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931.
by barnabee 7y ago
He's right to an extent, but face recognition is instant, silent, works from a distance, allows near perfect identification of a specific individual in many cases, and is particularly onerous on the individual to evade compared to ot
932.
by barnabee 7y ago
Whilst I tend to agree, the fact that a gRPC service is very unlikely to be designed to be ‘RESTful’ to the point of obtuseness is a huge plus. It might not be the best tool for the job but it’s a lot better than the other most cargo-culted
933.
by barnabee 7y ago
Picking up and moving the cursor in iOS 13 shows the cursor about half a centimetre above my finger as soon as I move the finger up or down at all. The precise location it will be moved to is perfectly visible to me. Is this not how the fea
934.
by barnabee 7y ago
Citation needed. Seriously, I can enter my pin far more quickly than the alternative of print -> find flat surface -> sign -> return. And we have contactless for small transactions where you might swipe and not sign, which is again
935.
by barnabee 7y ago
“but”? how about “and”… these are all positives
936.
by barnabee 7y ago
This would not shut down bitcoin.
937.
by barnabee 7y ago
The real joke is that running this in DOSBox in JavaScript in Electron in a VM etc. etc. would probably still be an order of magnitude faster and more efficient for a trained user than half the [web] apps that would like to replace it.
938.
by barnabee 7y ago
So then the airport sends friendly drones to intercept the nasty drones. It's drones all the way down… Exactly as Neal Stephenson predicted in Diamond Age.
939.
by barnabee 7y ago
It sucks that the protocol is proprietary but there seems to be a reasonably healthy ecosystem of 3rd party Slack clients so that advantage isn’t totally gone. I find the wee-slack plugin for the WeeChat IRC client to be pretty good ( https
940.
by barnabee 7y ago
There are two acceptable ad models for me: Paying, if it goes [almost] entirely to the publisher, not to see them Not paying anything to anyone, and still not seeing them (ad blocking)
941.
by barnabee 7y ago
What? It’s a separate browser, it cuts into the market share of whatever the user was using before.
942.
by barnabee 7y ago
Garmin make a device called Varia Vision that does this.
943.
by barnabee 8y ago
As an accountant once told me: “Revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, cash is king”
944.
by barnabee 8y ago
I equally wonder where we'd be if no-one ever indulged in a premature optimisation…
945.
by barnabee 8y ago
Apps like AdGuard Pro let you block domains for all apps by intercepting and blocking DNS locally on iOS.
946.
by barnabee 8y ago
The difficulty (amount/cost of power required) goes up over time when the price goes up because more miners join the network as it becomes more profitable, which means that on average new coins are produced more often. The network targ
947.
by barnabee 8y ago
Nope. RC aircraft are fine and have very clear laws https://www.caa.co.uk/Consumers/Unmanned-aircraft/Model-airc... As do drones, which have been updated fairly recently and only require a license (for now at leas
948.
by barnabee 8y ago
Requesting the code doesn't mean I'm obliged to run all of it. If you serve data to my computer I am free to do whatever the hell I want with it, if you don't like that, don't serve me the data.
949.
by barnabee 8y ago
The Apple app "Files" (which might not be installed by default) may be of interest as Finder-like functionality - it lets you browse, search and manage files stored on the device, in iCloud and in 3rd party services (Dropbox, Goog
950.
by barnabee 8y ago
If someone steals my life savings I want reversible transactions via the court system, not the settlement layer.
951.
by barnabee 8y ago
I don’t generally enjoy learning from videos, I find reading quicker and like being able to skip around, but Vi Hart ( https://youtube.com/vihart ) is brilliant.
952.
by barnabee 8y ago
If they'd got it as right as Heroku then deployment (or CD configuration) would be a one liner once a server is set up and scaling etc. would be configurable via a very simple web console or CLI. Unless I missed something, last time we
953.
by barnabee 9y ago
I regularly see 150-200 Mbps (testing with fast.com in London on EE) but it can drop to 50-odd even with a good signal (I'm guessing due to contention) and the drop off with a low signal (1/2 bars) is dramatic. If 5G gives 100+ on
954.
by barnabee 9y ago
"Cookies were originally designed to track users across the web on browsers" No, they weren't. They were designed to store small bits of data (such as a login or session token, or form data) between page requests within one s
955.
by barnabee 9y ago
[citation needed] Seriously, I find git very non-sane if not quite insane. I really liked darcs and still prefer Mercurial but sometimes the value attained by adopting standardisation overcomes the extra value in a "better" altern
956.
by barnabee 9y ago
Vega Protocol | Go developer | London, UK | Full Time Vega is building a fast, professional quality derivatives exchange built on a blockchain. We are motivated by a shared belief that markets should be open and participants should be the b
957.
by barnabee 9y ago
It's younger than most technology is when it becomes successful. Much younger when you realise you think about the age of the concepts, designs, algorithms, etc. that eventually become successful rather than a specific attempt at imp
958.
by barnabee 9y ago
Stocks are also traded on many different order books [1], each of which will have different prices, so the quoted price is just as made up (although usually by ignoring all but one venue rather than averaging across them). Also worth noting
959.
by barnabee 9y ago
In 2007 (when the first iPhone was released), it had been (at least) 15 years since "phones proved they could run apps" [1]. Knowing a limited version of something is possible doesn't tell you a lot about the road to commerci
960.
by barnabee 9y ago
It's not too late. It is risky, but then no good investments aren't. The trick is to diversify.

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