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by altfredd 3y ago
By this logic Tesla does not have "autonomous vehicles" either. They just do adjustments after the car crashes and kills someone instead of doing it online.
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by altfredd 3y ago
Must be nice when your sole customers are nation-states and 3-letter agencies. Better B2B than B2B (or should it be called something else... N2B — nation-to-business?)
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by altfredd 3y ago
What "suspicious spouse"? If someone has personal computer and can sift data off phone via something like usb connection, they are probably either state level adversary or professional black hat. At this point you may as well gi
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by altfredd 3y ago
What about total amount of viable farmland? How much of that amount do those 6% constitute? How much of farmland is situated close to cities (main cause of aquifer deterioration)? Would that farmland still have enough water after aquifers a
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by altfredd 3y ago
Unless you enjoy getting hacked, all strings received from outside sources are bytes.
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by altfredd 3y ago
Flutter is nice, but "typical 90% apps" can be written with literally anything. The real problem with Flutter is it's tendency to attract bottom-of-the-barrel cheapskate customers. I don't want to double down on my earli
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by altfredd 3y ago
There is nothing inherently wrong with Java serialization. It is effectiverly a convoluted way to call eval(). Is eval() a mistake?
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by altfredd 3y ago
HTML "APIs" weren't meant for public either. In practice, if there is a mobile app, there is an API. Whether it's creators object to your usage is mostly their own problem.
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by altfredd 3y ago
> The market is trying really hard to price out web scraping... scraping is becoming non-existent in user-space apps Uhh... Those two matters are pretty much unrelated to each other. Scraping is becoming non-existing because the era of s
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by altfredd 3y ago
The difference between YouTube and Reddit is so drastic they are basically incomparable. YouTube is a humongous monster with their own network backbone and video storage boxes co-hosted by countless ISPs. Multiple major governments would li
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by altfredd 4y ago
What about people who don't have Git and want to build it from source?
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by altfredd 4y ago
They can but don't want to. There is no multi-billion profit in that.
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by altfredd 4y ago
It looks like some types of reviews might be lazy: the app is accepted after an automated scan, then placed in queue to let human reviewers check it at later date. This is actually my biggest takeaway from the article.
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by altfredd 4y ago
> regaining control of former colony This is an oversimplification... How many countries have built nuclear power plants and missile assembly lines in their colonies?
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by altfredd 4y ago
> all memory could be handed off to a separate dedicated thread that actually calls free() That only works when you have infinite memory (or infinite CPU resources). > It's very easy to make a reference counting scheme not stop t
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by altfredd 4y ago
The statistics are as following: Huawei made a few 1000 usd smartphones, but nearly went bankrupt and had to sell their mobile division.
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by altfredd 4y ago
Lenovo and other laptop manufacturers don't really make such decisions. They do whatever Microsoft tells them to do, because the alternative is being forced to pay extra $200 per laptop sold.
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by altfredd 4y ago
> effect of chlorinated town water on gut microbes Unless you are drinking a tap water (pretty extreme thing to do!), the effect is probably non-existing: https://cooking.stackexchange.com/q/67027
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by altfredd 4y ago
On Github, Gitlab and in the command line. Upstream Git client says "Binary files a/filename and b/filename differ" whenever it detects changes a binary file. This is mentioned in output of 'git diff', 'g
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by altfredd 4y ago
> binary files aren't displayed in git diffs They are (albeit not as prominently as they should). And you can add your own diff engines to show full diffs for different binary formats.
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by altfredd 5y ago
I like how you don't even contemplate reducing profits as solution (as opposite to mass deaths or mass starvation).
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by altfredd 5y ago
Graal effort is over 10 years old. Jaotc, — Graal's sole mainstreamed part, — has been recently removed from OpenJDK in 17th release, and Oracle says [1], that they are "considering the possibility of using C2 for ahead-of-time&qu
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by altfredd 5y ago
Scalar replacements (as currently implemented in Java) does not work in real-world programs. Well-written code does not need it. Poorly written code can not trigger it, because the JIT is too dumb and isn't getting better. There is no
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by altfredd 5y ago
There is no "one size fits all" solution. If the database fits onto client hard drive and the modifications are rare, preloading everything is almost always better. If you have a dynamically changing system such as bug tracker, it
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by altfredd 5y ago
IIRC, hypervisors have to preserve CPU registers and other processor-related state when switching between "worlds". This is why mitigations for CPU vulnerabilities affects hypervisors too. Most compilers assume that emitting the c
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by altfredd 5y ago
And when I saw that article I immediately recalled all bogus "research", that indicated that ionized radiation is harmless (sure thing, buddy) or that various carcinogens (currently proven to be carcinogenic) are actually good fo
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by altfredd 5y ago
> The reality is, the mobile app development is outsourced to incompetent teams for presumably the lowest price who "ensure security" by just saying, "lets chuck a library in that prevents running if the device is detected
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by altfredd 5y ago
Some societies used to have caste system and did human sacrifices, yet it took thousands of years for them to collapse. When they did collapse, it was due to outside invasion rather than their ideologies. Good news: your society isn't
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by altfredd 5y ago
Indeed, — GOPATH does not imply using Github, and Github does not imply open-source (even if it is one of the most widely used ways to host open-source). The logic of GOPATH and "go get" just so happen to revolve around building p
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by altfredd 5y ago
Just checked, and looks like you are right — modules don't offer more facilities to distribute proprietary code than GOPATH already did. I stand corrected.

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