In fact, I'd go so far as to say that classes not being final or sealed (C#) by default is another failure to set sensible defaults, akin to "everything is mutable unless explicitly marked const".

Properly designing classes for inheritance takes proactive care and is, in my experience, almost never done unless the author has been forced to by external forces (through APIs or agreements with other developers).

With that model, you're basically toast if you're "the human". It only cares about "my humans" ;)

For various people, some of that flipped back, and they now record voice messages to send them through e.g. WhatsApp.

My percieved explanation for this is that most of them can't be bothered to type a message but are still very happy to waste the recipient's time. Yes, I'm not thrilled about it.

OTOH, at least these messages are still more asynchronous and less interrupting than a phone call. But the inability to skim them still bothers me to no end.

This is fun :)

And frighteningly good at guessing what I'm throwing at it. Makes a good reverse guessing game: Find something it doesn't get right.

My only success so far:

A cleaner is hopelessly out of his element when his victim wakes up.

(La Femme Nikita)

Got another one:

Hugo Weaving laughs manically.

It assigns this to the original The Matrix and doesn't mention the sequels. I guess it can't distinguish between them?

Edit: And another one :)

A western hero wants to retire but is forced into a last big battle against all odds by his biggest fan.

(My Name is Nobody)

Aaand another one:

Two men identify classical music pieces by the ads that use them as background music.

(The Intouchables)

haha, good idea, thanks

I'll just… leave this here.

https://youtu.be/RmIgJ64z6Y4?si=PYtN2xCrDZ79WlY7

You write "wherever possible", but: Have you ever seen the beancounting itself having been under scrutiny?

I'd wager a big part of it is also the same politics based asymmetry that's visible everywhere; like nobody ever got fired for buying IBM or people only get credit for managing a crisis, not preventing it in the first place.

Obligatory Casablanca reference: https://youtu.be/vxnpY0owPkA?si=EoXUYz35joG4Imrl

If I can add to that: A precursor to both of those would be the precision lathe, from which eventually two of the most crucial prerequisites for the industrialization stem: The ability to a) produce machine parts with a high degree of precision catered for their purpose and/or context, and b) the ability to develop widely established norms these parts can adhere to (or, if you will, by which they could be judged).

The steam engine wouldn't have had its impact without the possibility for e.g. precision engineered pistons, and any industrialization would have been severely impaired without the possibilities that the distributed production of exchangeable parts (even as simple as screws, nuts and bolts) to established norms came with.

Not really a recent observation ;-)

https://thecodelesscode.com/case/118

> I always assumed Java would eventually prevail

I can understand that from an ecosystem perspective (at least to a degree), but based on language merits alone? Hard nope.