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⚙️ Is Odin Just a More Boring C?
An insightful and practical look at Odin’s real-world strengths, showing how it combines low-level control with developer-friendly design. A must-read for anyone exploring C, Zig, or Rust alternatives for performance-critical projects.
The article examines Odin, a modern systems programming language, through the creation of a small key-value store with pub/sub features. It highlights Odin’s clean memory management, straightforward concurrency model, and quick compile times, comparing it favorably to C and Zig. The author praises its comprehensive standard and vendor libraries, which provide bindings to SDL, OpenGL, and Vulkan, making it well-suited for systems and game development. Minor drawbacks include the absence of a package manager and somewhat verbose error handling.
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🏥 The Fight Between Doctors and Insurers Over ‘Downcoding’
A sharp and timely analysis of how automation and opaque algorithms are reshaping the economics and ethics of U.S. healthcare billing.
NBC News investigates the escalating dispute between American doctors and insurance companies over ‘downcoding’—the automated downgrading of medical claims that reduces reimbursements. Physicians warn that the opaque algorithms behind this practice harm patient care and strain smaller clinics, while insurers justify it as a safeguard against fraud. The report outlines efforts by the AMA and several states to introduce transparency and regulation around automated billing decisions, underscoring the potential risks to independent medical practices and patient access.
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