done, maybe. But I do not think it can be done well. A watch's screen is maybe 2". It's designed
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by awalton 13y ago
How can it seem to be anything, it's not even real yet. It's a marketing mockup. AMOLED fits the bill easily because the technology allows you to place dots however you need to place dots and doesn't restrict you to arrays or
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by awalton 13y ago
Cutting an AMOLED screen in a circle isn't exactly rocket engineering. Driving it will be a bit of a challenge, but not something that a team of electrical engineers can't overcome. The biggest problem is that it's going to b
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by awalton 13y ago
It's marketingware, which is worse than vaporware because it means they spent money making mockups instead of, you know, the actual device.
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by awalton 13y ago
Just really curious: Why does a watch need a touchscreen? What are you touching on your watch? Digital watches already have a wonderful UI: they're called "buttons", and they're located on the sides of the screen, so you
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by awalton 13y ago
This is exactly what's wrong with the idea of smartwatches today. People want to do things like put websites on them. Why, why on earth do I need the web on my watch?
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by awalton 13y ago
> So much for the 24/7 support they claim Step 1: Get a new provider.
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by awalton 13y ago
> My esoteric programming language isn't properly supported by the popular kids' web tool that I'm likely not even paying to use in the first place. I'm OUTRAGED! Yep, seems about right.
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by awalton 13y ago
No, it's really not Unity, it's just a custom in-app toolkit. It's a lot closer to Mozilla's XUL layer if anything. The funny part is though, that they intentionally disable 3D video acceleration, but are happy to use an
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by awalton 13y ago
Taking one argument for horribly bad designed "smart devices" (the current generation of smart watches) and applying it to a different field altogether (airplanes and cars) is absolute utter bollocks. First of all, most of all civ
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by awalton 13y ago
Google's self-driving car platform is based on sensor fusion - it does use GPS, but if the GPS network goes down, it still has mountains of lidar, photographic (Street View cars aren't just for the heck of it), and even regular ol
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by awalton 13y ago
Better for the watch form-factor would be the kinetic drive. Plus it gives you an incentive to be more active and the watch can annoy you if you're letting it die by being sedentary. But both the Citizen-style "eco drive" and
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by awalton 13y ago
> There are 255 possible representations of zero. They are all considered to be equal. And we're done here folks.
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by awalton 13y ago
Ah, so this is what the Bitcoin burglars have up their sleeves. Sell the bitcoins for pennies on the dollar in trade for clean identity information. They're really going to clean up.
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by awalton 13y ago
This is some seriously bad precedence. Perhaps it will be good ammunition for Netflix to take to regulators, but it's far more likely it's better ammunition for Comcast to use against Google, Facebook, etc. I think the best thing
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by awalton 13y ago
Let's be serious here, laundering a bitcoin is as easy as trading it at an exchange for another one. Getting a wallet is as easy as generating a new one. There's no permanent record that person X had bitcoin Y, just which wallets
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by awalton 13y ago
Given where we are (hacker news) I'm astounded the first response to this article wasn't "Use bitcoins!" since that's exactly the type of thing that it is best at. Then all you need to do is start explaining bitcoin
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by awalton 13y ago
TCP gives you two guarantees over UDP: * All packets arrive. (Reliable transport). * All packets that arrive are in order. (Sequential transport). Unfortunately, both of these aren't so necessary for real time audio (and somewhat less
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by awalton 13y ago
You're really good at copying-and-pasting canned responses from previous comments... throwawayhugerandomnumber
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by awalton 13y ago
Wow. This is the sanest commentary about systemd and the state of things I've read to-date.
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by awalton 13y ago
Luckily, security agencies have already solved this particular problem. Instead of texting "Are you okay, please respond [this way]", there's a very simple challenge-response mechanism. Agent in the field knows the correct re