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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 be…

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…

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 h…

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 …

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…

>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…

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 pl…

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 throa…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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 th…

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, …

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 inter…

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 usi…

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 …

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 stor…

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 proba…