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by sern 10y ago
I think a better reason than "not wanting to play fair" is that the Apple implementation preserves the correct operation of the mic even while the remote is being pressed. Apple does it using a custom chip within the remote that s
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Valve found guilty of breaching Australian Consumer Law(kotaku.com)
1 points by sern 10y ago|0 comments
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by sern 11y ago
Cool, maybe now it'll be possible to obtain Atmel chips in quantity without ridiculous lead times.
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How to handle millions of new Tor clients(blog.torproject.org)
4 points by sern 13y ago|1 comments
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by sern 14y ago
Censored manual for the Exynos 5 SoC: http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/downloads/supports/Samsung_...
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Google Maps' advantage over Apple Maps(blog.telemapics.com)
239 points by sern 14y ago|148 comments
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by sern 14y ago
Paranoia, maybe? But yeah, it's rather pointless. Even more so since GPS vendors have access to the algorithm.
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by sern 14y ago
Not quite the same thing, although they do have some similarities. The Selective Availability "feature" of GPS worked by fuzzing the time readings output by the GPS satellites. The fuzz was time-varying but only changed every few seconds. B
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by sern 14y ago
The offset is still there on ditu.google.cn, it's just that they've also munged the satellite imagery to have the same offset.
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Will Apple’s Tacky Software-Design Philosophy Cause A Revolt?(fastcodesign.com)
15 points by sern 14y ago|0 comments
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by sern 14y ago
Interestingly, the Retina MBP has a combo Ethernet MAC/PHY + memory card reader chip of which they're only using the latter function. I would guess that either the decision to drop the Ethernet port was made pretty late in the process or th
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by sern 14y ago
Proposals to fragment the Internet generally do not go down well, for obvious reasons. The proposal is needlessly complicated, notwithstanding the poor quality of writing. The authors' rationale is to "realize autonomy", yet AIP suffixes ar
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by sern 14y ago
It's not an RFC, it's an Internet Draft (which anyone can submit without review), and anyway it's offensive and incoherent enough that nobody will take it seriously, and it certainly won't make it as an actual RFC.
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by sern 14y ago
Yes, this is actually what they meant by "no glass layer". The integrated display isn't really a miracle of engineering. In my opinion it's more a miracle of business that they convinced their display manufacturer to make the retina display
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by sern 14y ago
No, it's true. The possible geometry of visible GPS satellites at any given moment (namely that they're all above you and none are below) means that the vertical error is pretty bad in comparison to the horizontal error.
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by sern 14y ago
This is incorrect. https encrypts everything.
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by sern 14y ago
Here's how Ceefax used to be used for computer programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctxZWEVJ1S0
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by sern 15y ago
Not particularly - ARM instruction encoding is rather distinct. Repeating "always" values of the ARM condition field really stand out.
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by sern 15y ago
The current version of Xcode, released yesterday (two weeks prior to the sandboxing deadline), contains no code signing entitlements and hence is not sandboxed.
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by sern 15y ago
I don't think it's helpful to refer to VHDL as "not programming". It is programming, just in an inherently parallel, declarative fashion rather than an imperative one. My favourite metaphor for programming in an HDL is to think of it as b
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by sern 15y ago
The comment I was referring to is under this G+ post: https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/intiB73F...
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by sern 15y ago
Look - as I said in my other comment, the issue isn't that it uses a tonne of memory. The stock browser does so too. The issue is that it is using that memory in such a way that it is evicted too late . The app is multi-process, but they'r
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by sern 15y ago
I should have qualified my statement by mentioning that the Chrome app process runs a couple of background services - this causes it to be killed for low memory after normal background processes (the actual behaviour is a little more comple
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by sern 15y ago
And in typical Google fashion, they have assumed that devices have an infinite amount of memory: https://imgur.com/zkh7C (this is with the app in the background!)
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by sern 15y ago
No CDN caches content for that long, even if the origin tells them to. (Services like Akamai's NetStorage excluded, which Facebook most likely does not use.) It's quite obvious that Facebook is actually keeping the images on their origin se
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by sern 15y ago
The purpose specification principle of the OECD Privacy Guidelines (which all substantial privacy laws are based on - EU, NZ, HK, etc.* ) says this: "Finally, when data no longer serve a purpose, and if it is practicable, it may be necessar
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by sern 15y ago
I've never been able to take them seriously with Comic Sans in their logo.
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by sern 15y ago
The BBC Micro was actually quite expensive compared to the other micros of the time. (I don't think the IBM PC was ever considered a "micro", and other micros were probably more capable anyway.) If I remember correctly, the goal was not to
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by sern 15y ago
They absolutely don't need special hardware to start programming. I'm sure I'm not alone in saying that my first exposure to coding was when I typed "10 PRINT BUTT 20 GOTO 10" into BBC BASIC. I didn't need anything more than the computer I
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by sern 15y ago
The community can't maintain the patches, thanks to Broadcom's policy of not releasing documentation unless you commit to ordering a hundred trillion parts or are employed by them (as the Raspberry Pi folks are). If the point of this thing

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