I think the design of a wiring harness is actually a good analogy for a well-created API, in that it provides a handful of endpoints, each of which fulfills a "contract". On modern wiring harnesses, it's pretty hard to connect the wrong thing, because the connectors are physically "typed", in that the male and female sides are uniquely shaped so only they will mate up, rather than having a generic connector that plugs in to every sensor.
On the contrary, twisting a distributor to set timing, or doing _anything_ on a carburator, will make you long for those aspects of ICE to be abstracted to control by software. Weirdly enough, that's what's happened over time in cars with direct injection controlled by ECUs.
I run (almost) every day around Greenlake in Seattle. I use a Garmin watch to track those runs, and sure enough after the 1st my route appeared to be not so much around the lake as on the lake.
Side note, DCRainMaker is an incredible resource, and has dictated every one of my fitness device purchases for the last... 5 years? It's awesome they're so plugged in to the device landscape that they have a root cause for this bug, while not working directly on the fix.
This made me laugh my drink through my nose -- and I've had my life saved by volunteer fire fighters in the PNW backcountry. A gifted, timely amateur beats an absent professional any day.
Encarta might have been one of my first experiences doinking around with computers - I remember replacing the .WAV file for a cheetah with the sound of a car's engine and trying (but failing) to convince my brother it was the REAL sound of a cheetah. There is something about the data being bounded and explorable, both through the software and the file system that was... neat.
There could be folks holding leveraged Bear ETFs or similar after last week's downturn, who were waiting to see how the market moved Monday morning to decide whether to sell or hold. I could see those folks losing quite a bit of money due to the inability to sell off those types of positions after the market reversed course on Monday.
I suspect you're right though, that it's mostly sour grapes concerning the opposite case - inability to buy as the market rallied.
On the contrary, twisting a distributor to set timing, or doing _anything_ on a carburator, will make you long for those aspects of ICE to be abstracted to control by software. Weirdly enough, that's what's happened over time in cars with direct injection controlled by ECUs.