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by snaky 7y ago
That's fascinating how people forget about (the original) Windows Mobile that had 42% of U.S. smartphone market share in 2007.
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by snaky 7y ago
Jokes aside, Pointy-haired Boss ask why should we care about security issues from the business standpoint. Do we know any company went out of business due the security breach?
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by snaky 7y ago
ATS, Ada
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by snaky 7y ago
$800, considering $200 for one 10TB HDD.
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by snaky 7y ago
> to run these Apps in a VM like container? That's what Xposed Framework does exactly. > allow it access a dummy, empty folder to read from That's what Xposed XPrivacyLua plugin does exactly. https://github.com&#x
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by snaky 7y ago
Do we have an idea how could Wikipedia generate millions of web pages with no algorithm?
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by snaky 7y ago
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20383432
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by snaky 7y ago
I've checked a couple of fake Sundisk cards from Aliexpress as well, detected as fake as they should.
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by snaky 7y ago
Sandisk cards for domestic sale in China have 18-digit authenticity code on scratchpad, and you can verify it online at verify.sandisk.cn. So, "buy in China because there's too many fakes in US store". Ironic isn't it.
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by snaky 7y ago
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.jarsilio.android.scrambl...
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by snaky 7y ago
> Remember that udev and sysfs are written by the same people, working together off-list. They're free to break the exported data format on a whim, because they write the code at both ends and fundamentally they're talking to t
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by snaky 7y ago
What's the point to have slower mid-range machine for the same price? Do we need 16-core PIC16 Mini ATX workstation too?
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by snaky 7y ago
Photosynthesis is less efficient than solar panels. According to the Wikipedia page on photosynthetic efficiency, typical plants have a radiant energy to chemical energy conversion efficiency between 0.1% and 2%.
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by snaky 7y ago
Static typing doesn't help you much, when you have 20 teams hating each other and 20 different ways to write statically typed C++ code.
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by snaky 7y ago
The keyword here is organizationally . Technically speaking you can build scalable systems using anything you want. But if you need to hire a couple of hundreds developers, you better go with Java 7 or Go than Ruby, Lisp or Perl. The dumbe
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by snaky 7y ago
Lava, Esterel, what else?
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by snaky 7y ago
Do we pay more for Linux than for Windows?
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by snaky 7y ago
Lineage for MicroG also provides "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://lineage.mic
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by snaky 7y ago
> Fe-Si is a simplified version of Bluespec, an HDL based on a notion of guarded atomic actions. Fe-Si is defined as a dependently typed deep embedding in Coq. The target language of the compiler corresponds to a synthesisable subset of
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by snaky 7y ago
> Oracle also accused Amazon of breaking the rules by hiring two senior DoD staff, Deap Ubhi and Anthony DeMartino, who were involved in the JEDI procurement process. Ubhi is described as "lead PM". A third name is redacted in
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by snaky 7y ago
In 2016, Software AG announced that Adabas and Natural would be supported through the year 2050 and beyond. I'm not sure MongoDB will be there in 2050.
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by snaky 7y ago
> In the first version of the software, there were 70 full copies of 4 different OpenSSL versions, ranging from 0.9.8 to 1.0.2k (including one from a vendor SDK) with partial copies of 14 versions, ranging from 0.9.7d to 1.0.2k, those pa
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by snaky 7y ago
There's more than one Android userspace. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/packag...
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by snaky 7y ago
OTOH considering Termux popularity, you may say that general purpose computing on Android is growing rapidly.
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by snaky 7y ago
> what happened to the actual people on the internet? People sharing their stories without getting paid to push a product? Good old webforums. They are alive and well.
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by snaky 7y ago
So robust and generalizable that adding a pixel here and a pixel there, too small to be even recognized by a human, confuse image recognition system to the point it confuse panda with gibbon?
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by snaky 7y ago
> Postgres incredibly far Up to the millions of TPS actually. https://akorotkov.github.io/blog/2016/05/09/scalability-towa...
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by snaky 7y ago
"Steel Bank Common Lisp: because sometimes C abstracts away too much" https://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembl...
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Tuning TCP stacks similar to QUIC almost matches QUICs performance (2019)(arxiv.org)
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by snaky 7y ago
Sure, but are there any people or companies who would willingly pay for this kind of web applications?

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