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Apple sends your searches to Google for money. I would call search queries data?

Apple, Samsung and Google all earn money from ads on your phone, just with different monetization pathways.

Indeed, but then I wouldn't call it a "big miss" (the title of the article, which doesn't mention regions either).

A moving GC would make it simple to move any remaining live objects back under normal GC control once the arena goes out of scope. You could probably also do it without moving actu…

I wonder whether it would be possible to retrofit Arena allocation transparently (and safely!) onto a language with a moving GC (which IIUC Go currently is not): You could ask the …

Unlike opaquely financed and privately owned media companies, the Guardian is actually relatively clear and open in how it is financed and set up in a way to try to make them as in…

It's a question of energy density. Multiple joules into your big phone battery is nothing, multiple joules into a small SMD component means it evaporates immediately in a bright fl…

Bad drivers could brick (parts of) your hardware permanently. While you should have a backup of your data anyway.

One of the oldest (AFAIK) occurrences of this was AOL releasing a data set of "anonymized" search queries in 2006 and it took a about a day for the first person to be deanonymized.…

A std::monostate member will still have non zero size, because it needs a unique address. See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/ebo

If there was a std::unit_t and it was implicitly convertible to optional, tuple and pointer, I don't think that would be worse in terms of usability at all (maybe worse in readabil…

What's really weird to me is not that C++ has a unit type and picked a weird name for it (that's just C++). The weird thing is how many unit types it has: - std::nullopt_t - std::n…

I find it annoying that (a) this seems to be a hardware feature that is almost universally permanently disabled in firmware and (b) it's almost impossible to find out whether it is…

The theoretical limit is 50% according to Wikipedia, but there's other factors being optimized for as well aside from efficiency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_efficiency#:~…

SD Express is basically dead as far as I can tell. SD card users who care about speed have UHS-II equipment, but SD Express and UHS-II use mutually incompatible high speed signalli…

Ideally with PPS, your device can actually just ask exactly for the regulated voltage it needs on USB-C. Most modern smartphones can use that to charge their batteries more efficie…

Unless your 5 GHz spectrum is crowded by other WiFi, you really want to be on channel 36, because that way you do not have DFS at all, see the table on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipe…

The AP still has to send regular beacons for each hidden SSID, taking up air time.

Over all age groups? Definitely not, cardiovascular diseases and cancer get ~everybody in the end: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/annual-number-of-deaths-b... You're right for …

Is this just a less polished/active version of https://github.com/mvp/uhubctl ?

A decade is roughly the upper limit of specified battery shelf life for cheap batteries. Making the battery bigger doesn't really help much at that point where it's limited by shel…

That doesn't help at all if your loop variable is a 32 bit int that your compiler decided to transform away into vectorized loads from a 64 bit pointer. But that's exactly one of t…

There are SSDs on the market that use all of their TLC flash as SLC cache, so you can almost use them as SLC drives if you partition them to leave 2/3 empty. Eg the ADATA XPG SX820…

If you assume that all three numbers are small integers, doing the division last minimizes precision loss (and doesn't have any loss if the accurate result is representable as a fl…

Some people try to spin this as a Google vs open standards, while it's mostly a Google devs vs. some other Google devs situation: If you look at https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/gr…