snaky

It's not easy to check whether a phone has malware. It's easy to check whether a phone supported by LineageOS. Just like home routers and OpenWRT.

> Perl supported tainting from at least 1989 as the -T switch was included in Perl 3.

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

Wait for Boeing to announce new pilot UX - no more that stupid screens, just chat bot.

What I've learned from the comments above is k8s consulting business is the best thing since OOP. Just tell the marketing team you have a magic button that being installed will give them ability to change the course of business every 5 minutes by handwaving and a PowerPoint slide.

> someone else does it, maybe better, open sources it, community forms around it, you're toast

Oracle is very much okay still with superior technology, despite open source, and community, if we are talking about PostgreSQL.

The problem with monopsony is not any particular chip or technology. You can make (with huge investment and a couple of decades) or buy any technology. The problem is that you have to make the whole Digikey catalogue (and then some) all by yourself. From capacitors - all of them - types, capacities, sizes, form-factors, voltages, grades, to ADCs (no, buying Analog Devices wouldn't solve this, and you couldn't buy it anyway) and RF components, and everything in between. All of them, to stay competitive in what you can build with that components. That's where Soviet Union lost the game, and any modern country, including the United States would loose too, considering how the field has expanded since 1991.

> If a journalist uses a technical term in a headline, and then goes on to explain what the term means in the article, how is that not fine?

If a marketing team uses a financial term in a commercial with an asterisk, and then goes on to explain what the term with an asterisk means in the actual 117 pages long financial contract this commercial is trying to sell, how is that not fine?

The more practical question would be not how fast it is (supposing it's quite fast), but how many features isn't there yet.

Security was never high in priority list of Linux kernel development actually.

Actually OS kernels and Linux kernel in particular have many not obvious requirements. Consider easy disassembly for example.

> The code generation part ends up being nice when something goes wrong. When somebody sends in an oops, I often end up having to look at the disassembly (and no, a fancy debugger wouldn't help - I'm talking about the disassembly of the "code" portion of the oops itself, and matching it up with the source tree - the oops doesn't come with the whole binary), and then having code generation match the source makes things a _lot_ easier.

https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/error_jumps.html

> CarPlay as a requirement

Why don't you loose your requirement to just 2DIN space to install your favourite Car Play compatible gadget into?

A large app in C++ with ATL (Active Template Library) or WTL (Windows Template Library) would have about the same size and speed as in C with plain Win32 API, leveraging the whole new level of abstractions, code reuse and developer productivity. The point is such things are possible, bloat is not inevitable.

Do you consider https://download.lineageos.org/ a questionable source?

Honest question - why anybody would want her purchases on the map?

In a web context, rendering is populating html template with data.

Performance is about how it works, responsiveness is all about how it feels.

"The Eternal Mainframe" http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mainframe.h...

This is extremely shortsighted.

Globally, iOS is in decline, and Android is on the rise, and there's nothing that could change the tendency. The main driver for mobile growth is 3rd world, where Android is a king.

> Apple continues to face challenges in terms of unit shipments—a trend that is unlikely to be fixed soon. Apple shipped 35.3 million iPhones in the second quarter, down 14.6 percent from 41.3 million units one year ago.

Good old list of hype-words is enough.

> Title is misleading

As in most of the cases when AI is involved, and most of the cases when China is involved.

There's talk about using off-the-heap data structures in one of the most successfull software piece written in Lisp, AllegroGraph.

"Escape from the Heap: Low-Level Programming in Common Lisp" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7nEZ3TuFpA

It seems iPhones ain't very popular in India.

> Xiaomi has now been India’s top smartphone seller for eight straight quarters. The Chinese electronics giant shipped 10.4 million handsets in the quarter that ended in June, commanding 28.3% of the market, research firm IDC reported Tuesday. Its closest rival, Samsung — which once held the top spot in India — shipped 9.3 million handsets in the nation during the same period, settling for a 25.3% market share.

> a cheap device that got its final software update five days after it shipped

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4, released 2016, MTK-based cheap smartphone, current official stable ROM is V10.2.2.0.MBFCNXM released May 2019.

> Apple shipped 33.8 million new iPhones during 2Q19, which was down significantly from the same quarter one year ago. Regardless of the slightly lower market share and device selling prices, the iPhone installed base continued to grow. The numbers show that now 3rd placed Apple may soon drop into 4th, with Xiaomi only 1.5 million handsets behind Apple.

While that's true, you can achieve impressive results offloading particular parts of particular DBMS code to the specialized CPUs, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEPEK_11.0.0...

Mainframes used to explore this long ago, leveraging different microcode for different workloads keeping the hardware of processing unit the same, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIIP

On the other side of the computing spectrum, there were a couple of papers in 2010s about offloading most common mobile tasks (like CSS layouting) to the specialized mobile CPU subsystems. Maybe this should have been implemented if Google made their own mobile CPU.

If all your hotspot does, be it iPhone, Linux box or anything else, is forwarding VPN traffic between your devices and your cloud instance (your VPN exit node), why should you care about hotspot vulnerabilities?

You can design a separate compass transmitting data to the smartphone. There's many people who could trade $50 and some additional weight in their bags for accuracy.

> $65 and $80 a year

In a country with median hourly wage $18.58

The [1] paper contains a reference to PHAST https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/phast-h...

That's fascinating how people forget about (the original) Windows Mobile that had 42% of U.S. smartphone market share in 2007.