Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked, have been sacked.

I work with old people. When you have to get up at 2am to drain the lizard, having the light switch for your room light located on the doorframe across the room is incredibly inconvenient. Also inconvenient is tripping on stuff in the dark and breaking a hip. Being able to put a button *exactly* where it is needed to turn some lights on is a really big deal.

I want the recipe. Sometimes the recipe has a "print" button that helps. I don't want the blogger's life history. I don't want to know about their childhood trauma or their gym sock collection or how they grew up on a tuna barge outside Okinawa learning ninjitsu. I don't want to know how much they draw inspiration from the Croissy-sur-Seine region of France and how they got the idea for using cinnamon in this recipe from a vision from their long-dead aunt Ethel. Give. Me. The. Recipe.

Old Man Johnson uses LONG RAMBLING STORY!!!!!

It's super effective!

Enemy geezer has fallen asleep!

The whole premise of "Breaking Bad" is that making high-quality crystal meth and becoming a drug kingpin is easier than obtaining quality healthcare in the US.

A nice quiet boardroom, important sales presentation.... the image on the screen stays a little too long while the presenter answers a question.

Suddenly the screen is filled with an unskippable ad for Karl Jr.'s "Extra-Big Ass Fries", followed by a unskippable commercial featuring a giant-knockered goth girl selling turnip greens to the sound of electric bagpipe music.

What new algorithmic AI-induced hell is this?

I work with many "least fortunate" people with disabilities. The average person is assumed by the social safety net to have internet at this point. Some doctor's offices are "portal driven", and calling them has a cheerful bot telling them to check the website. Plenty of different forms and paperwork are accessible online and you are expected to access it that way. Our city newspaper is online.

Government benefits haven't gone up measurably in years, but inflation is roughly constant at 3% per year, and groceries have risen 25% since 2019. I know lots of people using the ACP funding; none of them have $200 shoes, none of them have cars, the vast majority don't own homes, most of them aren't obese. Some live in ~130 sq. feet of space for which they pay most of their monthly income.

Yes, you can access things through the library internet; for many people with disabilities these trips must be scheduled at least two weeks in advance due to transportation concerns (I work with people who get on the bus at 5am to get to us at 10am), or people live in the sticks where busses don't run - and there is no guarantee if you are blind and at the library that any of the computers will have screenreaders, or that the individual in question has technical literacy or skill with screenreaders in the first place. Take things like Siri / Google Assistant. For someone who has nerve damage / vision loss, even something basic - like having Siri tell you the weather, or the time, or having Google dial someone from your contacts - even if that is all they are doing with the phone (no streaming, etc.) requires a data plan (and not all disabilities have accessibility options on the "Obamaphones".

I have an NEC Multispeed Laptop from 1985 (638K RAM, twin 720k floppy drives) that still works. I have a Dell GX220 (~23 years old) that runs my CNC machine. I recently retired a PII(233 MHZ, 1997, Win95c), and PII(400MHz, 1998, Win98se) from their jobs as media database / label printer and MIDI controller - they were still alive and kicking, but I was worried about depending on 25+ year tech. My daily use PC is a AMD A8 from 2011,and the one before that was an AMD Thunderbird 1.2GHz from 2000. Yes, they get some updates but a decade from a machine is reasonable.

I used TurboBasic Back in the day - it was a BASIC compiler and got pretty good performance. The cool thing about it was that you could also do inline assembler for when you really needed to tweak some speed. It was with TurboBasic I learned that data types really matter - going from the default (undefined) numeric type, which was a single float, to defined integers for some graphics codes enhanced performance by about 2000% or so.

In the Jurassic Park book, they knew the dinosaurs couldn't breed - they had built them to be all female. They even tracked every dinosaur on the island in real-time. However, nobody thought to have the computers *actually count* all the dinosaurs, they just assumed "supposed to be 15 dinos here, 15 dinosaurs accounted for, everything's fine"..... and then completely missed the "uh uh uh life finds a way" problem that the dinosaurs were, in fact, breeding, and there were a lot more dinosaurs on the island than they thought. They had to widen the filter to understand the problem. If we are to believe the statement, the balloons were hiding in a spot we weren't looking because there wasn't supposed to be anything there, and once we start actually looking there are a bunch of the things.

Yes, they did, and yes, its at least mostly wrong. Screen-readers, 99% of the time, are accessing the document directly in memory (e.g. the document, the DOM of a website in the browser, etc.), using accessibility hooks in the OS, not just what is visible on the screen. For the few times when you are saying "I want the screenreader to screenshot and then OCR (optical character recognition) the screenshot and then read me the text", in my experience, the OCR part goes smoothly on most non-captcha fonts (Serif or San-Serif). 5% of the adult population has a vision disability; lets say half of those are using a screenreader of some stripe. This change it font will probably a lot more helpful to the the 10-17% of the population with dyslexia. I just wish big-i and little-L looked different in Calibri (yes, little-L is slightly taller).

I can easily go on StackOverFlow and find PHP code (upvoted, no less) that uses straight mySQL built from assembled strings - no prepared statements or PDO or input sanitation - the little things that make little Bobby Tables' heart go pitty-pat. Security vulnerabilities that have been known and solved for ~2 decades only to have moe-rons perpetuating the cycle of abuse through crap code. I have seen way to many coding projects built from roughly assembled stackoverflow snippits. That the things run at all in the first place is a minor miracle. If ChatGPT takes off, it would lead to *better* code overall, once it knows the "good" way to do it.

At some point, the console wars were waged over hardware that is pitiful in comparison. How much time and money did people pour into games for the SNES/Gameboy/Gamegear/Genesis/etc? And yet the games (the ones that are remembered, anyway), consumed very little space and had high replayability. How many A-list titles now have 15GB+ of texture packs and still manage to suck? The storage space isn't the problem here....

This! If software is allowed to mess up the hardware beyond being fixed on reboot, then the hardware is at the very least badly designed.

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