This fits right in with the idiocy of hiding file extensions. Don't stress the user over whether it's a JPEG or a PNG, you can just show some completely random indication that it's a pic.

I can understand their logic: in theory the type of image is mostly a technical detail. But thanks to screwball tools, one has to know more often than the should. Fortunately MS gives one the choice of switching extensions back on. And if a mouse hover-tip over the type icon gives the extension, that's usually good enough for most users. (I haven't checked if hover-tips work.)

Some domains and subjects work better with insensitivity and others don't. Why make it one-size-fits-all? Allow user to set folder and OS defaults for sort preferences. Same for the zero-vs-one array indexing fight, diff domains favor one over the other.

Gaming companies famously mistreated their staff because they could - these were jobs people desired. Now this is true across the board, and crap...

We're all gameDevs now.

Microsoft Subtracts C/C++

Trump's loyalists can flood them with lawsuits. Even if you think the loyalists will eventually lose, Wikipedia doesn't have a lot of cash to do court battles with the Federal Gov't. It's still a big kick to the wallet for such an org.

But as proctologists can tell you, it's hard to know what can get jammed where; one can't anticipate all angels of all devices in all plane furniture.

I suggest they have tool-kits on planes that help them quickly unjam gizmos.

"in case they do become conscious someday"

That phrase is funny and freaky at the same time. Is there a single word for that?

It's not about rational solutions to better moderation, but intimidation to encourage Wikipedia staff to promote MAGA perspectives.

Ironically Don's staff closed many foreign investigation offices. So on one had they say keeping foreign influence out is important, on the other they cancel Federal offices that investigate foreign influence, especially of Russia.

Google has the network effect on its side: the more & faster you index, the more users you'll get, meaning more ad revue to fund more indexing.

A startup would need a patented wonder-tool beat that.

The Bee Gee's and Michael Jackson already tested it. Both gave it high praise.

...it's shaped like Don's head.

You simply have to wait 5 years and everybody will have nice factory jobs like the 1950's and everyone will be cool like the Fonz.

This is the #2 Clueless Plutocrat entry under Musk's "Why does everybody hate me?"

early automobiles that mimicked horse-drawn carriages rather than reimagining transportation.

Early military jets were similar: they mostly just slapped a jet engine on a propeller-based design, and often got lack-luster improvements and/or stability problems at higher speeds. Part of the problem is that they first needed stronger wind-tunnels and skilled test pilots to test designs, but such experts were tied up in here-and-now war issues.

Even the Me-262 had a stack of issues that were only slowly being resolved via trial and error. Jets required a different mentality than propeller planes.

Commercial AI co's won't be able to resist mining users' content if and when the product is allowed to learn from local content.