Does Bennet Haselton think gold-pressed latinum is currently overvalued with respect to bitcoins?

Instead what we have seen is sales continuously increasing year after year.

There might be people that haven't got one yet.

It's also possible (though not as certain as you think) that the site visitor stats are skewed - perhaps things on those sites aren't suitable for tablets - anything involving heavy data entry, for example.

On what grounds can you say they're not a typical use case?

No excuse, it's not even pronounced the same.

Unicode made one enormous mistake - existing in the first place.

If plain ascii was good enough for Virgil, Newton & Shakespeare it's good enough for you.

Diesel engines are much more polluting than petrol

You're forgetting the lead compounds that petrol contains to reduce knocking.

We are playing at "pretend it's the 1980s", right?

The original means of refining Al uminum was with fire

You can't reduce an oxide "with fire".

Perhaps they mistook it for a train.

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What does Bennet Haselton think?

Of course the summary's wrong, it's clickbait for StartsWithABang at medium.com.

If you remember, that's the hiptard who thinks he knows more about designing space probes than people who design space probes.

He's the Bennet Haselton of astronomy.

It works like this:
Detector: Object in front!
Brakes: Engaging!
[SCREEEECH]

Not like this:
Detector: Object in front at 12:25
Brakes: It's only 12:23, no rush.
[SPLAT!]

Only an idiot would design it like the latter. Only an imbecile would assume it's designed like that and write an article about it.

I suspect he might have been exaggerating for comic effect. s/POS junker/grannymobile/ if it makes you feel better.

3.11 was installed on the department computers when I was a student. Crash-happy bag of arse. For the stuff I needed to do I used to boot them into dos. My flatmate had an Atari that was rock solid. And easier to use.

P.S. Your userid is roughly double mine, so don't play the greybeard with me.

It also, quite amusingly doesn't come pre tuned to handle Oracle databases.

It's possible that your usage is atypical. It's also possible that Oracle are happy to charge you 2k bucks a consultant-day for "customisation".

Let's balance the hypotheticals with some actuals. One, Larry likes yachts. Two, yachts don't buy themselves.

Being disabled on a whim by the US or Russian government is a win?

Even that's a relative2s, a delta; the difference between when the vehicle in front passes a marker and when you do.

It doesn't matter whether those seconds start at 09:35:27 or 23:59:59[1].

[1] If your software's written right. I've seen supposed one minute delay loops that would run forever if midnight fell in the interval.