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  1. Comment on Android emulators to actually use mobile apps in day-to-day life? in ~tech

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    That is a good idea, you can use scrcpy to mirror the phone to your computer. Works very well.

    That is a good idea, you can use scrcpy to mirror the phone to your computer. Works very well.

    7 votes

  2. Comment on Android emulators to actually use mobile apps in day-to-day life? in ~tech

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    You can give Waydroid a shot if you’re on Linux

    You can give Waydroid a shot if you’re on Linux

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Should C be mandatory learning for career developers? in ~comp

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    There are a lot of features that come to mind like branch prediction/speculative execution, out of order execution, multi level caching, virtual memory, and SIMD instructions. The compiler and CPU...

    I suppose I'm not sure how computers have really changed since the 1970s

    There are a lot of features that come to mind like branch prediction/speculative execution, out of order execution, multi level caching, virtual memory, and SIMD instructions.

    The compiler and CPU do all the heavy lifting for us so we can pretend that we are coding on a PDP-11, but the mechanics of what actually happens in your CPU are very different from what is written in your C program.

    10 votes

  4. Comment on US Supreme Court rejects challenge to Native American child welfare law in ~life

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    The court is nowhere near as hyper partisan as politicians and the media would have you believe. If you look into the history and jurisprudence of each judge, this decision is not surprising at all.

    The court is nowhere near as hyper partisan as politicians and the media would have you believe.

    If you look into the history and jurisprudence of each judge, this decision is not surprising at all.

    5 votes