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  • RISC and CISC are two language which your CPU speaks, and which have different strengths and weaknesses. Reduced Instruction Set Computer vs. Complex Instruction Set Computer. It’s something like Chinese vs. English. Either have a word for everything but that means there is a lot of words to learn, or have a smaller amount of words but that means you need more words to describe what you mean.

    Highly technical; both been around for a while, and iirc usually CPUs use CISC, but RISC always retained it’s strengths, so scientists are always looking into the difference in application for both.

    Ngl I have no clue why this technology is so newsworthy rn but I know Western countries made a fuss about China activitely pushing the lesser used RISC architecture.





  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldThe Man Who Killed Google Search
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    Right, so with all me very specific troubleshooting questions I should go where exactly?

    Ecosia? Very limited search results

    Yandex? More obscure results, probably not what I’m looking for

    Bing? Ok on general stuff, not great on very specific questions

    Yahoo? Never tried it, heard the enshittification has become bad

    Duckduckgo and similar? Proxying Google

    Edit: apparently it’s proxying Bing and not Google. Idk if that’s better but I got that wrong.

    There is no way to get around Google. Everything else is either highly specialized, very limited or unusable in general.

    Also feel free to chime in with your experience, I’m so down to hear what everyone has to say.


  • Peak troll behavior.

    Can’t even find the argument between your insults, this comment is hilarious, but not in the good way.

    And if you wanna have an answer that’s actually informative: it doesn’t matter which company, which country or where, but having content based information as well as metadata can lead to so much power, and there’s a good argument to be made that no one deserves blackmail levels of power over your life, especially a random cooperation that’s beholden to no one except it’s own rules.

    And before you go on a tirade again: no, this has absolutely nothing to do with country or anything, this is an ethical dilemma which can be extended to any country.


  • We call this vertical integration. Basically looking at any process you can make a table of different services for the process on the y axis and different providers of those services on the x axis.

    The more width you get, the better. It means high competition, and that’s healthy for a market now if it looks like a needle vertically, you got a problem. This is when we move closer to Monopoly, where a process can only be down by one chain of services. No competition. This means, that one provider can do what he wants, as people are bound to this provider and have to make do. Cue price increases.

    Vertical integration means making your services interoperable to a degree where other providers can’t keep up. If there’s no other providers, there’s no competition. Now you got a monopoly. That is what vertical integration is in it’s final form.