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Re:A Kernel Hacker Meets Fuchsia OS on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @10:45PM (#31513753)
Dart is core part of Flutter: https://flutter.dev

What makes you say it's being killed?

Re:RFC-0082: Runnning unmodified Linux programs on Fuchsia on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @10:45PM (#28375977)
Android began restricting what APIs you could use in your app with Android 9: https://developer.android.com/guide/app-compatibility/restri...

Similarly, what is accessible from the NDK is limited: https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis

As raggi mentioned above, you can use both.

The additional feature that FEMU provides us is Vulkan support, which allows you to interact with a GUI.

On the team, we use both. For example, I know many folks on the Zircon team prefer vanilla QEMU.

If you're willing to give it another go, you should try it in FEMU (our fork of QEMU): https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/get-started/set_up_femu
Re:An Update About Changes to Facebook’s Services in Australia on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @03:45AM (#24339457)
Committing the faux pas of replying to myself, here's another take:

https://www.crikey.com.au/2020/08/31/scott-morrison-v-facebo...

Stratechery has a good analysis of the "News Media Bargaining Code":

https://stratechery.com/2020/australias-news-media-bargainin...

My understanding is that they used to be, now they're all Cortex derivatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryo#Kryo_5xx_Series
Re:Available for preorder today, Surface Duo on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @11:07PM (#24139584)
I was really excited for this, I want to buy it and am willing to compromise for 1st generation hardware. But no NFC means it impacts my life substantially, from payments to public transport. I hope they reconsider the lack of NFC for the next generation.
Doesn't Sony use clang? My understanding was LLVM does a better job at optimisation than MSVC.
Re:The Firecracker virtual machine monitor on Friday January 04, 2019 @12:19AM (#18822155)
Working on a hypervisor, I see this. It mostly crops up as things like IPIs being more costly when nested.
Re:Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook on Friday February 02, 2018 @06:08PM (#16294997)
Could you explain what you mean? I'd like to understand your point of view.
Re:C5 Instances for EC2 Now Available on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @02:34AM (#15641608)
This is based on a cursory examination of [1], so I may be off-base. But Xen appears to rely on the host for many things that can be, and often are, hardware accelerated in KVM. Searching for CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM, it doesn't appear to cover much.

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/xen/

Re:C5 Instances for EC2 Now Available on Monday November 06, 2017 @09:57PM (#15640754)
KVM can take better advantage of hardware acceleration than Xen. Xen requires a modified guest, which traps back to the host more frequently.
Re:Ink: React for interactive command-line apps on Sunday July 23, 2017 @04:02PM (#14834095)
What terminal emulator is being used in that image?
Re:Fuchsia: a new operating system on Friday March 31, 2017 @09:07PM (#14009749)
Are you asking about VMOs or VMARs?

In general: it gives a process a huge amount of flexibility in terms of how it sets up its own address space, communicates with other processes, and in how it can communicate with the kernel.

Re:Forcing code out of line in GCC and C++11 on Tuesday January 27, 2015 @07:53AM (#8952763)
I'm guessing the reason for the !! in the macro is to force a boolean conversion. Is there a better explanation?
Re:Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google. on Saturday February 09, 2013 @02:06AM (#5191976)
That's some pretty anecdotal evidence. Just as anecdotally, I have heard to the contrary.
Re:Google Implemented New Privacy Policy Today on Friday March 02, 2012 @07:40PM (#3658941)
Fair enough. You know you can pay for some of those services and not get served ads. You can also disable ad targeting and history in various apps. This, understandably, disables some features due to a lack of information to operate, but it may be much more palatable to you. It may be worth considering some of these options, if you don't like targeted advertising, which exists to serve you more apt ads.
Re:Google Implemented New Privacy Policy Today on Thursday March 01, 2012 @07:25AM (#3651829)
Don't you think that was a bit of an overreaction? And will you be doing the same for any Microsoft and Facebook services you use?
I'm curious, do you agree with Steve Jobs when he states, "a lot of the time, people don't know what they want until you show it to them"?
Re:You’re not a user experience designer if… on Sunday April 24, 2011 @04:16AM (#2478504)
Sure. HCI encompasses, and is heavily motivated by, cognitive psychology.
Re:You’re not a user experience designer if… on Sunday April 24, 2011 @12:48AM (#2478295)
My personal view (as a computer scientist) is that you shouldn't call yourself a "user experience" designer unless you have a background in cognitive psychology. Otherwise you're simply a designer.
Re:Ask HN: how to become a morning person? on Saturday April 16, 2011 @01:51AM (#2453314)
I transition between morning and night, and it's basically getting into a consistent cycle. If you get out of bed at the same time every day for two weeks, you'll alter your cycle. The main idea is: don't go back to bed, get out of bed, take a shower, go for a run. DO NOT go back to bed.
I'm going to guess it has more to do with the deal Microsoft made with Verizon to ensure their phones used Bing instead of Google. And with the large amount of Android phones being sold with Bing, this will inevitably eat into the market share. This could also explain why Andy Rubin now wants oversight of customised Android distributions.
Re:Show HN: Open source PhotoBooth on Saturday April 02, 2011 @08:59PM (#2401430)
I take it you need something that can be embedded in a webpage. Otherwise, there's always: http://projects.gnome.org/cheese
Re:One month later, Honeycomb has just 50 native apps on Thursday March 31, 2011 @10:38AM (#2391737)
IMO I think it's because people don't believe there's a good Honeycomb device available, and that the platform might not be quite ready for primetime.

Apple tend to come out swinging, they deliver tools to developers months before, have a solid platform on day one, and excellent hardware. I think dealing with a heterogeneous hardware platform makes it that much harder to deliver such quality out of the gates, especially when you don't control the hardware.

Having said that, there appears to be a minimum spec for hardware, and so far vendors have not deviated substantially. Still, the Xoom's subpar reviews have not helped the cause.

Re:Chris Ziegler Is Leaving Engadget on Wednesday March 30, 2011 @11:59PM (#2390382)
"What’s my point? It’s that we don’t take crap from anyone, internally or externally." --- I wonder if it had anything to do with Arrington and TechCrunch.

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