I moved from a 1080p monitor to a 1440p one for my main display and it’s actually really worthwhile. Not only is your daily computing sharper, but multitasking becomes easier because smaller windows are still legible.
IMO it’s a lot easier on the eyes when things are sharper, too.
1080p is still more than enough, but I think 1440p is worth it for a screen you’re using for hours every day :)
If the modern internet teaches us anything, its that everything is ephemeral even when you stringently catalogue every last byte of data. People just dont need access to 90% of YouTube’s library, yet Youtube has to pay big money to make 100% of that library available 24/7 365.
There’s already rips at the seams of these systems. Time is not on the side of YouTube.
I have a mastodon and honestly, it’s hardly a replacement. different instances are far too isolated even when federating together. Finding user accounts is difficult, and basic stuff like seeing content on another instance is needlessly kneecapped compared to other ActivityPub stuff like Lemmy.
Yup. they “decentralised” servers for hosting profile info but it’s still totally centralised for receiving and sending posts.
Loongarch is a few years ahead of RISC-V atm. the fastest RV cores are comparable to ARM A53 (Raspberry pi 3-ish) whilst Loongarch is comparable to Intel Core 10th generation.
I think its a sunk cost thing. Loongarch was set in motion before RISC-V International was established in a neutral country, and now they’d be giving up a faster proprietary ISA for one that’s much slower atm.
The fact Alibaba is putting their money on RISC-V is probably enough of a sign that Loongarch will likely have a short-lived time at the top of the Chinese DIY processor stack.
Nothing about RISC-V disallows hardware-level surveillance. Most if not all surveillance hardware on our devices are really just super-low-power ARM CPUs. You can in theory just make a RISC-V chip capable of doing the same work.
I do think you’re probably right that it’s more about having exclusive control over the intellectual property and the ISA specification. RISC-V does allow you to close-source your chip designs, but the foundation behind it was only moved to a relatively-neutral country (Switzerland) in 2019, which is some years after Loongson moved to proprietary CPU designs.
They’re the only ones going proprietary as far as i know, most are going for RISC-V
reminds me of the infamous NSA backdoor patch blog for Notepad++
If C++/C were real languages for real programming they’d enforce this in the compiler.
No sane language designer would say “it is imperative that you do not implement your class in its header file” then write a compiler designer to say “oh you implemented your code in the header file? lol lmao that rocks”
They have played you all for fools.
You can run desktop linux on RISC-V. https://youtu.be/1apoFXZ9ad8?si=DMF37jRfUqRHRDm9
Something really fucky with developer salaries recently. Im seeing London-based office jobs (We’ve got you surrounded! Come eat fruit snacks in our trendy office space!) offer £25k salaries which is like half the wage necessary to afford working there lmao
ARM really shot itself in the foot by making it so every SOC needs to have a custom OS image tailored to it. x86 meanwhile lets you pick a universal binary that’ll sort itself out at runtime
tfw someone makes a github issue for windows support on your linux-only app
The XMPP article was good, thanks!
Good. On one hand it’s good to see fediverse stuff coming mainstream, on the other hand the last thing we want is a load of celebrities and brands trying to cannibalise said fediverse as an opportunity to corner the market instead of genuinely useful resources for communication
stop using javascript i guess
Because languages need to be able to handle the very common edge cases where data sources don’t return complete data.
Adding null coalescing to a null-safe language (like dart) is so much easier to read and infer the risk of handling null than older languages that just panic the moment null is introduced unexpectedly.
Sure, but null coalescing is a pretty common feature in modern languages. Once you know what ?? means you can apply it to a whole host of languages.
Normally the purpose of a block of code like this is to provide a fallback hardcoded value if the dynamic value from your API or whatever is null. Like, setting a default title for a page of a notes app if the user didnt set a title themselves etc.
So, b is very likely to be a never-null, hardcoded value.
This code can still be valid and return null if b is null too, as the other person said.
it’s cpython much slower than JS?
The trick to writing a JavaScript web app is that first you consider literally any other technology to solve your problem and only then consider using javascript.