I think this is some already being looked at in some aging societies. Look at Japan and even China where they have a lack of nursing personnel. They are looking at the humanoid robot hype with a keen eye for supporting people in the future.
And there are likely many other research being done with emphasis on these societies that could show us problems that need solutions.
This turns into a mildly frustrating riddle as some of the challenges are random (captcha, Street View, chess challenge) and end up making it impossible to continue. Got my number added up from the captcha and the best chess move came to be Qh6 (I would need a chess master to disagree with me) so I'm already busted on the add to 25 and then it tells me the "Qh6" notation is illegal (Ok, I was never good with chess notation but I'm pretty sure that says Queen to H6...)
I also had to figure out how to enter chess notation. As it turns out you have to add "x" after the piece if you want to capture or "+" suffix for check.
Ah. That might be it... Anyhow after staring at that chess challenge I was sure to get a mate in two moves with the Qh6 but the captcha filled with numbers plus the add to 25 left me with only 3 to spare... So no way am I winning this game.
Yeah, I'm stuck on the chess part too. Figured out how to put black in check, figured out the notation, including the +, but it doesn't agree that's the best move. Put the positions into a chess engine... it agrees with me with what the best move is.
Fun game though, I laughed out loud at the Wordle requirement.
Yeah I think there's a bug with the chess notation, I also had it tell me Rh3 was illegal notation. Interestingly Rf3 is not illegal notation but an illegal move for me.
The "two digit periodic table symbol" is also arbitrary - it has to be initial caps! Then if you refresh the page, the random stuff resets, so I gave up at that point with !marchpepsidn26n2555VIIVabout where "dn26n" is random captcha.
As a added point, the system in Norway was fully open up to a few years back.
They have since changed it in a way that you need to login to lookup other people income and the person in cause then gets notified of whom looked it up. So that typically could end up in an ackward look from/towards your neighbors .
I was pretty unaware of this drama(not a freenode user)
So I found me this summary to fill me in on the details (hopefully mostly true)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/freenode-irc-has-bee...
This together with the freenode main page/blog (a very defensive one side view of the occurrences) leads to understand the freenode infrastructure/entity is compromised.
I see this as turning into a worst case scenario of a free service that gets taken over and you can no longer trust it to secure your data.
What data were you trusting with freenode? It's almost all public and often logged to a public web server. So you had PMs and your irc password on there. IRC has never been a place for secure communication.
yeah worst case was when freelists was acquired and then all the groups emails where suddenly indexed and made public in their tentative to become a web hub. those had a supposition of privacy, albeit minimal as it was not a specifically secure server, it was definitely not public.
I think they meant int the sense of a API compatible
> Polycloud is 100% AWS S3 bit-compatible. If you’re used to using an S3 API, you can access Polycloud using the same API.
S3 has been around for a long time and they had a lot of objects to transition when they upgraded, so I imagine that is why it took awhile.
There are other object storage systems that have strong consistency guarantees that came out after S3.
It greatly simplifies things that an object written to S3 it is immutable.
On a high level, all writes to your storage use some UUID. All reads use a consistent metadata storage (pick a modern database). After your write is complete and you are sure it is persisted, do the metadata update and return success. Everyone gets a consistent view of the operation.
Several times over the course of 20 years is not that bad. I'm guessing he wouldn't be buying it every 2 years (like common appliances that break apart right after guarantee period).
Some people I know have a 50 year old kettle. Sure, they look a bit old fashioned, and have marks and scratches, but they still 100% boil water.
I don't really see any reason kettles can't be made to last that long - it isn't like the human need for boiling water is going away anytime soon.
To get a design that lasts that long isn't much more expensive either - all it takes is very carefully recording what's broken on each kettle that fails, and modifying the design to avoid that failure mode. Within a few iterations, you'll end up with most kettles lasting 50 years.
