I'm not sure that's really the sort of architectural change that was intended. It's not fundamentally altering the chips in a way that makes them more powerful, just packing more in the system to raise its overall capabilities. It's like claiming you had found a new way to make a bulletproof vest twice as effective, by doubling the thickness of the material, when I think the original comment is talking about something more akin to something like finding a new base material or altering the weave/physical construction to make it weigh less, while providing the same stopping power, which is quite a different challenge.
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Snigger is just a variant form more common in the UK, where snicker is the preferred one in the US. Though I wouldn't put it past a 4chan user, it's also a perfectly normal word they may have learned being taught and exposed to UK variants of English.
It's hardly the sole cause of Japan's problem, nor unique amongst developed nations. However, given the near total aversion Japan seems to have towards the notion of enabling immigration as a means to permanent residency for immigrants, it takes on a much greater dimension for the problem than it might in other nations that are more open to immigration. Barring a sudden and total reversal politically and socially on the question of immigration, Japan will have to do far more domestically to improve quality of life and work-life balance if they want to avoid a total demographic collapse.
A lot of trade work has dumb, macho work culture. Current safety standards and PPE requirements have also proven so effective in many cases, the current generation don't know anyone who has suffered the horrible consequences of ignoring these regulations and assume it's all overblown, nanny state nonsense as a result.
That, and the author is a regular writer for the opinion section there, with consistently terrible takes.
Despite growing up in the 90s, a Commodore 128 was the only computer we had until maybe 1998, when we upgraded to some sort of Macintosh. It was just Frogger, Montezuma's Revenge and OutNumbered! for me on computers until we finally got a Dell of some sort running Windows XP in like 2004.
I got all the pain of different OSes growing up, but now it's just Linux and OpenBSD for me these days.
SteamOS can really only be a good thing for devs, as I understand it. The steam deck gives them fairly limited hardware to target for development if they're inclined to do so, and Valve's effort with Proton have done wonders for general Linux compatibility, even in the absence of a native Linux version of their games. That's opened up a sizable market for them that was previously unavailable.
If I could get away with not having a cellphone, I would honestly much prefer to not have one. Unfortunately, the modern job market and my wife wanting to be able to reach me make it unlikely that I could do so without suffering some fairly major issues.
Initially, I quite liked the idea of being able to consolidate multiple devices, like an e-reader and music player into a single device, but I've really come to resent the expectation that I should always be available to contact at all times.
If I could ditch mine, I'd really rather just have some sort of portable device in a similar form-factor that could play connect to WiFi, play music and podcasts and work as an e-reader. Bonus points for some sort of offline map/navigational capacity. I don't want to get texts or phone calls, and only be able to access email and the broader internet when I'm somewhere with WiFi.
I like to think I'll eventually get to a point where I can do that without having to worry about being unable to get jobs for not responding quick enough. Unfortunately, it seems like more and more things are trying to make cell phones an unavoidable aspect of participating in society, whether it's banks only offering OTP texts for 2FA, or so many venues no longer even offering the option to print your tickets at home, but instead requiring you to display your ticket in an app on a device with an active data connection.
No trackball for me, but I use a vertical mouse and have my Glove80 mapped to a Colemak layout, so it probably balances out.
Same. They already have my resume and application for the job, I'm not writing a whole page groveling and begging them to hire me.
The wild part is what's cut off in the bottom section.
However, "Much of what he championed—patient advocacy, increased access to dental care, and advertising—has come to pass in the U.S.
So I guess, possibly not as bad as the opening line makes him sound, and perhaps even an improvement over the standards of the time
Some other choice sections.
The band attracted large crowds and hid the moans and cries of patients who were given whiskey or a cocaine solution that he called "hydrocaine" to numb the pain.[2] He charged 50 cents for each extraction and promised that if it hurt, he would pay the patient $5.
he Historical Dental Museum at the Temple University School of Dentistry has a display dedicated to Parker, with his necklace of 357 teeth and a large wooden bucket filled to the brim with teeth that he had personally pulled. The bucket of teeth sat by his feet as he lectured the crowds on the importance of dental hygiene.
Almost sounds like the guy may have been maligned by his fellow dentists for calling them out on their BS.
While simple, it can honestly be kind of fun to just go in and let them know. When I was recently laid off, it went something like this.
HR: "I know this might be a shock–"
Me: "Yeah, you're letting me go, I know. Here's my work laptop and badge, I've got all my stuff in a box outside, what do I sign? Trying to catch the next train home, so I have like 20 minutes."
It totally threw off my boss and the HR lady trying to do their sombre, dignified thing, and was pretty funny to watch.