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by gf000 3mo ago
I would even go as far to say that XML may very well be better in some cases, - here you have a schema most of the time, so you can often catch e.g. schema evolution failures at compile time. This is much less common/less standardize
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by gf000 3mo ago
Well, the market has consistently raised the low end of what constitutes "decent" hardware for a smartphone, and it really is not expensive today to have good enough hardware. Why should software not adapt to reality? As another d
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by gf000 3mo ago
And what? I mean, I can also just run Linux on a raspberry pi and connect a screen to it. That in itself will have zero relevant features, it's a Linux with a screen that you can toy around with, not a phone.
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by gf000 3mo ago
Lighter for what? Displaying a clock? Add a bunch of fat, semi-desktop binaries that actually provide some kind of functionality to make it remotely comparable, and then you just have a worse, fatter system that runs hot and wastes the batt
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by gf000 3mo ago
> maybe it would improve a cheap android phone. Not in a million worlds. Android is by far the most optimized OS (as a whole, including user space, graphics stack everything) for mobile devices. It's almost like the most widely used
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by gf000 3mo ago
Even that will be a massive energy vampire compared to android, that had top notch engineers working on it for close to 2 decades...
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by gf000 3mo ago
Why? What's particularly heavy in these gnome tools? Like the particular programs are no issue, but the whole UNIX-userspace as done in the mainframe era and still is. Like you definitely need cooperative program suspend/resume l
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by gf000 3mo ago
> can't provide recovery or emergency access mechanisms If they can do that then they are not e2ee.
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by gf000 3mo ago
Especially that it would come with the loss of quite a few features, or at least a significantly worse way to implement them. Like if you have to bring the data to your client device to do any kind of processing, you are quite bottlenecked
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by gf000 3mo ago
I believe even they dropped it in the latest cars, unfortunately
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by gf000 3mo ago
It's because only Pixel devices have proper hardware security to build anything secure on top.
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by gf000 4mo ago
Well, we can surely communicate without language. I certainly communicate via body language with other humans, my dog, etc.
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by gf000 4mo ago
I think one should bring into Chomsky's Universal Grammar the discussion, or at least some version of it. If for no other reason, I believe it's quite reasonable to believe that cognition must be Turing-complete (okay, linear boun
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by gf000 4mo ago
??? Wayland is a protocol, that sentence is in and of itself faulty. And there are multiple independent implementations of said protocol. Unlike in case of X, that has basically 1. With proprietary modules (that's how nvidia proprietar
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by gf000 4mo ago
Spaghetti ~ complexity ~ entropy. That's the natural order of things that many people work in, I doubt any "general loosely defined paradigm" can be absent from the inevitable.
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by gf000 4mo ago
Well, I'm someone who barely knows more than jack about formal verification, but in pretty much every case you have to have some kind of model that you are actually verifying. How close that model sits to the real thing you have modele
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by gf000 4mo ago
It's the bazaar. No one is pushing anything on you, you have a wrong mental model if you think anything can be pushed.
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by gf000 4mo ago
How does a field carrying age sniffing? It's open source, you personally run whatever you want. But not all places are like that, Linux is run in places where abusing this law is mandated. The alternative is that that place can't
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by gf000 4mo ago
Like they added a field to be possibly law-complient? What's the alternative, Linux should just not run in places where this will be the legal framework? How is that field limits your freedom?
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by gf000 4mo ago
Not all code are equal. There is an essential complexity you need , period. This is a fundamental truth that that can never decrease. And init and service management is a generally hard problem - like a static approach wouldn't bring
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by gf000 4mo ago
We basically have it already. And we are all better off for it with software actually working as intended, without maintainers having to make heroic efforts of porting programs.
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by gf000 4mo ago
It doesn't suck, people are just emotional beings and have some "football team" level takes on technical stuff as well. The very same people that hate systemd for "being a monolith" and limiting choice are usually a
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by gf000 4mo ago
How did we get to that? We were talking about n:m threading, especially with threads being blocking IO-aware, being able to automagically turning such a call to non-blocking. Java more than fits that description.
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by gf000 4mo ago
I think they mean something more akin to RAII in C++/rust. Manually writing a free statement is very error-prone and there are better language-level features to avoid that.
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by gf000 4mo ago
Haskell, Java
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by gf000 4mo ago
Which system has better security from an end-user perspective? Only iOS comes anywhere close.
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by gf000 4mo ago
Well, can you take a picture that looks better than what I made 20 years ago on a flip phone? I have a pinephone and try it out year after year.. Well, let's just say that there is so many areas of improvement to make "GNU/li
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by gf000 4mo ago
Yeah, and? We are in agreement here, C++ is not a GCd language. What I (we) claim is that reference counting is a GC, that's it. A language that uses RC 100% would be a GCd language, like python (okay, it does have a tracing GC to coll
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by gf000 4mo ago
Well yeah, stack variables are automatically reclaimed. What's your issue? It's just that this is not the predominant way C programs are written and for everything else you do need to somehow manage the memory, malloced objects wo
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by gf000 4mo ago
Which one? China or the US?

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