Perhaps if it had adequate funding... ?

Well, the intent certainly wasn't to compare anything to Ukraine/Russia - what makes you think this? His relief is valid (if correct), if it was indeed an unlawful Pakistani group that caused the crash, it would rachet up the already scary tension between India and Pakistan.

white-space: pre-wrap;

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.)

I tried setting up Chat GPT to be succinct, and to call me out for bad assumptions, but it just says stuff like 'here is a quick answer, no BS!' then gives me 10 paragraphs including flattering my question.

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.

You can just close the tab after pausing. Re-opening the tab should start the video again where you paused it.

Hardly anything on Netflix is in 4k anyway

(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)