quantummkv

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by quantummkv 6y ago
Here comes the copy pasted argument without any fact or figures to support it that appears in every thread regarding Jio/Reliance/Ambani/India or a combination thereof. Frankly, it is getting a bit stale and feels a lot like
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by quantummkv 6y ago
Surely it can't be a coincidence that Github is down every other week after the Microsoft acquisition? Is Microsoft interfering too much? Or did the core technical expertise leave for other greener pastures in Microsoft or outside?
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by quantummkv 6y ago
> If the bill was meant to be secular, it could provide asylum for everyone suffering religious persecution, regardless of their religion. It clearly is designed to exclude muslims. Here is the document in it's entirety - http:&#x2
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by quantummkv 6y ago
Unlike the US, Foxconn has functioning plants in India where they are already making iPhones and Nokia devices. This investment is not a greenfield one like in the US. It's further investment in an already successful venture. So very f
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by quantummkv 6y ago
> India lacks both cheap "skilled" labour and mineral resources. They do have low and unskilled labour in high numbers though Skills do not develop in a vacuum. You need to have requirements for a particular skill before you ca
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by quantummkv 6y ago
The sad thing is that it already happened 2 years ago [1]. And nothing changed apart from some general apathy on the interwebs. The JavaScript ecosystem is past the point of no return right now. Any improvements will only be band-aids. [1]
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by quantummkv 6y ago
Only the translation communities, according to the article. But I wouldn't be surprised if more of the repositories were on subversion. There was no git in the 90's when KDE started
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by quantummkv 6y ago
For networks, a Raspberry pi with pihole would be great starting step that still works
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by quantummkv 6y ago
> I don't understand what's the objective here. Banning these apps will have 0 or little financial impact on China The intent is not financial. The intent is to block the direct access that China has to manipulate and shape opi
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by quantummkv 6y ago
The big difference here is that the US is not engaged in an armed, public war with India over territory. And the US is currently friendly with India. The US spyware might be a problem in the future. But the Chinese spyware is a big problem
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by quantummkv 6y ago
Because the Chinese government cannot directly alter the content and rankings in AliExpress to immediately spread out it's propaganda directly to easily impressionable teenagers in the form of audio visuals.
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by quantummkv 6y ago
Actions like these start making a lot of sense if you start viewing Google and their friends as a bunch of hi-tech mafioso. Newspapers are essentially forced to pay protection money and then publicly kiss the ring, declare their allegiance
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by quantummkv 6y ago
It's not Apple that slows down Firefox on Mac. It's just that Firefox cannot match the resources that apple and google throw around on their browsers. Firefox has to be economical on where their resources are directed towards. And
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by quantummkv 6y ago
> Apple sticking with Intel and now reverting to a terrible proprietary cpu architecture ARM is more open than x86. In fact, you could start your own ARM chip design company today. Which is something you cannot do with x86 at all, even i
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by quantummkv 6y ago
It's not bad UX. Apple provides three other app installation options that don't create a new disk on your desktop. The fact the the developers don't want to use those 3 methods is not Apple's fault. Blame the developers
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by quantummkv 6y ago
> Can't think of any, unless the reporter was also misrepresenting the subject of the story or the angle he is taking. That is exactly what was happening there. There is no other plausible explanation for the behavior.
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by quantummkv 6y ago
I just love the changes they did to the menubar. Adaptive background and extra padding on the menu items are both great changes I don't like the new dock design. Maybe they'll change it back to the old dock if the feedback is voca
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by quantummkv 6y ago
If the performance in the demo is accurate, and considering that the actual Mac chips will have a lot bigger power headroom, silicon die size and more thermal headrooms than the A12Z, Intel will be swatted out.
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by quantummkv 6y ago
> I don't think Apple really cares that much if developers decide not to sign up The will be forced to. The mac is the only exclusive developer platform for the money making iDevice lineup. Just as Microsoft found the hard way towar
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by quantummkv 6y ago
The Git part is. The Hub part is not.
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by quantummkv 6y ago
It already is a web app that you can use of safari on iOS without problems. But native apps provide a lot of benefits like push notifications, offline data storage and support, home screen icon, etc, especially for a mail app.
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by quantummkv 6y ago
The meat of the issue here is that you cannot sell your widget directly online to consumers. Apple does not allow that. You have to always sell through the Apple store and always pay that margin whether you want to or not. To use the brick
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by quantummkv 6y ago
It is an organizational problem and not a technical one. These is zero technical difficulty or challenge for Apple to allow sideloading. The have done it on the mac. And google has it on android.
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by quantummkv 6y ago
No you can't. If you do that then Apple review hammer will be wielded and you will end up in the same place.
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by quantummkv 6y ago
The platform is completely locked down and the users are on the platform. Unless you want to loose a big part of the market after Apple banned you for dissenting, you keep quiet, look the other way and praise Apple and his holiness the Jobs
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by quantummkv 6y ago
Actually they don't. If you go look at dhh's twitter thread, he has a table of direct competitors to Hey that don't have iap. Yet they are on the store
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by quantummkv 6y ago
> But your post said $5500 to get to 20fps. I think that budget would get you to 60 pretty easily. The 2080ti is the fastest gaming GPU on the market right now. Period. It does not matter what your budget is, you cannot buy a faster GPU
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by quantummkv 6y ago
To me this whole thing reads more like the plot and gameplay of the next Far Cry game. What a time to be alive.
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by quantummkv 6y ago
>I used activities instead of fragments. I had the feeling that the fragment was not the best option because the navigation plan can be too complex. am I right? > When choosing the products, I used only a single activity and used code
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by quantummkv 6y ago
> Why stick to the insular Silicon Valley club and not get someone who's devoted their life to civil rights? There are a ton of community activists who could actually bring a fresh perspective. They would. But the sad cold truth of

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