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TwoBit··on The Intelligent Timing Lock
Indeed: https://m.aliexpress.com/item/1005001926801581.html
TwoBit··on Internal Combustion Engine
And nobody considers that dishonest? It's cheating in the spirit of the rules if not the letter of the rules.
TwoBit··on A brief history of Rust at Facebook
So what will be the security flaws we will see in Rust-based software in the future? Seems like there are still many kinds of flaws that no language can prevent.
TwoBit··on Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken
If people keep buying their crap then why would they be motivated to fix it?
TwoBit··on Wi-Fi packet capturing on M1 Macs is broken
> due to Intel being at least a year behind

That's not the only thing Intel is at least a year behind on.

TwoBit··on Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes
Many or most of the competitors would disagree it's not a race until KM 199. Only in boring flat races where the pack stays all together and there are no serious breakaways is that true.
TwoBit··on Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes
Chris Horner could have been another Lemond or Armstrong if his career had played out better. He did win a grand tour though to prove that ability.
TwoBit··on How many x86 instructions are there? (2016)
How is this so? I thought RISC-V was fixed length, except for 16 bit compressed instructions. And afaik those aren't identified by a singular particular bit.
TwoBit··on Show HN: High-speed UTF-8 validation in Rust
Read or write code points quickly, with validation.
TwoBit··on Show HN: High-speed UTF-8 validation in Rust
Given the current ubiquity of UTF-8, is there value in having native CPU instructions for it? Or do they exist somewhere already?
TwoBit··on How many x86 instructions are there? (2016)
ARM has all these variations which make it seem as complicated as x86, but they are distict variations and future CPUs can for example drop 16 bit Thumb fairly clearly.
TwoBit··on AMD's EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here's a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison
Depends on how you define the math of "x% faster than"
TwoBit··on AMD's EPYC Milan Breaks Cinebench Record, Here's a 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Comparison
(113000 - 74000) / 113000 = 34%
TwoBit··on Loongson Technology develops its own CPU instruction set architecture
It's just MIPS64 with some additions. They should have used RISC-V instead but they probably had too much technical investment in their MIPS tweak.
TwoBit··on Java Is Underhyped
If you are talking about Erlang and D etc then your uses are unusual and not typically commercial and so I don't put much value in your response. No offense intended though.
TwoBit··on Why Do So Many Rich People Work So Much?
Do these writers realize that multi-millionaires actually often eat at fast food restaurants? I could literally buy a hundred S class Mercedes cars and yet I went to Target a couple days ago to buy a dish scrubber and got a cheeseburger at a chain yesterday.
TwoBit··on WinGet is terrible, I want AppGet back
Seems like "and so on" implies there are a bunch of places.
TwoBit··on Google used ‘double-Irish’ to shift $75.4B in profits out of Ireland
Half the outrage is the claim that these companies are paying no U.S. taxes. Is that claim substantially incorrect? There are all these details you mention, but if Google is avoiding paying US taxes on billions in profit then how much detail do people really need to know?
TwoBit··on FTP is 50 years old
FTP is not reliable. It has survived (though it's nearly dead) only due to entrenchment.
TwoBit··on FTP is 50 years old
Did they have any rationale for that?
TwoBit··on Frank Jacobs, Mad Magazine writer, has died
My favorite was a record single included with an issue that played a song but played with a differently every time (well up to eight times). Super Spectacular Day.
TwoBit··on Why Rust strings seem hard
True, but text processing is still easier with UTF-32, because UTF-8 and UTF-16 strings need to be converted to UTF-32 before you can do anything with them.
TwoBit··on Why Rust strings seem hard
Well if memory cost wasn't an issue then UCS-4 would be nicest. But 4x the memory for most strings is currently unacceptable.
TwoBit··on Everyone is still terrible at creating software at scale
Has there ever been a large scale successful rewrite? How much of Netscape/Firefox was rewritten from the ground up?
TwoBit··on Brave disables Chromium FLoC features
I maintained a fork of webkit ~12 years ago and it was a nightmare to maintain because every couple months they would massively reengineer systems and result in hundreds of non-trivial file changes. And because webkit had a brain-dead way of implementing multi-platform support it meant you spent days or weeks re-integrating these changes.
TwoBit··on Zoom zero-day discovery
As if other vendors are certainly more secure. Those bans seem more based on media exposure than known technical facts and evaluations.
TwoBit··on Zoom zero-day discovery
I don't see how the large majority of security problems could be solved by any OS design. Human failures would just account for 95% of breaches instead of the current 85% (made up numbers). Not saying the OS improvements aren't useful nevertheless..
TwoBit··on Zoom zero-day discovery
I've read that AV is a dumpster fire on Linux and you're lucky if anything runs and Linux has never solved it and no resolution in sight.
TwoBit··on Best to avoid using the “Have I been facebooked” website
This post is ridiculous. Why does this crap keep making it to the front page?
TwoBit··on Wuffs’ PNG image decoder
Isn't imagelib already very good and does a few special things like dynamic downscale?
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