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by hortense 6mo ago
What was the first letter of the city in which that happened?
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Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes for Linux 6.17: "Garbage"(phoronix.com)
8 points by hortense 1y ago|3 comments
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Chromium Switching from Ninja to Siso(groups.google.com)
117 points by hortense 1y ago|68 comments
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by hortense 1y ago
This is why devs are afraid of publicly criticizing Apple, let alone testifying against them in the court. Apple has shown that they will then prevent you from accessing 50%+ of the US market. In short Apple is a bully, has been for more th
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by hortense 3y ago
To store dollars with a precision of 1 billionth of a cent, you store into your integers 1 billionth of cents instead of dollars.
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by hortense 3y ago
To store dollars with a precision of 1/10 cent, you store into your integers 1/10 cents instead of dollars.
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by hortense 3y ago
Wouldn't that be Microsoft? It's worth 2.9T, vs Apple's 2.84T.
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by hortense 3y ago
To store dollars with a precision of 1 cent, you store into your integers cents instead of dollars. No need to mess with anything more complicated.
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by hortense 3y ago
You start spending all your time programming in middle school. By the time you enter college you know everything needed to write simple emulators, and then you meet other students that motivate you to up your game and complexify your proje
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by hortense 3y ago
Last time I looked, all the top commiters were from Google.
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by hortense 3y ago
It's possible that the problem is that speech is not the right abstraction. Perhaps we should be advocating for something along the lines of "free expression of reasoning".
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by hortense 4y ago
No chance of Apple implementing this outside of the EU if they are not forced to. They are getting billions from Google every year because Safari is the most used browser on iOS, and they will do what is necessary to make this last for as l
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by hortense 4y ago
> These are not coasters. Citation needed. Even if they were not coasters, I suspect they had a fat paycheck disproportionate to what they brought to the company.
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by hortense 4y ago
If you take a constant fertility rate of 1, you'll always have an inverted pyramid, until there's no more pyramid. (I'm assuming that the life expectancy does not change significantly)
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by hortense 4y ago
> A perpetually inverted pyramid would require that fertility rate shrink even further, until it approaches 0 That is incorrect.
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by hortense 4y ago
I would say he's trying to control the narrative so that his future prospective employers believe that he was not laid off because of his performance.
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by hortense 4y ago
Modern browsers use an extremely wide range of system APIs: process/IPC/sandboxing, memory, networking/connectivity (e.g. bluetooth), filesystem, GPU, audio, windowing system, device IO (keyboards, webcam), and more I'm
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by hortense 5y ago
Almost all the most popular apps (Facebook, WhatsApp, Google Chrome, Google Maps ..) do. And of course, nearly all games do.
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by hortense 5y ago
"Airbus says Qatar is trying to squeeze money out of it for aircraft underutilized during the pandemic" Yeah that's sounds pretty obvious to me. They have unused inventory, and they are trying to get a refund. Not sure it&#x2
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by hortense 5y ago
Note that the size of the place is important. "highest temperature ever recorded in town X" does not mean much. "highest temperature recorded in country Y" on the other hand is more significant, especially if the country
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Tiny Nintendo Switch Christmas Ornament(youtube.com)
27 points by hortense 5y ago|0 comments
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by hortense 5y ago
Which is why they are replacing the ceiling fans with wall mounted fans (it's explained in the article)
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by hortense 5y ago
From the link: "although the resemblance with the lunar analemma is striking"
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by hortense 5y ago
> You own the pointer to the image You own a pointer.
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by hortense 5y ago
You can turn your history off if you want, but then you'll get suggestions of videos you've already watched.
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by hortense 5y ago
Some people are excited because there's no gatekeeper taking 100 USD every year for the privilege of distributing apps on it. Also, it's quite simple to start developing for it. For complex software (e.g. video games) on the other
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by hortense 5y ago
In general, WebKit has more bugs and fewer features than gecko.
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by hortense 5y ago
You can switch to bitbucket, they still support passwords.
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by hortense 5y ago
> The official Cuban annual median salary in 2018 was approximately 9,300 pesos, or around $372. To put this into perspective, a single bitcoin transaction currently costs $2.3.
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by hortense 5y ago
This can be done with capability-based operating system, though it requires running the libraries you want to isolate in a separate process. On a capability-based OS you whitelist the things a given process can do. For instance, you can giv

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