the-alchemist

Here's an oldish blog on this: https://chrisseaton.com/truffleruby/seeing-escape-analysis/

I'm sure PEA is better now, but it's not sure if it's moved beyond scalars (int, float, etc.)

1. One of the underlying cryptographic principles is multi-party / secure-party communication (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_multi-party_computation). e.g., three people want to share their salaries to each other, but don't want the information to be traceable to back to the source.

2. Another is Steganography, hiding text in, say, an image, or audio.

3. You want to prevent the problems with Signal, Tor, Bitcoin, etc. This means, no "50%" problem like Bitcoin, no monitoring of exit nodes like Tor, no centralized distribution issue like Signal.

Imagine:

Alice "sends" a message to Bob by creating an account on Reddit and posts a cat meme which has the hidden text (steganography).

Bob knows how to find the text in that cat meme, and responds by posting something on Twitter, which Alice can read and decrypt.

All this is deniable (I didn't get anything from Alice!), available (e.g., Twitter goes down), and secure.

First, NY Post is kind of a tabloid. You gotta dig deeper. Here's the actual study: https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/cat09/1...

I recommend reading it. It's actually pretty well done.

Secondly, the report itself and common sense dictate that regenerative braking on EVs (or hybrids) greatly decrease brake usage, therefore brake dust. Some EVs have "one-pedal" modes where you don't use the brakes at all in normal usage.

Thirdly, tires is a different calculation. This looks like a fairly unbiased source (https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/2020/1/28/tyres-not-..., https://www.nokiantyres.com/company/news-article/there-is-a-...).

Looks like tire issue is a toss up, and it depends on what the type of tire and how you drive. The much higher torque on an EV and a heavy foot will wear down the tires a lot more, but that has more to do with driver behavior than EVs.

Also, this whole issue is kind of a red herring because tractor trailers and heavy pickups and SUVs are a much, much larger source of brake and tire dust, and overall particulate pollution.

Also, Lombok is not affected because it's not an annotation processor. (Also, look at Immutables: https://immutables.github.io/).

The most popular annotation processor that I've seen "in the wild" is the Hibernate Metamodel Generator (https://hibernate.org/orm/tooling/).

Also, Immutables (https://immutables.github.io/), my favorite Lombok alternative, is affected.

Of note, you can bypass this more-security-concious approach by just passing `-prof:full` to javac.