martynr

I did my school work experience for Atari in Slough Uk which must have been in about 1988. I’m not sure what the office I worked in actually did, I think possibly orders/ dispatch, but they left me largely to my own devices to play around with an ST, which I would regularly brick by inadvertently deleting some essential system file or other, then work through my lunch break in a cold sweat to fix it before anyone found out.

In retrospect I suspect that they knew exactly what was going on and left me to it- which was probably the most valuable experience I could have had. If you’re out there, thanks:)

When the 2 week stint was up I transferred to work in goods out for a holiday job and bought a 1040 ST with the proceeds. They were awesome machines at the time.

Has been posted to HN on multiple previous occasions but not for a few years- seems timely and relevant content to repost in the context of recent advances.

I’m going to hazard a guess at -9 months for both sexes? :P

What is your basis for this assertion?

Call me old fashioned but I kinda hope that buying a stake in the London Stock Exchange doesn’t count as a high risk investment these days…

Edit: ( though obviously it’s not as clear cut as it used to be :/ )

Serendipity is alive and well it seems :)

Seems to be this: https://knowingneurons.com/dopamine-makes-people-impulsive/

Original HN threads here: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dopamine+impulsive

FWIW: as a bona fide user of various anti-parkinsonian medications for their intended purpose, I can say with a degree of confidence that the speculation on cognitive impact (and impairment) is very plausible - and that the article is factually correct on the side effects in a Parkinson’s context. God knows what they would do to a brain with a “normal” dopamine level.

It’s also worth noting (and quite frankly pretty harsh when you eventually realise) that the affected brain has massive difficulty recognising its own altered cognition and perceives its distorted interpretations and consequent chains of response as perfectly natural and justified.

Not drawing any specific conclusions on the particular assertions in the article, but IMHO the interpretation is certainly plausible given the apparent drugs involved.

Personal testimony from some of the 700 people who were falsely accused of theft of Post Office funds between 2000 and 2014. The issues were ultimately found to be the result of bugs in a newly deployed accounting system. Posted as a reflection on the real world impact of errors in technology systems.