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by lekevicius 4y ago
What a strange implementation of "format on too many missed passcodes". Apple (on iOS and watchOS) implements this, but after some amount of failures, phone gets into progressively longer lockdowns. So maybe after 3 failed attempt
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by lekevicius 4y ago
I see this as securing against "unknown unknowns". No software can ever be "100% bug free". If you can identify areas that are more likely to contain yet-undiscovered vulnerabilities and turn them off in advance, the dev
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by lekevicius 4y ago
Assuming the node network and mining remains intact... now you own a pretty valuable and difficult to replicate infrastructure. At least some people will want to own the "native token" of that network.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
GP - Thank you, you explained the same things I would have pointed out.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
We have a lack of curiosity and skepticism, and too much passion. There is quite a bit of echo-chamber effect going on, entrenching current view. Suppressing an emotional topic might help later on. Hopefully in 5-10 years cryptocurrencies w
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by lekevicius 4y ago
Time and time again, low-substance high-hate articles about cryptocurrencies rise to #1 spot. This is not healthy. At this point I think it would be good to discourage all cryptocurrency discussion: I don’t think we are yet capable of havin
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by lekevicius 4y ago
Boom was about the money supply; bust is about rising interest rates to fight inflation. COVID was the cause of the money supply, and now COVID is also the cause of ongoing supply shortages (in addition to money supply hangover), resulting
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by lekevicius 4y ago
Here in Lithuania we were already independent from Russian gas and oil (lesson learned over the decades), and had liquid natural gas terminal for a few years. But inflation is also very high.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
> I can see them making portless phone just out of pure spite (maybe having cheaper version with port and not selling that in EU). What kind of mindset is this? Sometimes Apple prefers aesthetics over practicality, but they are not a spi
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by lekevicius 4y ago
As a European, I'm very happy. USB-A has been with us for over 20 years. It's only disappearing because of USB-C, and USB-C seems to have room to grow. I wouldn't be surprised if it will still be the most popular connector in
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by lekevicius 4y ago
I don't think this is the right take. - We already have reliable rumors that next-next iPhone (not this Sept, but next) will have USB-C port. - Qi is not a standard they control like Lightning either way. - Portless phone would be very
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by lekevicius 4y ago
I guess I should have added "no longer works on mobile". PCs/Consoles have plenty of good, paid-upfront games.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
It's even more frustrating, because the game is good . I really enjoyed playing the first 30 levels or so. Good story, good controls, very satisfying gameplay. If I could pay $60 and just have a "classic" Diablo on my phone,
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by lekevicius 4y ago
I'm curious about this question, even though it's a bit off-topic: how likely is it that an entity (commercial or governmental) could "secretly" produce enough mining hardware to consistently have 51% of network's h
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by lekevicius 4y ago
For cryptocurrencies with fees priced with gas, price volatility is not a problem. As the price grows, number of gas units per operation will likely go down, but will maintain its "stable currency" price. Ether's price doesn&
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by lekevicius 4y ago
Curiously neither PyTorch nor Tensorflow currently use M1's Neural Engine. Is too limited? Too hard to interact with? Not worth the effort?
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by lekevicius 4y ago
The original comment was about the design space, and I have to agree: Inkscape is stuck behind. Figma is a very high quality product, actually fewer bugs or issues than its offline counterparts.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
The "comments" link in the top navigation takes you to all comments on HN, across all posts. It would be hard, but perhaps feasible to read through all the content that is posted. On Discord it would be impossible for a person to
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by lekevicius 4y ago
For sure! Until we can figure out how to make global consensus ridiculously scalable, I don't see "web3 social" being successful at all. It's using a very expensive resource for a frivolous need.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
P2P is a big component of blockchains. The "expensive" part is competition for the limited capacity in global consensus (block space), which is necessary if you want to interact with global systems that deal with high value object
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by lekevicius 4y ago
> between typing out the answer from Stack Overflow, v.s. copy pasting it Thanks to co-pilot, these are approaching being one and the same (:
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by lekevicius 4y ago
NanEyeC is 1mm by 1mm, with 320 x 320 resolution. Unbelievable. And slightly worrying: it totally breaks my expectation of what can contain a camera.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
In each lens, 2 are cameras (inner bottom), other 8 are IR illuminators.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
Those cameras inside lenses look unbelievably small. I didn’t know “we have the technology” like that, feels spy movie territory.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
I have nothing against "owned" short URLs, without external dependencies. But for "vanity", the best vanity URL is a domain name. Buy it, own it.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
URL shorteners were (still are!) probably the worst idea/trend on the internet. They solved a silly short-term pain (twitter not storing full URLs) but introduced a long term dependency, and normalized tracking via these links.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
So, you don't like "central banks", but you still want a centralized party to control the currency? Otherwise, you need blockchain. Blockchain is just a consensus mechanism around data entries. If you want "just a virtua
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by lekevicius 4y ago
Pixy weighs just 101 grams. They could have easily gone for a more practical battery life (it seems it's around 5 minutes currently?!), but for some reason chose not to.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
Any font that doesn't try to be neutral. Consider Cooper Black, or Larken, or even the horrible Lobster. Even with sans-serifs you can be more expressive, for instance Px Grotesk.
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by lekevicius 4y ago
Old logo was probably the cleverest rendering of a fox using very few lines. The new logo is a lot less smart, much more standard. Typography is also uninspiring: seems to be using Inter, which is designed to not have any character (pun not

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