Have you ever heard of the "sendmail worm", aka Morris Worm ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

You can definitely have failure correlation without having centralized services.

plus report servers and others that run on obsolete versions of Windows/unix/IBM OS plus obsolete software versions.

and you just look at this and thinks: one day, all of this is going to crash and it will never, ever boot again.

I think the main question is: do your app get unknown input (i.e. controlled by other people).

Browsers get a lot of unknown input, so they have to update often.

A Weather app is likely to only get input from one specific site (controlled by the app developers), so it should be relatively safe.

Poor for high speed connections () or very unreliable connections.

) compared to when TCP was invented.

When I started at university the ftp speed from the US during daytime was 500 bytes per second! You don't have many unacknowledged packages in such a connection.

Back then even a 1 megabits/sec connection was super high speed and very expensive.

> I crawled my way out of poverty, so you can too

Sounds for me like "I could do it on my own, so nobody should have to help you".

I really hate this mentality of not helping others. Everybody gets better when everybody gets help.

I absolutely agree, and if my words didn’t convey that sentiment, I apologize.

My Miele hums with so low frequency that it sounds like a truck is passing by.

1) Get rid of all the margins. I'm not here to look at postcards, I'm here to read text. old.reddit is good.

2) Font is too small and light. Make subject font much bigger. The 2nd line is not nearly as important as the title, so title should be much bigger. (your darkmode is better at this than light mode). Personally I prefer Verdana to AppleSystemFont as the latter is very light.

1+2) The posting page has too much vert space between posts and too small font. I'm here for the text.

3) I don't care about icons. They don't help me to decide "do I want to read this posting".

My layout design: https://imgur.com/a/uBPb2pC

Both 1+2 are partially fixed by hitting my browser's "zoom in" function 3 to 4 times. But still there's too much whitespace.

I don't know why so many sites default to tiny fonts and using fixed margins to restrict content to a tiny column down my screen. Fortunately, most browsers allow you to set a minimum font size, which fixes a lot of these sites.

When a video is loaded on a Cobalt browser, why can't they redirect to something like youtube.com/cobalt/player/123456

This way they could keep an old html/css/js implementation running alongside the upgraded one.

I thought the whole thing was a different app at youtube.com/tv

They do. But the Cobalt version is still used on new TVs and to view new videos with new features, so it can't just be a time capsule.

Then everybody would just try to use that instead of the now common frontend.

I feel too many humanities teachers are like your brother.

Why use 10 words when you could do 1000. Why use headings or lists, when the whole story could be written in a single paragraph spanning 3 pages.

I mean...this depends very heavily on what the purpose of the writing is.

If it's to succinctly communicate key facts, then you write it quickly.

- Discovered that Bilbo's old ring is, in fact, the One Ring of Power.

- Took it on a journey southward to Mordor.

- Experienced a bunch of hardship along the way, and nearly failed at the end, but with Sméagol's contribution, successfully destroyed the Ring and defeated Sauron forever.

....And if it's to tell a story, then you write The Lord of the Rings.

Sure, but different people judge differently what should be told as a story.

"When's dinner?" "Well, I was at the store earlier, and... (paragraphs elided) ... and so, 7pm."

Now, that's very true! But it's a far cry from implying that all or most humanities teachers are all about writing florid essays when 3 bullet points will do.

We already have this in Denmark as we have a lot of wind mills: when the wind is blowing a lot, the electricity prices goes negative!

5th October was one such day. From midnight to 17:00 the spot price was negative or zero.

Taxes and distribution costs make the consumer price a lot higher than zero.