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by kevinchen 9y ago
Lack of competition often comes from municipal governments granting local monopolies. Good luck fighting that out city by city.
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by kevinchen 9y ago
If someone is able to authenticate as your phone number, they can set up iMessage and receive a copy of your future messages.
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by kevinchen 9y ago
Along with the reasons others mentioned, 2 cells means higher voltage, so the battery can deliver the same power using less current.
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by kevinchen 9y ago
Cheaper, more portable, battery powered ultrasound would make the technology more accessible to developing countries. This will save lives eg from childbirth complications.
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by kevinchen 9y ago
Service looks awesome, but I wish you guys would use HTTPS on the checkout page (or even better, the entire site!). Let's Encrypt can give you a certificate for free: https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/
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by kevinchen 9y ago
Been said many times before but I’ll say it again: If money could buy great products, Microsoft would still be relevant.
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by kevinchen 9y ago
Yes but it’s slow. While your Bluetooth is transferring the data slowly, the entire rest of the system is burning power while it waits.
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by kevinchen 9y ago
In fact, turning off Wi-Fi can hurt battery life. LTE requires more power, GPS kicks on more often, and if you have an Apple Watch, data transfer is forced to use Bluetooth which means both devices remain in a high powered state for longer.
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by kevinchen 9y ago
This is a bad take. If your threat model has you concerned about people who follow you around and exploit your Wi-Fi firmware, you probably shouldn't ever have Wi-Fi on -- or maybe you shouldn't be using a smartphone. For everyone
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by kevinchen 9y ago
It's not just a matter of the space on disk to hold 32-bit libraries. They must also be loaded into memory if there are 32-bit processes running. This degrades performance system-wide, not just for the abandonware apps.
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by kevinchen 9y ago
Probably, but a big problem with structured light is the inverse square law. You need a lot more power to recover depth of far objects -- this is why all the Project Tango phones are yuuuge and not selling too well. There are ways around th
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Cassini’s Mission to Saturn in 100 Images(nytimes.com)
2 points by kevinchen 9y ago|0 comments
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by kevinchen 9y ago
All these problems exist with fingerprints too. At least Face ID requires you to look at the phone before it unlocks.
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by kevinchen 9y ago
There are many reasons why someone can't simply move. Maybe they're caring for parents who live in the area. Perhaps they want their kids to attend well-funded Bay Area schools, so the kids can have a shot at earning more money. I
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by kevinchen 9y ago
The link is down now. Anyway, I was thinking, couldn't this be some rando on the internet who fills out the form using John Oliver's contact info?
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by kevinchen 10y ago
not on macOS, Linux, BSD etc. That only applies to Windows.
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by kevinchen 10y ago
I know nothing about how Electron renders GIFs, but can guarantee you that there's no world where 16x16 animation should take up 20% CPU. Suggesting that we should convert them to tiny videos is completely missing the point.
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by kevinchen 10y ago
If the details of the story are true, there is no way for the bank to be completely innocent here and it doesn't matter whether the police or court messed up. Upon receiving a legal order for some customer, the bank should at least mak
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On the Turing Completeness of PowerPoint (2017) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by kevinchen 10y ago|0 comments
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by kevinchen 10y ago
I'm curious as to why their fix was to host the Service Health Dashboard on more AWS regions. It seems like the responsible thing to do is to host it entirely on a competitor's service. That way, it's very simple to know that
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by kevinchen 10y ago
No. There is simply no excuse for this kind of abusive environment to exist at your company. If you are CEO, you are responsible: - Kalanick doesn't interact with every employee every day like the olden days, but he certainly hired the
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by kevinchen 10y ago
It's a good postmortem (describes WHAT happened), but it doesn't really communicate the impact to Cloudflare customers or their end users (describe WHY people should care).
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by kevinchen 10y ago
Where is the W3C standard for private browsing mode?
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by kevinchen 10y ago
When you ship a product to millions of customers, you don't "expect" or assume anything. You have your own people, on your payroll, test parts before they get used.
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by kevinchen 10y ago
????? I'm having trouble thinking of a more poorly organized recall in consumer electronics: - Samsung initially refused to work with US regulators (CPSC) to coordinate a recall. - They didn't communicate to customers the danger o
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by kevinchen 10y ago
Apple has pressured Foxconn to build out renewable capacity for certain steps of iPhone manufacturing by 2018. There is a lot of work to be done in manufacturing (much harder problem) but they have definitely made a public commitment to red
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by kevinchen 10y ago
Yes, but there is also a considerable amount of energy involved with extracting fossil fuels, refining them, and delivering them between those steps and the end users. And there are so many pollution externalities: increased risk of disaste
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by kevinchen 10y ago
One step at a time. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Data centers are an easier target because you have more flexibility. And to provide a counterexample, Apple recently pressured Foxconn to power certain parts of iPhone manufac
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by kevinchen 10y ago
Who will use Google's products and services when highly populated coastal areas are underwater?
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by kevinchen 10y ago
> Google is definitely leading the industry here. It's fantastic that Google plans to switch to renewables since they are one of the biggest players. Definitely an exaggeration to say that they are leading the charge. Apple was amon

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