mondoshawan

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by mondoshawan 5y ago
I'm a native English speaker, and that sounds like something I've said before, and all I've had is public schooling, with no college. :)
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
I built a widget set for small monochrome LCDs called "bitwidgets" as part of my g13d rewrite because nothing came close to what I wanted in terms of features and simplicity. I use it to give the G13 applets their UI on the LCD sc
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
...and yet we still have these things, like Gtk, Tk, ImGUI, some parts of Qt, etc, and they work reasonably well. I just spent time building a new widget set for small LCD screens (~160x40) and built the set in as simple a way as I could, a
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
>> Modern systems don't necessarily even have swap (looking at you, k8s) > Modern linux does have swap, and it is quite useful. Proper support for swap is coming in k8s (looks like 1.23). Quite a few workloads need swap to run
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Just bear in mind, what he says you probably shouldn't take at face value. After all, he is king of shorting currencies that has actively ruined lives.
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
This article is a bit strange and conflates disk storage with swap and RAM. Modern systems don't necessarily even have swap (looking at you, k8s), so the whole article falls on its face. > And then there were the secondary store, pa
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
The formal C semantics are defined in Isabelle/HOL, checked, and then the compiler output is also checked. They use standard GCC compilers for all of this. See https://riscv.org/blog/2021/05/sel4-on-risc-
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Ookay. Not sure how you can glean all that from a statement like the one I was responding to...
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
The constitution is dead, and we the people, are left holding the bag.
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Can I borrow the IBN? Please? I promise I'll return it...
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Isn't that Von Neumann architecture vs. Harvard?
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
We weren't talking about contracting or consultancies...
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
And yet, this is how our system works. We all need to participate and realize that politics is not a career -- it is part of living in such a system, and a part of our responsibility as citizens. The only way we are going to fix things is
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
No, realistically, it is called exempt salary works for hire, and there are legal limits to it. No salaried job has "set hours". The limits you can work with are: working on your own equipment, non-working hours, working on it at
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
This seems to be incredibly short sighted...
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
> "Twitch said it would rely more heavily on law enforcement in “off-service” cases and is partnering with an investigative law firm to support its internal team." So if a user becomes noteworthy, expect to have investigative c
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Android has a Linux kernel, but uses a totally different bluetooth stack called Bluedroid, and speaks raw HCI to the controller, bypassing all bluetooth drivers in the kernel.
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Seems like an opportunity for a hardware startup to develop a water quality tester that continuously monitors home water supplies. Can't seem to find anything on the market that can test any of these specific chemicals -- including lea
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Stop geocoding by separating out addresses into singular fields, for one. Stop showing mostly irrelevant contours on maps, for another. OsmAnd~ is unfortunately the only game in town, and the UX is freaking terrible.
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
It wasn't. Play services is just add on features that proxy app permissions and centralize push notifications -- no actual Android features moved into Play services that I know of. Ie: auto filling SMS OTP codes. It feels like Androi
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Oh, neat! I had no idea it was WebKit on there. Still, what I had wasn't exactly what you'd be comfortable using for more than a few moments. I bought one of the original Nokia Internet Tablets and put together a full wearable sys
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
They have been integrating hardware from the beginning, not making it all themselves. What they do, though, is demand the ability to vet and fix vendor firmware.
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
> What a hopelessly naive perspective. Maybe, but I was there, helping it develop in the early days, which is the time span we're talking about. I can tell you the core of the Android team was fighting to keep it open -- so much so
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Right. I didn't think I was trying to rewrite history -- I'm simply pointing out a gap in the market that Android was attempting to fill. Asking me to enumerate everything out there at the time is silly -- especially given the haz
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
I missed a comma in that: closed source phones, low power feature phones, and Blackberries. The N900 is a different, rare breed that did not see widespread adoption. Fun fact: the first Android phone was the sooner, and it looked and behave
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Android's development started long before Android became a company officially, and there was more fallout from those BSD lawsuits than what is officially reported in Wikipedia -- especially since the settlement agreement included that
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
> NewBlue died because I quit Google. I started that project and was its main motive force. Unclear why you're being downvoted here -- I seem to remember you, and I definitely remember hearing about NewBlue while we were working on
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Actually the spec is overspecified and repeats itself multiple times in different layers. L2CAP specifies a TTL, so does RFCOMM, so does SOC, so does...
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
Such is the sad world of Bluetooth. The dirty secret to this industry is that this, while seeming hacky, is the bare minimum de-facto standard in most cases.
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by mondoshawan 5y ago
I can't speak to this directly because of numerous reasons, chiefly among them being that I don't get to make those decisions. Standard disclaimer follows: I rejoined in the last two years, what follows are my opinions, these opin

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