That era started with Window 8 when Microsoft wanted the same UI and UX on laptops and tablets. Amalgamation of physical keys with touch screens. Apple's Touch Bar was somehow a symptom or even culmination of it. It's over and let's forget it ever existed.

Automotive seems to have its Windows 8 moment right now.

Most of weird European and Middle Eastern legends and fairy tales originate from drugs or encountering real artifacts or phenomenons which they couldn't explain. Look up how cyclops appeared in mythology.

In case you're wondering like me, I think parent is referring to elephant skulls being mistaken for one-eyed, giant creatures.

Ancient Greeks were finding skulls of dwarf elephants during masonry works and quarrying in Sicily.

I assume the global mythology around dragons comes from finding dinosaur bones

Well, eastern dragons always reminded me more of a giant oarfish. And some central europe dragons weren't that far off, being described as flying snakes.

I think "every culture has a dragon" is kinda misleading.

"Every culture has a creature that got translated as a dragon" seems closer to the truth. The creatures themselves have a great variety between them.

Seems like many bones would do. Whales would be a lot more common i imagine.

Wasn't that later debunked though?

You mean about there being no Cyclopes? They got to you too, huh?

which could imply that gnome outfits and elf garb originated from people seeing them and then drawing it

An app which could have been a website.

Is it not?

> Instead, it is essentially an MSN Weather web app built on Microsoft's WebView2 framework. Task Manager shows multiple Chromium-based subprocesses running simultaneously, which contributes to the unusually high RAM usage.

It is literally the MSN Weather website packaged as a WebView2 app.

I don’t know if this is sarcastic. A lot of bloat in GUI apps is because they are built as websites with a bloated front end, dependencies, custom fonts plus the binary compiled code and the decompressed images cached by the browser.

> The physics is non-trivial and, based on the drawings, offsetting the center of the wheel from the axis of thw wheel being turned was not a thing.

There is whole physics around it and even legal regulations [1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr...

Looking at the state of stomatology and medicine back then early velocipedes and bicycles were indeed mad. I wouldn't get on any of it earlier that sometime 1910s, once the safety bicycle was somehow perfected.

Year 2014 and we can't even get a color photo from a comet.

Comet colours would be extremely bland and boring to a human eye (and to the regular cameras we use on Earth) - the Sun is far, no atmosphere to have meaningful shades of grey, and the material they are made of is not really vibrant at all. The budget is better spent on instuments and the cameras that capture images in the invisible spectrum (which could be always false-colorized into colorful "photos" of galaxies and nebulae we are all used to see)

It worked out. Philae lander with harpoons was comparably complex but mostly failed unfortunately.

I have the same with my email address. There seriously exist people out there who think that if they start to give away everywhere an email address, this email address will become theirs. Then there are many service providers and institutions who don't verify an email but simply start sending stuff to it.

lost+found is the Thumbs.db and .DS_Store of Linux

More like a FOUND.000 folder or a root directory filled with .CHK files

I've last seen those in older Cisco ASA firewall's up to OS version 8.something which had internal or external CompactFlash with VFAT16 filesystems. Usually caused by end of useful life of that CF or if already replaced by someone who did not quite understand device requirements and what it supports.

Either because did not care or understand 32bit VFAT while it works for while, then when CF usage gets over VFAT16 supported 2GB fs gets corrupted, system fails after a while and then you got plenty of those FOUND.xxx files root of that CF drive after boot ran fsck. Those old ASA's did accept and work with 4GB CF's which were available much longer than 2GB versions, but you needed to make max 2GB VFAT16 primary partition and then format it with Linux mkfs.vfat with flags that made sure it's only 16bit version. Once that was done, you could copy files from old CF using something that copies also hidden files and directories too, which there were few there.

ASA used to be some Cisco proprietary OS and was just rebranded PIX firewall, then from 8 oddly hacked linux with grub boot.

Not much of my favourite box as a firewall, but Remote-access VPN features did work quite well quite long and when clustered it was easy to run upgrades each node at time without DTLS and IPsec clients even noticing it.

I was thinking that it’s been a while since I saw those file names… but I guess your username checks out :)

You can even tell which operating systems xe has used. Both of those are very specific. The \FOUND.nnn directories are something that IBM/Microsoft introduced when they re-did CHKDSK for OS/2, which was what Windows NT inherited. FILEnnnn.CHK in the root directory was the old Microsoft CHKDSK, and also Symantec/Norton SCANDISK, for MS/PC/DR-DOS.

Not really, as it's only once per file system mount, whereas those Windows and MacOS files are sprinkled in most directories with images and almost every non-network drive directory respectively.

I think it’s more akin to the Recovered Items (or something like that) folder that shows up in your home directory sometimes (but maybe not anymore?)

That's all true. As a kid I was watching with sister a children's show in TV. The actor on the screen asked a question followed by silence. My sister yelled the answer at the TV, then the actor said something like "you're right kid". I was flabbergasted.

Dora the Informer.

This also works during televized sporting events. The refs can indeed hear you, but you have to yell pretty loud.

Ah so that's why they're going it! In front of TV I always feel like the dumbest person around.

I heard he is still there at 20 meters banging a pair of rocks together.