North Korea threatens to declare war with South Korea
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    bamboo
    22h ago 100%

    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.

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  • Chinese security officials call for investigation of Intel CPUs for chip failures and security flaws, says chipmaker 'threatens national security'
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    bamboo
    5d ago 96%

    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).

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  • The FCC is looking into the impact of broadband data caps and why they still exist
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    bamboo
    6d ago 95%

    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.

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  • Pentagon confirms missile defence system and troops deploying to Israel
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    bamboo
    1w ago 100%

    The US providing this defense however allows Israel to be even more belligerent without fear of retaliation, possibly the only thing stopping them from expanding their genocide faster.

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  • My frustrations with Rust. Why is this the most loved language?
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    bamboo
    2w ago 100%

    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.

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  • My frustrations with Rust. Why is this the most loved language?
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    bamboo
    2w ago 100%

    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.

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  • My frustrations with Rust. Why is this the most loved language?
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    bamboo
    2w ago 100%

    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).

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  • Not sure when iCloud on the web got this good, finally becoming a legit alternative to Google Drive or OneDrive
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    bamboo
    2w ago 100%

    I don’t believe so, I think it is chrome and edge only (besides safari of course). You could still manually copy-paste the passwords but of course that’s not as convenient.

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  • Not sure when iCloud on the web got this good, finally becoming a legit alternative to Google Drive or OneDrive
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    bamboo
    2w ago 100%

    I just recently imported all my passwords from Bitwarden to passwords. It’s been smooth sailing so far, very happy with my choice. If you have any specific questions I might be able to answer them.

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  • 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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