If you're talking about introducing it somewhere where there's currently no social safety net, sure. Where I live if you were to replace the existing safety net with say £1k a month (the level of our state pension, which is widely considered a time bomb of unaffordability), that's like a million instant homeless people.

I suppose it's like a magic trick. It's less impressive once you understand how it all works. But still, it's clearly effective and you can admire the artistry.

> Does the public really not know what editing is?

I think most viewers would be unaware of the cut unless it was pointed out. Hence this sequence being called a "shot".

My recollection from this era is there was a common argument that provocation and boundary pushing were the way to ensure an uncensored internet. To me, it seems like that argument has been defeated by reality, but I've never seen much discussion of it. Maybe it's a last-year's-war now anyway.

Seems like a silly argument, and that the exact opposite would be true. But sometimes people want to do stuff, and rationalize it afterwards.

Not really answering your question, but the Belgian Congo photo is probably more notable and consequential.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsala_of_Wala_in_the_Nsongo_Di...

I am aware it's more famous. I've already seen it, but I'm not sure it's more disturbing as a photo (admittedly I am not going to look at the one described above to compare).

GRAPHIC WARNING ^^^^^ Even though it's on wikipedia; it's horrible.

> emails between her and her husband

If we're dropping random trivia it should probably be mentioned that her husband is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

Because it's Ubuntu policy to replace some foundational part of the system with some janky unfinished experiment in every release.

I agree with you that that's more the story here than "OMG, somebody wrote Rust code with bugs in it".

Right? Canonical wanted (still wants?) to use a coreutils implementation where "rm ./" would print "invalid input" while silently deleting the directory anyway.

I don't really care that some very amateur enthusiasts wrote some bad code for fun, but how in the world did anyone who knows anything about linux take this seriously as a coreutils replacement?

Maybe not what they meant, but Rust sometimes makes it tempting to just copy things rather than fighting the borrow checker. Whereas in C++ you're free to just pass pointers around and not worry about it until / unless your code crashes or gets exploited.

Speaking authoritatively from my position as an incompetent C++ / Rust dev.

I see. Fortunately, I'm aware of that and I don't use clone (unless I intend to) as much. Borrow checker is usually not a problem when writing scientific/HPC code.

Because passing pointers isn't as ergonomic in Rust, I do things in arena-based way (for example setting up quadtrees or octrees). Is that part of the issue when it comes to memory bandwidth?

Don't know if it counts, but my London cinema listings website just uses static json files that I upload every weekend. All of the searching and stuff is done client side. Although I do use sqlite to create the files locally.

Total hosting costs are £0 ($0) other than the domain name.

Also the Acorn Archimedes is, technically, an ARM / RISC desktop.

Distant memories of a 1980s London classroom.