They shamed everybody into the torturous use of floats for layout and then eventually, about 15 years later, added layout features back into a layout language.
I did get my gall bladder removed in July, and I know paid my surgeon a lot more than a 100 bucks, which was just the smaller deductible portion of the bill.
It really wasn't. MacOS classic was full of vulnerabilities as was OS/2 and Linux up through 2004. Windows dominated because it was the biggest ecosystem.
What made Windows easy to exploit was that it enabled a bunch of network services by default. I don't know about MacOS, but Linux disabled network services by default and generally had a better grasp of network security such as requiring authentication for services (e.g. compare telnet and ssh).
Also, Windows had the ridiculous default of immediately running things when a user put in a CD or USB stick - that behaviour led to many infections and is obviously a stupid default option.
I'm not even going to mention the old Windows design of everyone running with admin privileges on their desktop.
> Also, Windows had the ridiculous default of immediately running things when a user put in a CD or USB stick - that behaviour led to many infections and is obviously a stupid default option.
Playing devil's advocate: absent the obvious security issues, it's a brilliant default option from an user experience point of view, especially if the user is not well-versed in the subtleties of filesystem management. Put the CD into the tray, close the tray, and the software magically starts, no need to go through the file manager and double-click on an obscurely named file.
It made more sense back when most software was distributed as pressed CD-ROMs, and the publisher of the software (which you bought shrink-wrapped at a physical store) could be assumed to be trusted. Once CD-R writers became popular, and anyone could and did write their own data CDs, these assumptions no longer held.
> I'm not even going to mention the old Windows design of everyone running with admin privileges on their desktop.
That design makes sense for a single-user computer where the user is the owner of the computer, and all software on it is assumed to be trusted. Even today, many Linux distributions add the first (and often only) user to a sudoers group by default.
> Playing devil's advocate: absent the obvious security issues, it's a brilliant default option from an user experience point of view, especially if the user is not well-versed in the subtleties of filesystem management. Put the CD into the tray, close the tray, and the software magically starts, no need to go through the file manager and double-click on an obscurely named file.
It's a stupid default, though. One way round the issue is to present the user with the option to either just open a disc or to run the installer and allow them to change the default if they prefer the less secure option.
> It made more sense back when most software was distributed as pressed CD-ROMs, and the publisher of the software (which you bought shrink-wrapped at a physical store) could be assumed to be trusted
> That design makes sense for a single-user computer where the user is the owner of the computer, and all software on it is assumed to be trusted. Even today, many Linux distributions add the first (and often only) user to a sudoers group by default.
A sudoers group is different though as it highlights the difference between what files they are expected to change (i.e. that they own) and which ones require elevated permissions (e.g. installing system software). Earlier versions of Windows did not have that distinction which was a huge security issue.
I agree, I didn't see that much of a difference between the good quality and bad quality examples. Is it the fonts, or the translation, or the placement of the text?
Thanks for the response. I was feeling a little crazy. The rest of responses to my comment so far are either dismissive or don't seem to understand what I was trying to communicate, but you seem to have the same issue I have.
NE is starved for natural gas. They replaced the coal plants with gas and didn't bother to build enough pipelines (and even blocked them). We are getting a lot of our gas from Tankers from Europe and even Russia before the war. So now NE has nearly the highest electricity costs in the country even though we're not far away from some of the most abundant natural gas in the planet.
Why do all these posts make it seem like everybody is using AI for coding now? How many devs are actually using this stuff? The furthest I've gotten is just reading the google AI results from a search to see if they actually answer my question.
It's because A LOT of people are. I can't imagine doing it any other way now that I've adopted all the tooling.
I haven't hand-written more than a dozen lines of code in months. The models are really really good now if you can learn to use them. There's definitely a learning curve though as is true with anything new.
Best TV remote ever made. The peanut remote. So comfortable and easy to hold. Because of its shape you could tell where you were holding it along its length and it could never slip from your hand. You could even tell if you picked it up backwards because it was heaver in the back from the batteries. I used it for at least 20 years and I'll always miss it.
Agreed it was great ergonomics. It should not be too difficult to replicate with existing offerings. I wonder if anyone has one that could be scanned for replication by 3D printing.
Where are these horror stories coming from? I've bought thousands of things off amazon for the last 10 years and almost never have a problem, and the price is at least equal to someplace I'd drive to. Not only do I use prime deliveries, I also watch prime streaming, buy groceries through Fresh, and host things on AWS
Their return policies are really lenient too. I bought a computer monitor, didn't like it so I sent it back, bought another and liked it even less, sent it back. The third one I liked, all the returns didn't cost me a thing.
Just a few weeks ago, just be accident, I got a refund on a loaf of bread that had been dented, while I was getting service on something else. Nothing is perfect, but their online chat support has resolved any problem I've had, even if it took some effort.
I don't want to sound like an ad although I probably do, but what am I doing right? Do I somehow, instinctually, avoid products that will be trouble? If things were as bad as the comments suggest, I don't think amazon would be still in business. If this is enshittification, more please.
