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3. The history of Tech is people from other fields, usually career drop outs, deciding they could have a more comfortable life if they gave up their passion and did something easy with insufficient history to have its own academic standards.

This sounds nothing like the gradual leak problem described.. An OOM killer is great once you actually run out of resources, removing virtual resources to always run out and play roulette is using it as a fad hammer.

What if the thing you kill is in the critical stack to saving your work? If it isn't I don't really understand why you would be swapping it in a lot

I would view the OOm solution as a compute as cattle thinb, but here we are talking about a user desktop where the user can take the best action for themselves once they realize there's a problem.

That would normally mean you ignore the system getting slower for a long time.

I've never had that problem. Maybe you don't setup much swap space as I would expect the system to run well enough to save your work and shutdown for most common leaks.

I had to look a few times to convince myself they weren't at least using tenure of ex-employees. But I'm not sure they could actually search linkedin that effectively on anything but current employees without hitting monetized APIs, etc.

It looks like lack of mobility at the top end, but probably another factor near the bottom.

I worked in such a ghost kitchen in the 1990s (we didn't have a license to sell food on premises.)

You want a gas conveyor oven which actually takes a lot of space and needs ~3 meters in front for assembly and 2 meters behind it. Walk in fridge and freezer are at least another shipping container in size. Then there's clean up and other prep space..

For us, wages were more than rent and probably our competitors rents. 2/3rds of wages would be drivers at slow times going to something like 4/5ths during the Superbowl.

Well, the article brings up iodine overdose from popular medications at the time, but you pretty much can't get too much iodine from iodized salt without having consumed way too much salt.

I think it's been described as "as good as dead" so technically not, but rare anyone gets their other time reduced to anywhere around 80% unless their side project is no longer really a side project.

If it's difficult to keep people programming 2 hours a day, losing 8 a week to a side project was naturally making fuller projects than the meeting encased projects.

This is unrelated to the thread. The point was obfuscation of the fact that the profit is from a specific copyrighted work. I.e. selling 600 versions of a game each with a different default skin hides no income from tax authorities.

When a country defaults nothing violent happens internationally.. Their payments or lack of payments deteriorate their currency from hard to soft and they have trade that's mostly limited to hard currency they get from exports.

I think this would be particularly brutal if unrelated international trade were still in dollars and everyone wanted to cash out.

> I always remember a funny trivia: there are more pensioners in Russia (40M+) than everyone in 15-65 y/o gap in Italy (36M).

Yes, that's the kind of trivia I find puzzling as Italy has a higher percentage of people over 65.

Economy size is very interesting in itself and has a lot of relevance in some decisions, but per capita has always seemed more important to me, i.e. the Italy and Russia comparison as similar size economies is an interesting one.

Mexico is apparently 10th in population.

I think the doubling costs are pushing toward 1 fab a generation and TSMC is 1 year ahead.. The model I would make is that TSMC has maybe 4 more generations as Samsung and Intel lose and they run a new fab that serves all demand for each generation. Then they will also cease to compete with their past fab without delaying significantly to reign in costs.