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Ok, I took a closer look at the analysis page linked to from the main article. There does seem to be a decent amount of Kotlin code written by Rabbit themselves, mostly UI for the settings screens, as well as some networking-related stuff (WebSockets, Wi-Fi, etc), hardware-related things such as the camera, OTA updates, etc. Basically, things that make sense to be handled closer to the operating system itself.

Interestingly, as far as I can tell, Compose is only being used for a "hardware test activity". The rest of the Kotlin side of things seems to use the traditional Android UI stack with activities, views and fragments. That makes three distinct UI frameworks in use on the Rabbit R1 - Flutter, Compose and traditional Android.

They most likely added a dependency that transitively depends on Compose, possibly for some prebuilt UI.

EDIT: Another possibility is that they started out with some template app that happened to have the Compose dependencies included in the Gradle build script, and with this being a Flutter app, they had no reason to touch the Gradle script beyond just adding the Flutter dependency. Assuming the app doesn't have R8 enabled, all of Compose would remain in the APK unused.

I don't understand the sorting on the "Top 10s per state" list. Maryland through Missouri are inexplicably sandwiched between Oregon and Pennsylvania.

I wonder what sorting algorithm they're using, or if the list was just manually sorted and those states are out of order due to a copy-paste error.

Here's the mailing list post mentioned in the video, with the details on how to reformat the code:

https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/message/58765259/

Also, there's a simpler way to do the LF -> CRLF conversion, as found by neozeed from Virtually Fun: Just zip the source code, then unzip it again using the `unzip -a` command (the `-a` switch performs the auto-conversion)

Mark is the one that committed today's source release, going off of the "MZ is back" commit message from GitHub user "mzbik".

At https://github.com/microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/main/v4.0/src/DOS/S... it used to have Tim Patterson's full name whereas after the force push they abbreviated it to his initials "TP".

I had the repo cloned before the force push and when I went to pull it, this file was the only one that contained a conflict.

They force-pushed the repo to remove an insult towards Tim Patterson in one of the source files.

Seems to be tailored specifically for Apple Silicon Macs, considering that it attempts to spin up an AArch64 Docker container to compile some of its tools.

Angel Studios uses Elixir heavily as well.

Kotlin also runs on JS and Wasm these days, not just the JVM.

> Kotlin for most of the backend code, but Java for shared libs. We still use Java 8 for some libs which may be used in Android, that's an unfortunate reality

Considering Kotlin is a supported, first-class language on Android, why not write your shared libs in Kotlin as well?

Looks like they've already removed their Russian locations from the contact page on their website.

Compare the current page [1] with the archived one [2] from three days ago

[1] https://www.jetbrains.com/company/contacts/#headquarters-int...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20220309000203/https://www.jetbr...

Thought this was an update for MirageOS for TI graphing calculators at first.

Super Mario Sunshine on the GameCube also ran at 30fps.

> crowdfunding a source buyout

Which could actually have been possible at one point, for the low price of $25,000: http://web.archive.org/web/20101011141137/http://www.drdos.c...

Emulators absolutely do not enable piracy. One could argue that their existence implicitly encourages it, but they certainly don't "enable" it by any means.

There are many different ways to legally obtain games to run on emulators, Switch included.

Yes

Yep, the Saturn version utilized Sega's 68k assembly to C converter which was common for them to use when porting their Genesis games to platforms such as the Saturn and PC.

Windows 95's System Monitor can actually be configured to show the current number of virtual machines running. (Add item -> Kernel -> Virtual Machines)

You can see in real time that the number of VMs will equal 1 plus the number of DOS windows currently open, as the article explains.

There's an option to shift the start button and taskbar buttons back over to the left.

The Tweak New Twitter extension has an option to permanently keep you in latest tweets mode.

Android 9 was released only a couple of months before the Palm Phone. I'd say it's reasonable that the device shipped with Android 8.1.

Google has since upped that limitation to 15MB.

My views on 98 vs XP are the opposite. I ran 98 for a while on my HP Vectra VL with a ~233MHz Pentium II and, if I remember correctly, 256MB of RAM. It was dog slow, took at least 10 seconds just to open an Explorer window.

Decided to try XP on it, and I was blown away at just how much better it performed. Explorer windows opened up instantly and the whole system just ran smoother.

The vast majority of those clients are probably Android

An unreleased SNES game, Cooly Skunk, was recently discovered and likely never would have come to light if it wasn't for Satellaview broadcasting a demo of the game while the service was active, and a user preserving it on a Satellaview download cartridge. Fascinating stuff.

See: https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2020-cooly...

There's plenty of AirPods competitors on the market now with easily recognizable names. I'm a proud Samsung Galaxy Buds user myself.

There's https://jitpack.io, but it's a third-party service. Having first-party support for Maven artifacts served by GitHub will be quite nice.

For anyone that's interested in actually doing this, Chicago95 is the best way to make XFCE look and feel like Windows 95: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Clicking on the second link shows "Video unavailable" for me.