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bitmapbrother
5y ago
>Four days after the Jan. 6 insurrection It's comedic how these far left wing publications continue to call it an "insurrection" when there were no weapons used and the only person killed was a woman that was assassinated
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bitmapbrother
5y ago
When are you going to lift the shadow banning and post limiting on me? It's been how long?
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bitmapbrother
5y ago
>Qualcomm is only able to obstruct in this way because Linux doesn’t keep the kernel driver ABI stable for any fixed period of time. The Linux kernel used by Android is based on the LTS version that now has 6 years of support [1]. So by
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bitmapbrother
5y ago
Qualcomm is allowing their GPU drivers to be updated via the Play Store. This started in 2020 so it will only apply to Qualcomm SoC's released from 2020 onwards.
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bitmapbrother
5y ago
I would say Unreal is the biggest game engine in terms of pervasiveness. Also, isn't C# just used as a scripting language in Unity? All of the heavy lifting is dome by the C/C++ backend.
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bitmapbrother
5y ago
>After reaching that initial 10ms goal, we re-aimed and set our target on something more ambitious. Namely that a GC pause should never be longer than 1ms. Starting with JDK 16, I’m happy to report that we’ve reached that goal too. ZGC n
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bitmapbrother
5y ago
Isn't reference counting a form of garbage collection, though? If you want performance then Objective C and Swift aren't the languages you should be using. There's a reason why Apple recommends C/C++ if you need your cod
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bitmapbrother
6y ago
Perhaps you should read the article in full. It clearly says the most popular Android smartphones in 2021 are: Samsung Redmi Oppo Huawei Vivo Which probably account for the majority of Android smartphone sales.
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
>I'm sure services I use run on all of the major cloud providers, but if that page was supposed to be enlightening, I only recognized one brand from the first page of customers. So the first page was supposed to be indicative of all
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
The biggest and most popular services run on Google Cloud. https://cloud.google.com/customers/ You know....services consumers actually use.
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
>How is dart superior to TS? This is so uninformed. Speaking of uninformed...Dart is significantly faster for one. It's also not encumbered by being a superset to one of the worst scripting languages ever designed and, thus, does no
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
The irony is that you probably use Windows - the world's most insecure, malware, virus and ransomware ridden OS in the world.
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
It would seem that you're the one missing the point. Microsoft was the very first company to sign up with the NSA way back in 2007. So when it comes to the mass collection of user data and spying - Microsoft is a pioneer in the field.
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
What are you talking about? If you're a Windows user you're already in the privacy armageddon. And if the telemetry, which by the way can't be turned off, wasn't bad enough they're also operating a search engine and
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
>They've plateaud while sticking to their values. They earned 6 billion more in Q2 2018 than they did in Q2 2017. Like I said, to suggest they've plateaued while sticking to their values is ridiculous. Alphabet reported reve
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
>Google is not happy with admitting they've plateau'd in their growth Google made 8 billion in profit last quarter. To claim that they've plateau'd in their growth is ridiculous. Apple and Microsoft have been in Chi
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
In the event you don't like the new gesture based navigation system you can always revert back to the traditional Back, Home, and Recents layout in settings.
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
>Aside from the unnecessary jargon, this irks me how it portrays the user as some passive consumer. It really drives home how Google is, first and foremost, an advertising company. It's amusing that you're taking a quote from t
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
Pie seems consistent with their infatuation of the number and it just makes sense from a dessert naming perspective.
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
Android P is available for the Essential phone[0] the same day as the Pixel. Technically, every device in that was enrolled in the Android P beta could have also had it day one. [0] https://www.essential.com/
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
>Don't ask me how I know, don't believe me, but its Wells Fargo. I'd be surprised if it wasn't. Wells Fargo is still asking for forgiveness in their Jon Hamm narrated Earning Back Your Trust [0] commercial. It would
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
That solution is some time away. In the near term, I'd like to see the commercial aircraft engine OEM's start transmitting in flight GPS coordinates of their engines so that they can be tracked in real time. These engines currentl
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
>Not surprisingly, c# has succeeded where Java has failed in being cross platform, used for instance in game development with the unity engine C# succeeded in game development? That's its claim to fame? Being an optional scripting l
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
I think you're confused. Google generates the majority of their revenue from ad targeting. Snooping and spying are performed by your government and paid for by your tax dollars.
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
Microsoft and their partners do sell millions of tablets per year, it's just that their unit sales pale in comparison to Android and iOS tablets. I'm also not even sure if Microsoft calls their Surface line tablets anymore. Their
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
StatCounter also indicates that Windows tablets have nearly no marketshare. http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/tablet/worldwide
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
Global tablet market share held by tablet vendors from 2nd quarter 2011 to 1st quarter 2018. Microsoft is no where to be found. https://www.statista.com/statistics/276635/market-share-held...
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
Well, at least they don't let governments have free unfettered access to their users data.
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
The Fuchsia name is derived from projects the primary Fuchsia OS developers previously worked on at Apple - Project Pink and Project Purple. Pink + Purple = Fuchsia.
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bitmapbrother
8y ago
>Not really, they are winning the desktop and tablets (2-1) war. According to tablet market share stats they are clearly not winning that war and not even a serious competitor. >Likewise, Android tablets aren't that good, with mo
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