keybuk

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by keybuk 3y ago
We don't use that moon anyway
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by keybuk 4y ago
For the most part, Classic was designed by committee with many concessions to every corporate partner, retaining compatibility with their IrDA stacks, etc... ...while LE was designed by a few smart guys working together
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by keybuk 4y ago
This is about the newer LE 2M PHY, which was added for "replacing Classic" (which is 2-3M) use cases. It's not surprising that it's not as efficient as the more widely used 1M PHY.
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by keybuk 4y ago
I was the lead for Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical. This is nonsense.
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by keybuk 4y ago
'-ize' might be preferred by Oxford, but '-ise' is preferred by Cambridge. So I think it needs no explanation which DNA would prefer.
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by keybuk 5y ago
Ubuntu Bug 255161: Openoffice can’t print on Tuesdays (launchpad.net) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956
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by keybuk 6y ago
In Swift, if cow is a reference type you all share a cow that moos whoever asks, but if cow is a value type then you all have your own copy of a cow that only moos for you.
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by keybuk 8y ago
We had a great plan somewhere around Ubuntu intrepid or jaunty that rather than have apps rewrite /etc/resolve.conf, we'd leave it as a static file and have a "nameserver dynamic" type config in there. ie. sensible
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by keybuk 8y ago
This particular undefined case is a really interesting one; it seems utterly non-obvious why it exists, until you remember one thing... The most popular architecture today is 64-bit, with ABI specifying that the integer type is 32-bits wide
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by keybuk 8y ago
Depends which season of Star Trek it's from. Early in the run it'll come across as kinda corny, but mid-way through the run it'll be a strong episode and one fans will cite as a favorite forever.
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by keybuk 8y ago
There are vulnerabilities in the "standard" LE pairing, even with MITM, that make these things possible. Fixed with the BT LE Secure Connections key exchange, but many devices don't implement that
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by keybuk 8y ago
If I recall correctly, deleting an app on iOS only deletes its container, it leaves any shared containers behind. Your Google credentials are likely being stored in a shared container. I'm not sure when or even whether shared container
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by keybuk 9y ago
(I have worked as an engineer on both Ubuntu and Chrome) > One tab on chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? It probably doesn't. Much of that apparent memory usage is shared between all tabs, and the browser renderer process, etc. i
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by keybuk 10y ago
Seeing this title, I thought: "(Nuclear) Winter is Coming."
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Happy 10th Birthday Ubuntu (Scott James Remnant)(netsplit.com)
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by keybuk 14y ago
It's hosted on Linode, looking at it sternly kills it ;-)