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by alerighi 4y ago
I think that here Android is a better ecosystem: you distribute your application as a bytecode, and then it's the phone itself to compile it to a real binary when you install it. This allow far greater compatibility with even very old
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by alerighi 4y ago
Well, the US is one exception in terms of software engineers salaries being so high. I work in Italy and a software engineer salary is at the same level of any other office job, or just a little higher, in fact most software engineered have
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by alerighi 4y ago
Also very inexpensive to make, a MAX232 or MAX485 chip costs cents and will allow you to connect to any microcontroller. For sensors and similar stuff it's ideal, more 485 than 232 because with 485 you can have multiple devices on a bu
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by alerighi 4y ago
Well that thing make sense. For example you can wire the console port as one port in a patch panel for ease of access. For example in my current office we did this for the console port of access points on the ceiling, this will save you tak
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by alerighi 4y ago
Basically anything that has to do with processing an analog signal. It's always faster to do that with analog electronics rather than using a ADC, doing the computation in the digital domain, and then getting the result back to the ana
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by alerighi 4y ago
Let's add to the list crypto currencies and all the related stuff, such as NFT, that already made a lot of people loose a lot of money.
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by alerighi 4y ago
This is a very stupid thing to do. First, code is not the issue. Code can be rewritten in not a lot of time, when you have clear what to write. Twitter is not something so complex, in principle, thus it shouldn't be that difficult (a t
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by alerighi 4y ago
The thing is that it poses a risk that can be avoided, since there are alternative materials with the same (or better) properties that doesn't cause cancer. Asbestos was widely adopted because it was a very cheap material, they did kno
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by alerighi 4y ago
You can maintain a .ssh/config file with all the port that you used (and backup it) or use always the same custom port. Anyway, it is useless but it can avoid all sort of bots trying out common login to your SSH server, that consumes r
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by alerighi 4y ago
Even if the app uploads contacts to a server, is that a big deal? A lot of apps do that: WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Instagram, Microsoft Teams, basically any messaging application. Of curse the app should ask permission to do so in accor
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by alerighi 4y ago
Well, not all of them, but usually you expect a young person to have all of them. Except Microsoft Teams, the company may use other media, and Discord. Hell, even my aunt that doesn't know nothing about technology has WhatsApp and had
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by alerighi 4y ago
> all my messages is easier than making a context switch per-contact A user already has: - WhatsApp - Telegram - Facebook Messanger - Instagram that has direct messages - the good old email, or better, many of them - Microsoft Teams for
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by alerighi 4y ago
Well this is also a problem. As it's said in the article, you risk getting charged for an SMS, that in some countries are expensive, most mobile plan in my country have 30+Gb for 7 euros at month, but SMS are 20 cent *EACH*. Practicall
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by alerighi 4y ago
A lot of things. For example you can use it to copy files (moovies, music, etc) on the drive of the console to watch them. Or you can download data from the console itself (screenshots, video recordings, etc). You can use SSH to run command
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by alerighi 4y ago
> This puts the game publisher and the console manufacturer on the same team in ensuring that sales are protected, and as such decisions are made to tightly control what software can run on these otherwise incredibly powerful, compact ma
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by alerighi 4y ago
> That's a false dichotomy, you don't get to choose between definitely crashing or maybe crashing. That would be nice but it's not on the menu. Crashing is just the best case scenario, so if you can make your system stop i
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by alerighi 4y ago
> Not completing the operation... well, it is not good, but that's it. Depends on what the operation is. If the operation is flying an airplane or controlling a nuclear reaction, you are sure that not completing the operation and ju
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by alerighi 4y ago
> Aborting an operation is much better than incorrect results. Depends. Is a kernel panic better than something acting wrongly? I prefer my kernel not to panic, at the expense of some error somewhere that may or may not crash my system.
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by alerighi 4y ago
I think that there are benefits to not exposing the AST in a compiler, for example the freedom to radically change its internal structure from one release to another without having to maintain backward compatibility with software that use t
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by alerighi 4y ago
Android to me is better regarding of backward compatibility. Of course everything is easier since it has a much more flexible architecture, being based on bytecode and a JVM (contrary to iOS where applications are actual native binaries). T
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by alerighi 4y ago
I bought my Mac in 2015 and I've upgraded from every release of the OS to the other, used for development, even changed hard drive (good times when you could do it) and copied my old installation with Time Machine. When I started using
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by alerighi 4y ago
> Humans are good at reading columns at around roughly 80 characters Depends. The reason why it may seem better to have narrow column is so you can skip ahead more easily and thus read faster (reason why newspaper divide an article into
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by alerighi 4y ago
> Apple did an amazing job already of hardening iOS by severely restricting which applications can use JIT Well they did that not because they care about users but because they want all software to pass trough the App Store (and thus the
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by alerighi 4y ago
To me that is (to this day) less important, since modern consoles are actually PCs with a custom form factor, that you can build with mostly off the shelf parts. In the past it was different, but consoles were always modded (except the mode
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by alerighi 4y ago
The new Intel processors are efficient, of course if you start doing compute intensive things they will consume a lot of power, the same can be said for ARM CPUs. You can always force the new Intel processors in low power mode (by activatin
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by alerighi 4y ago
Yes, this law should apply to any operating system in a general purpose device, such as a PC, smartphone or tablet. In reality the only vendor that doesn't allow the installation of software from sources that are not the official store
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by alerighi 4y ago
The resale value is not that great either. My phone, bought for 600 euros 2 years ago (it was already an older mode, by the way) now has a value of 200 euros if we see the price if sold used to a person through an online used items announce
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by alerighi 4y ago
I tried to go to iOS just for curiosity since 2 years but I think the next device will be an Android again for these reason: - you cannot simply install applications outside the AppStore - developing applications even for personal use requi
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by alerighi 4y ago
It is difficult? It is something most web hosting did way before container existed. You just create the user on the system (well, probably have the user in LDAP) and give the user the permission to access only its files and possibly execute
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by alerighi 4y ago
Well I don't see how FUSE is broken, while NFS surely is (it happened to me that I had processes that were in a state that was impossible to terminate without rebooting - this was because they did set locks in the NFS filesystem that t

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