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BaldPhone: Accessible interface for your smartphone, suitable for seniors(baldphone.com)
2 points by k0stas 6y ago|0 comments
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by k0stas 6y ago
Imaging and distortion directly affect quality.
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by k0stas 6y ago
> It's fairly well known that above the ~$100 price level, headphone sound quality differences mostly disappear once equalized properly [0]. This depends on your definition of "mostly disappear". If you mean, ignoring, sou
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by k0stas 6y ago
Kirsten Dirksen has a great Youtube video touring the building with a long-time resident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQaaftbHMi8
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by k0stas 6y ago
> The only success stories with this strategy are Australia and New Zealand, which are island nations completely isolated from anywhere else. I don't know why it is ignored, but Vietnam (population 90M) is a large country with many
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by k0stas 6y ago
> but there is no evidence that these mutations Parroting NN Taleb: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Haven't we learned from coronavirus that we need to use the precautionary principle in the face of new information t
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by k0stas 6y ago
The site's https site is broken so those of us who have enabled Firefox's preference for https are getting 404s.
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by k0stas 6y ago
Same here in Firefox. The website configuration is broken. The https site returns 404 but the http site has the content. This breaks Firefox's preferences for https, as I keep get redirected from the http to the https site since the ht
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by k0stas 6y ago
The overhead of translating x86 instructions to RISC-like microcode is known and is something like 1-2%. This is not the reason for the difference between Intel and Apple.
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by k0stas 6y ago
The same theory of flight that birds use to fly, i.e., none. Some birds might notice they use less energy if they don't flap their wings and instead catch an updraft. I don't think they need a theory of pressure gradients to explo
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Thoughts you mightn't have thunk about remote meetings(apenwarr.ca)
4 points by k0stas 6y ago|1 comments
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by k0stas 6y ago
For me, not supporting uBlock Origin trumps every single advantage Safari may have.
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by k0stas 6y ago
> LG for instance, that make 2 lbs 13.3 inch notebooks and 3 lbs 16 inch notebooks Those are the Gram series, right? They use a magnesium alloy chassis that feels like flimsy plastic. They are light, but they feel like a something that&#
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by k0stas 6y ago
> No 32GB options on any of the models announced today is a shame. Or not I guess as it means I won't be buying anything today I think this was the fastest way to get something out quickly and cover as many SKUs as possible. We&#x2
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by k0stas 6y ago
It seems to be due to the fact they are integrating the DRAM into the package. There is only room for two 8GB DIMMs: https://www.apple.com/v/mac/m1/a/images/overview/chip__fffqz...
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by k0stas 6y ago
> My goal was to find backup software, not to do a security analysis Did you achieve your goal (i.e., did you find backup software you trust)?
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by k0stas 6y ago
Intel does not seem to have capitalized on the Altera acquisition but maybe that is also related to Intel's fab issues. From an operation perspective, this combines two non-overlapping TSMC customers that can potentially negotiate bett
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by k0stas 6y ago
It's a YC startup from the first ever batch and HN was created to try to recapture what Reddit was like at the beginning.
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by k0stas 6y ago
The largest FPGAs were reticle-busters when I used to work on them. Today I think the largest FPGAs use chiplet-style integration. Even with the inefficiency of an FPGA, many smaller chip designs can still fit on the largest FPGA. Also, the
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by k0stas 6y ago
I use Brightness Sync ( https://github.com/OCJvanDijk/Brightness-Sync ) for my external LG 5K screen attached to my iMac. The iMac light sensor controls the brightness of both monitors automatically. You can even insert
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by k0stas 6y ago
The title should be updated to "Microsoft Edge copies user data from Firefox without asking". The current title is ambiguous: "Windows duplicates data from Firefox without asking". The fact that this is user data is an i
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Paul Graham’s thoughts, discoveries, and tricks on parenthood(unclepaul.io)
382 points by k0stas 6y ago|235 comments
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The Testing Illusion(pandemic.substack.com)
2 points by k0stas 7y ago|0 comments
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The elephant in the room: covid deaths are undercounted(pandemic.substack.com)
9 points by k0stas 7y ago|6 comments
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by k0stas 7y ago
You and the parent poster are probably thinking of heterojunction SiGe bipolar transistors. SiGe bipolar transistors are fabricated on top of old CMOS processes and are relatively cheap from a fixed-cost perspective but not highly integrate
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Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale(apenwarr.ca)
101 points by k0stas 7y ago|70 comments
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Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale(apenwarr.ca)
4 points by k0stas 7y ago|0 comments
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by k0stas 7y ago
I always ordered mine from Walnut Creek!
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by k0stas 7y ago
Ethernet transmission is broadband not tuned like a radio but the same equations as presented in the article hold across most of the bandwidth (where the skin effect holds). Actually, I am not sure whether the article is referring to tuned
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by k0stas 7y ago
Required reading about discount brokerage revenue streams from patio11: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone... .

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