That’s a reasonable explanation. It would be so easy for them to show the offending application rather than the user closing all applications and it’s still locked and then having to restart Windows.
They are also breaking EU law by not including VAT in their prices for EU consumers. You only find out the final price when they try to charge your card.
The arrogance of tech companies is unbelievable. How dare ordinary people get in our way. We don’t care if we are causing a nuisance to residents - we’re a $100 billion company don’t you know.
I was big into Gehry as an architectural student. His work was so different and exciting compared to other architects. He was the "father" of what was called the Santa Monica school. There was a good few architects in LA doing interesting stuff. I travelled from Europe to LA to try and work for him but never got past the reception. I prefer his earlier work in the 70s and 80s and less of a fan of his later work after Bilbao when he got more mainstream fame. I attended a talk of his at USC in the 90s and he was really funny, he was like a stand-up comedian.
I agree it’s very difficult to debug them. I sometimes rewrite my shaders in Vex and debug them in that. It’s a shader language that runs on the CPU in Houdini. You can output a value at each pixel which is useful for values outside the range of 0 to 1 or you can use printf(). I’m still looking for something that will transpile shaders into JavaScript.
You’re right, it’s not universal. It would be more about extending unemployment benefits beyond the current 6 months in the US until you qualify for a pension.
It’s kind of how it should be. Otherwise people not paying by credit card are subsidising people who do. It might encourage the card companies to lower their fees.