The Yuzu Patreon currently brings in about $30,000 a month, making a $2.4 million settlement a significant expense
That is 6 years of income. Not sure they profited for that long.
coding standards and unit tests and commit signing and whatever other bananas things they're about to make you do
They wrote it, nowadays coding standards made contributing utterly uncool.
Many apparently chaotic systems are actually pseudo-chaotic.
Chaotic does not mean random. You cannot forecast the precise state of a chaotic system, but there are still rules in chaos. AI is a nice tool to discover some rules. We just have to hope it will not hallucinate them.
Australians already enjoy a host of standardized benefits, including 20 days of paid annual leave, mandatory paid sick leave, "long service" leave of six weeks for those who have remained at an employer for at least seven years, 18 weeks of paid maternity leave and a nationwide minimum wage of about $15 an hour.
I believe these are quite standard in developed countries, US being an exception on that front.
Those things have half-lives measured in weeks.
This is enough to intoxicate the farmer, the surrounding residents. And any other animals living there, such as bees.
You cannot farm without chemical pesticides and fertilizers, if your competitors use them.
There is an impossibility trinity: environment preservation, free trade, and decent farmers income. You have to sacrifice one of the three.
Article says
Ralph Langner, a researcher who conducted an in-depth analysis of Stuxnet after the malware’s existence came to light, noted that “a water pump cannot carry a copy of Stuxnet”.
Indeed, I wonder how it moved laterally from the water pump. Was it a connected water pump? What fool would grant network access to a water pump in a nuclear facility?
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. -- Frank Hubbard