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lm2s··on MDatePickerView – Quick and Easy iOS Date Picker
Am I missing something? Shouldn't this be a Show HN?
lm2s··on Snapcast – Synchronous multi-room audio player
All your questions are answered in the README.
lm2s··on Ask HN: Best Noise Canceling Headphones
Piggy-backing this question: does anyone knows good noise cancelling headphones that are wired?
lm2s··on Ask HN: Best Noise Canceling Headphones
Not only repairability, but the battery can't be changed not even by paying Apple to do it. And with such a tiny battery, cycles will accumulate rapidly, degrading its performance.

I understand that a lot of folks don't care about that, but to me it's a bit mind boggling the electronic waste being generated with these kind of earphones.

Also, this isn't exclusive to Apple.

lm2s··on Bontrager’s WaveCel material more effective at preventing concussions than MIPS
Keyword: slide. They don't impact their heads at 150mph against something.

Also BTW, their helmets have way more cushion/crumble zone than regular street helmets.

lm2s··on Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature
That's not necessarily correct, it would depend of the implementation. See my reply.
lm2s··on Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature
After a quick research* , the conclusion I arrive at is that Moxie stretched the truth. Removing PushKit functionality does not removes the ability for apps to do E2EE messaging.

From what I understood: with PushKit, it's possible to send a signal notification to the app. The app then fetches and decrypts new messages and generates appropriate notifications locally.

This is also possible to do with regular (silent) Push Notifications. The key difference seems to be that they are low priority and might not be delivered (thus no notification will be generated), and with PushKit it would.

So AFAIK this seems to be more an UX issue.

* I might be understanding something incorrectly.

lm2s··on Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature
I don't understand this commentary by Moxie. Why does removing PushKit functionality removes the ability for apps to do E2EE?

The only thing I can think of, is notifications maybe not being encrypted? But that seems like a bit of stretch to say you can't do E2EE messaging.

lm2s··on Apple releases iOS 12.3, macOS 10.14.5, watchOS, tvOS updates
It's curious that, to me, it only happens with a Gmail account I have. Other accounts (GMX, iCloud, Office365) work without hiccups.
lm2s··on Apple tells lawmakers people will hurt themselves if they try to fix iPhones
It's my understanding that not all of the parts are readily available and that Apple and others actually engage in making it hard to get some parts. This results in some parts having to be extracted from "bad" boards and such.
lm2s··on Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps
I stand corrected. My bad.
lm2s··on Revery – Native, high-performance, cross-platform desktop apps
Native? High-performance? Using Electron?! Something isn't right.
lm2s··on Logic Noise: Sweet, Sweet Oscillator Sounds (2015)
Thank you! This is amazing.

I've recently started getting back into electronics and am learning how synthesizers work. This comes in handy. The simplicity of the circuit and the richness of sound is really mind blowing to me.

lm2s··on Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
Just recently I learned that Japan is not the only country that hunts whales. It seems Norway also does it and to a larger scale.

This isn't an excuse for Japan, just sharing this info for others that might unaware that Japan isn't alone in this.

lm2s··on Ask HN: What is your goal for 2019?
Learn how to play the piano.

Continue the deep dive into electronics and hopefully assemble an analog audio synthesizer while completely understanding what I'm doing.

lm2s··on Sweden’s Push to Get Rid of Cash Has Some Saying, ‘Not So Fast’
Well yes, but you have the option to keep the cash and not using the bank..
lm2s··on Gitless: A simple version control system built on top of Git
git-lfs doesn't solve the large binary issue?
lm2s··on Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store solar and wind energy
Unrelated: this reminds me of the “2-tier” water dams that also store energy in the form of water from whatever production source connected to them.
lm2s··on Ask HN: Are you requiring email verification during signup for your service?
We started by requiring email confirmation before allowing sign in but recently removed that requirement.

The initial friction and problems that arose from either the person not remembering its email access or not checking the spam or the email simply being dropped (hotmail inc) made us take that decision. For us the email is not very important, since we have other channels for communication with the user.

We will be adding an “annoying” banner reminding the user to confirm the email but the app/system is fully functional without it.

lm2s··on Apple is sharing your facial wireframe with apps
3) Apple is really good at marketing. It's been shown that, even if you cover the TrueDepth camera, features that "require" it still work fine (including Animoji and the apps that I've been developing using the front-facing ARKit APIs).

3.1) The lack of Animoji and front-facing ARKit seems to be a software limitation made for business reasons rather than a hardware limitation. See: Google's Pixel 2 portrait mode photos done using a single front-facing camera that have stacked up well against the ones from the iPhone X.

Does it also work in the dark without the depth camera?

lm2s··on Ethereum Now Handles More Transactions Than All Digital Currencies Combined
If X people send to an address and then the amount is distributed by a different number of outputs (for example 3 addresses for 1 person, 4 for another, etc) you can see how it can make hard to track down who has what.
lm2s··on UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables
In the 90s I was still starting to explore computers and executables, etc, and it blew my mind when I found about packers and protection tools and RE in general. Good times! Oh nostalgia...

I just remembered: ProcDump32! Geez, that really blew my mind at the time and in a way still does.

lm2s··on iOS 11 is causing massive battery drain problems
My personal experience: I never turned off Bluetooth or WiFi or 4G. With iOS 10, before going to sleep I'd put my iPhone 7 in Energy Saving mode and it's battery would go from 100% to 99-98%, now with iOS 11 it's going from 100% to ~90%. So I'm guessing the battery draining is coming from other places.
lm2s··on Electric bike trials in Australia see 50% purchase and change transport habits
Can't a thief take it, dismantle it and sell the parts? I think that's the most common case for vehicles stolen...
lm2s··on Slack using React Dev Build in Production
FWIW, I tried Discord recently and it felt more sluggish and heavier than Slack on macOS.
lm2s··on 14 Years After Decriminalizing Drugs, Portugal’s Bold Risk Paid Off
It's not really misleading if you know the how and why. For the addicts to accept health services help (like clean needles or getting off heroin) they could not be under threat of going to jail.

So you decriminalise to allow addicts to come forth and accept clean needles and other help, while simultaneously investing more money to provide that help.

It's a two prong "attack" and it's pretty simple actually.

lm2s··on iOS 11 Location Privacy: "Only While Using" is now always an option for users
The banner for apps using location while in background seems like an iOS bug...

If it isn’t, Apple should give an option to turn the banner off.

lm2s··on What I've learned from 100s of interviews with candidates at top tech companies
Maybe not, a chicken might just walking around and not have returned to the coop. So you go and make sure it goes into the coop before night time.

If you have a system that tells you if there are chickens missing from the coop, you can save some time by only going there if needed.

lm2s··on How Anker is beating Apple and Samsung at their own accessory game
You are indeed living in another dimension if you believe that waiting for a reply from customer support for a few days, because of a cable, is bad and that they asking for your product serial number is unreasonable.

/rant Sorry but the entitlement of some people just throws me off.

lm2s··on Postgres tips for Rails developers
Whoa. This seems very nice. I'm on my phone now and can fully check it, this works directly with PostgreSQL, right? It doesn't matter if the application layer is Rails or Django or whatever, correct?
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