Hacker News: ZenDroid

New comment by ZenDroid in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

ZenDroid — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:39:13 +0000

There's no JVM in Android. Most important parts of an Android app are compiled ahead of time into CPU machine code, rarely used parts are compiled into machine code in runtime using JIT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Runtime

New comment by ZenDroid in "A 'bananas' order for 5000 obscure book titles fuels suspicion"

ZenDroid — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:49:19 +0000

https://law.stackexchange.com/a/93882

"Individual reproductions of a work by a natural person for private use on any medium are permitted, provided they are not used directly or indirectly for commercial purposes …"

New comment by ZenDroid in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

ZenDroid — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:55:23 +0000

`lateinit var` was not added to Kotlin to handle nullability, but to address specific Android design where system components like Activity cannot realisticly initialize fields in their constructors. Outside of Android it shouldn't be too commonly used.

New comment by ZenDroid in "Root Persistence via macOS Recovery Mode Safari"

ZenDroid — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:09:51 +0000

> It's been on by default since around circa 2013

Wrong. It's not on by default.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/324805/do-apple-la...

New comment by ZenDroid in "ISBN Visualization"

ZenDroid — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:10:42 +0000

How much can you zoom it? Yes.

New comment by ZenDroid in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

ZenDroid — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:33:15 +0000

Nope, not the same Slovenia. That Slovenia was actually Slovakia.

New comment by ZenDroid in "MacBook Neo"

ZenDroid — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:01:35 +0000

Yeap, it's possible starting from Sonoma: https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/11/quick-tip-enable-touch-id...

New comment by ZenDroid in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

ZenDroid — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:31:27 +0000

Because it's developed by JetBrains (with Google contributions), a company whose main business is writing really good IDEs. Apple on contrary is a hardware company that happens to build software. If they had delegated the XCode development to JetBrains, we would have had a great IDE for macOS/iOS development too. AppCode was damn good with zero support from Apple side, and despite the fact that JetBrains always needed to catch-up with Apple's breaking changes.

New comment by ZenDroid in "Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt"

ZenDroid — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:23:29 +0000

Do you mean active Thunderbolt cable? Short Thunderbolt cables (0.8m) are passive.

https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/y5uokj/commen...

New comment by ZenDroid in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

ZenDroid — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:33:55 +0000

OTOH, after trying to conquer Finland in 1939-1940 Russians definitely have no moral right to judge Finns.

New comment by ZenDroid in "HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden"

ZenDroid — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:00:07 +0000

What if you install the app via adb install? That would flag all developers' phones so I'm almost sure it's not flagged.