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by janoc 6y ago
ARM itself has little to no impact on open source community. They only license chip IP, they don't make any chips themselves. And most of the ARM architecture is documented and open, with the exception of things like the MALI GPU. Whet
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by janoc 6y ago
Even for the old C it wasn't a superset. There are plenty of legal C programs that aren't legal C++ - if for nothing else, then because C++ has more reserved keywords which are perfectly legal identifier names in C. E.g. this is l
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by janoc 6y ago
It is a solution for people who want to keep their software proprietary because they think they can't make money out of it if it is open source. All the while they get to claim credit for it being "open source". The problem
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by janoc 6y ago
Yeah, that ticked me off too. This is certainly not "belt driven" in the normal sense.
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by janoc 6y ago
The long objects idea neglects basic physics - unless the part hanging off the side is very light, at certain point it is going to drop down and peel the other side from the belt, ruining the print. So in practice such machine will be limit
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by janoc 6y ago
It is not and never was. Look at for ex. what const means in each, or auto. Or variable length arrays (feature that doesn't exit in C++). Or designated initializers that C++ didn't have for a long time. Here is a good list of diff
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by janoc 6y ago
And that is relevant exactly how? The app cost has to cover the development and maintenance costs, marketing, any overhead and expenses (like bills, electricity, those expensive Apple computers), etc. That's the majority of your costs,
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by janoc 6y ago
If that shiny cool mall makes your business unviable, either because they charge extortionist fees or because they impose so many restrictions that you can't make the ends meet (or simply ban you outright because you compete with somet
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by janoc 6y ago
I wouldn't have been eligible to work for them anyway, given who their customers are and that I would not be able to get a security clearance as a foreign national (yay for headhunters not bothering to do their homework). The rest of y
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by janoc 6y ago
I have also got an unsolicited pitch from their recruiter and I have to concur - before I even knew what is the company about and who is behind it my BS detector was off the scale almost immediately. All talk about "extremely high hiri
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by janoc 6y ago
The thing is, if Apple alienates developers enough/makes them go bankrupt, the only applications you will be able to use would be the first party Apple ones. That won't be a very enjoyable thing, would be? That's the entire p
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by janoc 6y ago
Well, seriously, if some HR drone puts "rockstar", "full-stack" or similar buzzword on the job posting, it tells me one thing - the HR person is incompetent, most likely has no idea what the real needs of the company are
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by janoc 6y ago
Passing an exam or getting a degree proves only one thing - that you can pass exams. It doesn't prove the ability to think and actually solve real-world (as opposed to often contrived exam) problems. It also doesn't prove anything
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by janoc 6y ago
The problem is when resumes get filtered into trash because the computer determined that you don't fulfill the stated requirements (no matter how silly). Which is a common practice these days, especially in hiring agencies who are hire
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by janoc 6y ago
The thing is, this is not only about cookies, despite the cookies being the poster child for it. The regulation applies also to all sorts of analytics, fingerprinting, behavior tracking, user tracking, etc., which is far more prevalent and
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by janoc 6y ago
EU doesn't require these BS popups. Both GDPR and the earlier "cookie directive" (the ePrivacy directive) only require user consent before setting cookies (or using other similar technologies, not only cookies) that have priv
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by janoc 6y ago
Mageia could be an option.
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by janoc 6y ago
It doesn't really matter. Ubuntu Studio is a distro tailored for multimedia production. You are not going to use that on a machine with a small amount of RAM. For comparison, I am running Mageia 7 with Plasma and after the entire day o
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by janoc 6y ago
The problem is that those talents are being used to solve totally wrong problems because of engineers going gung-ho and starting to "engineer" before they understand the subject. The problem is not lack of designs or ideas for v
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by janoc 7y ago
Native app != Electron app (fortunately!) The less of that bloated slow crap the better.
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by janoc 7y ago
There is plenty of market hungry for devices like this. Companies were buying Hololenses in fairly large quantities (tens up to hundreds!) for their internal use, despite it being essentially a lab product and not very suitable for day-to-d
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by janoc 7y ago
You can't "do studies on them after". These aren't studies for the sake of publishing papers but to determine whether or not the drug is safe to use and whether it is actually effective. If the drug or vaccine you are de
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by janoc 7y ago
There are a few suspicious cases but given how human immunity system works, it is very very unlikely that it is due to reinfection (i.e. a cured patient getting infected again). A far more likely explanation is either poor testing that gave
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by janoc 7y ago
The problem is that nobody knows whether this virus will behave like that. Flu does, as did SARS. But MERS has no issues with killing people in Saudi Arabia in 50 degrees Celsius. That this virus is prevalent during winter time is simply a
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by janoc 7y ago
It would likely go in parallel, that's why the paper is published on the preprint server. Paper reviews in major journals like Nature can easily take over a year but that is mostly to get the scientific "bragging rights" thes
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by janoc 7y ago
They have abandoned the self-driving car and laid off the entire team. And the "no one is talking about them" kinda doesn't match with the coverage of Apple rumors - and even this discussion.
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by janoc 7y ago
A phone is a commodity with little technological known-how required to pull off today. iPhone sells for $1000 because people will pay so much for it but that doesn't mean that the technology in it costs so much. However, when a single
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by janoc 7y ago
Well,that's your right, of course. Enjoy your day.
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by janoc 7y ago
AFAIK, they have jumped the gun a bit. It is shipping but only to selected partners because they have some major image quality issues: https://www.kguttag.com/2019/12/18/hololens-2-not-a-pretty-p...
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by janoc 7y ago
But everyone else is talking about them as if it was a done deal.

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