grishka

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by grishka 11mo ago
Phones have grown, but people are the same size as ever. It's as if the industry has collectively forgotten what ergonomics is. It's especially frustrating for me as someone who is a comparatively compact person and who still co
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by grishka 11mo ago
Meanwhile, in the USSR itself, if you wanted a car, thanks to the planned economy, you couldn't just go and buy one. There was a queue you had to register in and wait for months, maybe years. The quality was crap. The cars came out of
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by grishka 11mo ago
None of that is what I would call "Android development". But even if you use one of those terrible technologies, your app still needs a manifest and some native resources.
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by grishka 11mo ago
On the web. I, among other things, make Android apps, and Android and XML are one and the same. There is no such thing as Android development without touching XML files.
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by grishka 1y ago
This is amazing.
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by grishka 1y ago
The Russian version linked there is, uh, underwhelming. That whole gopnik vibe is entirely unwarranted. I understand a bit of Spanish and that one is much better in comparison.
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by grishka 1y ago
It doesn't. But Affinity Studio works locally (I assume no one needs the AI features).
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by grishka 1y ago
For personal use, piracy is always an option.
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by grishka 1y ago
> Look, March of THIS YEAR (2025) SpaceX had a rocket EXPLODE [0]. It's a Starship. It's still in development. It's not a finished product like Falcon. And it's not an unexpected outcome either — after all, SpaceX
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by grishka 1y ago
> How in the world does any programmer think for a hot second that code is bug free? If you stop bloating the scope of your product by endlessly adding features no one ever asked for, you'll eventually run out of bugs. Also, while i
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by grishka 1y ago
> You had to take action to receive them. What did that look like? Remember, back then, developers and users often had no after-sale communications at all. It was a technical impossibility more than anything. There was paper mail. Ther
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by grishka 1y ago
> we are not omniscient writers who can foresee all problems, fix all bugs, and write software that is unhackable We can come close to that in all other areas of engineering, but somehow not software? We can build buildings and bridges a
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by grishka 1y ago
> I don't think software is ever finished. Back when it came on physical media, it was very much finished. Needing an update to fix a critical bug or a UX issue was a very costly problem to have, both in money and in reputation. Use
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by grishka 1y ago
That's exactly my point — if Android itself doesn't have meaningless updates every year, then apps won't need them either.
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by grishka 1y ago
Unironically, I want finished software. I don't like it one bit how the vast majority of software products today are in an "eternal beta", so to speak. Android, in particular, is a finished product. It doesn't need yearl
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by grishka 1y ago
Or emulate one. Yeah, right.
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by grishka 1y ago
The main problem seems to be that the only way the BIOS can boot an OS is a mass storage device with executable code in the boot sector, in contrast to older computers that had some sort of monitor/debugger in their ROM. I haven't
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by grishka 1y ago
SNI is used extensively by the Russian government for censorship. All DPI circumvention tools are based on mangling the ClientHello enough to confuse the DPI box but not enough for the destination server to notice anything.
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by grishka 1y ago
I distinctly remember having my mind blown by fast food drink sizes when I visited the US. A "small" there felt like what we would call "large" here in Russia. Our small soda is usually 300 ml at most.
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by grishka 1y ago
I use it to test my tiny written-from-scratch S3 client in my server app. But then I already have it installed, it already works, and I don't care about updates.
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by grishka 1y ago
I get it that it requires yet-impossible materials to build a space elevator that goes all the way to space, but what if we instead build one that only extends high enough to clear the thickest layers of atmosphere, so rockets could be laun
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by grishka 1y ago
Not true about Android at least — there is secure boot where the bootloader will snitch on you if you unlock it, and you can't do anything about it because the attestation happens in a trusted execution environment, a hypervisor with h
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by grishka 1y ago
Those are called regions.
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by grishka 1y ago
No, it's not that. Usually, the OS does see the video and the compositor still renders it to the screen like normal, but when you take a screenshot, the OS itself is an accomplice here by not rendering that surface in screenshots.
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by grishka 1y ago
My M1 Max works just fine. Everything is as snappy as it was the day I bought it. I don't see any reason it might need a replacement any time soon. (The fact that I don't install major system updates unless absolutely necessary pr
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by grishka 1y ago
Yeah there was a similar one that undid the stupid new alert window layout in Big Sur and Monterey, and it stopped working in Ventura.
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by grishka 1y ago
> The ADS7953 is somewhat of a ferrari, whereas the MCP3208 feels like a Toyota, simple to use, unimpressive performance. What about the AD9226? It only has a single channel but can do up to 65 MSa/s at 12 bits. I bought one as a mo
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by grishka 1y ago
These restrictions won't apply to developer tools afaik. You will still be able to install anything using ADB. (I'm not defending the practice — Android needs to be separated from Google, and it needs to be done 10 years ago)
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by grishka 1y ago
And Windows itself still costs money somehow, despite clearly acting as a free product.
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by grishka 1y ago
It's not quite that. It's features you never asked for being forced upon you by the market with hardly any uncompromised alternatives without these misfeatures. I live in a city so I don't need a car, but if I had to buy one,

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