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by blihp 7y ago
When it's released, the PinePhone should provide a good platform for mp3 and other media. If all you want it for is music, disable all the wireless (both for security and max battery life) and you've basically got an open source
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by blihp 7y ago
Myth II was my favorite game of the era. There were also a number of community created scenarios created for it. Highly recommended if you can get you hands on a CD for it. Not sure how well it still runs (or not) under Windows but it st
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by blihp 7y ago
Just because the States are kicking this off / working together doesn't mean that they will ultimately have jurisdiction over (most of) the charges they may want to pursue. Interstate commerce is an enumerated power in the Consti
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by blihp 7y ago
Right, my point exactly. Now given what we've already seen from this administration, imagine Alphabet/Google took the path of least resistance and gave the administration what they want. What is the likely outcome of the antitru
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by blihp 7y ago
A breakup is highly unlikely IMO. Not only has the U.S. govt not been keen to break up monopolies in the last ~30 years, but it actually let AT&T reconstitute itself by re-acquiring most (all?) of the former baby Bells ~20 years after
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by blihp 7y ago
A number of paywalled sites allow Google through either because it's in their self interest to do so or because they have a business arrangement with them. This has been going on for a long time. It used to be that Google would penal
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by blihp 7y ago
That's probably a good thing: a lot of people wanting a relatively smooth(er) experience should be waiting for v2 or even v3.[1] v1 of most hardware, especially a Linux phone, is going to involve some bumps and bruises. Keep in min
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by blihp 7y ago
That sounds about right for where they are in the development process right now. Anyone expecting a remotely 'consumer' device experience should be waiting for the Evergreen release at least. Only early adopters willing to deal
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by blihp 7y ago
The fact that software development is not something most organizations understand how to do (well/at all) but still insist on trying to do anyway. Unfortunately, this means that a significant percentage of their projects will fail. C
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by blihp 7y ago
AWS is only selling you infrastructure as a service, not a turnkey solution. It's up to you to combine and coordinate these services into a solution that delivers the capabilities (including backup, recovery and fault tolerance) appro
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by blihp 7y ago
When the alternative is starvation, one becomes open to trying new/dangerous things. Given a number of starving groups with only poisonous plant A available, let's say only one group stumbles on a sequence of steps that work whil
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by blihp 7y ago
By the time things like the SCO lawsuit happened, Linux already had the momentum and corporate financial backing so it could weather it. Had that lawsuit happened in the early days, history would have likely played out differently. (i.e.
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by blihp 7y ago
Building at least a minimal mental model takes me far less time than trying to jump in and code something without one. When writing a trivial method/function, it often takes only a fraction of a second[1], but having it tells me if I&
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by blihp 7y ago
It's more compelling because a number of research groups and companies are investing in designing and releasing hardware based on it. It has mindshare in the space that Power does not and is not likely to have. Just opening the ISA doe
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by blihp 7y ago
NXP/Freescale
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by blihp 7y ago
I can't see why it would. This would have mattered 20 years ago when there weren't more compelling ISA's out there. But that's not today's world: ARM is fairly ubiquitous and dirt cheap while RISC-V is a promising
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by blihp 7y ago
That's 18GB of static RAM accessible in one clock cycle... the memory on a GPU isn't in the same class of fast. Given the bandwidth and latency of this thing, you'd likely have to use a cluster of machines doing all sorts
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by blihp 7y ago
No. Everything I've seen indicates it's much improved over the pre-2008 iSight[1], but still not hard-wired to the power rails. [1] On those early models it was relatively trivial to upload malicious firmware which was widely re
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by blihp 7y ago
No, the declaration is optional in many cases.
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by blihp 7y ago
It was a good article but my main takeaway was that the city botched the marketing of the planned change. Had they communicated what was being planned and why ahead of time, as well as providing the tool/simulation to make it more tan
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by blihp 7y ago
Depends on the attack vector. If the concern is inadvertent malware (i.e. an unaware developer incorporating a malicious library etc.) then I'd suspect the package repos would be a bit safer because they tend to act as a low pass filt
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by blihp 7y ago
While you are correct that packrat parsers aren't often strictly necessary, they are nice to have in the sense that you don't need to worry about restructuring/optimizing your grammar. Just write it in the most straightforwa
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by blihp 7y ago
> Which skills? C/C++, DBA/Architect, Java, DevOps, QA > 105k is minimum wage for an engineer. That's why it says minimum in the post. Perhaps it's just me, but when I see a salary listing without I high-end, I ass
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by blihp 7y ago
I'd suggest that your premise ('hardly any people with experience') is wrong. Half the skills you list are relatively common. For a company of your size, finding a few dozen people with most of those skills in any major met
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by blihp 7y ago
True enough re: them usually being a response to a problem. See the 'Background' section on page 11 of https://www.nist.gov/document/sp1181-unit-pricing-guidepdf and more generally https://www.nist
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by blihp 7y ago
Don't be too impressed. We only have the price per unit listings, ingredient lists etc. as the result of bad business practices (and sometimes deaths) in the previous century. So it's not retailers or manufacturers responding to
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by blihp 7y ago
If management believes doing either one of those will result in a financial benefit greater than paying the dividend/doing buybacks, they will do so. The idea is that if a company doesn't have compelling business plans requiring f
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by blihp 7y ago
It's just a list of binaries that have the potential to be used by exploits. There's nothing inherently wrong with many of the privileges if they are absolutely necessary to do the job... which often they are unless either functi
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by blihp 7y ago
People are creatures of habit. There are people still using Yahoo! for no reason other than it's what they are used to. For many people, buying Intel is the same thing. It takes years to win those people over. (and usually the argum
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by blihp 7y ago
It is sad that Copyright, working closer to how it was originally intended, gets spun as 'a quirk'. Copyright is supposed to expire after a period of time rather than exist in perpetuity for the sole benefit of Copyright holder

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