Wondering how many still use these
I still do, and I still mantain an open source Twitter client replacing the official one (no longer supported, as most apps on the platform). Q10, best phone I've ever had
Readit Newssimo_dax commented on End of the line finally coming for BlackBerry devices arstechnica.com/informati... · Posted by u/rbanffy
simo_dax commented on People Keeping BlackBerry Alive debugger.medium.com/meet-... · Posted by u/sharkweek
Hello fellow q10 fan! Small question: if someone were to start a company to maintain q10 and q20 devices, how valuable would that be to you at a monthly subscription rate?
I do not want to see these devices fall into obsolescence, and they are simple/old enough you could reverse-engineer the parts or get in touch with the asian companies who did some of the production runs for RIM.
I can safely say that you can't make money out of this platform anymore, the user base is just too small. If I had to live with the donations coming from my apps for BB10 well, let's say I would have already starved to death ;)
simo_dax commented on People Keeping BlackBerry Alive debugger.medium.com/meet-... · Posted by u/sharkweek
Which is your Twitter app? Now that m.twitter.com no longer works in the BB10 browser, I need one.
Bird10! It's open source (https://github.com/SimoDax/Bird10) and you can find it here https://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-10-apps-f274/bird10...
simo_dax commented on People Keeping BlackBerry Alive debugger.medium.com/meet-... · Posted by u/sharkweek
I'm one of those guys, I still use a Q10 (OS10 family) as my daily driver. I felt in love with its ux e.g. the hub which acts both as notification center and timeline, full gesture-based navigation (back in 2013!) and an app permission system which allowed you choose which one should be granted to the app (again, back in 2013! Android had to wait years before this was implemented)
Apps are scarce, many don't work anymore due to obsolescence, but the main ones are there: I mantain a Twitter and a Twitch app, and keep updating them to follow Api changes. Spotify and Whatsapp can be used through the android layer, the native BB maps are still functional. Another nice guy on Crackberry mantains a youtube app.. I feel I can say that if you don't have many requirements it's still a solid phone, it can't do much but what it does it does well.
Also, the privacy is unmatched
Sue to whom? There is no EU court you could directly sue to.
Literally from europa.eu:
> Regulations are legal acts that apply automatically and uniformly to all EU countries as soon as they enter into force, without needing to be transposed into national law. They are binding in their entirety on all EU countries.
And:
> Public authorities in EU Member States have the main responsibility for the application of EU law.
Is there a big list of all of the companies taking part?
simo_dax commented on France rules Google must pay news firms for content reuters.com/article/us-go... · Posted by u/us0r
The problem is that "press freedom" as a right should not mean "The press MUST receive leads through all search engines and the search engines MUST pay for doing so".
"Press freedom" historically means that the press can publish anything factual, artistic, or opinion based without fear of government censorship or retribution.
We are seeing the EU and various EU countries redefine fundamental terms for entirely different things, to the point where the original rights are completely eroded, and instead we have a system that effectively serves special interest groups in Europe.
An infamous example of this is the "right to be forgotten". In Europe there is now a process where individuals can effectively censor the internet/press from publishing factual information about their past transgressions. Ostensibly this is to allow the individual to move on with their life. For example, someone convicted of murder has successfully removed articles related to his murder from the internet (in Europe). This is incredibly dangerous. Why should the government get to decide what fact based censorship is irrelevant or not? I certainly think it is pertinent for society to know about past murders.
The EU is slowly eroding all individual liberties, while its markets are becoming less competitive and its welfare state expands to unprecedented levels. Free speech and freedom or religion are much worse in Europe. Germany is run by a Christian political party. In addition to no longer being able to advocate for Nazi politics in Germany, now you cannot speak about certain facts that have occurred in the past. Now France is attempting this novel "shake down of tech giants we cannot compete with" strategy, which is frankly a strategy that was until recently more likely to be seen in an Authoritarian country like China than the country that was the inspiration for the US independence.
> Germany is run by a Christian political party. In addition to no longer being able to advocate for Nazi politics in Germany, now you cannot speak about certain facts that have occurred in the past
What did I just read.
Am I the only to catch the very first sentence?
"From a well respected friend and intensivist/A&E consultant who is currently in northern Italy:"
Basically, that make this twitter thread uncorborated news unless someone reached out to the Italian doctor referenced in it.
Unluckily it is the thruth, here's an interview with a medic on one of Italy's most prominent newspapers (I linked the google translated version)
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=it&tl=en&u=https%3...
simo_dax commented on Fast inverse chirp z-transform found techxplore.com/news/2019-... · Posted by u/regularfry
simo_dax commented on Fast inverse chirp z-transform found techxplore.com/news/2019-... · Posted by u/regularfry
Why is reversing the transform hard ? It's just about computing back values by following the transform definition, it should be even easier than doing the original transform.
Unless the hard part is doing that
1. Fast
2. with Discrete values
3. inverse discrete transform( discrete transform( discrete values ) ) should be almost equal to discrete values with high accuracy
is that right ?
Each of these is certainly a complication, for example standard discrete-time Fourier transform is O(n^2) while the Fast Fourier Transform algorithm manages to do the same in O(nlogn), but I think the main difficulty here is that the direct transform is an integral (or series, depends if you're using continuous or discrete one) over time, which is a single real variable. The inverse is an integral over the complex variable, a+ib, and you need a whole 2D plane to represent it (the complex plane indeed), a single 1D line is not enough. So how do you take an integral of a complex value over a 2D plane? And here you start delving deep into theorems and convergence regions.. stuff that's quite difficult to grasp without having experience with complex calculus (and I don't)
The inverse fourier trasnform, on the other hand, is limited to the imaginary axis of the complex plane (the exponent is a purely imaginary number), so you're restricting it to be monodimensional, hence the relative simplicity in reversing the transform
Also, keep in mind that all of this assumes you have infinite samples, so you need to use some form of windowing which doesn't distort too much the signal