Hellion

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by Hellion 4y ago
> and memory on the computer to hold an entire page of pixels. I mean, at 72dpi that's 50KB just for the data! Fwiw it was common for text editors at the time to render/raster in chunks and then send that off to the printer. Fo
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by Hellion 4y ago
Applying the slightest scrutiny to this Twitter thread revealed that the Twitter thread was actually the complete fraud the entire time
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by Hellion 4y ago
You can just not donate.
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by Hellion 4y ago
That was just one example of an egregious mistake. There are more, many more. also, It’s the fundamental claim of the thread, and it casts the rest of the logic into doubt. His correction is just as un based in reality and also has errors.
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by Hellion 4y ago
It’s worth noting that this tweet thread makes some major mistakes, both in dates and in roles. For example, while she was hired by NASA after Apollo 8, she had already been working in a substantial capacity on Apollo software at the Draper
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by Hellion 4y ago
The chat landscape is dire. I view Signal as a least bad option for my friends to use.
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by Hellion 4y ago
It’s vastly more complicated than “apple opens an api”. iMessage does a lot more than just messaging, and key components of apples spam and fraud story are tied to individual devices. For Apple to open iMessage, would require that android m
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by Hellion 4y ago
Feature by feature, and doing a cost comparison, shows that iPhones are very good value. But they don’t have a phone under $400. And even in the developed world that’s a lot of money.
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by Hellion 4y ago
Yeah, you can get an android phone that will take pictures, send messages, play, music, run Uber/maps, and take calls for under $50. Those phones aren’t great, but they are usable. They can do everything that you “need” a smart phone t
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by Hellion 4y ago
Considering the Phoenix like rise the platform made, it was accurate at the time but short sighted.
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by Hellion 4y ago
Credit Karma’s Karmanauts. Oof.
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by Hellion 4y ago
Very possibly, the FBI has some strong leads, and are building a case. This is something on the national scale with lots of federal internal attention - reports likely even having hit the potus desk. I doubt we’ll hear much about this again
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by Hellion 4y ago
Any shop worth their salt is going to embed the cert chain in their app. In fact, you get that for free with pretty much every drm lib, such as the ones major providers like steam, gumroad, etc suggest Cert pinning can defeated, but like I
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by Hellion 4y ago
Gumroad is part of a movement of “friendly” drm. You’re paying for support and updates. Intercepting a tls call is easier said than done, but the ethos is around accepting pirates gonna pirate.
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by Hellion 4y ago
There are significant and effective federal regulations around this. If you are telling the truth, your steering wheel is way too high, and you need to lower it
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by Hellion 4y ago
Mercedes put a bunch of these in the $100k plus EQS. Car companies: we are begging you, please stop with controls without pressure sensitivity and haptic feedback. Copy apple if you need to, just cut it out!
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by Hellion 4y ago
If I’m paying them to answer me, yes.
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by Hellion 4y ago
The page linked doesn’t say a lot, but it does say “local web interface”
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by Hellion 4y ago
Apple has really set the standard on battery life - 10-11 hours would be considered on the short end for any modem Mac laptop. My air performs on par with some high end ultrabooks, yet easily does 12+ hours on a single charge. I usually hav
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by Hellion 4y ago
While I believe that this is actually a simmering threat to society, I have a lot of trust that the current slew of devices are not eavesdropping on you. I believe smartphones to be a much bigger threat. I’m more worried about smart phones
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by Hellion 4y ago
I bet that’s at cost tbh. You’d be surprised how cheap things have gotten. However, r&d and every single Alexa request costs money. So from day one, it’s losing money.
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by Hellion 4y ago
Teslas are fine(ish) cars, but they seem resistant to forming deals to provide skateboards to niche applications, like Chinese companies are doing. There’s big money there!
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by Hellion 4y ago
When people see small fines like this, they assume it’s a slap on the wrist. And it is. Because the message is loud and clear: don’t make us pay attention to you and fix your shit.
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by Hellion 4y ago
> not my experience, overblowing It absolutely is my experience as well. I suspect there’s a sizable majority of people who have no issues with their Tesla ever. But there are still a lot of us who didn’t have a good experience. Accusing
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by Hellion 4y ago
He was running scams out of Dubai. Big bad look for them. If you take your winnings and lay low, they’ll probably leave you alone.
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by Hellion 4y ago
They take bribes in the form of local business investment. If you can dump a few hundo k a year into the economy, they’ll let you get away with almost anything
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by Hellion 4y ago
It’s an excellent option if you don’t agree with apples ecosystem choices. Start developing for android and using Vegas.
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by Hellion 4y ago
> Apple’s storage prices are terribly high, the fuller a SSD is, the less it will last, why keep useless files You knew you were buying soldered flash when you bought a modern Mac. If you want to save money, or heaven forbid, have a user
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by Hellion 4y ago
Still making my point for me, thanks!
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by Hellion 4y ago
This comment is exactly what I mean.

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