IANAD but I’d imagine with all the knee/hip/everything replacements, metal plates in heads, pins in wrists, pacemaker implants etc that it’s a manageable issue.
I would point out for centuries, I’m thinking at least through the Industrial Revolution, 10-16 hours was the norm and many families were still raised. And it was horrible.
From reading upthread it sounds like performance impact is heavily dependent on the skill of the game development team, ie: if they pick the wrong things to hook during the in-game runtime checks performance can suffer greatly
For people who like exploring, know the leaning tower of Pisa is absolutely _not_ a once-in-a-lifetime experience. There are over 100 leaning towers around the world!
The "anonymity and privacy inherent in the cryptocurrency system are what draw individuals, particularly those with illicit intentions, towards its use,"
1) people vastly overestimate how much “anonymity and privacy” cryptocurrency gives them (spoiler: far less than using paper money)
2) I’ve never liked this line of reasoning because it’s the same argument for why encryption should have government backdoors.
For all the panics about shoplifting or stores claiming they’re closing because of retail loss (spoiler: that’s not the truth) it’s a drop in the bucket compared to wage theft
At a Winco there was a box fan full of tools and parts parked at the end of the parking lot with a hundred or so carts in front of it. It was a repairman going through every cart, took several days as he made his way through all the carts at the store. Had never seen that before.
Reminds me of summers spent working for the school district, replacing the glides on the feet of the metal tubed classroom chairs so the broken ones wouldn’t wobble or tear up the linoleum tiles.
https://www.allglides.com/metalbase.html
All part of the hidden world of keeping shit working I guess
As a random datapoint I learned recently the Solana blockchain consensus software, written in Rust and notorious for absolutely dismal performance, is being completely rewritten…in C.
I’m curious if they’ve thought that through as it introduces an entire class of bugs Rust inherently protected them from previously.
Firedancer is written in C, in contrast to the Rust codebase of the original Solana validator
I see Ars Technica taking a lot of flak in the comments but lawdy, they’re still pretty great and one of the news sources I actually pay for (full-text rss feeds are a nice bonus).
Just to pick a few of their writers who still kill it: Lee Hutchinson for anything sysadmin related, Eric Berger does the best space/rocket coverage on the entire internet, Jonathan Gitlin does a ton of in-depth automotive coverage and his passion for it bleeds through in every article, Andrew Cunningham’s insane macOS reviews that he took over from John Siracusa. I could go on but would basically be copy-pasting from their staff directory…
Should probably paste the second paragraph here for everyone who doesn’t wanna read TFA. Most people’s understanding of the Luddites seems about on par with their knowledge of the “idiot McDonalds coffee lady”
The Luddites, Brian shows, weren’t anti-technology. In fact, they embraced new machines that helped them do their jobs better. They were against machines that destroyed workers’ livelihoods and rendered their skills useless. The Luddites rejected technology when it was used to enrich capitalists at the expense of laborers. Their dispute is best understood not as being over “technology” but about who gets the benefit of new technologies and who decides what kinds of technologies will be implemented
In no small part because psychiatric hospitals were wildly, wildly abused. Basically you could lock people up indefinitely with no conviction of anything because someone said they’re a danger to themselves/society/whatever. Basically used like an on-shore Guantanamo.