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North Korea threatens to declare war with South Korea
  • Technically I think North Korea is at war with the US, not South Korea. To declare war against South Korea would imply they believe there is a legitimate government to declare war against, whereas I believe they just view it as an American occupation.

  • Chinese security officials call for investigation of Intel CPUs for chip failures and security flaws, says chipmaker 'threatens national security'
  • The architecture being open source or not has nothing to do with security. All high performance risc-v cpu designs are proprietary. The instruction set itself is open source, but beyond that you have as much visibility into the internals of the processor as you would with an Intel one. The only thing the license impacts is that you can legally make your own risc-v processor if you want, whereas tou can’t make your own x86 processor if you want (legally).

  • The FCC is looking into the impact of broadband data caps and why they still exist
  • On cable it’s because they allocate significantly more bandwidth towards download than upload. They could allocate them equally but most customers that are mostly just streaming or playing games care only about the download since it means they can stream/download things faster.

  • My frustrations with Rust. Why is this the most loved language?
  • Your default types for that are i32 or u32. It’s the exact same number of characters yet encodes more precise information.

    I’m aware of packing, but for my specific niche the main bottleneck is CPU, and it’s important to minimize the amount of memory usage to improve data locality, increasing cache hit rates, ultimately increasing cpu throughout. Any gains we would make by packing such small values would likely be eliminated by the cost of unpacking them, unless it’s a flags-like value where we are primarily comparing individual bits.

  • My frustrations with Rust. Why is this the most loved language?
  • Cargo being an all-in-one tool is actually one of my favorite things about the rust ecosystem. It’s many things, and it does it all seamlessly.

    Regarding comparing to C or C++, how can you argue either is designed better? C, while standing the test of time, predates so many modern programming concepts or standards and writing C code is extremely error prone. C++ improves on many of C’s shortfalls, but it wasn’t designed. It’s the result of different things being loosely bolted on to C over the course of 30 years. And it’s still error prone, for example while there are smart pointers and other types that can make writing memory safe code possible, they’re not default and they aren’t always fully supported in the standard library, let alone anything else.

  • My frustrations with Rust. Why is this the most loved language?
  • I do systems programming work, sometimes with constrained memory scenarios. We always want to use the smallest types we can for any task, and unless negative numbers are a necessary, always prefer unsigned. That means a lot of u8 and u16 unless we know a value is likely to need more bits to be represented. Probably doesn’t matter as much in we programming but that’s not Rust’s niche (or well not its original niche).

  • Apple planning redesigned iPhone, MacBook Pro, and Apple Watch that are significantly thinner

    9to5mac.com Apple planning redesigned iPhone, MacBook Pro, and Apple Watch that are significantly thinner - 9to5Mac

    Last month, Apple unveiled its thinnest product ever with the new M4 iPad Pro. Measuring in at 5.1mm, the 13-inch...

    Apple planning redesigned iPhone, MacBook Pro, and Apple Watch that are significantly thinner - 9to5Mac
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    arstechnica.com One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down

    Selling "hard braking event" data seems less lucrative after public outcry.

    One of the major sellers of detailed driver behavioral data is shutting down
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    www.aljazeera.com Israel’s Gallant rejects French initiative to defuse Lebanon tensions

    Defence minister says Israel will not participate in trilateral group with US and France due to Paris’s ‘hostile policies’.

    Israel’s Gallant rejects French initiative to defuse Lebanon tensions
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    US antitrust case against Apple's App Store is 'firing on all cylinders'

    9to5mac.com US antitrust case against Apple App Store is 'firing on all cylinders'

    The US antitrust case against Apple’s App Store exclusivity is “firing on all cylinders” according to the head of the...

    US antitrust case against Apple App Store is 'firing on all cylinders'
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    Photo collage app reccomendations

    I want to be able to be create some image collages to share with friends from my iPhone. I’ve been searching around, but I’ve found that most every app requires an expensive subscription (often $40+ year) and many are limited to squares. I don’t need many features, just the minimum to put together a collage. Does anyone have any suggestions?

    Thanks!

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