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931.
by progbits 5y ago
It might not be the only issue, but it is clearly part of it - if there was no patent in the first place we wouldn't be discussing their unwillingness to license.
932.
by progbits 5y ago
Is it also patent hell or is there a chance for diverse market with competition? Device looks nice in pictures but not exactly what I'm looking for so I hope others can come up with different devices.
933.
by progbits 5y ago
Yeah it is wrong. 68W ideal, assuming pure conversion to potential energy with no loss: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=7kg*1m*%289.8m%2Fs%5E2...
934.
by progbits 5y ago
It is always false. In the first block do_something_else() gets executed when either is NaN, in the second it is do_something().
935.
by progbits 5y ago
I agree, but think of it this way: Apple needs their devices to sell in order to not go broke. Google doesn't - Pixels sales are a blip on the accounting sheet. They do indirectly increase value of the Android ecosystem by providing ne
936.
by progbits 5y ago
This is just how product announcements look these days. I want to say this was popularized by Apple but I don't have a source on that. If you doubt that, here are some quotes from Apple's new product pages from yesterday: 'mo
937.
by progbits 5y ago
Definitely agreed, longer software support would be nice. On the other hand the repairability is important too, if you can replace battery and fix a broken screen easily the phone is unlikely to be useful after that many years anyway. I thi
938.
by progbits 5y ago
The problem is nobody cares about long term sustainable growth. Execs come and go and want a nice fat bonus now. Shareholders will jump ship to a different company that does this and manages to go more up-and-to-the-right. This bubbles down
939.
by progbits 5y ago
You get a "worthless" digital asset either way but one of those doesn't burn a shit-ton of coal. So yes, you could argue the blockchain one is worse.
940.
by progbits 5y ago
But if everyone asks for last four then it also means everyone has it. You are one shitty site leak away from having all the info needed to identify you available publicly.
941.
by progbits 5y ago
I guess some will see this as good news, but further entrenching Metal is just sad in my opinion. So much wasted effort just because they can't admit they lost the standards game and won't move to Vulkan. The generous interpretati
942.
by progbits 5y ago
From wikipedia: >The ship is estimated to contain about 1.14 million barrels of oil valued at up to US$80 million, which became a point of contention in negotiations between the Houthi rebels and Yemeni government, both of which asserted
943.
by progbits 5y ago
You know how after changing resolution and other video settings you get a popup "do you want to keep these changes?" with a countdown and automatic revert in case you managed to screw up and can't see the output anymore? Well
944.
by progbits 5y ago
I tried going one size down in settings and while it does make the system UI better (more space for notifications etc) the majority of apps get unusable - everything is too small and hard to read, plus UI elements are closely packed to be c
945.
by progbits 5y ago
Looks like the miner returned significant portion back. Here is the block, showing a reward of 7678ETH: https://etherscan.io/block/13307440 From that 7676ETH was the fee by Bitfinex (see OP). And here (around 10 hours
946.
by progbits 5y ago
Remember back when there were those posts about camera swap breaking face id all the apologists came out defending it, saying all the repair concerns about batteries/screens/... were slippery slope fear mongering? Yeah... It is no
947.
by progbits 5y ago
That is a clever solution! For a transportation company at least. I wonder what happens if an artificial island and a major city pops up in one of those pentagons - presumably a fun tech debt to tackle :)
948.
by progbits 5y ago
Not even a monopoly question (the ruling says it can't call Apple a monopoly). However Steam is not a walled garden. Feel like they charge too much? Go to itch.io or make your own website with Paypal button. It is your machine, your OS
949.
by progbits 5y ago
> I'm biased, but the spec is supposed to be very accessible to people without a cryptography background. There's a section on who the intended audience is and what assumptions are made about their background. I'd really r
950.
by progbits 5y ago
Which is probably a good thing. Neither of those sites wants you to "stay engaged" and keep scrolling forever. Old reddit was the same, but of course the redesign is infinite scroll.
951.
by progbits 5y ago
A quick summary of what is included for those who don't feel like reading the spec: - Some miscellaneous bit twiddling instructions (rotate, permute, pack, ...) useful in various crypto schemes. - AES. - SHA2 (-256 and -512).
952.
by progbits 5y ago
I agree there is likely impact from the recognition itself. Shouldn't be hard to verify, no? Have him pick 2N candidates, randomly select half that he can not announce publicly, talk to or otherwise influence (impossible to prevent ent
953.
by progbits 5y ago
Impressive results. Can anyone think of negative consequences for end-users? I imagine this is not really a practical attack vector on your YubiKey's 2FA keys or TPM disk encryption keys. All the applications I can think of are unwante
954.
by progbits 5y ago
Well, if apple wants to make the experience nicer for their users they can lower the cut which they take. It doesn't even need to be the same or lower than competition. Since there are so many apps already integrated (and even in futur
955.
by progbits 5y ago
Not to judge anyone by a single repo (I certainly have worse things on my github) but that isn't exactly a shining beacon of good software practices... One small C file (with... creative indentation) and a 2000+ line lua file apparentl
956.
by progbits 5y ago
Similarly Peak Design (a well respected brand of quality camera gear including backpacks) is not selling on Amazon. See recent HN thread [0] about Amazon making a cheap knock-off of their product. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.co
957.
by progbits 5y ago
Funny how the manufacturer does such a bad job there is money to be made in shipping an actually functioning driver...
958.
by progbits 5y ago
Doing an extra round of hashing wouldn't hurt though, right? Either the hashes are very different and you can already tell from them (but the art will also be different) or they are very similar (someone trying to sneak a close-enough
959.
by progbits 5y ago
Full paper: https://rdcu.be/cspBH Link courtesy of https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/oykg1y/climate_cri...
960.
by progbits 5y ago
I suspect some shitty DRM that gives you access for a while with attempts to limit your ability to save, copy or print the article? Scummy practice nonetheless. Sci-hub doesn't have this yet but I expect it to appear there soon enough.

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