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by Xeamek 3y ago
Systems (or vendor) apps also have to predefine permissions in their manifest, so not every system app can do everything. But the list of permissions accessible by those apps is so broad they can effectively have root, as long as you define
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Dunno if either system other can be called the official one, but it (as usual) comes down to Americans creating solutions for non-existing problems :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Facebook claims that unlike most services, they don't sell your data outside. Instead the advertiser comes to them saying 'show this ad to X target group', and all the matching is done internally by facebook, so it data never
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>Adobe is an example of a company that recognizes the value of providing an effective working environment for developers. CJ Dotson, senior PM of developer productivity at Adobe, notes that “when technology is what you sell, investments
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by Xeamek 3y ago
'just backporting [good] features' doesn't sound that bad when c++ is widely considered the most bloated mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly that there is. Maybe the c++ killer will turn out to be just some future, mode
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>devices running Android 12 and greater powered by Qualcomm and ARM GPUs. So... won't work on any exynos, since they have the AMD RDNA3 arch? Do I get that right?
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by Xeamek 3y ago
That's the whole problem: With this local framing, it completely makes sense. But it's exactly the same with fossil fuels: Here and now, they are obvious choice with practically no downsides. But scale those "close to nothi
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by Xeamek 3y ago
The problem is how we (devs) slowly but surely conditioned users (and even other, new coming devs) so that people don't even know how fast computers actually are and how crazy it is that those things are as slow as they are. So when
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by Xeamek 3y ago
No, but as soon as you want to use anything like standard containers, you need to box them.
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Games are lightyears ahead of 'common use software' when it comes to usability. Sure, there are bad, poorly optimized or simply unplayable games out there. But still, even the lowest of them are still insanely complex when compare
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Counter argument - HN post from 6 months ago: "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933
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by Xeamek 3y ago
I don't think it's just about (or even mainly) functional programmers. Look on something like java or kotlin, that are inherently slowing down EVERY.SINGLE.VARRIABLE. access by boxing them into objects. On other hand there is rust
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35351760
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by Xeamek 3y ago
They changed the icons for mute mic, and mute sound buttons. So that probably took at least a dedicated team and few months of work...
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by Xeamek 3y ago
That's all fine and dandy when you are small, and have a bunch of generalists that will throw themselves at any problem there is. But when you grow to the point of having a sizeable middle management layer that isolates engineers from
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by Xeamek 3y ago
For a second I thought that this conductor somehow supports functional programming instead
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by Xeamek 3y ago
...except those field are literally a thousands years old, while software industry is about 70? Them being more mature doesn't change the fact that processes and tools are crucial
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by Xeamek 3y ago
That's not how anything in the world works though
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>most of the time that’s what they already know, unless some new tools effficacy outweighs cost to learn it ....which any proponent of the new tool will argue it does
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Again though: What do You do when someone thinks Your code is a mess, but You think it's good?
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>You are assuming that the only things that matter are those that can be objectively measured. No. Feelings do matter. But the problem is, what do You do when You have 2 people with conficliting feelings? >Also, of course, there are
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>Ok, how does one best reason about performance and security with messy unmaintainable code? The same way one does it with 'clean' code: Using profiling tools. Security is a bit less straight forward, but still. >will feel v
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by Xeamek 3y ago
But at some point you HAVE to be able to look at the program from above. If you abandon the hope of understanding the code in the bigger scope, how can you ever meaningfully modify it? (Ie add a big feature and not just tweak some small pa
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by Xeamek 3y ago
>Writing clean and maintainable code should be the best practice and writing obfuscated code for performance and security should be reserved for "few specialised cases" Except, we can (fairly objectively) reason about performan
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by Xeamek 3y ago
? We are taking about that exact power button
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Why?
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by Xeamek 3y ago
You can rebind it to the normal 'hold-to-shutdown' behavior. Also you can assign custom action under quick double press.
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by Xeamek 3y ago
How is microsoft worse then any other of the tech giants?
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by Xeamek 3y ago
Can't wait for an LLM query-and-response taking less time then it takes a file explorer to open. Trully a well designed user experience
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by Xeamek 3y ago
What?

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