At least they're doing severance, health insurance, etc. Nowadays if I got laid off at a company I'd expect to just find that my key didn't work and a "check's in the mail" letter to the wrong address.
I first really started to learn how to use computers playing Leisure Suit Larry on a friend's dad's computer. Started with copying save-games to/from floppy disks, to using MS-DOS in general, to BASIC, etc. and so forth.
It's interesting how much of the humor in those games flew way over my head yet I still had a blast playing them. And looking back as an adult, the "risque" stuff was tame as hell but still fun. Sigh, good times.
it's sarcasm. a lot of arguments against social services like universal health care boil down to "well taxation is theft and therefore they're not actually free because they pay higher taxes"
seems to work better with https://fabiensanglard.net/rss.xml than most readers although it still gets 403s fetching images but I'll still give it a run to see how it works for me.
The problem is all the easy problems have been solved, and even all the hard problems have been solved in science. We're down to the really hard problems, and since our otherwise astoundingly accurate observations of how the universe acts are thrown off by them, everything looks weird and fringe at the very hard edges.
This article really wants to sound sensationalist vs: "So all the stuff we used to ignore in our calculations, now that we are able to not ignore them it turns out that time dilation is acting in perfectly expected ways."
I see the same issues here in the states. I think no matter what the economic model, we need to take a long hard look at the overhead and complexity of healthcare. And by and large, I suspect the insurance companies will be found to be at the root of it.
I can't believe I of all people am calling for less regulation, but the amount of bullshit it seems like doctors have to go through to provide basic service seems counterproductive.
The entire purpose of modern technology has become to programmatically extract as much profit from every transaction every individual undertakes every day comfortable in the knowledge there’s not enough hours in the day for said consumers to scrutinize them all.
Given the ridiculous number of transistors and so on we can use in CPUs and GPUs nowadays how feasible is a relatively huge trig lookup table burned into rom?
I am familiar with the project. I’ve owned one for several years, am highly active on the discord and chat with core developers on the regular.
The way it’s phrased in the article linked to makes it sound like it’s “just” a scaler like a Retrotink OSSC. It definitely does fantastic work scaling its own output but it won’t accept an outside analog signal which firmly moves it out of the family of “scaler” to me.