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  • It was not randomly decided. Even before arrays as a language concept existed, you would just store objects in continuous memory.

    To access you would do $addr+0, $addr+1 etc. The index had to be zero-based or you would simply waste the first address.

    Then in languages like C that just got a little bit of syntactic sugar where the '[]' operator is a shorthand for that offset. An array is still just a memory address (i.e. a pointer).

  • The numbers are totally off though.

    A current-gen iPhone SoC (or CPU, the sources are not very clear), nhas about 19 billion transistors. That does not include transistors from flash memory. Following the numbers it does also not include RAM.

    IPhone transistor count becomes completely irrelevant when you start looking at flash chips. Even a 16GB flash drive can contain 64 billion transistors.

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  • It's not Open Source / Free Software and it's also based on Blink, like all Chromium browsers.

    Not really sure about its selling points, but supporting Google's grip on web standards seems to clash with the statement of openness in this advertisement.

  • If we are being fair, they are still reasonably fair to users. Open source gaming is not a reality.

    They don't force you to use Steam, but still work on Proton as Open Source. They don't lock down their hardware.

    What I'm trying to say is, while Valve is not perfect, it's much better than any big tech alternative.