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There's countless precedent for things once touted as being safe to turn out incredibly damaging. We just don't know the long term effect yet. Please spare me with the "but there's no mechanism for it to do harm!!!!!" the same was said for all the other drugs that ended up causing cancer or malformed babies and were only pulled from the market after decades of "nutjobs" being dismissed for suggesting a link.
Your memory is a little hazy because the ZX Spectrum had both subroutines and for loops (I believe all Sinclair machines did).
And yet, somehow, all the pro editors manage to be fairly stable despite being written in C++ (or maybe obj-c in the case of final cut pro and iMovie)
Maybe you should do some introspection as to why that is, instead of blaming the language used.
PS: blender's NLE is possibly the most stable of the open-source ones and it's written in C. Maybe that's a hint? Maybe the answer is good leadership and high quality contributors?
Does a shutter sound really degrades the experience unless you were indeed trying to take a stealth photo?
So, assuming your own quote is correct, DO is indeed way cheaper for anything that is more than a toy.
Can you elaborate what you mean by shooting themselves in the foot?
Do you see them as a centipede who sacrificed one foot in exchange for all the riches in the world?
Or do you mean that if they were more open to developers they'd somehow be even bigger? What's bigger than a trillion dollar company? Would they be intergalactic?
There is NO way that most people used page up down rather than drag the scrollbar in the late 90s.
Other than that I imagine it leaks things like /bank/account/id/75795 but the crawler will drop it when it returns a 40X.
Typical Linux user.
All Windows branded as NT as well as 2000 (the first NT not branded as such) predate Windows 8 by over a decade, so I don't understand why you'd think one of them would be number 9.
I went through a few rounds myself in modern day America where we pride ourselves in not being barbarians. The first time I did not even consent, my spouse did it for me (in the 80s). To this day I never fully recovered. And yet if I complain people will just point to "studies" that say it works. Guess what, such studies also existed for lobotomy.
Software engineers will fight tooth and nails to keep their privilege is being called engineers whilst having none of the responsibility when it comes to the harm they're causing.
And yet all those chemicals are allowed in Europe.
So what happened? Were they grandfathered in?
Real virtualization is a bit more airtight, though. There have been some escape exploits but they all abused drivers that you wouldn't use heedless (shared folders, VGA, PCIe passthrough), not the virtualization layer. But that's a distinction without a different, really, so good on you for being careful!
The average American also cannot afford 20k in one shot they can't even afford 2k.
That said there are some generic mail clients for Android. Not many are good, but they're out there. K-9 has recently received some love again.