its because people dont know what they want. Linux has the problem that people want different things, ao theres dozens of distros to choose from.

windows is an example of giving little choice, so people begrudgingly “upgrades” because they ultimately dont really know what they want.

tldr, linux can be choice paralysis. single os is like being forced to drink soylent and only soylent, its got what you need but you might not like it.

i actually did this like 2 days ago and the guy agreed to at least try it out. people just need to talk about it and be honest about what is good/bad about the current state

but you dont know the values to which they are to br able to ask a question involving it which is the point. youre put in a situation where you dont know everything. there are things you assume the question giver assumes else questions are never answerable. they arent given to you as a gotcha situation, especially in the context as a programming question.

you get to the point where no question can ever be asaked to you because you believe in the manipulation of the question over to the point that you’re intentionally looking for ways to break the question rather than assuming you and the question giver has the same assumption given the question circumstance.

If you go out and look for dumb things like that, there is basically no question in the universe thats answerable.

Do you question if gravity and friction exist if someone asks you how fast something is moving? and what values they are?

if you want to avoid that problem, you would just add the step at the very start: have all the bulbs in off and wait a bit for all the bulbs to cool off if you needed to be sure.

of course, nothing says you can’t but programming (and engineering) is not just solving the problem, but solving the problem efficiently.

one who lacks optimization knowledge would run into situations like the rockstar employee who originally wrote the parser for GTAO that made it take over 5 minutes to load GTAO, till someone else rewrote the parser in order to get people loaded in quicker. It’s basically the weed out for the devs people complain about when something uses way more resources than it needs to.

if anyoen is curous on the answer, you flip one and wait till you think a light bulb gets warm enough from ambient that youd notice. you then turn that off and turn another on.

if light = on, second switch you hit

if light = off && bulb = warm, it was the first switch

else switch 3

because youd only swap mobos for either aesthetics(expensive, not often done) at best because you choose to downsize, or because you need more pci-e I/O.

the average user doesn’t use all their pci-e i/o, and the ones that do, are looking towards workstation motherboards, which is almost a completely different market from the consumer level stuff. It’s a game of, you know when you need more i/o, and if you needed it, you probably would have never bought the consumer level board in the first place.

because of the cut in digital sales theyd get. phone companies are the current front, but its going to get extremely messy when the front gets for example, put into the console gaming front. its all for money for software they did not develop and prevent that money from going to any other payment processor.

for example on the PS5 front, sony makes more than 50% of their revenue on live service games. none that they actually own themselves. Apple, and to a lesser extent, Google, apply that for ALL software, and gain additional money from developer subscriptions. It’s the same fear Valve had back when Microsoft was pushing for the Microsoft Store to become the defacto storefront for personal computers. that push however failed miserably.

cell towers not responding definitely not a first time. happened years back because of a music festival, and there were like some dead cellular spots in san francisco that held them back a while back as well.

the ai companies are but that doesnt talk about the hardware specific companies. for example dell, hp and lenovo run a large business laptop leasing business if they do not get their ram, it will sour their relationships with memory manufacturers . they arent all going to be willing to take losses

theyd have to all collorbate to make that happen though, which is really unfeasable on their end. a BUNCH of companies will go under if they cannot sell product. they arent going to willingly take losses for the sake of a different company.

the browser has historically been one of the most suceptsble vectors of hacking.

theres a reason why most older consoles often have an exploit related to getting access to protected regions of memory via corruption using the browser, and why modern Nintendo and PlayStation consoles do not have a built in browser for consumer use.

the browser is the biggest offender for viruses.

pretty much how I saw it. 10 was a push towards accepting all hardware configurations. 11 put restrictions in the name of security. so even if a user WANTED to upgrade, there’s technically a barrier that Microsoft would block them (albeit that check can be bypassed).

thats often the life of a startup. most startups end up failing (~80%). the other 20% hope their hustle gets them big enough to be bought out so they can then relax more.

the people who work startups dont want to be working that job indefinitely. especially since it often entails being overworked.

last name? no because the last name is soo damn common that it would be impossibly to find someone solely by last name alone.

ive been using beeper so its a matter if they kill the API in my case. (im surprised they didn’t nuke the API first)

thats why theres always an ongoing debate on grading homework. what matters more are the exam grades to show if a given person understands a concept, but it runs the riak of more people failing out without the weight of graded homework easing up scores.

back in middleschool, i was basically told i would instantly fail a geometry class if i didnt start doing homework, despite aceing exams. The goal of homework is to teach students more about meeting deadlines, and that message often gets lost in education.

its why i was jokingly saying back during covid winter, that at the time, while frowned upon, gpu mining is less wasteful than heaters. one heats a room something in return. the other intentionally wastes energy only to heat a room.

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