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We don't use that moon anyway

For the most part, Classic was designed by committee with many concessions to every corporate partner, retaining compatibility with their IrDA stacks, etc... ...while LE was design…

This is about the newer LE 2M PHY, which was added for "replacing Classic" (which is 2-3M) use cases. It's not surprising that it's not as efficient as the more widely used 1M PHY.…

I was the lead for Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical. This is nonsense.

'-ize' might be preferred by Oxford, but '-ise' is preferred by Cambridge. So I think it needs no explanation which DNA would prefer.

Ubuntu Bug 255161: Openoffice can’t print on Tuesdays (launchpad.net) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8171956

In Swift, if cow is a reference type you all share a cow that moos whoever asks, but if cow is a value type then you all have your own copy of a cow that only moos for you.

We had a great plan somewhere around Ubuntu intrepid or jaunty that rather than have apps rewrite /etc/resolve.conf, we'd leave it as a static file and have a "nameserver dynamic" …

This particular undefined case is a really interesting one; it seems utterly non-obvious why it exists, until you remember one thing... The most popular architecture today is 64-bi…

Depends which season of Star Trek it's from. Early in the run it'll come across as kinda corny, but mid-way through the run it'll be a strong episode and one fans will cite as a fa…

There are vulnerabilities in the "standard" LE pairing, even with MITM, that make these things possible. Fixed with the BT LE Secure Connections key exchange, but many devices don'…

If I recall correctly, deleting an app on iOS only deletes its container, it leaves any shared containers behind. Your Google credentials are likely being stored in a shared contai…

(I have worked as an engineer on both Ubuntu and Chrome) > One tab on chrome takes about 100MB memory, why? It probably doesn't. Much of that apparent memory usage is shared betwee…

Seeing this title, I thought: "(Nuclear) Winter is Coming."

It's hosted on Linode, looking at it sternly kills it ;-)