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by codys 10y ago
Folks aren't necessarily complaining about the release, rather, the issue was with the title which previously incorrectly called the release "open source". HN admins have since changed the title, see comments further down.
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by codys 10y ago
Note that this issue references another (not yet public) issue which is apparently for LastPass on firefox. I expect we'll see a LastPass + Firefox issue in the near future. > (Please note, issue 1188 which affects LastPass on firef
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by codys 10y ago
> Apache 2.0 license includes the same language No, Apache-2.0's language around patents is more restricted, as others in this thread have noted.
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by codys 10y ago
> eliminates very many correct programs While this is also true (there are certainly correct programs that aren't writable in rust without unsafe{}), in this context I'm guessing you mean "incorrect programs".
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by codys 10y ago
> millions of refugees that change the social fabric altogether Note that there were slightly over 1 million applications for asylum in Europe in 2015 [1]. I can't find numbers for totals in 2016, but [2] has some raw statistics &a
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by codys 10y ago
> You don't buy a developer kit in mass intending to resell as an end product Beaglebone black-like system boards are used for both development & production. I almost shipped a system like this personally. With the BBB, you can
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by codys 10y ago
The concept of segwit is fine. The problem is that the implementation of it as a soft fork is questionable, and trying to position it as a capacity increase is even more questionable.
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by codys 10y ago
If you browse from windows, that page only shows Microsoft's special "Download Program". If you browse from linux, it shows links to directly download the ISO files. I'm not sure what it does if you browse from MacOS. Ma
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by codys 10y ago
Sure, I don't think the two are incompatible. One could want to cross compile and not want to require internet access.
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by codys 10y ago
In that case, it may also make sense to consider using the cross compilation capabilities in rust rather than building on the actual device.
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by codys 10y ago
In this context, it's interesting to note that the US Vice President was originally not a running mate to the President, but the runner-up (2nd most electoral college votes). This theoretically allows more proportional representation b
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by codys 10y ago
AF_UNIX on linux supports SOCK_DGRAM and SOCK_SEQPACKET in addition to SOCK_STREAM, so having message based interfaces won't be much of a change for some users. SOCK_DGRAM at least appears to be widely supported (FreeBSD & Illumos
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by codys 10y ago
Summary: HALs in the linux kernel are a not acceptable, even large companies are held to some standards. Well, at least for the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) subsystem.
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by codys 10y ago
Any one aware of the technical details of how this was accomplished? Is listening for other BLE transmissions low power enough that it can be done while keeping the claimed "several years" battery life, or is there something extra
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by codys 10y ago
I'm surprised they don't list the IBM term: "RA" ("resource action").
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by codys 10y ago
Only parts (non-core) of QT are GPL, most are LGPL And it's a bit of a misconception that LGPL requires statically linked things to be open sourced: in that area it only requires that the LGPL components be replaceable (and the source
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by codys 10y ago
Note the use of `packed`. `packed` causes the alignment to be set as small as possible (1 byte). The aligned(2) that follows then increases the alignment from 1 byte to 2 bytes.
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by codys 10y ago
gcc has had PGO and LTO for some time now, I know Firefox uses it. I'm not sure if Chrome does, but I'd be a bit surprised if they didn't
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by codys 10y ago
I presume "the compiler" you're speaking of is some version of MSVC? I only ask because while this article is about MSVC's pgo, other compilers also have pgo and lto, and may not have the same issues wrt optimizing acros
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by codys 10y ago
Ah, you're right, it does look like that's the case. It's a shame it's not something better supported (like a cortex variant).
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by codys 10y ago
[Edit: see child comments, this isn't right] Rather than using CCS, one can use gcc or clang targeted to cortex-m3 (gcc target: arm-none-eabi + `-march=cortex-m3`, clang:thumbv7-eabi) to build the code (with the usual caveats that you&
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by codys 10y ago
The lightning port, mute switch, volume buttons, and power button still exist and are openings in the case edge. If an opening for a 3.5mm jack was an issue for some future design, so would all of the other holes (esp. the lightning port).
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by codys 10y ago
The power ISA specs tend to omit quite a few details about the hardware itself. I wouldn't be surprised if documentation was internal only and the first time we get any details about it is when IBM patches some open source software to
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by codys 10y ago
No. We can look at the example given above and clearly know/prove that the access is out of bounds. ie: a C compiler could emit a diagnostic (or decide it's undefined behavior and treat it as unreachable). There aren't any bo
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by codys 10y ago
Title is inaccurate, TP-Link only committed to investigate supporting third party firmware (including open source). From the FCC announcement (similar language is in the ruling): > committing to investigate security solutions for certain
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by codys 10y ago
Specifying license info in every single file is entirely unnecessary and done far too often. Imagine a book including a copyright notice on very single page. The license was specified in the manner the author chose to specify it, and that i
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by codys 10y ago
> accusations of Russian hacking continue to cloud the proceedings I'm fairly sure the information that was revealed after they were released is the real item doing the "clouding".
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by codys 10y ago
And the author of the article disagrees.
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by codys 10y ago
Well, in this case the DHCP option provides a url for a javascript file with a function to be called for each url accessed. I presume there could be some sandboxing of that function, depending on how it is typically used. Edit: even with sa
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by codys 10y ago
Yes, WPAD (web proxy auto discover) is for locating a piece of javascript code specified by Proxy auto-config [1], which consists of a single javascript function that is given the url & the host, and returns a proxy to use. 1: https:&#

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