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by dbrgn 6y ago
32 bit microcontrollers are well-supported, and often cheaper, more power efficient and with more features than old 8-bit uCs. https://github.com/rust-embedded/wg
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by dbrgn 6y ago
By that measure, both Java and JavaScript are highly unstable programming languages.
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Rust, where even unstable functions can be stable! (Yes, I know that "unstable" in slice::select_nth_unstable refers to unstable sorting.)
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Darktable 3.4 Released(darktable.org)
2 points by dbrgn 6y ago|0 comments
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Oh, that seems obvious in hindsight :) Thank you!
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Ask HN: Why is the nm tool called nm?
1 points by dbrgn 6y ago|3 comments
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by dbrgn 6y ago
I bought a weighted Yamaha Arius e-piano (YDP-163) about 3 years ago and am very happy with it! (Cost was around 1000$ I think, but there are also cheaper models.) I had a very cheap children's keyboard with non-weighted keys before. I
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by dbrgn 6y ago
I suspect it's not about the CPU count, but about RAM. On a constrained system, it's possible that the build cannot complete. A few gigabytes of RAM are required, with 8 GiB it should definitely work. Additionally, if you're
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by dbrgn 6y ago
This is huge news! I don't know of another country that has better official geodata than Switzerland. The geo-information platform at https://map.geo.admin.ch/ has been online for a few years now (for free), and contai
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by dbrgn 6y ago
I'm a bit wary of logging in. Does Spotify provide OAuth with fine-grained control, i.e. will the page only get access to the music history or could it in theory change playlists and billing information?
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by dbrgn 6y ago
With regards to hiking in the mountains, the difference in distance between straight line vs corrected distance is quite irrelevant though. But the elevation profile of a track is important of course. Many applications do include elevation
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by dbrgn 6y ago
A GoPro performs horribly in bad light though. And it costs serveral hundred dollars as well. If you already own one, then it might be an option. But buying a GoPro to get a better webcam doesn't really make sense.
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Threema predates Signal (and even TextSecure v2). Using plain NaCl boxes also has certain advantages: The crypto is quite simple and you can encrypt a message statelessly for a recipient if you have their public key. With the Signal protoco
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by dbrgn 6y ago
The dockerfile is included in the scripts directory. It's mostly just Ubuntu + Android SDK/NDK. https://github.com/threema-ch/threema-android/blob/main/scri...
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by dbrgn 6y ago
I can understand how it eats into the compact camera market (I wanted to buy a compact camera a year ago, and essentially all models on the market today are from 2005-2010 and usually vastly inferior in quality to a high-end phone). However
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Are you sure about the clasification? From what I heard the main issue is often cooling. Cameras and sensors are often not engineered as video capturing devices, so recording time needs to be limited to prevent overheating. Often you cannot
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by dbrgn 6y ago
I can imagine, I also just switched from a Canon DSLR to a mirrorless Fujifilm. Even apart from smartphones, purely in the photography space, mirrorless cameras are becoming more popular (and I'm not aware of a significant offering by
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by dbrgn 6y ago
The article states: > Don’t think this is enough to make them stay in the business. Troubling times for Nikon :( Is there some context on this? Is Nikon facing trouble, and if yes, why?
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Messages are not stored, only forwarded. This means that very little server infrastructure is required. Additionally, there are offerings for companies (mostly the same app, but with MDM management possibilities) that use subscription based
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Collection of relevant information: - "Open source" technical landing page: https://threema.ch/open-source/ - GitHub account: https://github.com/threema-ch/ - Reproducible builds: https
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Also here, with a bit more information than "just" the source :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25493208
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Threema apps are now open source under the AGPLv3(threema.ch)
8 points by dbrgn 6y ago|2 comments
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Hmm, how is the contact information (phone number) in Signal not linked to your identity?
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Did you watch the video? It contains a few very impressive examples.
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by dbrgn 6y ago
As suggested in another comment, the best way would probably to shoot in RAW (so you get the data directly from your camera's sensor) and then use postprocessing tools made for negatives. Darktable has a new module called "negadoc
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Well, it's not like they were forced to do name resolution over DNS before... They could just as well deploy their own custom name resolvers and talk to them via IP from applications like YouTube for Android. The scenario you're
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Most if not all tiling window managers allow you to do that by switching to a floating mode.
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25427756
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Thanks! Since I've also written a lot of audio/video call code, it's always interesting to learn about design choices of other applications. Do you rotate the group key regularly and/or on group events (e.g. a person lea
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by dbrgn 6y ago
Does someone know more about the architecture of Signal's group calls? From looking at the ringrtc source, it seems that the calls are not fully meshed, but use some kind of group key and a SFU for server-side media distribution. Is th

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