Sure. I understand well that things change.

However, it'd be nice if the box had a big yellow burst that said: "Now Without 10Mb/s Support That Has Worked Until Now On The Same Connector Ever Since We Came Up With It!"

Sucks to get it home and find that this one is borked, too.

Somebody thought it'd be a great idea to remove full 10Mb Ethernet support from two recently-purchased routers I tried at home (bought the second after the first didn't work).

Turns out this would've cost me my venerable and much-loved Roku Soundbridge M500 and M2000 network music players, which are working just fine, thanks.

I had to buy a cheap switch to put between them to straighten this out. Waste of money.

I understand that 486 support takes up needed and scarce dev resources, and it seems reasonable to me to remove it.

But I wonder what hidden breakage (like my case) happens as a result of making these "reasonable" decisions.

And it just plain doesn't eat in the winter. It's strange and frightening, as we're concerned for its well-being.

Additionally, I finally have a good guess as to where our pet antelope disappeared to.

This...This is a SUCK!

Not disagreeing with your post: the problems are legion, and we're not close to a level of engineering maturity where we can solve them (all and well enough). Maybe someday.

I have heard, though of the suggestion of shielding the ship's occupants by surrounding them with what will be the water supply for the base. (Of course, that imagines no trip home...).

Any thoughts on water shielding?

Well, of course they aren't massless per se, but I think the poster was talking about situations where the ship doesn't carry the reaction mass supply, like solar sail, terrestrial laser powered, etc.

The issue is probably that the big bag won't fit in the overhead bin. Pull some of the matter out of the big bag and it might be able to be squished enough to fit.

Other black holes pack more slowly now, so everything fits.

If you insist on packing so much matter into the big bag so quickly, you're going to have to gate check it.

Still true as IQ is characterized on a normal distribution.

First, WTF is wrong with the other 50%?

Second: Oh. I see.

"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

George Carlin

Well. I was one of those before retiring after a decade and a half of it, and that's far from correct.

This is a good summary.

I'll add that many XD people (eXperience Design: people who try to make software easy and pleasant to use, and better meet business goals with that software) take one look at a Bloomberg Terminal and just about have a stroke. For them, it's a coarse tool from another age that must be "fixed".

However, that impression is from a first glance with no user research. Terminal users love the Bloomberg for the reasons listed above. AND any change to it brings financial risk. AND they make a lot of money using it. AND (please don't discount the human element here), some get off on their mastery of a complex tool that most of us wouldn't touch. Mastery is a powerful driver here, just as it is in gaming. 'this is a tool for experts. I'm one and you're not because you can't.'

The way the Bloomberg terminal might get replaced is by new people who don't come up in the ranks using it, but using an alternative when there's a workable one, or more likely by AI trading directly (God help us...).

"Sure, your Mac can make text come out of that laser printer, but it's crap. Look at it! People will always need professional photo-typesetting. They won't settle for anything less."

No-mo Claw.

Wait, will AI finally bring the Slack?

So, a common voice prompt might be:

"No. Stop. What the fuck? NO! Don't DO that! Oh my God. I think I have a paper map in the trunk..."