sunnyps

13 ms·

91.
by sunnyps 11y ago
I'm pretty sure you have to keep the checkbox unticked so that the Amazon app can install apks and even update itself. In fact Amazon's official documentation[1] for installing their app doesn't tell users to uncheck the chec
92.
by sunnyps 11y ago
There's another distro like that: ChromeOS :)
93.
by sunnyps 11y ago
> Ctrl-C no longer kills the backgrounded gdbserver. Woohoo!
94.
by sunnyps 11y ago
I think it's incorrect to label it an "exam" scam. It's really a scam about recruitment to government jobs. India has this weird system where almost every good government job has an exam that you're supposed to take
95.
by sunnyps 11y ago
You should have a look at QtCreator which follows a minimal IDE philosophy. The only downside is that it's only for C++.
96.
by sunnyps 11y ago
I'm guessing YouTube is using VP9 on your netbook which is probably decoded on the CPU because most GPUs don't do VP9 decoding yet. On your smartphone it's probably h264 that's being decoded on the GPU. You can try the h
97.
by sunnyps 11y ago
It's funny that the Celerons you call expensive make up for almost all the processors in cheap laptops such as Chromebooks which sell around the $200 price point[1]. Heck I bought one of those Kangaroo portable desktop things[2] last w
98.
by sunnyps 11y ago
I think you're talking about the Snapdragon 808 which your phone has. That's a big.LITTLE CPU which means that it's meant to use the 4 little cores almost all of the time and use the big cores only when high performance is re
99.
by sunnyps 11y ago
ChromeOS doesn't use X11 any more. It uses a custom graphics stack called Ozone[1] that runs on top of libDRM on Linux and uses features such as hardware overlays which are common now that X11 knows nothing about. [1] https:/&#x2
100.
by sunnyps 11y ago
So it looks like there are facilities for doing some IO, listening on a socket, etc. But I don't see any facilities for waiting on locks, semaphores, etc. Maybe they could build that in a future release or maybe they consider it antith
101.
by sunnyps 11y ago
I forgot about that part of libdispatch. You still can't do synchronous IO but you can use libdispatch semaphores, wait on a queue, etc. and that should not block the thread, right?
102.
by sunnyps 11y ago
My understanding is that libdispatch is not a replacement for go's concurrency. With libdispatch each block (closure) that you dispatch runs on a given thread, if that block stalls for any reason then your thread is blocked. So even wi
103.
by sunnyps 11y ago
Can anyone familiar with this say if it runs one coroutine per thread? How does a coroutine get it's own stack? If coroutines share threads, is it possible to switch in between a coroutine say when it's blocked on IO like it is in
104.
by sunnyps 11y ago
And go 1.4+ doesn't just need segmented stacks but also moveable stacks. I do not know if LLVM has that yet.
105.
by sunnyps 11y ago
Yeah, the point is that it wasn't there at that time.
106.
by sunnyps 11y ago
It's not your happiness that makes me cringe but the borderline cultish comment that there's no "single place on the internet as valuable as this community". Just reinforces the stereotype that this community is full of
107.
by sunnyps 11y ago
OK. You can stop dreaming now, come back to reality please. Sometimes this community is so cringeworthy.
108.
by sunnyps 11y ago
So does chrome (and android webview which is now based on chrome) on lollipop and above. Where did you get the idea that it wasn't? Go to chrome://inspect on your desktop, you need to have a Chrome version on your desktop tha
109.
by sunnyps 11y ago
The hard driver parts are for things like LTE, GPS, GSM, wifi, camera, etc. which the device manufacturers haven't chosen to open-source. I don't see how it's relevant to Android itself, any other OS would have the same probl
110.
by sunnyps 11y ago
The comparison with ChromeOS is flawed because you can go into Dev mode[1] on ChromeOS and do whatever the heck you want in a linux userland. There's even a project called Crouton[2] that allows you to install traditional Linux apps si
111.
by sunnyps 11y ago
Google does the same with its Nexus devices[1] in that you can build a completely open-source version of Android except for certain hardware-specific binary blobs. [1] https://source.android.com/source/running.html
112.
by sunnyps 11y ago
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whatsapp-encrypted-messaging/
113.
by sunnyps 11y ago
Whatsapp would like to have a word with you. With iMessage you have to turn off SMS to make it really secure and once you do that you lose the ability to communicate with a large number of non-iOS users. OTOH Whatsapp is secure by default.
114.
by sunnyps 11y ago
Don't forget Chromium which itself has two meta build systems (gyp and gn - similar to bazel/cmake/etc.) along with an underlying build system (ninja) which can target multiple compilers and runtimes on different platforms. P
115.
by sunnyps 11y ago
To be fair though the iPhone 4S was discontinued in September 2014 whereas the other phones were discontinued much earlier. And from what I've heard the newer iOS versions don't run well on the 4S. Also take into account the fact
116.
by sunnyps 11y ago
I'm passionate because I'm sick and tired of seeing the same nonsensical dishonest FUD memes such as "you're the product". "You're the product" is absolutely a lie, even with the most generous interpr
117.
by sunnyps 11y ago
That was a rational argument. You know as well as I do that if you explained it the way I did above most people would not care. But instead you insist on the "you're the product" FUD nonsense to elicit an emotional response.
118.
by sunnyps 11y ago
The product is the service being offered, in the case of Google it's search, mail, maps, etc. How they make money is unrelated to what the "product" is. E.g. I switched from free ad-supported YouTube to the paid ad-less YouTu
119.
by sunnyps 11y ago
Stop with this "you're the product" nonsense. Please.
120.
by sunnyps 11y ago
Google has done a lot of work [1] with respect to fuzzing ffmpeg because it's included in Chrome. [1] https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/01/ffmpeg-and...

More ›