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windows 95 looked the way it did, not because the people making it thought it was the optimal look, but due to hardware limitations.

A designer in 1995 seeing you waste a modern 4k LCD monitor’s potential to display blurry low res 256 color icons? They would think you are clinically insane.

Most likely reason for such fall from grace in update speeds? They lost the savant senior dev (or two) keeping their project together.

It should be at least 10x higher, this bug affects a billion users

any such (public) company has fallen into the ”printing money from past heroic projects by former employees” phase and is slowly dying out

The tech sector prints money. Large companies can leech off past heroics built by former employees for decades, even if the current employees are incompetent. A zombie company if you will.

They can just mess with the Tiktok algorithm. i’m 100% sure there is lots of content that will increase birth rate.

Yes, it’s called a filter bubble. Covid was extremely easy to avoid pre-Omicron even without vaccines if you don’t go to nightclubs and don’t work in an office and have no kids.

but it’s not? do you actually remember 2005? Online shops, online banking, online food delivery, online payments, they ALL used to suck majorly.

? data centers are a net negative for carbon emissions.

1. no need to drive to a bank/govt office/business when it has been digitized

2. watching a video on youtube, netflix or tiktok is basically carbon emission free compared to other forms of enterntainment that would be consumed if the internet wasn’t available

3. emails instead of paper snail mail, billions of trees saved since the 90s

The list goes on and on

Is there a term for this, where a person discovers something extremely interesting, but doesn’t know the proper channels to make the knowledge public?

In this case, releasing the info on a random spammy looking WP blog.

”finished” is just a label, all software can be worked on infinitely, at some point production usage HAS to start

You have to look at it from the company’s point of view. As the accounts can be created for free, every day millions of grifters are pulling shady shit. Using stolen CCs to purchase, trying to scam the support team, refund scams, identity theft… You name it and it happens.