ARC can memory leak if you don’t properly use weak references when appropriate. You trade GC ticks for having to deal with a counter. generally GC will (raw language performance aside) have higher throughput (because its not spending time doing ref counts) but will have more sporadic latency because if the GC ticks, then your program is basically on pause until it’s done.

Comparing them as if one is better than the other feels like painfully missing the point. Completely different memory models. And if you’re only slightly making use of ARC, then switching to a GC is a big jump.

YIMBY is the opposite of NIMBY. “Yes In My Back Yard” Basically people that are for HUD/affordable housing development, for rezoning from single family to multiplexes, etc.

In retrospect I think I was thinking of PFAS. I’m not sure if that’s technically a microplastic or not. Anyway; I would imagine intaking chemicals that your body is unable to remove effectively is probably bad no matter what it is. As bad as mercury or lead ? Probably not. I guess the question to find out is what thresholds of microplastic content correlate to how much negative health outcomes.

And yeah, the irony of the same corpos that poisoned the worlds water supply with microplastics wanting to sell you a microplastic filter wrapped in plastic container isn’t lost on me and most definitely will happen.

AFAIK we know microplastics weaken our immune system fairly confidently.

https://www.ic3.gov/Media/PDF/AnnualReport/2020_IC3Report.pdf

This isn’t really an age thing, if you look at stats. Yes, the older age groups both have more victims and larger losses than younger people. But the victim count isn’t so much lower that you can just brush it off as people being senile. Or are all the gen x and millennial victims senile too?

A lot of scams can fall into one of two categories. Scare people and activate their fight or flight mode (locked computer, threaten to have the cops show up, etc) and the second prey on poor people (send us money to authorize this big payment to you, buy this penny stock that we totally didn’t pump before, etc)

Yeah, this same exact story keeps coming up for years now just with different names. Why anyone would think that both the ineffectiveness and racial bias in these systems either wouldn’t exist or will somehow go away eventually is beyond me. Just expensive and ineffective mass surveillance for the sake of it…