Apparently Stephen King is a prophet - https://youtu.be/20BeizHnW3s

Notepad was one of the last bastions of dumb software, something that did its one job well enough without being complicated.

I'd use it as a canary to see if windows rebooted itself. But then they changed it so that would restore its state when that happened.

It could be trusted to keep your secrets safe from a spell checker, to let you type verbatim without distraction, reminiscent of a typewriter.

RIP classic notepad

Cynical take here, but having worked in an industry that favors college graduates over demonstrable proficiency (software), I've seen college serve the purpose of class division more than education. If you're well off enough to take the financial hit and opportunity cost of attending college, then you're rewarded with a job where you can exhibit negligence and pass blame for good pay.

Streamlining the SAT's to favor cheating is an advancement of this trend.

It would be nice to see academia drive efficiency, value for society, and better living through applied knowledge. Instead it acts like an authoritarian sports academy. I would delight in being convinced otherwise.

Libraries, youtube, and travel can offer a lot more than sports academies where someone reads an overpriced textbook to you.

I'm all for wishing an end to technologies that are counterproductive. For instance, I don't miss the steady flow of problems that win9x and IE brought as a consequence of negligent quality control. Cars making annoying beeps? I'm already in a hurry for that trend to be history.

But PWAs? Are they creating support issues for your users? Extra work for you as a developer?

If you're not Apple, what's the problem? Can you point on the doll where PWAs hurt you?

My state forked over hundreds of millions of tax $ to be scammed by Oracle corporation to deliver failure. The "good reason" was believing lies with this same baloney. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Ultimately the finished product was a pdf form that you could print out and mail in, but it only worked in Internet Explorer. That's not hyperbole.

Take off every zig for great justice

N Korea doesn't have a lot of things, but they do have a drugs trade. Supposedly meth is normalized to be like cigarettes, or something that makes a nice gift, and gets exported to China. This article might be out of date, and I certainly don't have any first-hand knowledge here, but it checks out.
https://www.insider.com/north-...

"The solution: human storefront curation, which Valve has never shown any intention of doing."

Steam has had a curators for many years. This feature is not obscure. Why the misinformation?
https://store.steampowered.com...

Here's the complete list of consumer OS's with known exploits, and that disallow second and third party software to run on them without hassle under the guise of protecting you, but actually serving anticompetitive practices:

"Anybody can throw a charger in the ground -- that's not that hard, it doesn't take that long,"

Then why aren't they doing that!?

PeteB does some silly things, but the massive distinction here is that he actually rode his bike, even if it was a very short distance.

In Branson's case, the ride was done on a completely separate day and presented as though it had occurred on the day of launch.

Also PeteB wasn't doing a cross promotion with Trek for a special bike tied to the event.

The most interesting feature that comes to mind when I think about this venture is how he
1. Pretended to ride his bike to the launch,
2. Got up on stage and talked about riding his bike to the launch,
3. Was busted for actually taking a car in a motorcade
4. Delivered some gaslighting press to say that something must have been miscommunicated.

Whatever makes people like this proud of themselves, the need to lie about something like that is really lame and pathetic. The gaslighting is a sign of weakness, someone who's too fragile to admit error out of fear.

Elon's just going to repeat disjointed bits and pieces he heard from the people who make his products. He'll inevitably be talking to someone too afraid to admit they don't know the big words he's using, and this will be received as genius insight with 100% amnesia about his previous idiocy.

So he'll say something like radar is unnecessary because AI tech on cameras is just as good, and I wish that was only a joke.

Shut up and take my money!

This is an obvious solution that people need to be taking charge of full throttle. More of this please.