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New comment by borntoolate in "Google will develop Android OS behind closed doors starting next week"

borntoolate — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:37:07 +0000

Porting lineage to new hardware mostly includes development teams that have nothing to do with Google.. Convincing no one to leave the thin veneer of mediocre code and "free" storage is a game that is harder to play than Apple makes it look with OsX.

New comment by borntoolate in "Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases"

borntoolate — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:28:38 +0000

It sounds to me like Graphene will have a large gap of access to fixes compared to the special vendors.. I wont be upgrading to a newer Pixel until I see a year or two of this working out and I think that is less likely than a descent.

New comment by borntoolate in "Collapse OS"

borntoolate — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 23:04:14 +0000

Even if the collapse is a fuzzy decades one I think it would also have an ever increasing probability of the remainder in under an hour as something entirely forgotten fails.

New comment by borntoolate in "Google makes Android development private, will continue open source releases"

borntoolate — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 22:52:28 +0000

It's similar to their optimization of the web for their customers. To remain indexed you have to jump through all their hoops which means you derive income and therefore are at least potentially an advertiser.

New comment by borntoolate in "Toyota's 'Circular Factory' Idea Could Be a Great Alternative to Junk Yards"

borntoolate — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 23:09:58 +0000

I don't see how that differs materially from a junk yard.. Cars with popular parts stay on the sorting floor at an urban yard, others go quickly or slowly toward the appropriate lower value reclaim tiers.

New comment by borntoolate in "Is Robert Frost Even a Good Poet?"

borntoolate — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 22:59:03 +0000

That's not really different than a human and the context they need? I'd think it would come down to how frequently such exercises exist in its training, and how much they show modifications to responses. Given that the most common place for them is probably offline versions of classes, I'd imagine its weaker than in other areas but maybe still has a lot..

New comment by borntoolate in "Why is C the symbol for the speed of light? (2004)"

borntoolate — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:42:03 +0000

Because C++ is object oriented.

New comment by borntoolate in "NSA warned of vulnerabilities in Signal app a month before Houthi strike chat"

borntoolate — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:07:39 +0000

AFAIK the executive branch is engaged in criminal mischief destroying documents of agencies it illegally closed..

What will be interesting is if Iran begins acting like the US toward the end of WWII. Strange "coincidental" choices.

New comment by borntoolate in "Has the decline of knowledge work begun?"

borntoolate — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:49:29 +0000

Maybe lower education should just have a different schedule with other activity years? I'm not particularly impressed with the average American's ability to be a positive element of society and despite all the problems, I think liberal arts students are probably better than the rest when considered over their lifetime. But why should each individual take loans to have the critical thinking to vote in the interest of larger institutions?

New comment by borntoolate in "Good drug news – More important things happening in biotechnology and medicine"

borntoolate — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:35:02 +0000

I guess some serious research into alternatives occured before canceling the one child policy.

New comment by borntoolate in "Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users – including its own employees"

borntoolate — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:17:34 +0000

Microsoft might be the first company to actually address covert channels, one only has as many accurate bits of data as is possible in the last 48 hours using 20% of the intended events, then it drops to a few bits per day in history.

New comment by borntoolate in "Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?"

borntoolate — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 10:59:40 +0000

A bunch of markets trying to recreate products is going to eventually work out for some of them on the same basis that disruptive startups that just brought things into freemium succeeded.. Many things would benefit from a rewrite and succeed to capture a larger market at a lower cost than where they ended up over the years.