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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
I know you're a prolific commentator here, so if you don't mind me asking ... Which operating systems have you designed (or worked on) to say that writing a microkernel in C is a symptom that they don't know anything about
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Just want to point out that not that long ago redox-os (the microkernel OS in Rust) asked people to test it. People were able to kernel panic it, get privilege escalations, and DDoS it. In short, it had the same same issues a C based kernel
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
They're not expanding it for experiments. It's just an old model that costs too much to refurbish, and they've got a new one coming up which will be a lot cheaper and easier to refurbish than the current (which is one model a
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Where is the Xi plugin documentation (as in, how to write and install a plugin, what are the APIs). I found https://github.com/google/xi-editor/blob/master/doc/plugin.m... , but it doesn't hav
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Sorry if I wasn't clear but I don't have anywhere close to that kind of money to place something anywhere near the moon. I was just being curious as to who would.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Just curious (not a competitor :), what business model is there in placing micro-sats on the moon?
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>right now there are no blobs running in the userspace. Firmware blobs are needed for Wifi for example. What about kernel space?
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Pixel isn't that simple to mod. https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7gu5ht/lineage...
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Does postmarketOS use android-based binary blobs, and what does it have over such projects as Google-Free LineageOS (as in, if you don't flash opengapps) or Replicant?
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
It's not marketers. It's that it used to be free (baked into the plan) so there used to be no advantage to not get a phone every two years. Do while the free phone went away (for this in the cell phone market, did plans get any ch
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>No matter how advanced your taste is, it's a brute fact that the poor don't enjoy ugly art. It seems more like an "acquired taste" thing that cultured individuals just must enjoy. Like atonal music or rhymeless poetr
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Will they altogether stop showing ads in "unapproved" videos or just that the maker won't make money?
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>Search engines didn't exist until the very end of the 90s. Both Yahoo and AltaVista were started in 95.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
On the other hand, from my experience: I wanted to see how Raspberry Pi assembly worked - quite a niche subject (who programs? In assembly? On a Raspberry Pi?). Yet I found quite a few blogs going through the subject - a tutorial of sorts.
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
My issue with Monads (and why I like kotlin and swift nullable types) is that it allows the compiler to infer nullability like the following code: fun f(a1: Int?, a2: Int?): Int { if (a1 == null || a2 == null) { return 0 }
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
While reddit has a quite bad reputation, there are quite a few subbreddits which are heavily moderated and quite serious: For example, /r/askhistorians requires that all answers be long form and cite peer-reviewed articles (no wik
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Well, that's a bit not nice. I took the "Rust is like C" line to mean is that you can use Rust anywhere you can use C, running at C speeds (the whole zero cost abstraction/no runtime/unsafe blocks), someone that can
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
I haven't seen a "free phone" in a _long_ time (two years or so). Now it's "pay X dollars a month 24 months".
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Just curious, considering that you seem to work there: What does sf.net have to offer that github (or gitlab which is the "open source not-github github", or bitbucket) doesn't?
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
How did you create a free private repo to begin with?
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
It's because there's a difference between cool and usable. For example - compare a Virtual Reality 3D city you can scroll around on your computer, visiting different houses, "chatting" with them, then reading what they p
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
You were able to install Rockbox (an aftermarket ROM for Apple, Sansa, and a few other mp3 players). Was quite good, had better codec support (played OGG files!) and you could write apps [1] for it. [1]. Don't know if you could call th
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
I can't comment about speed, but I think that his security claims are a bit off. Now I never looked at Linux code or FreeBSD code (so it really can be that FreeBSD has fewer bugs), but the question is if you will be hit by them. Applic
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
1. Why are you're learning a language at the same time you're trying to launch an MVP? And a fairly involved language such as rust. 2. You're complaining about windows32 API being slow, but blaming it on .NET ("I don’t k
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
I've never used Maven, only gradle. The issue with convention over configuration is that you don't see how things should happen, because they're hidden behind the convention. For example, what are the steps behind your Androi
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>I don't know why this happens. I think programmers are so used to imperative (ant/Grunt/etc/etc) programming/building that it becomes confusing for them when they encounter a declarative system. Because, after a
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Or firejail
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>If the general public starts to believe that there is an Android successor in the works, many people will stop buying Android devices until further notice. The bigger danger is the response by android developers. Will you invest in a so
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
>but it seems very cheap for companies that profit billions of dollars yearly to only donate $25k to projects and foundations that support part of the software backbone of their infrastructure.. That's the free rider problem, one th
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by greenhouse_gas 9y ago
Well, not in i.e Android. For example, I have an app that has a vulnerability (let's say my alarm app accidentally runs unauthorized code). What can it do? Nothing. It can't read from my banking app, it can't get my SSH keys,

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