'Constantly being contactable' is something of an old person's gripe, because they grew up with being unreachable by default. I walked 30 mins to school when I was 8, and took day-long biking trips with my younger brother at 14 yo without having a phone.
Almost unheard of these days (depending on where you live).
Personally I never switch off my iphone or even set it silent, but after years of living an event-driven life I learned to ignore those interruptions.
I very much want my child and anyone who may be charged with keeping them safe to be able to contact me 24/7. Too much can go wrong too fast to not be able to be there for those that I care about.
I don't know too much about the RACS etc (father was a radiologist but can't recall him complaining about their equivalent in Aus too much, though it's likely the same).
If you have to be a member of this, and that's government mandated, then them profiting from that arrangement is a blatant monopoly isn't it?
They've been taken to the ACCC previously for anticompetitive behaviour however the focus of that was on nepotism ie the way trainees were selected. The process is more blinded now (to the extent that is possible in a country the size of Aus/NZ with somewhere around ~100 trainees for general surgery a year).
I actually attended the ICOSET conference for 2 days prior to the ACS and there was much discussion over it.
For example, compared to the US situation, where surgical training is run by the universities, surgical accreditation is done by the Board Examinations, and the ACS is essentially just a bit of a union/membership organisation (You can not pass your boards and practice surgery in the US although it cant be good for your insurance), RACS is both trainee selector and accreditor.
There is talk about accreditation being devolved (Macquarie University Hospital is apparently trying to do a course for Neurosurgery) and the Orthopaedics guys left the RACS a few years ago to start their own body (but with similar principles, ie they select trainees and accredit). The MUH model seems interesting but has it's own problems because rumour is they want to charge ~$150k to do their training course. So essentially we have the americanisation of our quaternary training, which I don't agree with.
It's hard to see a real way forward; and even if another organisation came around and said they were going to start training surgeons, they have a couple problems: getting surgeons to say that they are happy to be the Trainers for them and getting hospitals to allow that organisation to train them.
A similar problem exists with the RACGP and it's (my opinion) much better, more nimble and beneficial to the Australian Population Australian College of Rural and Remote Medicine. ACRRM has been steadily building up to become a formidable training force for GPs particularly in rural and remote australia wityh a focus on TRUE generalism, ie GPs that run scope lists, minor surgery, obstetrics and aesthetics. The RACGP has a firm focus on city GPs and City training despite a desperate need for ACRRM/rual generalists. RACGP this year has put the state governments over a barrel and said that trainees must now do X amount of time in a big city, and that rural training is not going to count for as much; with the result that current ACRRM trainees may not make cutoffs in terms of time worked in city practices and fail to achieve their final qualifications. So basically RACGP is making moves to push ACRRM out of the way by introducing changes that benefit it over ACRRM.
all terribly interesting/boring, depending on how much you care about petty politics :)
I've only dabbled briefly in it and read various articles about the new features, but that hasn't been my very limited experience. The syntax and namespace constructs etc all look quite arcane to me, and then there's the borrow checker. Not sure I'd call it simple and intuitive (at least yet, for me).
Having written quite a bit of Rust, I agree with you that Rust is far from simple and not always as intuitive as say...Python or Ruby for example.
However, I do appreciate the syntax which IMO is in that sweet spot between conciseness and expressiveness. Finally, the borrow checker is quite the experience. Whenever I banged my head trying to get some snippet to pass BCK, there was always an OH moment where I realized something was terribly wrong with my design.
PS: Yes, there's still a few weird BCK false-positives. Hopefully we'll soon have non-lexical lifetimes[1] that should fix most issues.
I shouldn't joke like that - learning Rust was a 4-6 month long low point my my lifelong professional self-esteem. I think I'm coming out of it now, and am only continuing to use it Because Stockholm Syndrome.
"No technology can ever be too arcane or complicated for the black t-shirt crowd." - Linus Torvalds
> People do not grasp how much of this insanity is codified by law and rule, and when they are informed of it, they shrug it off in the name of "safety."
Not to make minimize the problem, but this feels a bit like privacy in IT (or lack thereof) due to government overreach.
People care much less about something when they are not directly impacted (or think they're not impacted).
This fuzzing is interesting stuff. Does anyone know of an in-process or otherwise lib for the JVM? Findbugs is mentioned in here but I'm not sure if that does fuzzing (maybe a plugin?).
Seems in my mind to be a nice complement to achieving code-coverage with testing i.e. whereas unit/integration testing might test the various code paths with a few good/bad values, this then throws every possible input value at them to see what breaks.
There is PIT[1], it calls it mutation testing, but I guess it is roughly the same idea
To put it another way - PIT runs your unit tests against automatically modified versions of your application code. When the application code changes, it should produce different results and cause the unit tests to fail. If a unit test does not fail in this situation, it may indicate an issue with the test suite.
I guess you can determine how many people are around you, that have a phone and it's switched on, with the wifi on as well (I personally turn off everything when it's not being used, mostly for battery reasons on this old clunker).
https://github.com/ps3mediaserver/ps3mediaserver