What did these employees do at work?
Were the other days longer?
Was it artificially successful because everyone wanted it to succeed in order to have a shorter working week in the future?
I'm an embedded C/C++ coder for my day job. Even that is increasingly Python and you only have to take a look at Micropython for the ESP32/ESP8266 to see the future for easy-to-implement embedded devices.
Gone are the days of writing your own PWM or SPI libraries. There's a module for that.
But post as AC for fear of reprisals. We understand.
1. Remove the energy source that drives the green stuff that ingests CO2 and spits out O2.
2. Tax usage of diminishing O2 resource
3. Profit!
4. Death for all
5. 500 million years time, newly evolved life worships the microplastics god that is still all pervasive in the environment
I've heard from colleagues how they struggle with getting their kids off Fortnite to engage in normal social activities, corroborating the article.
I'm torn, because it looks like good fun. And I believe I have a good enough relationship with my children that I could get them to stop without the level of tantrums the article presents. But, it might be one of those "thin end of the wedge" things, so we think it's safest all round to avoid it completely.
Are they missing out on a social aspect where everyone else is talking about it? Probably - but I don't think that's a big enough loss given the reported level of addiction it can generate.
Of course the article presents the worst cases, because the balanced ones (playing for a few hours a week) aren't interesting for an article. It would be useful to see a distribution of time spent in game per week, perhaps for each age demographic, to get a better idea of what's really going on.
"Inside are a pair of batteries that add up to 4,500mAh of power"
I'm trying to unpick this without being facetious, but it's hard; this sentence is just a technical disaster.
A pair of batteries is still a battery. A pair of cells is a battery.
4,500mAh could be more simply expressed as 4.5Ah, but lets skip past that to the declaration that it's 4,500mAh of power. Which it isn't - power is a factor of current and voltage, the latter of which isn't specified - and returns us to the "pair of batteries" part.
I suspect this is just marketing getting in the way of facts.
And not really discovered, as such. "Plastic pyrolysis" has been about for years, but no-one has made it economical on a scale suitable for handling the volumes of waste we produce.
But, astonishingly convenient.
No tech company can truly know, for sure, that their product is secure. Shouting this from the rooftops (in this case, pretty much literally) was only ever going to end one way.
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
Pride comes before a fall and all that!
Do these tech industry insiders work for Reynholm Industries? Google, Apple and Facebook are not "the internet".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The Elders of the Internet would never stand for this nonsense.
At least with the tulip bubble, after the crash you still had pretty tulips.
Some numbers in a shared ledger - less impressive.
I want to know where the hundreds of people who used to post here about how Bitcoin had no limits, that every last Bitcoin would soon be worth a million bucks went to. They've been embarrassingly silent lately.
Come back! We want to say "told you so!".
Seriously, where are they now?
Maybe the smart ones were selling at the time (after bigging up how valuable they would be) and are now too far off shore in their yachts to read slashdot
Or in their basements, crying into their tea (the second brew using that tea bag), unable to afford internet any more. One of the two.
"I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture, and cat memes." -- Dalai Lama
Possibly not quite word for word.
"while the public's love affair with blockchain is showing signs of dissipating"
Love affair maybe - if the get-rich-quick speculative investors give it a rest, the practical uses may get a chance to emerge. Venezuela's massive adoption of DASH for trading is showing no signs of slowing, and there it provides a positive social impact at least.
This isn't any tree-falling-in-the-forest philosophical puzzle. Someone said it. Someone heard it. It's valid.
Even if the trees begged before the lumberjack's saw sliced into their tender woody flesh?
Sorry for triggering your empathy neural pathways like that, but if stories can manipulate human emotion, I'm sure one day sufficiently intelligent machines will have no problem doing it as well.
Facebook already experimented with just that https://www.theguardian.com/te...
Scary stuff.
The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work.
