<p>How dangerous is Santa&#39;s job, really?</p><p>The Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn&#39;t publish any stats on rooftop holiday gift delivery due to limited data, so this is a bit of an extrapolation.</p><p>First, travel between houses. The NTSB has never recorded a fatal accident involving a reindeer-powered flying sleigh. Someone better at stats than me could probably bound the accident rate based on this record, but it&#39;s quite low so we&#39;ll neglect it.</p><p>Next, rooftop delivery.</p><p>According to 2022 stats (latest I could find quickly) the USA has ~190K roofers, and had 124 workplace fatalities over the year, a rate of one in 1532 per year.</p><p>Assuming the average roofer spends 12 months * 20 work days * 6 hours, or 1440 hours, on roofs in a given year, and assuming accidents are uniformly distributed, this gives a mean time between accidents of roughly 2.2 million hours, or an accident rate of 4.54e-7 per hour.</p><p>Suppose 4 billion people globally celebrate Christmas, with 2.5 people per household gives 1.6e9 households. Allocating 2 minutes per household for landing, unloading, boarding, and takeoff gives 5.3e7 minutes of rooftop time every Christmas eve (making heavy use of relativistic time dilation).</p><p>Unfortunately, this is 26x the mean time between roofing accidents. So Santa has quite a high chance (&gt;&gt; 50%) of falling off a roof and dying any given Christmas.</p><p>When you add in the possibility of getting stuck in a chimney, the cancer risk from inhaling all that soot on the way down, the near-certain diabetes from eating billions of cookies in one night, and more, I&#39;m glad I&#39;m not the one wearing the red suit.</p>

<p>to tame a living weapon,<br />you must first give it your neck</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.noyu.me/@hikari" class="u-url mention">@<span>hikari</span></a></span> cursed</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mei" class="u-url mention">@<span>mei</span></a></span> horrifying</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://discuss.systems/@xand" class="u-url mention">@<span>xand</span></a></span> Sadly, I&#39;m not really sure if in-person is ever going to return. It was already on its way out (generally across the entire training world) before the pandemic. I was only able to manage it because I could keep costs low with my own space (which is no longer the case). </p><p>Post-pandemic, costs have also soared a LOT. I just don&#39;t know if there are that many people who can afford to drop a week of work and spend an additional $6-8K on a training class.</p>

<p>As opposed to constantly watching a classroom clock with anxiety.... tick tick tick. Ding. Goodbye. Don&#39;t forget to turn your brain off as you leave.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mostr.pub/users/2c4388224fdcd50f24e53cab9baa4ab605f087e82c4587035072690f333310a9" class="u-url mention">@<span>2c4388224fdcd50f24e53cab9baa4ab605f087e82c4587035072690f333310a9</span></a></span> what?</p>

<p>My last day reminded me of how freeing it is to not teach on a rigid bell schedule. Someone asks, &quot;can we talk about linking?&quot; This leads to an impromptu 30-40 discussion involving operating systems, libraries, system calls, static linking, dynamic linking, shared libraries, dynamic loading, memory organization, and even a bit of security concerns. Wait, where were we? Oh yeah, compilers. Let&#39;s get back to that now.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mostr.pub/users/2c4388224fdcd50f24e53cab9baa4ab605f087e82c4587035072690f333310a9" class="u-url mention">@<span>2c4388224fdcd50f24e53cab9baa4ab605f087e82c4587035072690f333310a9</span></a></span> aaaand you&#39;re muted</p>