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by hortense 5y ago
If you take into account the download/extraction/installation time of the user, many times yes.
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by hortense 5y ago
On large codebases that does not hold because you can't expect everybody to know all the code and how it should behave. If you broke it but there was no test, it's not your fault. "if you liked it, then you should have put a
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by hortense 5y ago
> Why should I be excited about Filesystem API and the like when we can already do that on the operating system directly? Because it's easier to update to a website than it is to release a ton of binaries ({windows, Linux, macos}x{x
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A Tour of the Fuchsia Operating System [video](youtube.com)
87 points by hortense 5y ago|19 comments
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by hortense 5y ago
Python is bad, but bash is worse as soon as you need any kind of logic. > explaining ppl how to use Python subprocess Module Launch different apps, capture their output There's no shame in using `os.system`.
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by hortense 5y ago
Can fines given in a country be deducted from profit in an other country?
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by hortense 5y ago
Very cool. You are pretty close to being able to play Stadia on GBA :-)
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by hortense 5y ago
One thing that DeepMind demonstrated was that sometimes one well funded team is much better than 50 poorly funded teams.
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by hortense 5y ago
We have no point of comparison. Is this more than usual?
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by hortense 5y ago
One thing that is fantastic about digital menus is that you can search in them.
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by hortense 5y ago
To take advantage of a 1000 Hz monitor, you'd need to render 1000 different images per seconds! And if you can renderer 1000 images per seconds, then generating motion blur that work on a 100 fps monitor is as simple as displaying an a
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by hortense 5y ago
That's accurate: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/8b2bb8a5d1a0/zirc...
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by hortense 5y ago
A related question about this: if an account was flagged for something (e.g. the account was shadow banned), is it OK by GRPD standards to: 1/ not tell the user this info. 2/ keep track of the fact this account was flagged after t
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by hortense 5y ago
They have an OS running on a consumer device that connects to the wifi where you can play media, browse the web, and run flutter apps, so it seems like they already put the time and effort. It even self-updates, so in some sense it's a
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by hortense 5y ago
I wonder what is the cost of accelerating 60kg to 40km/h every 2 minutes for a day.
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by hortense 6y ago
That would be Google's second (at least!) bluetooth stack in Rust, the first one being in Fuchsia. https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/master...
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by hortense 6y ago
One of the goal of microkernels is to get rid of a whole class of security issues. In some cases it may trade performance for that. In some cases you can get better performances, but you have to rewrite your software to take into account th
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by hortense 6y ago
Anyone else bothered by the black banner saying "Google is committed to advancing racial equity for Black communities" in technical documentation ( https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/contribute/roadmap ) ? Th
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by hortense 6y ago
They can't, and that's the whole point. The security comes from the sandbox, not from the review process.
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by hortense 6y ago
Reading the comments it seems that very few people understand this, which seems incredible to me.
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by hortense 6y ago
Amp was a reaction to Apple News and Facebook News: using those applications to read the news was a much better experience than using the web. Why? Mainly for two reasons: 1/ Apple and Facebook were hosting all the content. 2/ The
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by hortense 6y ago
Google Music is 30% more expensive when purchased via iOS. If that seems insane, it's because it is.
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by hortense 6y ago
It's crazy that Google is doing all that research and giving it for free to all their competitors.
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by hortense 6y ago
"folly requires gcc" That's surprising to me. Clang and the associated tools are so useful I would have expected all tech companies to have migrated to it.
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by hortense 7y ago
This is an electric car with an USB charge slot. Your phone is not going to die before your car.
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by hortense 7y ago
You can improve the precision by using visual feedback, but there are movements that are impossible to do if you don't have precise enough motors.
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by hortense 7y ago
A form builder can evolve into an app builder.
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by hortense 7y ago
Are these changes only for Windows?
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by hortense 7y ago
I feel like you don't know what you are talking about. Do you know what a cubemap is, how to generate one, and how to use it to render reflections?
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by hortense 7y ago
You can see the progression by starting with http://asciicker.com/x1/ Very nice.

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