I, too loved that book. I had been already been working for 6 years for Burroughs on mainframes and peripherals as a so-called Field Engineer and had been thoroughly de-romanticized. I think that book re-energized me.

I wondered why anyone would make a computer that would easily fit through a door. Wouldn't someone just steal it?

Persistent malware by definition leaves code on the target so it can reload after a reboot.
What they call memory resident doesn't leave code on the device and therefore doesn't persist across reboots.

There is a meme for this American tendency:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimgflip.com%2Fi%2F8g6qg7

True that about casting bullets - lead vapor wouldn't be the problem. My friends and I were black power enthusiasts in a rural area in the 1970's and cast many thousands. Some of the most fun I ever had.

Anyway, the problematic battery recycling Is like this:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdialogue.earth%2Fen%2Fpoll...

The problem is the same whether the batteries are used for cars, storage for solar, or storage for unreliable electric grid. But "solar" in the article title gets more clicks.

According to the linked report, the problem is that a great deal of the battery recycling is done by back-yard/garage operations that lose up to half of the lead into the environment. So the government needs to get involved somehow, stop the unregulated small operator recycling, and also do something about the other sources such as lead paint. Tragedy of the commons and that sort of thing. This is very much like the USA before the EPA was created in the 1970's, thank you President Nixon.

I also wondered if Eadon-com was mocking the standard ant-whatever diatribe people.
Then I looked at his posting history which includes his calling us "brain-washed wankers". That's not true. I know why I'm a wanker.

And it seems we have these to avoid.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailykos.com%2Fstori...

If we didn't make stuff up, we would never have gotten laid, much less married.
This also depends upon the women willingly hallucinating about you.

Making stuff up is the only feature of AI that suggests intelligence.

My observation is that the population groups are different between young and old workers.

It's not that individual older workers are more productive in any way, but rather that the young cohort contains all the people who will become drunks, drug users, who bring their sex problems to works, who steal and so on.
The young people who are not fucked up are often amazing, but the worthless ones cause more problems and bring others down, so on the average productivity is damaged.
The worthless old ones who have jobs have mastered the art of invisibility, so less often screw things up because they don't do anything. Nor do they spend time inflicting their personal problems/neuroses on others, or perhaps they are easier to rebuff.
FWIW, I'm past the 3/4 century mark. That's my credential.

2 monthly Waymo doesn't stop for school busses story. Although this time posted by msmash instead of BeauHD for a change. I suspect we're getting a dupe of this tomorrow.

Regarding children, I have my car set to "stun".

Compare the careers of these two directors of CISA

present director:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

previous director:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

This one did this:
https://interestingengineering...

There is good reason to not let him go to a security conference if he doesn't understand what ChatGPT does with a conversation.
Note that CISA subjected their own director to a lie detector test and he failed, so they got rid of the employees.

Ask for volunteers to donate parts to replace whatever is worn out in the original Linus unit.
A ship of Theseus kind of thing.

Place spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors in the vaults instead of in cooling ponds.
Win-win.

We can start a gofundme so he can make his own backup of his work.
Round up those pennies you won't be using and help him get this backup device:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FEpson-E...