Attitude which leads to electron apps replacing native ones, and I hate it. I am not buying better cpus and more ram just to have it wasted like this
In fact Jevons Paradox: When technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, but the rate of consumption of that resource rises due to increasing demand - essentially, efficiency improvements can lead to increased consumption rather than the intended conservation. [^2][^3]
[^1]: https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~damithch/quotes/quote27.htm
[^2]: https://www.greenchoices.org/news/blog-posts/the-jevons-para...
Reason: thiserror still requires std which greatly hinder its use for no_std context
Also related: https://blog.timhutt.co.uk/fast-inverse-square-root/
(I see that someone already mentioned fast inverse square root algorithm is related to this, which is famously used by John Carmack which is one of my hero who led me into tech industry, despite I didn't end up in gaming industry)
This regulation of NSW, Australia considers rooted devices with extra non-Google/non-Apple approved security features such as a duress/wipe PIN (a standard feature of GrapheneOS[2]) as a "dedicated encrypted criminal communication device". How the device is being used doesn't matter. It's how it _could_ be used.
[1] https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/ca190...
[2] https://grapheneos.org/features#duress
It is always the human mind that dictates the action, not the tool. It is futile to try and ban the tool, and I bet 100% they knew that.