n2burns

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

My spouse and I are currently watching Star Trek: TNG, so I thought of Data saying, "Sir, there appears to be an unauthorized tracking device following our movements."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

YotoPhone. They also made a version 2 & 3. Unfortunately, Yota went bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

WINE doesn’t “translate” one CPU architecture to another CPU architecture

Wrong again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This article seems to conflate "emulation" and "translation layer". I don't think there is anything that confirms "Prism emulates an x86 CPU", only that it allows for running x86 code on ARM. This does not inherently require emulation as demonstrated by Rosetta 2, which is a translation layer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Emulation is almost always slower and eats more battery.

FTFY. There have been some cases where emulation actually outperforms native execution, though these might be, "the exceptions that prove the rule." For example, in the early days of World of Warcraft, it actually ran better on WINE on Linux than natively on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

In particular, it means you can’t easily pick up, use, and put down your phone and maintain charging.

I strongly disagree. While you can't "maintain charging", it's extremely easy to change from charging to using and back again. If you want to use your phone while charging, wireless charging doesn't make sense, but if you want to quickly use your phone (like sending a quick text), it's nicer than having a cable attached.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Mmm yes, business news ~~about unions~~ at a ~~car~~ tech company. Definitely why I subscribed to a tech community.

FTFY. Tesla is a tech company that makes cars. Their union busting practices are business decisions, which in turn affect the industry, which again, is technology.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

I'm a pretty junior contributor (I spent a couple years completing quests on StreetComplete and only have been adding new buildings, etc for a few weeks). I don't know a ton about how the organization is run, so I can only talk from my experiences. I've been able to upload changes which will be live before they will be reviewed. I know there are reviewers who go through areas regularly, but they definitely don't cover everywhere. I'm not sure if OSM has the ability to lockdown areas with frequent vandalism.

[–] [email protected] 81 points 4 months ago (5 children)

I know this seems like Niantic is free-loading, but this is intentionally-allowed by the ODbL license and honestly, might be a good business decision even without considering the licensing fees. OSM is almost 20 years old and as a community led project, is probably more predictable and stable than a Google license which could change drastically from one contract to the next.

As a OSM contributor, I'm more than happy to see my work used this way, and as @[email protected] pointed out, OSM has seen a lot of benefit too.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So far, SpaceX has been run with much less Musk involvement. That could change on a whim, but so far it seems to be a pretty well run government-supplier under Gwynne Shotwell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Can it? Certainly. People have been doing so for years now.

Should you? None of us can answer that for you. None of us know your needs, your technical proficiency, or your willingness to put up with bugs/quirks

If you're interested, you should go read/listen/watch the experiences of users and ask questions once you have some specific ones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

AFAIK, most of the pan-European plans cover the whole Schengen Area (including Switzerland), and the most of the former USSR boarders aren't all that porous, unlike the NAFTA boarders.

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