"Never mind that most Ideas sets get a significant design overhaul before reaching production anyway."

You've answered your own question -- selection criteria extend beyond physical design.

I cynically fear that once "they" successfully ban Glyphosate from store shelves something worse will come along and take its place. And by "worse" I mean less studied, perhaps more harmful in the long run.

"I literally just spent most of today messing with my 2018 Samsung TV trying to get rid of the bloatware they pre-installed removed."

Can you elaborate?

Buy a brand new TV.

TV comes with 5Gb hard drive

TV comes with 4.75 Gb of OS + bloatware apps.

Watch youtube and youtube caches .25GB for 2 hour long information video.

TV complains of no storage.

Rinse. Repeat

He did elaborate. "I had to do that because the apps took up 96% of the storage within." Literally the line right after the one you quoted...

I second this, please. I can't even update the preinstalled apps I use on my 2018 Samsung TV because they keep adding more default apps and there's literally zero free space with nothing but their default apps installed.

I combined a bunch of awful "tech tips" websites into a working approach:

1. Reset my TV to factory settings.

2. Go into the "apps" item while it desperately tries to update itself

3. Go into "Developer Mode" by pressing 12345 on the remote.

4. Restart the TV by holding down power button for 2 seconds.

5. Open "Apps" again

6. Open the cog.

7. Under the app you want to remove, press "Deep Link Testing" and then hit cancel.

8. If the "Apps" app hasn't been updated yet, your delete button should magically reactivate.

I was able to delete the product manual which is like 90mb, all others were reloaded after another restart though but it gave me enough wiggle room to update and install other apps.

Thank you!

this is madness

As a tech literate person, it was by far the most infuriating experience in recent memory, but achieving some level of victory was fun! Reminded me of hacking my xbox as a teen.

C# designers have always made good choices about syntactic additions. Contrast this to modern C++ designers who jam in every new addition with the goal of total inscrutability.

In ISO languages the features that get win are the ones that win elections rounds, currently C++ has more than 300 people voting, and submitting proposals, that is naturally a problem.

But also from Wikipedia: In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the Supreme Court ruled warrants are needed for gathering cell phone tracking information.

Everybody discovers too late that protocol buffers doesn't have any typing and then hacks on a header solution of their own. Tale as old as time.

Or everyone thinks all the complaints are haters and ignores them.

"Can we even go back to Usenet without Google Groups?"

No. Any group that doesn't have some kind of pre-post vetting idiom is going to have spam and abuse problems.

This wasn't always the case and I can't pinpoint exactly when the change happened or what it was.

I'd suggest Canter & Siegel in 1994.

I've had four cats, two love tuna and two hated it. We ran of cat food and tried to feed them tuna and they wouldn't eat it.

Expand-a-band-band... patent stash!

0/10, you didn't do a magical maracas dance.

Building a user community of Reddit's size is not something the CEO could reproduce or even repair if severely damaged which is something I think they've lost sight of.