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by mNovak 4y ago
I enjoyed learning assembly in college -- to me, many of the non-intuitive aspects of abstract languages make more sense when you know something like C, and C makes a lot of sense once you know assembly. It all sort of clicks in a very sati
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by mNovak 4y ago
The underlying paper: https://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/publik_300063.pdf
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by mNovak 4y ago
Would be interesting to use black and white rice, then convince your phone to read it as a QR code. That'd vastly simplify the before/after comparison.
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by mNovak 4y ago
This does seem like it might be vulnerable to a comb pick attack, if you can push all those wafer stacks into the sliding bar.
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by mNovak 4y ago
It might invalidate aspects of the patent, but the two are different enough that certain aspects of this one are still patentable. Bottom line, you don't always patent the whole device, sometimes just the small unique implementation de
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by mNovak 4y ago
A lot of people saying this is similar/same to the lock from Stuff Made Here. Certainly both use the same concept of preventing single pin picking by separating the pin alignment and matching stages, but this does appear to be a unique
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by mNovak 4y ago
Buzzfeed is still the #2 result, but at least there's no tabloids
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by mNovak 4y ago
I believe the malicious tx is basically serialized into a hex string, so not easily inspected by the user. As such, the wallet gives a warning, which the user ignores
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by mNovak 4y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I don't think it can. Your ownership of NFTs and ETH balance is public info on chain, and the site can construct a malicious transaction giving them away, but it ultimately has to trick the u
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by mNovak 4y ago
It's just plain and simple phishing -- the user still has to authorize the transaction, nothing gets stolen just for visiting the site or connecting the wallet. Not to say it's the user's fault entirely. What they're tak
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by mNovak 4y ago
Those floppy stacks sound delightfully like a harpsichord
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by mNovak 4y ago
"credible neutrality" is a nice phrase for a concept I've struggled to articulate, thanks
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by mNovak 4y ago
> To be in balance, the Stablecoin must provide real utility to the Outside World that transcends the Stablecoin/Insurer construct. Specifically: > 1. There must be a transaction tax for real utility provided by the Stablecoin. D
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by mNovak 4y ago
The article jumps between multiple experiments (some laser some microwave), but if you're interested in the the recent 10 GHz microwave experiment the authors were a part of (and which was on the HN frontpage recently) -- 1.6kW deliver
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by mNovak 4y ago
This reminds me of an old RTS(?) game called Majesty. The interesting thing there was that you build buildings and such, but you have no control over individual units. You can try to motivate them by placing bounties and such, and different
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by mNovak 4y ago
In particular I'd really like online games that behave more like Warhammer or D&D, where a large portion of the fun is actually offline, designing your character/army etc. Bringing it back to your comment, I can across [1], wh
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by mNovak 4y ago
Is it an economic sim (National Parks Tycoon), or a chill simulator (Park Ranger simulator)? Kind of makes me think of an open-world, never-ending Firewatch. Or, make a Journey style Appalachian Trail simulator.
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by mNovak 4y ago
I agree, I've always thought it'd be cool to develop a game that, for instance, you could meaningfully play from a full fledged console or a mobile phone. They might be different components or aspects of the game, but both would c
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by mNovak 4y ago
I've been following these, and it seems like such a fun thing to do. He seems to have been lucky that he caught on to his real product on day 1 -- semi-viral blog posts. Still I imagine it's hard for most people to go 2 years on a
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by mNovak 4y ago
It's the same reason you have money in a (zero interest) checking account rather than holding cash. For some that's the idea of security, others the convenience of spending "digital money" (e.g. wanting to do block-chain
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by mNovak 4y ago
Amusingly, I got banned from eBay Partner Network (e.g. affiliate links) after my hobby site got a little traction in a HN comment. Banned within hours; they responded to my emails, only enough to say the ban was being upheld. So as a regul
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by mNovak 4y ago
I'm just waiting for dice of non-uniform distribution. Gaussian dice anyone? Of course anything can be accomplished with a proper lookup table.
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by mNovak 4y ago
It is a very nice looking tool, but I can't live without ellipse arcs. The bezier elbow lines always look so cheap to me.
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by mNovak 4y ago
These look excellent. On the other hand, I still make an embarrassing amount of technical figures using powerpoint built in shapes.
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by mNovak 4y ago
Cool site by the way; FCC listings are always so hard to search
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by mNovak 4y ago
Also it's really bugging me that multiple heads are getting cropped out of frame, in the promo. I would have assumed the immediate first feature would be a bit of ML to find the human and put them in frame, and I assume that's how
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by mNovak 4y ago
To dive straight into the low end is viable only for a large corp that can subsidize it and/or the massive marketing blitz. I highly doubt they're making money on the $250 price tag unless they sell several million. Anyone else ha
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by mNovak 4y ago
The camera quality doesn't look great, even in the promo videos. You'd think a software company can put on some some decent color balance at least. Also the video is very wobbly because it's such a small platform and no gimba
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by mNovak 4y ago
I'm highly skeptical of the 60% efficiency figure being any sort of end-to-end metric. I suspect that was poorly phrased, and the receiver/rectifier was operating at 60% efficiency (which is reasonable for RF rectifiers), of power
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by mNovak 4y ago
I really like the action plugins in KiCad; it gives the ability to do things that users want (hence bothered to make the plugin) but that the maintainers don't always agree with/prioritize. I do wish there was some kind of central

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