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by naitgacem 3y ago
Louis Rossman over at YouTube has been going over this fuses thing from Amazon. All the fuses he tried from top-results didn't blow until he put 4x or 5x the current rating through them.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
unfortunately it's much more insidious, they are both priced exactly the same. no one's the wiser until the police hit you up, or you try to fly abroad.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
where I'm from, it's insanely common to buy a smartphone, only to find out when you put your sim card in, that it was stolen. The authorities will just take it back (with no refund ofc) if you can prove that you bought it. Howev
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by naitgacem 3y ago
The Android/data and Android/obb show up as empty. which imo steps into, and may or may not qualify as, "breaking backwards compatibility".
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by naitgacem 3y ago
I think they got suspected for data collection or something of the sort. I still trust it for some reason as I wasn't very convinced.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
When they started filling it with ads I just stopped updating and went with the pro version. never updated since
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by naitgacem 3y ago
I use the system one for installing APKs. otherwise totally agreed, these newer ones cater to the new demographics but they sacrifice a lot of usability. I read a campus-wide study carried by a university. It showed new students don't
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by naitgacem 3y ago
I still use ES file explorer pro from ages ago. I transfer the apk from device to device and backed it up on multiple locations. It really provides a unique set of features, browser-like tabs, ftp server/client, ... it makes managing f
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by naitgacem 3y ago
What do you mean by losing 10 millions USD on webtoons? genuinely asking
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by naitgacem 3y ago
I've been holding on on my 6 years old Galaxy S8 for this reason. <rant> It's yet-another-battery-to-be-charged, it introduced lag in audio especially where it matters(think video playback or games), the battery degrades ov
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by naitgacem 3y ago
this is really neat. thanks for sharing. it looks a bit clunky but better than nothing.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
as a tangent, I think the issue with Amazon goes way beyond just books. At this point it's just the American version of Wish imo.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
just a fun little anecdote. I wrote a piece of code that said ` if ( boolean_variable == true)` this was meant to be "if neither false nor null", since the variable was nullable (kotlin), until someone else tried to "fix the
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by naitgacem 3y ago
this is the notation used in the chapters about boolean algebra in my digital design course. I think it's pretty neat. I honestly never looked into operator precedence in any language enough to notice the relation.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
quite interesting. in VHDL we have a similar thing. `<=` is the assignment operator, however after an if, it means "less than or equal". I'll have to check it this was inherited from Ada. Edit: on a quick glance, Ada uses
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by naitgacem 3y ago
Reading the title I thought this was about electrical transformers :p Although this is HN but my background is still stronger. And by the way, is it worth it to invest time to get some idea about this whole AI field? I'm from a compE b
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by naitgacem 3y ago
Can you link to said app?
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by naitgacem 3y ago
I think the biggest issue here is "possibly interested folks". although I'll keep that as a food for thought.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
> something can you elaborate?
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by naitgacem 3y ago
I used to have friends in uni with whom i could share very nerdy/technical conversations. near graduation we no longer get together sadly. this has taken a toll on me. HN is a place that feels like home, even if I'm usually just l
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by naitgacem 3y ago
English is not my native language, and "orthogonal concepts" always mean something along the lines of "mutually exclusive" in my head.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
this is a gold mine! I've taken an introductory course on computer architecture, unfortunately we didn't get far and definitely didn't touch on anything about out-of-order execution or the similar magic CPUs do nowadays. thi
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by naitgacem 3y ago
Excellent writeup and straight to the point. As the author demonstrated one can get quite a lot of OOP constructs using C primitives. what seems to be impossible to implement (as least to me) was something like interfaces, a way to decouple
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by naitgacem 3y ago
I think judging by the title and the mention of bit banging, the aim of this isn't to get a robust reliable thing going on. I find hacking things together like this to be really fun and doesn't feel like a job. sort of entertainme
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by naitgacem 3y ago
unfortunately the Google play store is not that much different. Although the motives are clearly very different, but they tend to wave "security of users" quite a lot to justify removing basic functionality like apps accessing in
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by naitgacem 3y ago
agreed. I'm viewing this on mobile and the experience isn't "bad", I just like instant feedback.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
The first time I got on a telegram call using their Android client, the call had a string of 4 emojis and said something along the lines of "if you and the other person see the same emojis, this call is secure". I thought that was
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by naitgacem 3y ago
I have an LCD display salvaged from a knockoff calculator that I had been keeping for one day I might try to reverse engineer it. This stuff is both informative and fun. Good work thanks for sharing!
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by naitgacem 3y ago
> Analog computers may seem to be "simple" or "like a toy computer", in fact they are powerful tools that were used during the 1950s and 1960s to design and test systems like ICBMs, supersonic aircraft and spacecraft.
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by naitgacem 3y ago
he's also missing kotlin, despite the presence of Scala

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