henfredemars

joined 1 year ago
[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 37 points 4 months ago

I see this upcoming election will be the final one. Nice work.

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Very cute! The grooming must be a task.

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

How do we know this post isn't fake? Perhaps it's all part of the ruse.

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is there a problem upvoting on other instances? I've never noticed it not working.

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Even more, make it more like a backup feature that's opt out not opt in. Thus, when a server goes away, the user still has their community list to import somewhere else.

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This might be the wrong place for this question, but I have heard criticism that real rust programs contain lots of unsafe code. Is this true?

 
[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is definitely a sink-or-swim moment for Lemmy. If this is going to work, this is the chance. Twitter and Reddit are imploding. Users have a reason to try something new and are willing to deal with young, buggy platforms because it's better than the alternative and they needed an Internet home. My upvote taking ten seconds to register is itself the knife's edge of creation, a new birth.

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just not using the app is better than using the app.

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So often I've pulled up my phone while it's connected just to try looking up a destination while I'm parked. Being forced to use only the car interface for Maps while plugged in has always been awkward.

Shame that my single USB port that supports Auto is wearing out! Soon I'll be reduced to Bluetooth only, and maybe a mount for the phone to keep the screen in arm's reach without having to look away from the road.

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I swear there's at least one of these ladies in every restaurant I've attended in recent memory. Now I'm going to be imagining what their salad just told them.

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Underrated comment. I picked it because I had no idea what I was doing and it sounded all-encompassing and I wanted access to everything. I didn't even know what an instance was. I just picked it because it sounded like a good guess to get access to all of Lemmy.

 

More concretely, I'm asking this: why aren't applications compiled fully to native code before distribution rather than bytecode that runs on some virtual machine or runtime environment?

Implementation details aside, fundamentally, an Android application consists of bytecode, static resources, etc. In the Java world, I understand that the main appeal of having the JVM is to allow for enhanced portability and maybe also improved security. I know Android uses ART, but it remains that the applications are composed of processor-independent bytecode that leads to all this complex design to convert it into runnable code in some efficient manner. See: ART optimizing profiles, JIT compilation, JIT/AOT Hybrid Compilation... that's a lot of work to support this complex design.

Android only officially supports arm64 currently, so why the extra complexity? Is this a vestigial remnant of the past? If so, with the move up in minimum supported versions, I should think Android should be transitioning to a binary distribution model at a natural point where compatibility is breaking. What benefit is being realized from all this runtime complexity?

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's been said to death but at heart, I've always felt that when it comes to piracy, it's a service issue, not a cost issue.

Except for you Adobe. That's a cost issue.

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