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chrystianvon Over 13k Vivo phones found to be using same IMEI number (2020)

Third party Android apps cannot read the IMEI number. Source:

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/10/privacy/chan...

chrystianvon Compasses to point true north for first time in 360 years in UK

I have been working on a smartphone AR visualizer for the magnetic field. I was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation to develop this app. One of the surprising things I found was the inclination of the magnetic field vector. You can test the free Android app here:

https://www.vieyrasoftware.net/physics-toolbox-ar

chrystianvon How Square Made Its Own iPad Replacement

16 GB of RAM for an Android tablet that is only running the square software is probably way too much. I suspect the writer meant that it has 16 GB of storage.

chrystianvon How Square Made Its Own iPad Replacement

"Square’s tablet has 16 gigabytes of flash memory but hardly any internal storage"

I am very confused by that sentence.

chrystianvon Ask HN: Is 170k a good salary for a software developer in Seattle?

You are way off on your perception of latest sunrise and earliest sunset in Seattle:

https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/seattle?month=12&year=20...