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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Haha -- yes, indeed. Bluetooth the spec and implementation are an absolute dumpster fire. "Bluetooth is a layer cake of sadness" is the turn of phrase we used for a while on the Glass connectivity team. One of our project founders
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
1) Sleep Number Bed, 2) Breville espresso grinder and coffee maker 3) Lavazza coffee, whole milk, coffee cup, mouth and stomach. :D
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Part of the reason was that Broadcom could directly support the connectivity guys. We just didn't realize how awful it was, but given that the the Android team didn't have that big of a connectivity team at the time, it seemed lik
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
There's quite a bit of evidence that they do. Apple's strength has always been at the point at which hardware is built and interfaces to the software, including firmware.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
GPL is the problem. Hardware vendors won't touch it with a 10k foot pole because of the requirement to redistribute patches. There's a history of wanting BSD licenses at Android's inception. If the BSD distributions hadn&#x27
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
The parent directory is the Android supporting stuff like the bluetooth HAL and the JNI interfaces. The rest is the old bluedroid/floride stuff.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Apple has a unique relationship to its hardware, and the money to bend vendor's firmware to their will. Half of the problem with Bluetooth is the host stack. The other half is the firmware running on the controller on the other side of
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Bluedroid is the old stack. Zach and co started the floride project to clean it up, but it seems GD is their attempt to totally rewrite it.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
On Glass, we actually went to Broadcom and had them on the ropes for fixing parts of their firmware. Sadly, we couldn't bring those fixes out of the closed source world of hardware, so it's still up to the system integrator to fig
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
I know the guy that heads up the team that did this work -- he and I spent 2+ years fighting Broadcom's old, god-awful bluetooth code. Our whole team used to play what-if games about replacing the thing while massive code dumps came in
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SEC Charges New Hampshire Issuer of Digital Asset Securities with Reg. Violation(sec.gov)
3 points by mondoshawan 6y ago|0 comments
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Help LBRY Save Crypto: Case Guide and FAQ(helplbrysavecrypto.com)
3 points by mondoshawan 6y ago|0 comments
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Help LBRY Save Crypto(helplbrysavecrypto.com)
6 points by mondoshawan 6y ago|1 comments
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
1) Get up 2) Go to kitchen 3) Make coffee
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Isn't the common standard licenses the OSI lists? Things like GPL, BSD, MIT, and Apache are well known, well documented, and very specific to software copyright and its use. I've read through PolyForm's stuff, and it heavily
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Its little league. Its literally a US institution.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Could be possible to write these extensions as bash plugin libraries -- I've long thought about adding such features this way, but haven't had the time or pressure enough to really need it yet.
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Haiku Activity Report – January 2021(haiku-os.org)
115 points by mondoshawan 6y ago|24 comments
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Xorg didnt define policy, which is why things like window management was offloaded to the window manager process. Look and feel was also not part of the policy of Xorg, and was defined by the widget sets, window manager, etc. In the wayland
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
You're getting downvoted, but its not clear why. This is a perfectly valid argument about why wayland doesn't work, from a user's perspective, not a developer's. This is precisely what users expect from the system, and f
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Your use of "was" here is sadly, incorrect. PA is still horrifically broken on simple PC desktop systems I use (with integrated AC97 audio, btw) and on custom embedded systems I have integrated new sound chips into. I regularly
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
On my ASUS PN50 APU, Steam works fine in wayland, even in big picture mode. Input, however, is another (sad) story.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
I generally like wayland, and on systems where I can use it, I use it. I'm even writing my own compositor for a side project on embedded hardware because Wayland (the protocols) better defines the roles of parts of the software and has
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
The difference is scarcity and readily available tools to retarget the steam engine for a different workload. A steam engine requires tools made of matter to make it provide mechanical power to another system. In essence, a steam engine is
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
I beg to differ: my Mazda MX-5 has a lane departure warning system that flatly gets it wrong all the time. My prior car, a Scion iA, mis-triggered the "smart city breaking" on the freeway and nearly caused an accident. The infotai
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
> I think religion has its place in the world, but the indications I get from those statements are that this individual ultimately hasn't progressed very far intellectually or challenged their beliefs strongly enough. I fear it is a
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Then what's the problem? If all you are doing is evaluating them for technical skill, then only the resume and interview performance should matter. Personal beliefs such as religion don't enter into it.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
What is your point? This kind of response completely ignores the fact that the vast majority of the drivers required to just run on modern hardware are closed source and that the vast majority of phones these days have their bootloaders loc
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
The parent comment originally was written in such a way as to imply I was management.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Aha! Wasn't aware of this rule change. Wonder how they'll garner the votes they need to fully form the union without internal rabblerousing digitally, and with offices being closed. Is it legal for a union to use employee info dir

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