Ars Technica

[C#] Elegant way to convert UInt to Byte? (there's a twist, of course...)

I'm working on a personal project where I need to write unsigned integers (UInt) to arrays of bytes, but in a special fashion.<BR><BR>For example, I need to transform the uint, 675, into 2-bytes: ...
Futurism

The Ever-So-Ethical OpenAI Just Replaced Its “Core Values” With Completely Different Ones

In recent weeks, OpenAI quietly changed its “core values” list to include a focus on artificial general intelligence (AGI) that wasn’t explicitly listed there before. When one goes to the page now, ...
Hackaday

Data Alignment Across Architectures: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

Even though a computer’s memory map looks pretty smooth and very much byte-addressable at first glance, the same memory on a hardware level is a lot more bumpy. An essential term a developer may come ...
Ars Technica

gcc value limit though long int is 8 bytes? or intel core i5 limit?

I seem to hit a limit and i'm not sure if it's gcc or my computer. $ file /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/gcc.exe /cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/gcc.exe: PE32+ executable (console ...
TechCrunch

TikTok parent ByteDance reportedly values itself at $300B

ByteDance, the Chinese company that owns TikTok, valued itself at $300 billion in a recent share buyback offer, according to a new report in The Wall Street Journal. That number might sound familiar, ...
Network World

The QoS Expedited Forwarding (EF) model

The assured forwarding (AF) model is used to provide priority values to different data applications. The Expedited Forwarding (EF) model is used to provide resources to latency (delay) sensitive ...