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by qalmakka 4y ago
It's a simple vote exchange, you know. People got triggered badly by Roe and "liberal" rulings that actually enshrined the right of women to have a sexual life and control their own life, so they made a pact with the Republic
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by qalmakka 4y ago
This is the final chapter of a decade-long saga which basically boils down to the Republicans obtaining votes from Evangelicals and other Christian denominations in order to give them what they wanted. In exchange for that, they would use t
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by qalmakka 4y ago
RISC-V is a way more supported architecture than Xtensa for the single fact it has upstream support from LLVM. After years Espressif still hasn't managed to get its LLVM backend upstreamed, which means using Rust or everything dependin
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by qalmakka 4y ago
GNOME? Don't even think about it. The next version of the file manager will probably remove icons all together in favour of a single, big button that opens a random file in your home directory. GNOME is that user interface where out of
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by qalmakka 4y ago
In well written modern C++ there are rarely memory allocations outside of STL containers. I have worked on big embedded projects that only use unique pointers in very few locations, you can do a lot of stuff without using the heap if you
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by qalmakka 4y ago
This, exactly. DRM doesn't work, it never did. Piracy was and still is rampant.
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by qalmakka 4y ago
1.I was referring to new Macs, at least those that came after Steve Jobs came back (~97). Older computers were a nightmare in terms of ports and incompatibility thereof, the standardisation around the PC platform helped a lot and Apple was
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Yep, but Apple controls MagSafe, which extends Qi. In a wireless iPhone, you would use whatever magical shenanigan Apple comes up with to seamlessly pair and communicate with MagSafe accessories, all while they get huge fees from accessory
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Because 1. Macs have always had standard ports, such as USB-A and FireWire, and Lightning basically is never used in a master configuration anyway, so it would make no sense to put it on a Mac 2. iPads have just a tiny share of the overall
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> where they can be bent slightly to fit Oh god please don't. Lots of Italian plugs are 10A only, and you would not get grounding by shoving an E/F combo plug into an L socket. This comes without saying that it would probably w
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Please don't make me start complaining about the utter sheet stupidity of the Italian electrical plug (type L). It's pure and utter shite. 1. The C plug was fine. It doesn't carry more than 10A, and that is fine because it do
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by qalmakka 4y ago
The "old square style USB plug" is USB-B. It's the counterpart of USB-A, the ubiquitous microUSB-B connector is meant to be a tiny version of it (there's also miniUSB-B, which now is mostly dead, and mini and micro A, wh
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by qalmakka 4y ago
> The only practical reason for Lightning to survive is existing iPhone accessories Do you have any vague idea how much money Apple makes from Lightning accessories? Every single thing that wants to use Lightning has to pay an Apple tax,
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by qalmakka 4y ago
2024? There's still plenty of time for them to remove the port altogether and go with just MagSafe/Qi. Which they control, and they still can get fees from. Trust me when I say that Apple will NEVER submit to this legislation, the
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Why would anyone think someone would implement YMODEM over BLE if they could use anything else? It's one of the crappiest things ever.
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by qalmakka 4y ago
It is more common that you imagine. In my case, the story is that some people have literally been porting the same C code base on multiple computers first, and embedded devices later, since the late '80s. Given their lead engineer is l
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Yeah, XMODEM... I had to implement YMODEM for a client of the company I work with a few months ago... Over BLE. It is every bit as bad as it sounds like.
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If this was a valid argument than Modern English is also a rump language which was vandalized by countless French and Latin loanwords and that lost its grammatical correctness when people stopped conjugating verbs and using grammatical gend
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by qalmakka 4y ago
I support the right of people to speak whatever and however they want. If people want to speak English, just let them. Languages are tools, they are not pieces of art to be kept around for your own amusement, they are not religious texts di
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by qalmakka 4y ago
The French (or rather, the Parisian) zealotry with language purity was always absolutely incomprehensible to me. All languages are bastardized versions of another one. Most are the byproduct of nationalistic fervor, an imposition mandated b
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Comté tastes similar, but it's still different than Gruyère IMHO.
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Well I hope there's a way to remove those trackers, I always put the rinds in soups and stuff so it would piss me off a lot to learn there's some non-food related stuff in it.
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Putin cares too much about his internal front. He will gladly throw any foreign property owned by the Russian state under the bus if he thinks giving the Russians the foreign brands they are accustomed to can quell any disobedience or unres
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I'm always pretty surprised when I find out most people writing C or C++ have no idea that PLTs exist. They have a small but not negligible cost.
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I have never seen anyone statically linking Qt anywhere, even with a commercial license. The main issue is iOS, where it's basically impossible to ship anything (L)GPLv3 on the app store, but that's due to Apple's lock-in pol
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by qalmakka 4y ago
> Apart from Qt, but the licensing issue is a hindrance Qt is LGPLv3, which is really a problem only if you plan to develop embedded software. Sure, there are a few GPL v3 modules here and there, but it's mostly very specific stuff
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by qalmakka 4y ago
I've used PySide6 recently and I must say it's great, so you can also add Python to Qt's side.
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> America is not collapsing That what they were also saying about the USSR and look how it went. To be clear, I don't think the USA will collapse soon because I do not have the necessary skills to assess a claim like that. The one t
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by qalmakka 4y ago
I wouldn't hold my breath. The original VB6 was chock-full of COM+ and lots of Windows specific stuff. I would rather attempt to migrate VB6 projects to Gambas ( http://gambas.sourceforge.net/en/main.html ) which is
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by qalmakka 4y ago
Yay, What If is back! Munroe hasn't posted one in ages, it's one of my favourite science pages out there. Really looking forward the new book.

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