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Turns out tabs were added in IE 7 [1] about 2/3rds of the way through Windows XP's lifecycle.
> Like I said, technologies were just being invented... Each new version was better than the one before. Can you say that now?
That is largely what the article is saying. Software is getting worse BUT software improved by leaps and bounds for quite a while. These improvements compounded over time meaning that new software (while regressing) is still much better than software from the 1990s and 2000s.
I agree that we have huge advantages today. I agree that the best practices, tools, and computing resources are much better today than they were in the past.
But these don't invalidate OP's point.
The article mentions Windows XP which certainly had IE with tabs but the problem predates that.
Earlier versions of Windows (95, 98, 2000) featured a single window per site. So if one wanted 3 "tabs" one would need three separate windows. But the browser windows were not isolated. An issue in one window would impact ALL of the web browser's windows.
In addition, there was some issue with IE in particular. A crash in IE would sometimes make the taskbar and desktop disappear then restart.
More generally, browsers did not have isolation. This made for a much worse user experience.
Software in general used to be much less stable. For example, browsers didn't always have tab isolation. A single bad site could, and frequently would, crash the whole browser.
As all points are within a small radius, these description are very redundant.
Even without flashing a new OS, one can install third party app stores (e.g. F-Droid) with open source apps and/or side-load modified versions of those apps.
[1] https://www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/04/06/waymo-driverless-...
I am not sure what you mean by "apathetic about tech in general" but my experience has been that folks who go to makerspaces are excited about making things in the physical world. That tends to carry over to tech that empowers them to do so (e.g. 3d printers, CNC machines, laser cutters, ...).
Your mileage may vary.
Two things that I did not anticipate:
1: Refresh time is a lot longer for color displays (~20s) as compared to black and white displays (~0.5s).
2: Stock images tend to use cartoons. There is a reason for that. These displays require dithering which seems to work a lot better with a limited color palette, flat areas, and bold edges.
[1] https://www.waveshare.com/13.3inch-e-paper-hat-plus-e.htm
Early LLMs were trivially non-coherent. The stories it wrote should shift constantly. The story could start on the moon, then the character could drive to Madison, Wisconsin.
A more obvious way to see this is in video generators. If the "camera" turns 180° twice, we often look at a completely different scene.
Can current models write an entire coherent book? I don't know. I have never wanted to generate such a book. But "do I like this book" is not a good test for coherence.
A couple hundred years ago, something like 70% of the population worked in agriculture. Technology replaced almost all of these jobs.
So far, we have reimagined old professions and created brand new ones. Is this ability of ours limitless?
From the privacy policy[1], "Our AI providers operate under Zero Data Retention (ZDR) agreements and retain none of your prompts or the responses they generate. America.gov’s own response cache is separate and is described in Section 5.
Our AI providers are contractually prohibited from selling your information, building an advertising profile, or training their AI models with your data."
I don't see any of those terms. Not even on the signed in page to upgrade to to a different Pro plan.
The plans I see are labeled, "Pro 100", "Pro 200", and "Pro 500" with the number corresponding to the price in USD.
Does anyone see the usage limits? I don't see anything indicating how much usage is in each tier.
I checked:
* https://chatgpt.com/pricing/
* https://help.openai.com/en/articles/9793128-about-chatgpt-pr...
* https://chatgpt.com/#pricing (signed in plan upgrade page)
If:
1. The designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk is politically motivated
2. We collectively accept that is okay for the US President to bar all defense vendors and contractors from working with an American company for political reasons.
What defense related company(ies) would a Democratic President have political reasons to ban?
It has been reported that Palantir and its founder have a history of political contributions to the Republican party.
Instead of Republican presidents driving left leaning companies out of defense and Democratic presidents driving right leaning companies out of defense, it would be better if neither party used supply chain risk as a political weapon.
In terms of purely local LLMs, one can run GLM 5.3 flash on a beefy workstation.
However, the pawn was defended by the queen and it took a forced queen trade to unlock the move.
I have seen much worse blunders from human players. And, I have made much worse blunders.
I would say this did a really good job of playing chess. It moved the pieces consistently and traded pieces when required.
This is worlds away from the frontier ~1 year ago where models would hallucinate pieces into existence.
>Live Rewind, which can help users recall what was just said in conversation. A double press of the Digital Crown shows the previous 15 seconds of a conversation as a text snippet...Users can ask Siri about the content of the text or save it to the Siri app to revisit later.
Making the first folding iPhone a two fold format is a very prudent decision.
[1] https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/galaxy-z-trifold/