You’ve failed to mention a single thing that can be qualified as a daily use-case

They’re daily use cases to me and everyone I work with, but OK, fuck the people solving your IT problems, I suppose, what could possibly go wrong.

.I did all of those for my grandmother a few months back.

Oh, wow, I bow to the expert; I only have to do them several times a week on a variety of machines, and have been doing so for a couple decades. Clearly all my problems would be fixed if I was as experienced as you, please accept my humble apologies, oh master.

If you’re having problems with those things, that’s a you problem.

Oh, most definitely.

I have a problem with settings that used to be grouped on a single easy to get window being randomly spread over several unrelated ones, and that’s the ones which aren’t only configurable now through the registry, or group policies, or powershell incantations.

I have a problem with tasks that used to take 30 seconds and less than five clicks now taking minutes and the risk of developing carpal tunnel syndrome.

I have a problem with the almost constant loss of functionality and usability since windows 2000; sure there’s some nice new features from time to time (winget is nice, if late, WSL1 was good — WSL2 is a horrible bloated hack that completely ignores that the NT architecture is designed to integrate multiple kernel subsystems at its core —, the windows 10 start menu was relatively practical once you got it setup right and until it randomly decided to fubar itself, shadow copies were very nice and are sorely missed…), but they don’t tend to last, and are usually gone by the next version of the OS or even the next major update.

But sure, sure, it’s a me problem; never mind everyone else complaining about the same issues. We clearly just want to be cool.

Try to configure a printer.
Try to configure a network adapter.
Try to configure graphics settings.
Try to organise the start menu to make it even remotely useable.
Try to uninstall a store app for all users without having to use undocumented powershell incantations.
And I’m already wanting to punch something, so I’ll stop now.

Lots of settings actually seem more convenient now, especially the ones for audio and Bluetooth.

Sure, if all you want is to turn them on or off and you don’t want to actually configure anything.

🤦‍♂️

it’s pretty much the same as Windows 10, just slightly swisher animations.

And ten times more unusable without several third party programs to fix the absolutely fubared UI.

It takes about ten clicks more, on average, to do anything in 11 than in 10.

Utterly unusable garbage, is what it is, even if you ignore all the spyware and bloatware and lost functionality.

(Of course the same could be said of 10 in regards to XP, and XP in regards to 2000, so really it’s utterly unusable garbage cubed.)

EDIT: The Windows is Windows 10.

Enjoy it while it lasts. It’ll soon be much, much worse.

I’m both, and while I do hate myself, I don’t think it’s related, so I’m not sure I get it.

(I hate computers more, though, except when they’re turned off — no bugs when they’re off —, but they’re the only thing I’m good enough at to make a living off of.)

makes it sound like they’re all equal, and there hasn’t been any progression

Programming peaked with Lisp (and SQL for database stuff).

Every “progression” made since Lisp has been other languages adding features to (partially but not quite completely) do stuff that could already be done in Lisp, but with less well implemented (though probably with probably less parentheses).

They are all flawed and they all encourage some bad design patterns.

On the other hand, Lisp.

No it’s not.

A proper engineer would make the tag absorbent and use the principle of capillarity to transfer the water to the bag (and the other way round once tea flavoured) to cover this case.

Users can’t avoid being stupid, but a proper engineer should be able to cover all cases.

If it can be mounted both ways it should work both ways. 🤷‍♂️

As someone used to working in c# (and before that Java, C++, Visual Basic, and Pascal) I haven’t seen any brace or semicolon related errors since the days of Borland IDEs (any remotely self respecting IDE will highlight them and refuse to compile, these days), but working with Kotlin has shown me that I, at least, read code with semicolons slightly faster than code without.

There’s a reason we use punctuation when writing, and the same applies to code.

Lisp?

a sane language

JavaScript

Pick one.

Why rename the files when you could just categorise and index them…?

This seems unnecessarily destructive.

But that’s how you learn!

implemented in the real world

They never were intended to. They were specifically designed to torment Powell and Donovan in amusing ways. They intentionally have as many loopholes as possible.

Remove the first law and the only thing preventing a robot from harming a human if it wanted to would be it being ordered not to or it being unable to harm the human without damaging itself. In fact, even if it didn’t want to it could be forced to harm a human if ordered to, or if it was the only way to avoid being damaged (and no one had ordered it not to harm humans or that particular human).

Remove the second or third laws, and the robot, while useless unless it wanted to work and potentially self destructive, still would be unable to cause any harm to a human (provided it knew it was a human and its actions would harm them, and it wasn’t bound by the zeroth law).