Safari is the only browser to support TCO in JavaScript, which is an ES6 standard. It might be 6 years old, but TCO is a pretty freaking "cutting edge" functional-programming feature that adds a great deal of power to JavaScript.

Google initially added it, then removed it from Chrome claiming TCO makes it "difficult to debug". And that was that.

Now, regardless of the effect of TCO on debugging, Apple continued (and still continues) to support the standard long after Google opted-out. If it needed removing, it would have been much more tasteful if Google did it via the TC39 rather than on their own volition.

So in this case Google's "fast development cycle" helped them pull a useful feature far quicker than Apple's Safari team has. Google's behaviour in this smacks far more of IE6-era Microsoft than it does Apple.

This explains the “how”, but not really the “why”.

Perhaps this sensitivity is to do with a heightened aversion to things that, taken to extreme, cause a pretty natural “disgust reflex”?

I mean that in the sense of wanting to avoid disease. Something highly likely to have strong evolutionary pressure.

Sure, chewing with the occasional smacking noise is not much to fuss about. But the “worst case” of this behaviour is horking down handfuls of almost-fermenting snouts and entrails. Off a filthy floor. With your snot-encrusted mouth wide open. Belching up acidic reflux and struggling to stand on the predigested mastications dripping onto the floor beneath you. All the while trying to whistle the opening bars of a Bette Midler song through a maelstrom of hair and mucus and bile.

I’d wager this is the image most people have in their heads who are sensitive to such noises.

"If me tell someone me idea, 'ow does I know they ain't gonna nick it?"

"Um, that's tough, they usually do."

"'cause, like, when the Playstation 1 came out, me was tellin' me Julie; what would be wicked would be if they brought out something that was better than this! And then 2 years later what come out? Playstation 2! 'ow does you think they got the idea from me?"

"Maybe Julie told them, I don't know..."

-- Ali G

Simpsons quote.

Samsung Galaxy devices get personally affronted when iPhone users give them good reviews?

Just play Don't Starve.

Teaches resourcefulness, inventory management, foward-planning, and that instant death is just around the corner.

It's just like real life!

/. missed a trick in quoting the FA thus:

Simple. Keep the batteries on the ground and run a cable up to the plane.

Fuck man, have some confidence. You're exactly right -- most jobs are completely meaningless.

Bloat, redundancy, old-boys clubs -- all of this is pervasive in the work-force in general.

Let's also remind ourselves what we mean by "work-force" -- the thing we built in order to make the Industrial Revolution happen. Such a means of approaching life had never been done before, is long past its use-by date, and today it's biggest export is mentally ill people.

Our entire education system is built around the life-sapping notion that subjects that serve "industry" must be exulted above the arts. This is nonsense. Life is objectively meaningless, so all subjects are just as "important" as others. In other words, they have exactly the meaning we give them, and if you, gweihir, think that something is meaningless, you're damn well right.

Meditation is not something I do, but I can certainly see how it can lead people to realise that their jobs are shit, because they really are.

"What happened?"

Do any other cloud-storage services publish stats like this?

Thank you, Backblaze.

"Why, the fax-machine is nothin' but a waffle-iron with a 'phone attached!"

Travolta and Cage would beg to differ.

Users should be asked if they want to share their data with an App.

Like every other permission Apple has implemented.

Sorry chap, but I think you've got it wrong on that one.

Yes, this is exactly what all these systems are doing. Taking data from various sources to build an accurate 3D abstraction of the world, so that the job of programming how to drive around can be dealt with in a predictable manner.

We've all played racing games, so we know how good computers can be at driving when they know the circuit down to the smallest detail. We just need to get the real world represented in the same kind of way. If that means lidar, radar, cameras, and everything else in between to build up that map, with those involved collaborating and sharing knowledge, then all the better.