I regularly notice bugs when using iOS Mail; one that springs to mind would display one email's body with the header info from another email, it seems to have recently been fixed but was easily reproducible for weeks if not months.
Microchip: please hire me to work on the Rust HAL for your ATSAM chips, which I currently volunteer the odd hour or two to help maintain. Between Rust bringing robust modular software in to embedded, and companies like Adafruit pumping out ATSAM boards, there's huge potential in this space.
> scientists have finite time, it's valuable, and are just as prone to chasing the new hotness as programmers.
Yes, I agree. Scientist time is valuable for at least a couple reasons; science funding is a scarce resource, and trained scientists are scarce. I'd argue that those are related, and both could be helped by increasing interest/excitement/awareness toward science in the general public.
If we were to sort people in to two beakers, "trained scientist" and "general public", I think the people who were excited about LK-99 and making "shitty examples" of it, would mostly go in the second one.
(also, I 100% agree that "can't you just..." is one of the most irritating phrases in English)
Negative experimental results are valid science, aren't they?
If you believe attention is a 0-sum game (I don't, but am trying to understand), why not focus criticism on those people spending time on any number of other pursuits that are even further from fruitful. It just seems like, for whatever your idea of "fruitful" is, there are entire industries and institutions that are focused on taking attention away from fruitful pursuits.
For folks who are interested in the subject matter: electronic tuning fork movements, like the Accutron 214, are amazingly elegant bits of engineering. Both the time regulation and motive power are provided by a tuning fork (vs the balance wheel and mainspring), which is kept oscillating through electromagnetism (vs the escapement) in one of the first consumer applications of the transistor. The movement was designed and started being manufactured in the late 1950s.
So I can't test this as I don't have a Windows machine, but from the screenshot it seems only concerned with bandwidth. For my personal situation, latency is the real killer.
I've got a gigabit fibre connection but am way down South in New Zealand, and interact with a Perforce server that's in California for my day job. When one does an operation in Perforce, like the equivalent of a 'git pull', there seems to be at least a couple round-trips between the client and the server, for each file. There are some tasks take a few seconds for folks in the California office, where for me those are easily several minutes to several dozen minutes. It's convenient when the weather is nice or the fire needs feeding :).