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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

There's no JVM in Android. Never has been.
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 …"

`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.
Re:Root Persistence via macOS Recovery Mode Safari on Monday April 06, 2026 @07:09PM (#47668597)
> 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...

Re:ISBN Visualization – Annas Archive on Friday March 27, 2026 @05:10PM (#47548292)
How much can you zoom it? Yes.
Nope, not the same Slovenia. That Slovenia was actually Slovakia.
Re:Apple Introduces MacBook Neo on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @04:01PM (#47253753)
Yeap, it's possible starting from Sonoma: https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/11/quick-tip-enable-touch-id...
Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:31PM (#46876035)
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.
Re:Reliable 25 Gigabit Ethernet via Thunderbolt on Sunday February 01, 2026 @09:23AM (#46846412)
Do you mean active Thunderbolt cable? Short Thunderbolt cables (0.8m) are passive.

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

Re: on Sunday February 01, 2026 @06:33AM (#46845464)
OTOH, after trying to conquer Finland in 1939-1940 Russians definitely have no moral right to judge Finns.
Re:HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @07:00AM (#46432450)
What if you install the app via adb install? That would flag all developers' phones so I'm almost sure it's not flagged.