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Intel Capital, some smaller Chinese Communist Party affiliates, Qualcomm, Two Korean semiconductor and electronics companies, one Saudi oil company, and...

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It is fine for me if it is only as bad as an ordinary PC, or even a pretty good one (like a System76 machine) in terms of firmware. We can make advances...

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FWIW there are GPUs that are manufactured and packaged with very little involvement from CCP/PRC; the most advanced components are designed in the U.S....

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Well, the suitability of existing implementations of something isn't always about some general measure of "competence". There are other considerations...

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The compositor can become a shared component if it is primarily a library, and covers the bases that the X server covered. I personally don't think it's...

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A couple thousand lines of straightforward parsing code, compared to the rest of the code in a compositor or whatever else, is not that complicated, yeah....

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Aside from the syscall interface, does it matter whether the "platform" is using the C conventions or not? There are lots of rust libraries,...

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It's like the problems with early color film being not sensitive enough to photograph black people in ordinary lighting conditions; physics is just working...

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I'll add that Ada was also more different from C than it really needed to be, through a mix of accident and intent, and its capture by tools vendors who...

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Why work with a language that "can be safe" when you could work with a language that "can't be unsafe, unless you write the english word...

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Ah.. cool. Well good for them, doing exactly what I'd hoped. I swear the way they treat buffers in there... it just isn't right....

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A new Bluetooth service is a good place to look. The current one on Android is horrifying, to anyone who has read what's in it.

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I think the answer on the second one is maybe.

The first, the audio assets may be useful for developing codecs generally, but probably the...

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Opus works at 3k, but it's not spectacular, and you have to increase the frame size to get good quality at that rate, which cuts against use in voice...

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Sweet, this is actually useful to me.

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EDID parsing is not that complicated, and the styles of many of these projects are different (though some of them are similar enough). I feel like it's...

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It'd be funny if a vendor implemented virtio-gpu in hardware. :+ )

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I kinda wonder if the silicon spent on this could be spent on fattening some traces to increase stability at higher frequencies.

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You have completely missed the point. This makes it possible to "install ArchLinux" without even seeing the package names on screen, and will...

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Gallium works, but I wouldn't exactly call it "fine tuned". There is much work to be done at every level of this stack. :+ )...