sergeykish

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1. 151.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   But smartphone is a computer, personal computer with telephony hardware. And Android is Linux with different userspace, mainline Linux can boot quite a lot of smartphones. Terminology is so wrong.
2. 152.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   And smartphones runs mostly Android, that is Linux kernel.
3. 153.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   Interfacets, it is mentioned in the article > Apple designed their own interrupt controller, the Apple Interrupt Controller (AIC), not compatible with either of the major ARM GIC standards. And not only that: the timer interrupts - norma
4. 154.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   It is like recipe. And in general it is the way we read books.
5. 155.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   I see children losing hours on range(1, 12) in Python, have you noticed error? Unsafe defaults introduced to reuse function as for i in range(len) # 0, 1, ..., len - 1
6. 156.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   First element found at offset 0. Like ruler. Closed and right-open intervals in Ruby: (1..12).to_a #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] (1...13).to_a #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
7. 157.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   It is not hard to critique. The hard part is finding how to change while moving existing ecosystem and preserving all the use cases people depend on. I expect there is a reason Arch Linux symlinks to /usr/bin and not to /bi
8. 158.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   He is using server side programming environment. Linux won the servers. How hard task is there? $ pacman -S nodejs python-pip ruby also $ pacman -S ghc lua erlang elixir rust gcc clang postgresql docker podman --- But ser
9. 159.▲
   by sergeykish 6y ago

   ðɪ ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ ɪz pˈɔɪntləs. ɪt kəntˈeɪnz ɐ mˈasɪv ɐmˈaʊnt ɒv kəmplˈɛksɪti and ˌɒbfəskˈeɪʃən ðat ˈəʊnli ɛɡzˈɪsts bɪkˈʌz ðats hˌaʊ ɪt wɒz ˈɔːlweɪz dˈʌn and nˈəʊbɒdˌi dˈeəz tʃˈeɪndʒ ɪt ˌɛni lˈɒŋɡə Shell (just like language) is a medium. We use it
10. 160.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Desktop Linux is developed by people who develop Linux. Our operating system in an outlet for so many cultures — privacy minded, seeking freedom or free, people who hack and patch, etc, etc. And your first instinct is to take it away, make
11. 161.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    It is quite easy — invest in the most limiting factor, for example: * OnePlus 3, released in June 2016, 6 GB RAM. vs * iPhone 7, released in September 2016, 2 GB RAM. * iPhone 12 Pro Max, released in October 2020, 6 GB RAM. From my perspect
12. 162.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    I think people believe Linux is community driven project, while in reality it is strongly corporate backed. Just look at kernel contributions [1]. I think same applies to most of the infrastructure, someone works on FreeType, Cairo, Pango,
13. 163.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    The amount of their contributions is astounding https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source-program-office/c...
14. 164.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    There was a story recently, On the Graying of Gnome, comment by boudewijnrempt [1]: > The reason is simple: Nokia. Nokia (and to a much lesser extent, Intel) built up a lot for Maemo and Meego. Just for KOffice/Calligra, at least tw
15. 165.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Sounds extremely strange. You should fill an issue. My Dell Latitude E7440 follows description and I believe same is true for most of the users. I have to start movement at least diagonally, once it catches further direction does not matter
16. 166.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    I sort screenshots by date, upload topmost.
17. 167.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    I've never noticed such issue, quick search shows that one has to start on edge and movement in vertical direction [1]. Vanilla edges are 8% of the width on each side [2]. There was a proposal to add configuration option [3], rejected
18. 168.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Yes, but isn't same true about most of the hardware? Just a fraction of notebooks comes with Linux. I'd like to but I've never bought one. Smartphone manufacturers are not cooperative, NVIDIA got finger. Personally I would no
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    > Let me just say it: We want native third party applications on the iPhone, and we plan to have an SDK in developers' hands in February. — Steve Jobs, October 10, 2007 (three month after iPhone release) [1]. How long does it takes
20. 170.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Google ChromeOS > Chromebook shipments have grown 122% year on year to a total of 9.4 million units in Q3 of 2020. [1] It covers big market, from tablets [2] to enterprise [3]. And they have AArch64 models [4]. [1] https://www
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    We have themes and extensions (different experience, same codebase), we have libinput, X11/Wayland (same codebase). It is the same old question "why many languages, libraries, frameworks?" Can you imagine if engine was interc
22. 172.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    GNOME and KDE are not the only desktop environments on Linux [1]. MATE forked from Gnome 2, much closer than KDE yet they are separate projects. Trinity forked from KDE 3, XFCE is a GTK based project. Imagine same argument for macOS and Win
23. 173.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Just look at browsers — no more status bar, title bar reused for tabs or controls, hidden menu bar. Web does not value menus and window manipulations either. I don't get it too, tiling window manager optimizes geometry, multiple deskto
24. 174.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Linux runs 1 500 000 000 smartphones shipped annually (Android). Linux runs 20 000 000 notebooks shipped annually (Chromebook). BSD is kernel and userspace. GNU is kernel and userspace, but HURD is not ready.
25. 175.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    You may be interested in https://www.gamingonlinux.com/index.php?module=statistics&vi... — AMD is on the rise (40% vs 56% NVIDIA), Arch based on the rise (39% vs 39% Ubuntu based), Pop!_OS among Ubuntu based, though I d
26. 176.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    It would be interesting to gather a list. uBlock Origin can disable Web Fonts https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Per-site-switches#no-... so it should be possible to log. And given a list it is not hard t
27. 177.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Thank you, I gave advice and missed this change. I've created issue "Local font name makes web accessible", and I hope it would be fixed. https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/2855
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Unfortunately > If the local() function is provided, specifying a font name to look for on the user's computer, and the user agent finds a match, that local font is used. Otherwise, the font resource specified using the url() functi
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    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Paper medium is not that different — I can estimate size by sight, I can skim through pages, check pictures. It is different in publishing, books are often good enough to buy. But yes, scrollbar helps to "finish" article even if i
30. 180.▲
    by sergeykish 6y ago

    Netscape 2.0: "foo" - 1 //raises "is not a numeric literal" "" == false //raises "is not a numeric literal" "foo" + new Object() //&q