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by chithanh 3y ago
There were numerous comments from game developers, including from folks here on HN, that the lack of OpenGL ES was a major obstacle for porting games to Windows Phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15434891 I don&#x2
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by chithanh 3y ago
Just to name an example: There is excellent integration between iDevices. With Windows you have Phone Link which allows access to messages and notifications, but it is a far cry from Apple Continuity. For things like access to the phone cam
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by chithanh 3y ago
About YouTube, Microsoft could have done the same as Amazon on the Fire devices, put the website into an app. Instead they used some non-public API to access videos, presumably due to the deficiencies of their browser engine. Of course Goog
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by chithanh 3y ago
Microsoft both directly and indirectly turned app developers away from Windows Phone. Mobile games at the time were all OpenGL ES, which Microsoft refused to support in favor of Direct3D. Then there was Microsoft's perpetual need to st
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by chithanh 3y ago
I remember that quite differently. Windows Phone 7 lacked many basic functions like Bluetooth file transfer, the audio player didn't support gapless playback, alarm clock could not turn on your phone (a staple Nokia feature), Internet
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by chithanh 3y ago
> "Nah, I never read, I hate reading". > That sort of taking pride in ignorance is worse. Being averse against reading is not the same as being ignorant. It reminds me of that famous Bill Gates quote, "I choose a lazy p
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by chithanh 4y ago
No, you only need two compilers that have not been subverted by the same adversary. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tr...
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by chithanh 4y ago
I think it is a misconception that switching to the "right" incentives will solve problems. The very existence of incentives is not conducive for knowledge-based work. https://hbr.org/1993/09/why-incentiv
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by chithanh 4y ago
That is not the point. The point is by employing dark patterns, Microsoft makes it progressively more difficult for normal users to switch away from Microsoft. Want to switch default browser? Adding yet one more step to stop you. Want to bo
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by chithanh 5y ago
> consensus stabilizies after around 50 years or so One other reason for science being such a long-term process is Planck's Principle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle Basically, scientific in
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by chithanh 5y ago
> I called it a distant relative of the NT POSIX environment and some senior MS bod disagreed and – when I said [[citation needed]] – eventually linked to a bunch of videos and stuff that say that WSL1 is a whole new translation layer an
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by chithanh 5y ago
Sugary soda is associated with no better or worse health outcomes than diet soda. In fact both are similarly bad for you. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
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by chithanh 5y ago
I think it is quite telling that Planck's principle was formulated by a physicist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck's_principle Though probably Planck was at the time still under the impression of the C.G
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by chithanh 5y ago
The problem about Ubuntu dropping POWER8 support isn't that hardware owners won't find another distro to run. The problem is that home lab owners who develop on their second-hand POWER8 hardware can no longer have the same softwar
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by chithanh 5y ago
Warning: rant (sorta) I remember discussing with an IBM representative at one of the last CeBIT shows (was it 2016?) that the community who did open source development on non-x86 were gravitating away from POWER/PowerPC towards ARM. Th
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by chithanh 5y ago
In my limited understanding so far: You cannot order to any address, only to residential addresses that USPS ships to (as indicated by their Residential Delivery Indicator). Specifically, you cannot order to commercial addresses and PO boxe
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by chithanh 5y ago
Support for boards (once the SoC is supported) is normally a low-hanging fruit, this only depends on getting the proper device trees merged. Various projects keep status pages of their mainlining efforts. Example for Allwinner hardware from
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by chithanh 5y ago
I disagree, the exceptions are not "few" and by making smart purchase decisions you can pretty much expect mainline support. You have to look at the trajectory of things and ongoing efforts. For example my $15 Orange Pi PC (Allwin
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by chithanh 5y ago
We do have knowledge about long-term effects from other coronaviruses (SARS-CoV-1 and MERS). Despite its name, SARS-CoV-2 is not strictly a "respiratory virus". While it is spread airborne, it attacks multiple tissues besides the
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by chithanh 5y ago
Vaccines still lower disease severity. Also vaccines reduce risk of some post-acute COVID disorders like MIS-C (which can result even from asymptomatic COVID). https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm710
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by chithanh 5y ago
> This all happened because Trump dubbed it the China virus at the beginning and brought up specific treatments like Hydroxychloroquine. I think that is revisionist. Trump surely didn't help, but Hydroxychloroquine treatment was onl
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by chithanh 5y ago
> Trump should have mandated actual national lockdown As the other commenter pointed out, the executive branch of government lacks authority to do so. Courts have decided over and over again (like with the eviction moratorium, worker vac
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by chithanh 5y ago
As the source of the report and the communication between them and Bloomberg remains undisclosed, we can only speculate. Perhaps there was a Chinese whispers (no pun intended) style miscommunication and while the original source meant &quot
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by chithanh 5y ago
I don't know the laws elsewhere, but here in Europe trademark holders absolutely have the right to demand counterfeit products be seized and destroyed. Even if the owner acquired them in good faith. Also it would be interesting whether
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by chithanh 5y ago
On the contrary. When it comes to skin type vs. vitamin D levels, then people with darker skin who live in the North are more deficient as you would expect. Coincidentally or not, PoC/BAME folks have worse COVID outcomes in these count
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by chithanh 5y ago
I remember also that ScreamTracker was able to use Yamaha OPL series FM synthesizers, and the author detested MIDI because it did not give enough control over instrument acoustics.
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by chithanh 5y ago
No, Joule is not among the SI base units.
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by chithanh 5y ago
What? If you were unaware, 1 J = 1 Ws Besides, considering the food industry in most countries will not even get rid of kcal where there exist zero reason to use that unit, I don't think so.
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by chithanh 5y ago
Worse, artificial sweeteners are used in animal farming to make animals gain more weight. This is due to a combination of factors, both increasing appetite as well as feed efficiency.
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by chithanh 5y ago
But Congress is not part of the government branch, it is part of the legislative branch.

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