blep-arsh

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by blep-arsh 3y ago
It's just a crypto token exchange. Moreover, phone numbers it sells aren't "real", these are NFTs of phone numbers, nothing more. You can't use them for calls or anything else, there's no network service, the o
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
His idea was to begin with one's voice as a musical instrument, so one would interact with music directly at first, learning the theory and the notation along the way.
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
There's indeed a lot of firmware (not just microcode). A bunch of code is signature-checked and executed from the boot ROM and firmware flash in order to bring up the CPU and its various auxiliary cores (starting with the security proc
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
AptX and its HD version (which is basically the same algorithm configured with a different set of parameters) are very simple compared to e.g. AAC. If I remember correctly, aptX was initially designed as a computationally efficient ADPCM-ba
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
I can confirm from my experience that unrestricted door close buttons lead exactly to this - riders closing the doors without waiting for others to board.
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
It really isn't. I've spent a lot of time trying to tune langmap/keymap and looking into other options but the result is mostly unsatisfactory. Some of the issues: only translates the first letter of the command; doesn't
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
So if I buy a counterfeit MFi cable it still has a solid chance to destroy my phone before the MFi validation logic kicks in.
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
I'm receiving lots of (non-SMS) spam over iMessage, though. Sometimes daily.
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
The protocol is just registering a public key for each device to the server-side directory. A device-specific private key is generated and kept client-side on every device that logs in to iMessage.
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
64 felt a bit too restrictive, so I've bought a 256GB one but ordered a replacement 512GB Samsung NVMe card later (1TB is also available for about $100 but I'm not sure about Deck compatibility and thermals). I'm glad that&#x
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
This is true for tools in general but I've managed to master vim to the point I can be somewhat productive yet it never feels quite ergonomic. Moreover, I think vim-like UI is holding everyone back nowadays. Learning all the intricacie
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
They would also need a bank account. I'm not sure whether it's possible to receive card payments anonymously.
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
Firefox has (had?) a flag to disable clipboard-related JS events but this flag is global and toggling it breaks copying from various rich text editors.
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
P.S. These players don't have very powerful CPUs, obviously, and this makes me wonder whether they can handle more complex audio compression formats (such as AAC encoding for Bluetooth) without cheating and using sub-optimal encoding s
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
M0 is much lighter and cheaper and uses USB-C instead of a proprietary cable. The feature set is roughly similar (audio formats, USB audio, BT source/sink, etc.). It doesn't offer any media sync software, though. DAC should be goo
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
Sony specifically might not be the best option for a modern audio player. I've tried using A55 but exchanged it for a Shanling M0 eventually.
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
> They also work in cybersecurity for Russian government (including conducting attacks) Is there a source for that?
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
Advertising, for example, is a significant revenue stream for Yandex and the advertising market has lost a lot of businesses, so it's possible that the entire Russian ad market is now worth less than whatever the Yandex' share was
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by blep-arsh 4y ago
Political views might be a factor but emigration is primarily limited by logistical challenges. You are assuming people can just leave everything and everyone behind and just fly into the unknown. Well, many do (and I didn't... yet), b
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
Just for example, cryptocurrencies appear to be the best option if one wants to leave Russia with their savings at this point.
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
They won't be, though, even if we assume they should be. "Holding Russian people to account", on the other hand, is emotionally easy and relatively consequence-free.
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
They have moved image parsing to a separate restricted process. That's way overdue. Wouldn't hurt to have these parsers rewritten with more attention to memory safety, though.
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
Would be surprised if they do. My service is on the receiving end of these scrapers and it gets annoying when some "growth hacker" decides to flood the service with meaningless CPU-heavy requests with a bunch of typos in parameter
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
I think 16-bit quantization noise level is usually lower than the noise of all the analog hardware before the ADC, but 24-bit quantization noise seems to be lower than even the internal noise of audio ADCs so there seems to be no reason to
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
I've stopped using desktop Linux at home because it's, unsurprisingly, a rather complex system with lots and lots of moving parts (moreover, some of the parts tend to get replaced often) and it has some annoying UI issues I consid
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
I've seen dodgy chargers knock out capacitive touchscreens, albeit temporarily and until disconnected.
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
I wonder if there should be a 911-like test number that would cause the phone and the network to go through the emergency call procedure, just not connect to the actual call center.
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
You can't just assign random semantics to "consistency", "availability" and "partition tolerance" if you want to apply the CAP theorem.
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
I can Cmd-C on one device and Cmd-V on another. It works wirelessly and securely without explicit network configurarion and even without network access. The amount of complexity that enables this simple feature is staggering if you look int
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by blep-arsh 5y ago
User behavior monitoring and data collection tech would need to be mass-deployed first, in order to gather metrics for product improvement purposes. Not a problem for a sufficiently innovative company, I guess.

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