Does usability research suffer from historical bias?
I've seen papers suggest that old-fashioned buttons with a bezel are better than the modern flat style. That seems reasonable, but I wonder if the effect would be smaller if early GUIs were flat.
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Some high end GPUs are being bricked by a new game: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/evga-replacing-all-dead-rtx-3090s-from-new-world
Sounds like it draws too much power, then something overheats or dies internally.
Hardware dying from software seems really old fashioned, so it's interesting to see it happen on modern components.
Parts of linux are comically old-fashioned. `stty -a` tells me that my terminal is 38400 baud!
Writing a stdlib is hard. Lots of old-fashioned computer science plus an interpreter which is still buggy!