You jest but my friend is a professor in Toyama, Japan, and makes the occasional dark joke about moving the people out for a few days and having the US raze it again from time to time.
Sometimes getting rid of ossified organizations is a good thing, but there are probably better ways than high explosives.
Arguably the Occupation of Japan was more important than the carpet bombing for changing Japanese culture.
We brought in many new ideas - both in business and in government - most of which persist in some form today - and the Japanese in many cases have taken those ideas, refined them mightily, infused them with some Japanese culture - and re-exported them to us.
The best example of this that I can think of, is Kaizen - the various scientific management techniques exported to Japan by W. Edwards Deming - which was re-exported to us as Kaizen.
They do, Google had/has one in the Dalles in Oregon next to the dam and there are several in line Canada and Finland.
Part of the problem is consistent humidity management, but the other is that air, even really cold air, isn't dense enough to move specific heat as effectively as the same volume of a denser working fluid.
For a practical example in the other direction, look at combined cycle gas turbines which use heated air for the primary turbine and the recapture as much denser steam for the secondary.
I've been moving away from this model towards user-asssociated VPNs or (inverse) captive portals.
Used Powerbroker and cyberark for a long time and while they're good at stated purpose the integration with more flexible and modern auth systems has had a lot of friction.
The particular regulatory area I work in is also just a non-starter for federated AAA from outside the regulated systems which colors my opinion though.
Combined with command restrictions in openssh and sudo etc you end up with several wholly disjoint attack surfaces, decent logging, and granular user restrictions.
The terminology varies by vendors but essentially there are authentication portals that users will log into and receive auth tickets. These are forwarded to network gateways, usually encrypted in a vpn tunnel, that allow traffic based on user RBAC, sometimes region or time, etc.
Captive portals are web auth pages for use cases the more structured method doesn't work for. They were envisioned as making you sign in hotel wifi and such but work in the other direction as well by forcing a web user login before allowing traffic from a host for some period of time.
And largely still is. There was mass resistance to leaving windows 7 which was the last release they basically worked like people had learned to use it.
Getting stuff like user mode drivers and bitlocker and all the is nice but almost nothing had been added to the core product that users themselves much cared about.
3d object collections pinned to opening labels and the only way to get rid of it is registry hacks. Who was that "feature" ever even for?
I think you guys must be in an echo chamber of Windows 10 hate. By and large almost everyone I know who is remotely techy, and even some who aren't actually like Win 10
My work laptop has been on 10 LTSC for years. I don't "hate it" but I've never heard anyone talk about liking it so much as tolerating it to run the stuff they care about.
Maybe it's super great on those surface tablets but all the techy people I know using tablets on are iPads.
Other than IG envy posts a lot of my younger friends seem to be switching to private or mostly private group chats. A lot of them use Discords even for non-gaming stuff probably due to the illusion of a smaller and more authentic community. Tiktok and YT may be replacing others but those seem much more heavily leaning to watching versus posting as the skill and production of what it takes to look good on it is more effort.
If I had to guess they're getting annoyed at the rapid enshittification push at some of the big platforms. We may see federated mastodon model become more popular once a few celebrities figure it out.
A lot of the enshittification is a result of the drop in organic content from friends and needing to maintain engagement numbers. It’s a vicious cycle, possibly a death spiral.
I don’t think enshittification entirely explains it.
At least for me, social is exhausting because rage bait drives engagement and I’m tired of being angry all the time. It’s 1984 and the Two Minutes Hate. Instagram was a lot more fun when it was just food and travel. Even without algorithmic feeds, the introduction of revenue sharing and sponsorships means that creators would eventually make the same hateful content to increase clicks and revenue.
Unless of course, you consider revenue sharing enshittification.
For me IG is still dogs and landscapes, so I'm wondering if perhaps its recommendation algorithm has an inner death spiral where it randomly showed you something that made you angry, then interpreted your reaction as "jinushaun engages more with this than that" and stopped showing you good stuff forever after?
I'd define enshittification as anything that makes the platform worse long-term in order to bring in short-term profit. Revenue sharing might do that in some cases while being beneficial in others.
Gliders or ultralights are a great way to get your head around the way the aircraft moves and what you feel when it does.
Being a stickler is one of those cultural things that never makes it into the entertainment world. So much more planning goes into even the simplest flight that the sims mostly handwave. I play IL2 a lot and it's funny seeing the missions generate weather that would have grounded early aircraft full stop.
I think the real GOTO-harmful lesson is that for any non-trivial program, you'll end up implementing conditional blocks, loops, and functions by hand. There just aren't other abstractions on top of a von Veumann architecture, and GOTO arbitrary line rarely does anything other than those three cases, and when it does, it's exceedingly hard to get right. Like sure, true spaghetti code is bad, but it's also really hard to write.
The NYT has always gathered the zeitgeist of highly affluent and artsy new Yorkers, who tend to be highly invested in maintaining their status quo. They may not be right wing by principle, but they get there a lot on some subjects by talking to lots of bankers and financiers.
I guess 'maintaining status quo' is to me a conservative / right wing thing. I'm recollecting for example in Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent a critique of the NYT being very pro-establishment, pro-government. But I guess that critique itself is from an extreme.
The upper crust of Manhattan is filled with left of center people who think taxes on the rich are too low, but they themselves aren't rich (because Manhattan is expensive and they spend/save all their income) and that Trump is bad because he raised their taxes when he capped SALT.
I have friends here who semi-jokingly call me a republican for being more center-left than them & not wanting to watch John Oliver, while they own $10M of rental properties & don't think they are rich. The kind of upper class folks who have laid off numerous people in their career without a hint of remorse, but also think the social safety net is too weak. People who vote for AOC but plan to move to FL for tax purposes. Etc.
Basically the Loro Piana $500 ballcap demographic.
Windows notepad possibly being the most prominent text editor that ed is unambiguously superior to.
Still blows my mind that projects like notepad++ have been around for the literal lifetime of younger users and somehow MS just did not give any sort of shit about their terrible editor.
It's purpose is be able to open a text file and encourage you to buy word and visual studio.
A user who has an grade F and many grade A and B options may not be better off if upgraded to a default D or C. In fact if they don't move on to one of the A options they may be worse off.
For me, its finest purpose is to be a buffer that I can paste formatted text into so that it can strip the formatting. There are many programs that do this natively, but there are many that don't or are really inconsistent about the hotkeys, and Notepad is always there.
Maybe now, I'm told it has been improved in windows 11. But for decades, it was the only "mainstream" text editor I'm aware of that didn't have multi-level undo/redo (that is, it remembers your last action, and that's it). The fact that it stuck around this long without that feature is amazing, really.
It's use is really limited to modifying ini/properties files, unless you really hate yourself (and many of us did in the 2000s with our "made in notepad" website banners)
Sometimes getting rid of ossified organizations is a good thing, but there are probably better ways than high explosives.