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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'.