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Probably because a Ruby activist wrote a cool script and no-one cared about the implications of a new dependency at all.

For a user, DNF is mostly just a quicker YUM. It still deals with RPMs and the UI is similar (at least for basic operations).

A couple of years ago.

Not really. Compared to, say, Firefox' future versions, it's barely ahead, with Firefox putting some features counted multiple times behind a flag (let's remember that `let' has been available in Firefox for ages, regardless of user settings, assuming the script tag has suitable type attribute).

Further than that, it's silly to compare browsers that aren't stable yet.

Windows has been running on ARM since version 8 (the ARM-specific version was called Windows RT). Since then, Microsoft announced a “special” version of Windows that's intended for the new Raspberry Pi 2.

I don't think these Chromebooks are sold in Google Store in any country.

(Google Store selection varies by country, anyway. Where I live, they don't sell any Chromebooks; I might have considered the new Pixel if it weren't for the hassle.)

Early C? The parent described accurately how pointer addition in C works for all char pointers. (Well, other than the “nobody wants that” part, because that's how you skip n bytes of a string.)

Not true (technically). When you add an integer to a char, you get an integer. (If you add a floating point number, the result is such as well.)

You can, of course, use the integer you got like a char (after all, C's char is a small integer type) to get your gibberish. You can also use a floating point number as a char, because C has lax implicit conversions.

>mostly due to being actually quite good

While I wouldn't generally praise (any of) the browsers of that time, Macs really didn't have much competition at that time when it came to web browsers.

That's the stopgap solution, I think. Looking at the larger picture, it's silly that a projector only looks for video-in, instead of video-in/power-out, considering it's already plugged to a wall outlet.

Having a powered USB hub doesn't seem like a stretch next to a 60" monitor. It's not like the latter is very portable.

edit: vocabulary

Can you get hit with a DUI without a blood test result in the U.S.?

Breathalysers pretty much only give largely inaccurate results when you still have alcohol residue in your throat or mouth. If you rinse out or wait a moment, they'll probably fall in line with blood tests.

Finnish telecoms have mostly abandoned tying the phone to a mobile plan, just a few years after they were given that right by law. My personal guess as to why, is that they want to offer longer financing plans than the maximum of 24 months allowed for carrier-locked phones – with plans up to 36 months common.

Apparently the seller of an expensive phone like iPhone gets a decent chunk of money at market prices, because it's common for carriers not to take any interest with their financing plans – i.e. the phones costs the same bought upfront as they do over 36 monthly payments. The phone itself is in no way locked to any specific network.

There's certainly no reason to pass something (big) by value if you only need to look at it, but not copy. However, if you're going to copy the object in any case, you should do it right-away so that the caller my move their copy to you if they don't need one any more.

I'm guessing this detection is for those cases where the passed-by-ref value is always copied.

It's an endless battle with different peripherals – you are never going to support every obscure device with community backing, when none of the developers have even heard of your gadget, much less owned it.

When you have simpler needs, like me – you want to run Linux software on a desktop computer that's comprised of well-known, widely used and well-supported hardware, desktop Linux with Fedora Core “just worked” over twelve years ago. (NVIDIA's proprietary drivers never came and never will come by default, but I considered that less a requirement when you had to install them yourself on Windows XP, too. The drivers were already back then top notch.) I wasn't that good with computers back then, and my biggest gripe, by far, were the fonts that didn't look like the pixelated fonts I'd grown used to with Windows'.

The Flash-based player would do exactly the same (with a slight delay) even if it wasn't as obvious from the UI.

To prevent YouTube from switching sources when resizing the content, select a specific quality first (it defaults to “Auto”). I wouldn't be surprised if there were browser extensions that automatically do this (e.g. always choose the highest quality).

A static workspace where you prefer to look downwards on a relatively small monitor on level with the keyboard, to a properly placed desktop monitor and accessories placed where they are physically convenient to use? What does your work consist of, exactly – not using the computer?

Part of the problem are the iOS design guidelines, which place the “back” button in the top-left corner (or did so in the past). A larger screen avoids the feeling of crowdedness, at the expense of reachability. If you rarely need to access the top part of your screen, the trade-off is usually at least acceptable if not worthwhile – less so with many iOS applications.

I mostly use my smart phone to browse the web, and I think one of the things Windows Phone got right was to place the navigation bar on the bottom (although I don't use Windows Phone, my phone does the same). Thus, unless there are controls at the absolute top of the page, I don't have a problem reaching anything (most native apps on my phone support gestures, which rely less on absolute finger placement).

How would you duplicate a wireless signal that contains an “answer” to a changing challenge (e.g. sign this message with the secret key)?

I was aware of the contents of the front page, having skimmed it again today (and read more carefully before, although with little interest for Chromium extensions). I'm only interested in performance characteristics in Firefox, but am unlikely to test this myself before it arrives in AMO.

I'd appreciate details of CPU consumption as well. Minute amounts of memory are of no concern for many people, but everyone prefers snappier browsing, every time.

The comment I responded to said that in addition to law enforcement, it's common for soldiers to patrol the streets, too, at times.

If I had to guess, I'd say they would prefer using the weapons they are accustomed to, which are probably not the same that LEO's use. Now I don't know much about the French military, but where I come from, I doubt the military even has appreciable amounts of semi-automatic rifles, as even the military police always use the same assault rifle everybody else does.

This interests me (in a slightly off-topic way): do the soldiers really switch their service weapons to a semi-automatic model in order to patrol, or are all the rifles within the military police (etc.) semi-automatic only?

Even that is still type safe, just not portable. After all, every part of the memory is a collection of bytes (that is, a slice of u8) – whether you can access them is another story.

They are probably expecting their OS of choice (that is, Windows) to do it's job, since it is marketed as being usable on such combination. For the most part and by itself it probably is, but many desktop applications still have problems, or so I've heard to this date.

2560×1600 is not a bad choice, however, since at 200 % scaling it has 1280×800 logical pixels, which is perfectly normal for such a monitor. If only Windows could reliably tell which applications do NOT support higher DPI displays even though they say they do, they could be just doubled in size and still be perfectly usable, if a bit blurry (you don't get aliasing effects, though). I guess Microsoft'll just have to make yet another API for DPI-awareness to catch the rest of the offenders.

At times. From cracking plastic to less-than-stellar thermal performance with aluminium, MacBooks are just about as hit-and-miss as are any other laptops.