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by divbit 10y ago
Apple should start marketing the pro as "faster than a quantum computer."
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by divbit 10y ago
Presumably you can corrupt a couple of small networks on which bitcoin nodes are running and that wouldn't disrupt time for the entire chain and clients relying on it...
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by divbit 10y ago
>There is also no mechanism for figuring out whether you have all the existing blocks, meaning any blockchain based timeserver could still be tricked into reporting an earlier date by preventing him from receiving the newest blocks. I fe
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by divbit 10y ago
I've raised the issue with Coinbase support before, and I don't know if it's fixed (this was probably last year sometime), but when I used to use Coinbase heavily, it was actually impossible to turn off sms 2fa. Even now, I h
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by divbit 10y ago
"With only two servers, the client can end up with proof that something is wrong, but no idea what the correct time is. But with half a dozen or more independent servers, the client will end up with a chain of proof of any server'
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by divbit 10y ago
If you are taking this as an argument for e.g. linux over Windows, Certificate pinning is a good thing though? It helps prevent mitm attacks, as stated in the article.. (Not to say that you shouldn't run linux )
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by divbit 10y ago
How about a very large watch screen, going with the wearable theme...
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by divbit 10y ago
Yeah, I use a similar device and it really is an almost perfect replacement for pen and paper notes
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by divbit 10y ago
Same but onenote with a tablet and pen, because then I can access it from wherever...
280.
by divbit 10y ago
I use the app version on win 10(anniversary) not the desktop. Don't know if that makes a difference but works fine for me. Even talking across the great firewall of china works fine surprisingly.
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by divbit 10y ago
For reference my devices with skype installed are my personal phone with win 10, my development phone with ios, and win 10 / osx laptops. I also have a (5.1) android for development, but no skype on there.
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by divbit 10y ago
I feel it has gotten better recently, I've used Skype as a phone replacement ( with an actual skype number and in conjunction with google voice for sms) for a few years now, and currently run it on two laptops and two phones and haven&
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by divbit 10y ago
>no replacement with existing carrier services etc. If you mean the actual data <-> phone connection, then probably correct if you are frequently outside of wifi range. If you mean calling / texting, then I have used a google
284.
by divbit 10y ago
nitpick: based on the example you linked, you probably mean 1-1 in the opposite direction, or something like, "no well-defined function" in that direction.
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by divbit 10y ago
For anything that doesn't require actual hardware (like camera, touch-id, etc.) I completely agree: 1.b) Mobile apps require updates for any issues, which must pass slow app store guardians. 5) (user above did 4) browser navigates con
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by divbit 10y ago
Haven't used duckduckgo much, so thanks for the search term (too busy trying to get bing rewards points haha). In any case, I found the following interesting tidbit from http://apa.org/monitor/oct01/multitask.
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by divbit 10y ago
Shitty life pro tip : Get a pair of 2x glasses at the dollar store for all your phone reading needs.
288.
by divbit 10y ago
Besides the fact that the font is really tiny, it's actually much nicer on phone than most of the "n things..." websites which seem to try and maximize clicks.
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by divbit 10y ago
got any links? I did just google this, as efficiency is a topic I find interesting
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by divbit 10y ago
I like to think that if I can do a task semi-competently (say competence level N_task) with a full coffee of focus, then I can do two tasks (task_1, and task_2) with the same amount of coffee at a competence level of A * N_task_1, (1-A) * N
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by divbit 10y ago
If you don't mind people seeing your occasional stupid ideas that don't pan out, then yeah, it works fine: https://github.com/divbit/phd-thesis edit: as an addendum to this, overleaf has built-in git integrat
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by divbit 10y ago
Confusingly, plain CT actually uses ring sigs as part of the crypto, but not the kind that hides sender / receiver, rather as part of the commitment scheme.
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by divbit 10y ago
Possibly misunderstood the article, but it seems they are comparing performance once the bundle is already loaded. That said, as someone who personally prefers using browser over apps ( at least for content consumption, rather than somethin
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by divbit 10y ago
"When the president does it, it's not illegal"
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by divbit 10y ago
My first android device was one of these: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Archos-32-3-2-Inch-Internet-Tablet-w... must have been 6ish years ago, and came with only wifi.
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by divbit 10y ago
Awesome thanks for the hard work and feedback! yeah with respect to point 4, I mainly mentioned this because I do almost all of my app development while running the thing in an emulator - maybe you are saying it's only needed for the d
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by divbit 10y ago
Hey - (some specific feedback not covered in the form thingy )- I've been a long time windows phone user (currently sporting a lumia 950 which shares time with an ios / android device for developtment), and recently switching to s
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by divbit 10y ago
From the article: > Shouldn’t the new and improved Windows 10 be immune from the bugs that affect Windows 7, 8 and 8.1? I'm not sure code works like that...
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by divbit 10y ago
Much better thanks.
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by divbit 10y ago
Really quite hard to read based on, I guess, the poor scan quality.. I wonder if there is a better digitized version somewhere

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