Minus several decades in rare cases but it’s going to be increasingly common.

Gambling always brings corruption. With on-premise casino games this is limited to inside of a single building owned by people who have a vested interest in keeping things looking honest.

With sports betting, there are huge incentives to collude or even act alone which are very hard to distinguish from legitimate play.

Internationally, horse racing, cricket, rugby, and (oh boy) soccer continue to have huge problems.

Luckily I didn’t buy a iPad Mini, but I really like the form factor.

Many of the games are quite short, perfect for dipping your toes in this kind of thing.

https://ifcomp.org/ballot#browse

Third party allocators improved on this as well as usually avoiding the heap fragmentation problems that system heaps often suffered from back then.

These days the system heaps have improved to a point where you really only need to think about a third party heap for very specialized circumstances. They do usually come with nifty debugging tools though.

There is a place for complex blog posts on arcane subjects but posts on "common knowledge" are even more important. There is a 15 year old out there somewhere that needs to know how to use the different smart pointers in C++ or how to properly care for a cast iron pan.

Bitcoin-style blockchains “work” because everyone gets the possibility of a little reward for all the hassle and non-negligible CPU time of being a node.

That is my assessment as well. The compression ratios with AVIF are ridiculous compared to older formats.

In particular, you probably don’t want the GPS coordinates of your house publicly available on your blog for everyone to see.

You have to be selective though, some of the EXIF data specifies things like color spaces and orientation that is used by browsers for displaying the image properly.

But my favourite[0] was Write Your Own Adventure Programs, which taught data driven programming and text parsing.

[0] https://sheep.horse/2017/2/usborne_computer_books.html

Months later, just before the end of the internship, they received a reply. Their manager had forwarded their request up the chain of command and the email had the full quoted history. Their request had been bumped up 4 successive layers in the London office, then across to the US headquarters where it continued its upwards trajectory, finally alighting on the desk of a VP who, after thanking them for bring the issue to his attention, rendered an carefully considered opinion.

The whole process had taken weeks, presumably as each person in the hierarchy debated whether they had the authority to tackle such a weighty issue.

The email had then been inexplicably bounced back DOWN the chain one link at a time, back across the Atlantic Ocean, and through the local office, down to the suit-bound interns, again weeks later, who by this stage only had days left at the internship.

The answer was no.

A threshold that might be beyond what the physical properties of our universe allow. It is still unclear.

I have been hearing about one more technical hurdle to solve before quantum algorithms become feasible since before I graduated. That was in 1996.

Almost nobody actually contacts me but it is technically possible.