Hey that's me! I was being a little too cute and flippant when I said that (I forgot I was in interview mode and not talk to colleague mode) but I stand by the idea that from a regular user perspective the security difference between a kernel driver and any other piece of software is minimal!
You're not wrong about GC becoming more common in games, as you say Unreal has a GC and so does Unity.
Unreal Engine's GC at least is pretty custom. A lot of effort has been put into it to allow developers to control he worst case run time. It has a system that allows incremental sweeps (and multi-threaded parallel sweeping) and will pause its sweeps as it approaches its allotted time limits.
That said, in my experience with Unreal most large projects choose to turn off the per-frame GC checks and manually control it. For example one project I've seen only invoked the GC when the player dies, a level transition happens or once every 10 minutes (as a fallback).
Yep, power laws at work. Look at Twitch viewer numbers for another real time example. The distribution is always concentrated at the top, followed by a long tail. Also the case with the best selling apps, books, movies, etc.
In 2014 Riot released numbers of 7.5MM peak concurrent players for League of Legends (off a MAU 67MM) and in 2016 reported a MAU of 100MM (but no new concurrency figures). Those are old stats but still useful for comparison.
Disclaimer: I work at Riot but don't have any internal numbers to share.
It looks like autocorrect wasn't sent in the clear at least according to one report.
This[1] report on this incident (commissioned by the wallet creators) makes me skeptical that autocorrect or Google was involved at all. I think some sort of malware or phishing to steal the seed was a much more likely attack.
Some podcasts do algorithmic auction style ad sales with targeting based off geolocation on the downloading ip address. This works by generating a new audio file for each download. I think the industry calls it "dyanmic ad insertion".
I'm in a similar position. I was thinking about finding a new smaller place in the west side perhaps one with an in unit laundry or better air-conditioning.
Looking around I've realized that rent control has me paying significantly less than market and that even if I downsized I'd probably end up paying $1000/month extra if I moved. After realizing this I'm unlikely to move until/unless I decide to leave LA.
I'm happy I'm getting a good deal but it doesn't feel very efficient for the housing market over all.
I wonder if this could be more easily adopted by Silicon Valley style startups if this ownership was of what would normally be the employee option pool rather than the whole company.
That way you'd still be compatible with venture capital, quarantine the hours worked dilution to the pool and you can treat founders differently to employees if you want by having founders shares outside the option pool.
Also the govt encourages additional voluntary contributions by allowing a certain amount to be salary sacrificed (paid directly without tax) into super.
This is purely for the pension; unemployment benefits are completely separate. You cannot access your super funds until you reach retirement age or become critically ill.
It's the same in Australia, New Zealand, UK and probably other places too. 30 year fixed rate mortgages are probably the exception rather than the rule in most places.
