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Porting VS Code to Chrome OS, without need for an electron-based GTK app inside a 'Linux container'?

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/1031

Turning that notion on its head, Pinephone could be one to watch.

They more or less intend to supply the hardware only. This avoids the pretence of vendor updates entirely, by both the company (Pine64) and the ARM licensee (Allwinner).

The software stack is up to you, with mainline Linux support courtesy of the A64 [0] powering a number of 'RPi-killer' boards. Device updates will be supplied by the likes of Ubuntu Touch, LineageOS, postMarketOS et alia mobile distributions.

[0] http://linux-sunxi.org/A64

Hopefully Paraguay will follow. When I visited Argentina, I decided the red tape of neighbouring countries visiting Iguazu Falls wasn't worth the 13 hour bus ride.

Despite launching with Nougat, Pixel 1 devices were the testbed for Project Treble.

https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/18/current-google-pixe...

Are there security benefits of "fake local memory"? I imagine a sandboxing arrangement where a rogue WebGL app can't hack your entire OS.

Several applications (a) opencl servers - just fill an extra slot (b) eGPU over thunderbolt (c) a drop in GPU for Risc-V boards (sans ARM's Mali)

Testing? e.g. your main machine is Ubuntu|macos and you just want to fire up Windows 10 Edge.

That said, it seems unpowered for general usage. Perhaps MS might look at officially supporting sub-$US100 SBCs such as ROCKPro64.

Check your local pawnshop.

I bought a C2 Duo laptop in 2015 for $AU50 with a 3 month warranty and did the Windows 7 -> 10 upgrade. Earmuffs if you can't stand the fan noise. :)

That would be an argument for Microsoft switching to Chromium, albeit 'Edgium' might not entail the bleeding edge 6 week Chrome release cycle.

See also: NestedVM which compiles MIPS assembly to Java bytecode.

http://nestedvm.ibex.org/

For those unfamiliar with tones, Xidnaf's animated "Is English a Tonal Language?" may be of interest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5RWzBRg6rU

I recently read the short story Omnilingual by H Beam Piper (1957).

A planet becomes extinct due to climate change and a team of archaelogists are sent to study its civilisation.

see also yesterday's article on Raspberry Pi, where it is mentioned that ThreadX runs on the Broadcom GPU.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19061656

The clue is in the name - Rome is a homophone of roam.

"Project Rome allows developers to write apps that can run on multiple devices and travel with the user as they switch between devices." [0]

So it's allowing a programmer to sync and script behaviours from Android/iOS phone to Windows desktop to xbox etc using a MS login.

I would assume it's the technology behind the Your Phone Companion app that sends an SMS from a connected PC.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/project-rome/

My Nexus 4's fragile cover (glass back and bits of plastic on the side) doesn't seem to have been designed for repeated wear-and-tear battery replacements. A 10 minute procedure does a little more damage each time.

So yes, the procedure should be "idiot proof".

Apache will only protect the particular implementation, viz. LLVM.

It does open the door for gcc to inadvertently develop similar functionality and get sued. Not that there's, afaik, a cleanroom implementation of Swift.

DLNA handled media streaming.

Nevertheless, you'd have to ask Google why they effectively killed Miracast - it was supported in Android 4.2 and 5, then mysteriously removed in Android 6.

My old phone supported screen mirroring to my TV, I consider it a regression that my current one doesn't and I'd have to buy a dongle.

For slower moving marsupials such as koalas, yes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36891868

synergy - Android's bootloader (fastboot mode, etc) uses LK, of which Zircon is a fork.

Yes, it's generally a Qualcomm SoC underneath. Already several Lumias were reverse engineered to run Android. [0]

A month ago, MS announced Project Mu - opening up their UEFI implementation on github. [1] Extending that project to their legacy ARM phones would be the way forward, perhaps.

[0] https://www.xda-developers.com/microsoft-lumia-525-hacked-to... [1] https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/19/%e2%80%afi...

Combine brine processing with sewage treatment? There's ample non-potable water whenever someone flushes the toilet, I would surmise.

The Jordanian plan is to pipe brine into the Dead Sea, which is already hypersaline.

I'm partial to Leo Moracchioli's metal version, myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw

Yep and that's a UV index of 13 [Extreme] even whilst cloudy.

Australia and New Zealand have the highest melanoma rates in the world. We thus have a paranoia of "taking care not to burn", during office hours when UV is most intense.

Have they tried tweaking with the formula to just use less sweetener in the first place?

I'm a dark chocolate guy - anything less than 70% isn't "chocolate". So I'm wondering if there's a market for Coke Bitter, now with 15% less sugar than regular Coke.

The wikipedia page on the Icelandic alphabet [0] sheds some light, þorn is runic, eð is from 'd'.

Icelandic employs a 19th century reconstruction of the old norse alphabet noting that "Various old features, like ð, had actually not seen much use in the later centuries" - which corresponds to their merger into one digraph 'th' in English. The article also notes that the letter ð undergoes a devoicing depending on its surroundings.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_orthography#Histor...

Baking certain apps into the system partition is typically how vendors ship an out of the box experience, since apps are generally downloaded via the Play store, which requires the end user to first log in with Google.

In that case, the only way to delete apps is to 'root' the phone, which generally isn't enabled and not something Facebook has control over.

Our local species of cicada has been measured at 150 decibels - bloody loud. So I imagine if the bedroom walls were bugged next to one's pillow, hearing damage is plausible.

It's consistent with a "blaring, grinding" noise and the cricket's internal proximity sensor that caused the sound to disappear when the occupant moved away from the vicinity of the wall. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-15/us-investigates-myste...

My point about common grasses was if they don't supply the recommended intake of fibre, we might look to alternatives.

The article mentions 'inulin' - it's a form of carbohydrate that alledgedly doesn't cause the same spike in blood sugar levels as starch. With a family history of type 2 diabetes, I have thus wondered about growing Jerusalem artichokes (sunchoke) as an alternative to potatoes.

Staples such as rice and wheat are, technically, grasses.

A gentle introduction to phonetics and the IPA is let down by poor argument.

MAGA (rhymes with dagger or lager?) would never be pronounced with a soft G because 'ga' is only soft in such anachronisms as 'gaol' (modern spelling jail).

And it is hardly prescriptivist for the programmer that coined a term to define its pronunciation.

Opposition to the soft pronunciation is, at least in my country, because 'Jif' TM is a household cleaning product, so I'll continue to pronounce it wrongly for that reason!