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by tazjin 3y ago
Huawei has a competitive fork of Android, but it's not interested in the West anymore, so it's not going to compete on the US market.
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by tazjin 3y ago
It is a comparison made in good faith. I'm sick and tired of being forced to use proprietary software, which means being forced to endure bugs I can't fix, and while it's not feasible to live a modern life Stallman-style, y
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by tazjin 3y ago
You can use Android completely without any proprietary Google stuff. You can't do the same with iOS.
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Norway is a US client state; Poland could become sovereign but they're too busy trying to annoy literally everyone doing any business with them from any side, for whatever reason.
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Reminds me of the problems with contested borders, which e.g. Yandex runs into because they operate in Western and non-Western jurisdictions. They ended up just removing all national borders from the maps for this reason, which has made the
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by tazjin 3y ago
Ильич is a patronym (son of Ilya). Lenin's father's first name was Ilya. It's not clear whether Иллич (pronounced differently) is related, apparently it's used as a given name in some countries, or it might be an unrelat
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by tazjin 3y ago
I dislike reading this kind of article, where it feels like the author swallowed a thesaurus and is using every second word to (often unnecessarily) display how clever they are. Note how actually clever texts (probably including the source
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by tazjin 3y ago
Having some difficulty with the meaning of words, hm?
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by tazjin 3y ago
We're literally in the comment thread of a new stringly typed thing being introduced to the stdlib!
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If you want type safety, pick a type-safe language.
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Jamming is not only near the Kremlin, but also in large parts of Хамовники, near places like Лужники, ЦСКА (because of the mall & stadium), Лубянка, Сити and so on. Since this data is reported by airplanes I wonder if they experience mo
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by tazjin 3y ago
Gmail is on Spanner, and Cloud Spanner is on Spanner.
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Back when I was in Google SRE, people would joke that "we just send DDoS traffic to Australia". In general, Google's internal cross-DC traffic is so much larger than anything anyone could DDoS them with that they can always f
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by tazjin 3y ago
Because obsession with the covid stuff is closely tied to political philosophy, and, as the CCC itself likes to say, the CCC is a political organisation.
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This comment could be the Wikipedia example for Poe's Law.
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> how does it differentiate Probably through a pinky promise from the developers to call the right APIs.
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by tazjin 3y ago
I got a weird, semi-experimental Chinese phone at the moment (HiSense A9, the defining feature is that it has an e-ink screen). It comes without Google Play services, and with no ability to install them. It also doesn't have the Huawei
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by tazjin 3y ago
Go has a long list of booby traps like this and prides itself on them. From outside of the Go team it looks like a small cultural shift might slowly be happening, cleaning up some of the obvious mistakes everyone's been telling them ab
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by tazjin 3y ago
Make them nuclear. Oh wait, the other kind of environmental activists will prevent that.
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by tazjin 3y ago
Cool! If you get emacs to run in it you instantly have a huge suite of useful programs available there :)
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I tried to write a serious response to your comment, but as I got further into it and you got further into personal attacks and away from substance, I decided to delete it and I'm instead leaving you with this: You should get off your
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by tazjin 3y ago
I'm trembling at how much you're ignoring me!
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It's just very noticeable when half of what the industry seems to spend its time on is solved problems. You and all the others have to learn why touching the hot stove is a bad idea the same way most children do. It's frustrating
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by tazjin 3y ago
In this particular case, developers could also move on to a superior and completely open alternative (Nix), so making even a semi-closed alternative with much fewer people contributing etc. was already a hard sell.
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Welcome to 2018 or so!
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by tazjin 3y ago
How does this interact with third-party dependencies you use? In my experience, most gradual typing things break down at that boundary.
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by tazjin 3y ago
I don't know C#, so maybe it has these, but it's unlikely: - absence of null pointers - proper sum types which can be statically checked for exhaustiveness - statically controlled mutability (yes, borrow-checking is still useful i
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by tazjin 3y ago
> Despite being endlessly fawned over by an army of professionals Yes, but these "professionals" consider everything in the vacuum of whatever software they're working on. Streamlined, cross-program UX is not just not cons
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These are not solutions, these are workarounds. Adding a bookmark with a keyword, because the internal UI isn't good enough? Come on.
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Firefox is just less usable. It's slower and a lot of config options are missing. Stuff that is common in enterprises and has buttons in Chrome (e.g. "add the intranet search to your browser!") is hard in Firefox (you have

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