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by snaky 7y ago
There are also MicroG builds, they just add MicroG and the F-Droid Privileged Extension, which allows F-Droid to install and update apps without the need of user interaction or the unsafe "Unknown sources" option. https:/&#x
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by snaky 7y ago
It's not easy to check whether a phone has malware. It's easy to check whether a phone supported by LineageOS. Just like home routers and OpenWRT.
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by snaky 7y ago
> Perl supported tainting from at least 1989 as the -T switch was included in Perl 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taint_checking
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by snaky 7y ago
Wait for Boeing to announce new pilot UX - no more that stupid screens, just chat bot.
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by snaky 7y ago
What I've learned from the comments above is k8s consulting business is the best thing since OOP. Just tell the marketing team you have a magic button that being installed will give them ability to change the course of business every 5
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by snaky 7y ago
> someone else does it, maybe better, open sources it, community forms around it, you're toast Oracle is very much okay still with superior technology, despite open source, and community, if we are talking about PostgreSQL.
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by snaky 7y ago
The problem with monopsony is not any particular chip or technology. You can make (with huge investment and a couple of decades) or buy any technology. The problem is that you have to make the whole Digikey catalogue (and then some) all by
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by snaky 7y ago
> If a journalist uses a technical term in a headline, and then goes on to explain what the term means in the article, how is that not fine? If a marketing team uses a financial term in a commercial with an asterisk, and then goes on to
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by snaky 7y ago
The more practical question would be not how fast it is (supposing it's quite fast), but how many features isn't there yet.
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by snaky 7y ago
Security was never high in priority list of Linux kernel development actually.
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by snaky 7y ago
Actually OS kernels and Linux kernel in particular have many not obvious requirements. Consider easy disassembly for example. > The code generation part ends up being nice when something goes wrong. When somebody sends in an oops, I ofte
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by snaky 7y ago
> CarPlay as a requirement Why don't you loose your requirement to just 2DIN space to install your favourite Car Play compatible gadget into?
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by snaky 7y ago
A large app in C++ with ATL (Active Template Library) or WTL (Windows Template Library) would have about the same size and speed as in C with plain Win32 API, leveraging the whole new level of abstractions, code reuse and developer producti
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by snaky 7y ago
Do you consider https://download.lineageos.org/ a questionable source?
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by snaky 7y ago
Honest question - why anybody would want her purchases on the map?
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by snaky 7y ago
In a web context, rendering is populating html template with data.
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by snaky 7y ago
Performance is about how it works, responsiveness is all about how it feels.
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by snaky 7y ago
"The Eternal Mainframe" http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...
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by snaky 7y ago
This is extremely shortsighted. Globally, iOS is in decline, and Android is on the rise, and there's nothing that could change the tendency. The main driver for mobile growth is 3rd world, where Android is a king. > Apple continue
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by snaky 7y ago
Good old list of hype-words is enough.
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by snaky 7y ago
> Title is misleading As in most of the cases when AI is involved, and most of the cases when China is involved.
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by snaky 7y ago
There's talk about using off-the-heap data structures in one of the most successfull software piece written in Lisp, AllegroGraph. "Escape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp" https://www.youtube.co
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by snaky 7y ago
It seems iPhones ain't very popular in India. > Xiaomi has now been India’s top smartphone seller for eight straight quarters. The Chinese electronics giant shipped 10.4 million handsets in the quarter that ended in June, commanding
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by snaky 7y ago
> a cheap device that got its final software update five days after it shipped Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, released 2016, MTK-based cheap smartphone, current official stable ROM is V10.2.2.0.MBFCNXM released May 2019. > Apple shipped 33.8 mi
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by snaky 7y ago
While that's true, you can achieve impressive results offloading particular parts of particular DBMS code to the specialized CPUs, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0...
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by snaky 7y ago
Mainframes used to explore this long ago, leveraging different microcode for different workloads keeping the hardware of processing unit the same, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIIP On the other side of the computing s
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by snaky 7y ago
If all your hotspot does, be it iPhone, Linux box or anything else, is forwarding VPN traffic between your devices and your cloud instance (your VPN exit node), why should you care about hotspot vulnerabilities?
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by snaky 7y ago
You can design a separate compass transmitting data to the smartphone. There's many people who could trade $50 and some additional weight in their bags for accuracy.
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by snaky 7y ago
> $65 and $80 a year In a country with median hourly wage $18.58
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by snaky 7y ago
The [1] paper contains a reference to PHAST https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/phast-h...

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