Wow that showed up quickly.

Readers might also consider my 2020 post "On the use of a life" to be an interesting companion piece: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-09-20-On-the-use-of-a-...

> While I had some bills to cover — being a type 1 diabetic, I had to purchase insulin — living in Canada meant that I didn't need to worry about the risk of extraordinary costs from a hospital stay. Had I been living in the USA, I would have needed to prioritize seeking employment and medical insurance and likely would not have been able to discharge the duty which fate had thrust upon me.

God bless Canada.

I'm not sure modern academia has very much left to do with scholarship in the sense quoted in this article.

This is unfortunate.

He sounds somewhat like R. K. Merton, and thus it was a good read.

The Intel claim it wasn't a problem: [1]

Today, it would be a bigger deal. In the age of AI, exploiting hard to exploit holes is so much easier. AI has patience limited only by your budget.

[1] https://www.itnews.com.au/news/intel-soothes-hyperthreading-...