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by curt15 2y ago
The Supreme Court didn't need a background in programming to decide Google v Oracle. The lawyers arguing before the court weren't programmers either. But you can bet that they were briefed by people who could bridge programming an
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by curt15 2y ago
How secure are the Chinese versions of whatever central services iPhones connect to in China? And do iPhones require any analogue of Google Play Services in the first place?
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by curt15 2y ago
Would Apple revive OS X server or just run Linux on such AI servers?
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by curt15 2y ago
Don't iPhone users in China already interface with effectively a separate app store? I bet you won't find history edu apps detailing the events of June 4 1989 there.
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by curt15 2y ago
> What about overthrowing the government? Because that's the "offical" act of the president with today's ruling. The ruling basically says the only way for the case to move forward is to determine what parts of Trump&
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by curt15 2y ago
Looks like it uses btrfs for everything. Btrfs performs notoriously poorly for VMs and databases without the "nocow" hack, which is a no-no for raid1 setups. What should I do if I'm an Android developer who frequently tests c
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by curt15 2y ago
Why should a DB even be involved here? Can't the content be displayed by a static website?
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by curt15 2y ago
Yum hangs not because of Python but because Fedora's RPM metadata is bloated compared to other distros so yum has to load and process much more data.
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by curt15 2y ago
I stand corrected -- there are thousands of patches but the base kernel is only two years old: https://lwn.net/Articles/871195/
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by curt15 2y ago
Doesn't Google run something like Linux 2.2 with several thousand backported patches?
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by curt15 2y ago
>Controversially I believe the most viable future Linux desktop is likely to be based on the Android stack, especially the app packaging, but with the entire “java” layer removed. What would replace all the APIs provided by the Java laye
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The Google Pay app is dead(arstechnica.com)
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by curt15 2y ago
Doesn't MacOS also use integer scaling?
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by curt15 2y ago
>That looks like it'll either be much lower resolution than Google's timeline (manual or 15 minute checks) or will consume a lot more battery life than I'd be happy with (due to relying on GPS, turning it on for a location
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by curt15 2y ago
Will the Google Maps Android API be enhanced to let me access timeline info programatically?
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by curt15 2y ago
Doesn't that mean renting Microsoft VMs to develop Python for iOS? Github Actions don't fall from the sky like rain. They are a commercial service that happens to offer a free tier.
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by curt15 2y ago
How do you manage software with large assets? A single game can take 10-100GB of storage.
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by curt15 2y ago
Doesn't the Chromium sandbox, the gold standard for browser sandboxes, use user namespaces? https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/l...
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by curt15 2y ago
Aren't most HPC clusters multiuser?
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by curt15 2y ago
How well does rootless docker work compared to rootless podman?
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by curt15 2y ago
>Because software could impersonate and trick the user into giving away sensitive information, such as credit card data, or authentication to act on behalf of the user. Emails and phishing websites are much more widely used than standalo
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by curt15 2y ago
Is the mapping from config -> state reproducible? Traditional distros drift over time with lots of upgrades because the state is not just a pure function of the set of packages to be installed (the "config"). It could depend on
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by curt15 2y ago
Are kids still taught touch-typing in school these days?
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by curt15 2y ago
Does this mean system-wide libraries can be shipped via APKs?
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by curt15 2y ago
Maybe I'm just getting old, but my eyes find even a typical laptop display too straining for programming. I like my desktop monitors.
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by curt15 2y ago
So the REST API has no replacement?
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by curt15 2y ago
I was talking with a friend in HPC lately who said that AMD is actually quite competitive in the HPC space these days. For example, Frontier ( https://docs.olcf.ornl.gov/systems/frontier_user_guide.html ) is an all-AMD i
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by curt15 2y ago
Is that how self-encrypting SSDs also work?
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by curt15 2y ago
It's almost like they're slowly increasing the friction for other packaging formats (flatpak, deb) other than snaps. Bubblewrap, the sandboxing tool for Flatpak, is broken out of the box on 24.04: https://etbe.coker.com
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by curt15 2y ago
No, Apple already earns legendary profits (something like 30%) from hardware alone.

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