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How about this, then: It fills a niche, but it is full of bad decisions (and fragmentation), and survives mainly by its existing momentum. It's crap in the same sense that Unix is crap: the founder effect has made its flaws impossible to dislodge or rethink.

A popular solution to a problem is not necessarily a good solution to that problem.

There's nothing much to doubt. The evidence is always the same: "our web server logs show scrapers originating from IP addresses owned by someone who didn't pay us."

The Verge article is a little clearer. 100,000 threads pilfered over the past year with scraping! Oh no!

(See also: the actual legal filing. I have to admit the headings sound a little unstable.)

Just you wait—they're way more over-represented they are in subreddit moderators... and in the accelerationist movement.

"Actually" read them? Are there a lot of people running around purporting to have read TSR novels, or to have credentials that require doing so?

There are no real downsides to saying the 2026 version is 26 and the 2126 version is 126. It's just [year - 2000]; you can even imagine this is release 026 rather than 26. Personally I'd worry more about what happens in the year 3000 when they have to release version 1000.

Moreover—these are just version numbers, imitative of dates, rather than actual date fields. It's not like someone is going to be charged for unpaid bills because their iOS version number was accidentally parsed as being in the past. Take your damn pills, grandma!

And yet you registered on Slashdot. Curious.

(The social credit system isn't real. See here for debunking.)

They kinda did; Diet Coke is based on the New Coke recipe.

C++: You accidentally create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical care is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are just pointing at others and saying "that's me, over there."

(cribbed from https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww-users.york.ac.uk%2F~ss44%2Fjoke%2Ffoot.htm, but widely circulated in the 90s)

It's tests, baby, all the way down! Midterms! Quarterlies! Weekly quizzes! Your grade is now 10% attendance and 90% exams! Good luck! Just be thankful they aren't oral.

No one was forced to use Internet Explorer, except when they wanted to browse the Internet after bundled IE with Windows and drove Netscape out of business.

No one was forced to install Windows, except when they wanted to use a PC and Microsoft was threatening PC OEMs that provided alternatives.

No one was forced to buy a telephone line from the Bell system, so long as they didn't mind not having a telephone in the United States.

No one was forced to lease an IBM punchcard tabulating machine, except when IBM held all the patents and refused to sell their equipment at reasonable prices.

No one was forced to buy oil from Standard, except when they wanted to heat their homes after SO bought up all the competition.

This story is about Google monopolizing the advertising industry, not search, you absolute bingus.

Ah, dear, sweet Panorama... gone before your time! In the garden of youth, you were known as TabCandy, and you were a delight upon mine eyes, and saviour of many a Mac user, whom you liberated from the depths of taskbarless window management ignorance, up, up, to the dizzy heights of spatial window management! How much duller and greyer the world has been since you last languidly cached all those many tab thumbnails in your round-corner'd groupings... Were it only possible to summon you forth once more, with Ctrl-Shift-T, as in the age of your glories!

But seriously, it was a casualty of its own implementation. It was an enormous memory sink written in jQuery, at a time when Firefox was haemorrhaging users to Chrome because of its performance. Many of the browser APIs it depended on were also purged.

Sure thing, AAANUS SNIFFER. It goes a little like this:

1. Step 1: Fire workers.
2. Step 2: Pay out wages of fired workers as executive bonuses.
3. Step 3: Tell remaining employees to make up for the lost productivity or they're fired too.
4. Step 4: Tell investors everything is going great!

Hope that cleared things up for you.

Rust is now 13 years old. When Linus first released the Linux kernel in 1991, the C programming language was 19 years old, and Unix V7 had only been out for 12 years.

There are more than a dozen kernels written entirely in Rust. The claim that Rust is immature is pure propaganda.