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by usr1106 2y ago
Didn't verify. Twitter is on my mental blocklist anyway.
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by usr1106 2y ago
To be exact, that's what they call the X-Ray in their product speech, the breakdown is also there if you click around. But very nice data! Do you know how these examples are made? Is there a way for free uploads of apps or at least bro
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by usr1106 2y ago
Sure I all know this. My point is Apple has started the nonsense. An insignificant improvement for the average user that has lead to a massive increase of resource consumption. The competition has followed suit because it costs so little, i
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by usr1106 2y ago
> it's literally useless to anyone for anything. Very helpful for anyone who wants to crack or reverse engineer that app. Not sure why anybody would want to do that. But there could be people with criminal minds having some creative
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by usr1106 2y ago
> This is all a pitch to run Emerge tools in the CI/CD process. True. But still very educational about the current state of computing.
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by usr1106 2y ago
> 1. Image recognition: many banking apps offer support for transfers via QR codes. The nice link https://www.emergetools.com/app/example/ios/examp_fCeiq7Z6xe... given elsewhere in this discussion reveals
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by usr1106 2y ago
Another point given in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41461071
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by usr1106 2y ago
Ask the relatives of the 134 who not too long ago died in a flooding in Germany [1] whether buying electronics for cents or reverting exploitation of the planet are more important. Probably there are 10s if not 100s of thousands of victims
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by usr1106 2y ago
Who brought us Retina displays that have increased RAM needs, processing power and bus bandwidth by factors? It looks nicer, so what. I can use the Web perfectly for most of the sites I am interesting on a 640x360 phone. Even OsmAnd~ is pre
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by usr1106 2y ago
> 1. Image recognition: many banking apps offer support for transfers via QR codes. Accepted. > I18n: Outside of CJK, every new language takes a couple of kilobytes. You cannot explain megabytes with that. CJK I already mentioned, it
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by usr1106 2y ago
> And why not? > The iPhone's got it. And why not? Let's ruin the planet, we've got it. Apple is more unethical in their resource waste than Google. But Google is very very far from innocent.
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by usr1106 2y ago
I am old enough to remember times when 100 computer science students did their exercises on a VAX 11/750 with 4 MB of main memory. Admittedly it was a bit laggy when all 15 terminals were in use during peak hours. I don't remember
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by usr1106 2y ago
The owner company has been close bankruptcy and needed debt restructuring in the past. I don't know what their current figures look like, but there have been special actions to increase utilization in the past, which does not sound lik
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by usr1106 2y ago
I was surprised by his praise of MCS. We noticed it when reusing the same volume for subsequent reuse of a podman volume. It's a couple of years already, but it was not really explained in the documentation, only in a blog post by a RH
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by usr1106 2y ago
But judges and/or legislators might not have fully arrived in the internet age yet? I would also see a difference whether the activity is for profit (Google earning money with news scraped from Newspapers) and non-profit (IA and physic
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by usr1106 2y ago
As an HP mini calculator user since the late 1970s I use dc as my favorite calculator on every terminal since the late 1980s. Annoyingly it is not installed on every server or embedded system.
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by usr1106 2y ago
For online password managers it requires bad intent from the employee and manual work. For pass it's normal practice that everyone has a copy of the whole store. However, in reality the difference is probably marginal: The majority of
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by usr1106 2y ago
With the current reputation, who wants to work for them? Of course some might support it, but it must seriously limit candidates. Not a surprise they don't deliver. Of course one can always ask, what was first, chicken or egg...
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by usr1106 2y ago
More importantly you can get an electric shock, which typically means killed at 25 kV, without being even close to touching any metal. I believe something as far as 100 cms is considered a safe distance. In Europe youngsters get killed when
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by usr1106 2y ago
I use well below 1 hour of YouTube per month, many months zero. And I never click any ads (nor are the products they advertise relevant for me, they cannot track me and I am far from the average consumer) So if it were only users like me Go
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by usr1106 2y ago
Don't know. Last time I experienced problems was when entering a family members gmail address with a plus sign to share my newspaper subscription. They could not use it and I could not remove it... That was about 5 years ago. Have been
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by usr1106 2y ago
I would be willing to pay based on usage. But my usage is so low that the current price feels horrendous per hour.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Enough sites don't accept + in the address. Even if you can enter it, various backends in the same company might not handle it correctly and you enter up with an half-working account that their customer support (if they even have that.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Some 20 - 10 years ago I was seriously interested in joining Google for many of the reasons he lists. In the end I never applied because at the time they had no development in any country I would have been interested to relocate to. Howeve
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by usr1106 2y ago
That's the result of being successful for wide non-technical audience. The signal over noise would approach zero if everybody could create a bug report when something does not work as they wanted. Have you tried to create a meaningful
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by usr1106 2y ago
This might be true in some application areas, but certainly not generally. Where is that commercial kernel that works over a wide spectrum of architectures and system sizes? Where is that commercial compiler that works on many architectures
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by usr1106 2y ago
Why did he not understand that everything that is recorded will leak anyway? Or he did understand that things get much more attention if they are supposed to be secret and then leaked.
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by usr1106 2y ago
Or a demonstration about the poor state of programming languages in 2024. Of course there are others than C. But not many suitable for writing a kernel. And no obvious choice for what Linux could do today. Of course they are starting with R
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by usr1106 2y ago
It's been many years that I haven't been working actively with databases anymore, but I have never heard about Raft or rq before. Is that system used by many / by significant players?
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by usr1106 2y ago
Finland is nearly as bad. 20 years ago there were only 3 food chains. All domestic and playing the rules "no price competition". So food prices were about 30% higher than in Germany for example (these a very different countries so

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