mfuzzey

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by mfuzzey 2y ago
>Why shouldn't the public be able to elect whoever they want? Because some types of illegal behaviour of candidates can influence the vote. This isn't about a court banning MLP because of her views or policy proposals (that wou
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
why? Serious question - as a European I'm really baffled by the US these days?
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
In the tablet / phone world where end users expect to install applications from the playstore yes but there are many other device types that do use AOSP. For instance some parking meters / train ticketing machines / payment t
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
While non software people certainly don't understand data structures etc themselves I'm sure they get the idea that software has to be designed, just as they get that most buildings (like larger than a shed) have to be designed by
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
> What changed in software in the last 20 years Backends handling tens / hundreds of thousands or more of concurrent users rather than locally deployed software on a single machine or a small server with a few 10s of users? Mobile?
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
There's a big difference between obeying laws (which all companies pretty much have to do if they want to stay in business) and voluntarilly aligning with what they think a new president wants without there being any specific law for
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
Some abuse of wealth for political power may be inevitable but some countries are a lot better at limiting it than others. For example here in France the amount of money politicians can spend on campaigning is strictly limited (and reimburs
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
Companies obeying new laws is one thing, and of course they don't really have much choice about that if they want to stay in business. But companies changing stuff just to cozy up to a new president without there being a law forcing th
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
And that is exactly what we don't want. We want civilized law based international relations not a jungle. International courts should settle disputes based on law
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
It's not quite the same. The EU has banned those companies from supplying network infrastructure. That infrastructure is used both by private individuals and by companies, ministers etc. AFAIK they have also banned TikTok on official g
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
> lead people to believe that humans are getting nastier over time, even when they’re not Most people aren't nasty or getting nastier but nasty people are likely over represented in those with power and there seems to be a current s
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
Agreed with your point of accessibility to people who don't live in the code. But that doesn't preculude documentation near code nor Markdown. It just means that you need a CI job to publish the doc stored in the git repo as (for
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
I haven't seen such problems on Debian or Ubuntu guess it's par for the course with a bleeding edge distro. The author seems to be focusing on the disk space advantage and claiming it's not enough to justify the downsides tod
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
One of the issues with user replaceable batteries is waterproofing (IP rating). My first smartphone was a Samsung Galaxy S1. It had an easilly swappable battery which was great because time between recharges was much shorter in those days s
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
ACPI / UEFI is heavily used on ARM server systems. Embedded stuff mostly uses u-boot true. But u-boot itself is actually fine for this type of device. I recently did an evaluation of several system on modules. They all came with thei
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
You don't actually need a custom kernel build for every device these days (and haven't for years). Within the same ISA (ARM32 or ARM64) you can run the exact same binary kernel on multiple devices provided you have a suitable devi
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
This is the reason I will never use the Apple ecosystem, even if the hardware is pretty good. A hardware manufacturer has no business telling me what I may or may not run on hardware I have purchased, period.
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
An example of a large code base that has survived decades and undergone huge scope changes without running into these problems is the Linux kernel. Initially it only ran on X86 PCs and most of the hardware it supports today didn't exis
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
Copying isn't theft (though it may still be illegal). Theft is "dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intention to permanently deprive the other of it." So if I steal your wallet, your phone or you
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
Telegram has plenty of alternative clients. The others probably don't
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
RISC-V is only really directly helpful for those building their own silicon (sure "anyone" can implement a RISV-V core in a FPGA but that won't give you the performance of an ASIC). If you just want to buy a chip and put it o
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
> All the other manufacturers have really really shitty BSPs in comparison, I disagree. The NXP (i.MX line) and the TI (am62x) and the STM32 MP1/2 all have good mainline support. What you say is true of most of the Chineese chips an
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
Intuative for new users is often less efficient for experienced users so for many complex professional tools that will be a core part of the users' work it probably makes sense to go for the less intuative but more efficient tool and p
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
Using computers is now a basic necessity for life in modern societies, on par with reading and writing. I think the answer for people who do not have or for some reason cannot use computing devices is to provide places they can go and be as
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
Why shackled to SMS? I don't have an iPhone don't use iMessager and haven't sent a SMS in the past 10 years. Everything these days is What'sApp / Telegram / Signal
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
You need to get permission from your employer obviously but I think most are fine with that these days. I'm not talking about open sourcing something your company has made from scratch and is their core product but just contributing (u
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
That's not what I get from the article. More that it's pointless to contrinute to an open source project if you're not interested in improving the software the project is building for a reason that matters to you. That's
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
I think you and GP (about Lucas Chess) are using the term "drive-by PR" differently. I agree with the GP's definition. I consider a drive-by PR to be one made by someone who doesn't intend to become a regular contributo
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
Are they only charging or also restricting the number of tickets available per day? Restricting the number of tickets is probably an effective way of handling overtourism. Just charging would probably be only be effective in reducing the
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by mfuzzey 2y ago
I don't think a contributor can unilatary withdraw their code from a code base unless there is license change. Then it wouldn't be about "withdrawing" their code but refusing to allow it to be distributed under a differe

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