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by curt15 7y ago
Isn't the main reason dnf metadata is so massive that it contains the filelists of every package in repository? No other package manager requires that information to work. Does anyone else at Red Hat (such as the dnf developers) consid
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by curt15 7y ago
People who use more bandwidth they already pay more. ISPs charge more for a 100mbps connection than for a 10mbps connection.
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by curt15 7y ago
>People who use more bandwidth should pay more, they say, especially since capacity isn’t unlimited. But don't people already pay more for higher bandwidth connections?
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by curt15 7y ago
The Linux version of Mathematica
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by curt15 7y ago
> 3) Google's presence in China gives it government greater access to these tech's than it otherwise would have...plausible Even if Google didn't have an office in China, Chinese researchers could just as well learn from N
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by curt15 7y ago
>With Comcast, this would most often translate to a real-life asymetric 250mbps download, 50mbps upload speed Don't forget the inevitable data cap!
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by curt15 7y ago
Any other companies set their licensing structure like they are laying landmines?
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by curt15 7y ago
>From everything I've read about how China operates it's sort of the exact opposite in one sense from the west. The main differences can be summarized as "rule of law" versus "rule of people". Also connectio
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by curt15 7y ago
"This effectively leaves schools with few other options, unless Microsoft gets back to them with a satisfactory solution." While businesses are obviously reluctant to use Libreoffice because they need perfect compatibility with MS
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by curt15 7y ago
The contents of /etc is rolled back when you boot into the previous deployment.
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by curt15 7y ago
In some ways the implementation resembles ChromeOS -- you can install Linux tools and applications in a container, while the base OS is immutable and atomically updated via filesystem diffs.
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by curt15 7y ago
Indeed a company's "morals" are better exposed when it has to make inconvenient choices.
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by curt15 7y ago
I can see why the gov't would have something to say about DoH, but even though the article specifically asks "why do ISPs hate it?", it doesn't actually answer why ISPs themselves would have a hat in the ring. Surely the
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by curt15 7y ago
Anyone remember Google Contributor back in the day? How does this compare?
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by curt15 7y ago
But Google switched to OpenJDK a while ago, and since that has become the reference Java implementation, how could Java be monetized nowadays for mobile devices?
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by curt15 7y ago
In which of Google's markets does Oracle compete?
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by curt15 7y ago
> So to summarize, to save battery all notifications on Android (since two versions ago) have to go through a single notification service And presumably the user has no way to install alternate notification services?
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by curt15 7y ago
That is really an indictment of the sorry state of PC trackpads. When I use my partner's MacBook with its pixel-perfect, glass trackpad, I never feel wanting a touchscreen.
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by curt15 7y ago
>"When Apache resigned from the JCP in protest based on its inability to obtain a license..." Wasn't Apache seeking a license for a collection of tests, not the right to implement the API itself? And what, under Oracle&#x2
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by curt15 7y ago
One of the four fundamental factors in any fair use determination is the "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole". If Oracle wants to claim that Google effectively didn&#x2
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by curt15 7y ago
But what about backend code that reimplements full_name, for instance, what Amazon Maps does with the Google Maps API? https://developer.amazon.com/docs/maps/differences.html
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by curt15 7y ago
>HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? Microsoft treats Windows APIs as a contract with the developer, with behavior defined by specifications. Are Linux libraries typically managed that rigorously?
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by curt15 7y ago
Don't Google's servers also run a custom systemd-less Debian derivative? https://www.usenix.org/node/177348
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by curt15 7y ago
Kavanaugh agreed with Merrick Garland most of the time during his tenure at the DC court of appeals.
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by curt15 7y ago
>so it's heavily optimized and running a browser tab doesn't effect battery as much as it would on a Mac, for example. What sort of optimizations can they do for ChromeOS that they can't do for Chrome on Macs?
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by curt15 7y ago
Android has been using OpenJDK for a while with no problems.
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by curt15 8y ago
Why wouldn't the application market for iPhone users be the relevant market? The EU didn't consider iPhones and Androids fungible when applying antitrust regulations to Android.
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by curt15 8y ago
The question regarding Apache is interesting though -- how is what they did legally different from what GNU/Linux did to commercial Unix?
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by curt15 8y ago
If you click and drag a window around in xorg, does the window stick perfectly to the cursor or is there still noticeable lag?
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by curt15 8y ago
Equivalent of MacOS's spotlight

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