In 2010 I got my first taste of SSDs after I bought one for an ageing laptop and it was the single most impactful hardware upgrade I can recall experiencing. I think I was following Engadget at the time, and probably caught wind of the idea from there, convinced enough to part with a shocking $2/gb. In any case, I was blown away. I remember excitedly showing people (who could not care less) that I could click on every application as fast as I could, and they would simply pop open. Photoshop + high res photos open in seconds was unbelievable, gone were the days of getting coffee after starting something up. Crysis levels took around 10s. I was delighted by ~250mb/s. Nowadays fast drives are ~6gb/s, with pcie5 promises of ~15gb/s for something like ~$0.50/gb. The enthusiast hardware is 60x faster than it was.
As for the more common consumer side, maybe consoles?
The Nintendo switch 2 just launched with internal memory access at something like 2gb/s and external memory support for memory cards that support 1gb/s. In 2010 you could get the New 3DS and enjoy ~4mb/s on the micro SD card as the nand was mostly inaccessible. So that's a cool ~250x faster. Some games released on both switch and n3ds (e.g. Monster Hunter XX), so it should even be possible to compare load times!
Polanyi's work "The Tacit Dimension" is one of my favorites! You can teach calligraphy fundamentals, the principles of hardness and grinding, but it's hard to tell someone how to use a pencil to write. You never think of how you use it while writing, it becomes an extension of the body like a cane allows the blind to feel the world. Maybe Video Games in a genre also feel like they have a bit of this quality, where familiar interfaces allow hard to explain expertise.
What virtual tools give the same opportunity for depth of understanding? For me, the old Photoshop UI and VI come to mind.
That's okay though because the company will then hire subcontractors in Quebec through an agency. So instead of Canada paying 150k for a dev with experience, they pay a firm 200k to pay an agency 100k to give a junior dev in Montreal 50k for the work.
Given that similar claims have been around for a long time and it still lacks published results, I feel people have reason to be skeptical.
I wonder if this "training programme" could be implemented or tested using a VR workspace and varying the (virtual) distance of the working field while adjusting size so that it remains clear. The virtual environment could be finely and dynamically adjustable (as opposed to having to change lenses) and progress could be measured in a consistent environment.
On second thought, if that worked, the Apple Vision Pro might sell some additional units.
China, which has extremely high myopia in its student population, decided to tackle the problem top-down by reducing the amount of homework and forcing kids to play outside. They have some success: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9412110/
The claims have been around a long time, but how many people actually follow the guidelines? There are lots of stronger factors preventing people from doing it: economic unrest, smartphones, fear of outdoors and pollution, stronger emphasis on education, etc.
By the same token, doctors claim we can address heart disease and obesity with exercise and diet, but things don't seem to be getting any better.
Anecdotally, after two years of working indoors every day, when I left my tiny apartment only to walk to the store, I had a career change and I had to see an optometrist who prescribed me glasses and insisted on not ignoring this because it's serious enough. I skipped getting glasses and started working outdoors (a high reach telescopic forklift operator). When changing employers only three months later I once again had to see an optometrist (a different one) and I had half of the myopia I had earlier and no recommendation for glasses.
Canadian here. You can try booking an appointment with a provider specializing in ADHD on Maple (it's a telemedicine app). First appointment is a screening/intake appointment, if they feel you're likely to have ADHD or rather you might be a better fit for something else (e.g. anxiety), they'll schedule a follow-up appointment for that. Prices are pretty transparent on their app, but IIRC it's in the realm of a few hundred CAD for both appointments.
Strongly agree. Consider the case of a healthcare application where, during the course of business, staff may perform searches for patients by name. When "Ada Lovelace" appears even briefly in the search results of a "search-as-you-type" for some "Adam _lastname", has their privacy has been compromised? I think so, and the audit log should reflect that.
I'm a fan of FHIR (a healthcare api standard, but far from widely adopted), and they have a secondary set of definitions for Audit log patterns (BALP) that recommends this kind of behaviour.
https://profiles.ihe.net/ITI/BALP/StructureDefinition-IHE.Ba...
"[Given a query for patients,] When multiple patient results are returned, one AuditEvent is created for every Patient identified in the resulting search set. Note this is true when the search set bundle includes any number of resources that collectively reference multiple Patients."
As a fellow 2012 Concordia dropout, it's possible there's more to that particular story going untold, and this is the clean version of it for employers. You can look up "printemps érable 2012" for some context and Montreal Police brutality related to that. My personal experience being a student involved running from police on horseback launching teargas grenades. Finding excuses not to talk about it is easier than trying to explain it.
More even, for storage at least.
In 2010 I got my first taste of SSDs after I bought one for an ageing laptop and it was the single most impactful hardware upgrade I can recall experiencing. I think I was following Engadget at the time, and probably caught wind of the idea from there, convinced enough to part with a shocking $2/gb. In any case, I was blown away. I remember excitedly showing people (who could not care less) that I could click on every application as fast as I could, and they would simply pop open. Photoshop + high res photos open in seconds was unbelievable, gone were the days of getting coffee after starting something up. Crysis levels took around 10s. I was delighted by ~250mb/s. Nowadays fast drives are ~6gb/s, with pcie5 promises of ~15gb/s for something like ~$0.50/gb. The enthusiast hardware is 60x faster than it was.
As for the more common consumer side, maybe consoles? The Nintendo switch 2 just launched with internal memory access at something like 2gb/s and external memory support for memory cards that support 1gb/s. In 2010 you could get the New 3DS and enjoy ~4mb/s on the micro SD card as the nand was mostly inaccessible. So that's a cool ~250x faster. Some games released on both switch and n3ds (e.g. Monster Hunter XX), so it should even be possible to compare load times!