Isn't this like the exact plot of Down Periscope?

It depends, did they sing Louie, Louie while cosplaying as a fishing trawler?

Especially if you're in the ecosystem. I can use them with all my devices, and they switch seamlessly.

Yeah, honestly, smartphones are a very mature category now. Only so much you can do with them. Same with laptops and desktops. Plenty of improvements to be made, but those yearly wow factors are just not coming back.

Cheap and generous flash storage would make me wow and come back immediately and forget all sins. Somehow they never dangle that though. Blame iCloud drive subscription for perverting incentives I guess. Headphone jack coming back would have me camping outside the store for midnight release.

Not to mention radiation hardening. The soft error rate alone on these single digit nm chips would be massive.

Yeah, I thought maybe he was a big fan of GCC or something, but he just seems to not like compilers? Or likes complaining about them?

That’s a popular trend in video games, too; quite a lot of people invest a second hobby’s worth of energy into their complaints, with the occasional gem in the rough among them. You can find this in any hobby - like, I know nothing about golf, but I am absolutely certain if I asked a golfer “what changed in golf clubs recently? are you still happy with them?” I am near-certain to get a lengthy spoken history of club design and manufacturing flaws. Humans are most irritable about their most favored topics.

Yeah - I didn't understand the hostility - if these fixes had been refused or not even considered, than maybe, but they all seem like honest bugs that need fixing.

Yeah, me too, but thankfully Starry Night is owned by New York's MOMA. So the french can't have it, but I can see it in New York.

They meant scare quotes.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scare%20quotes

While they may be “quotes” of stuff from the original (which that technically was) the intent was clear.

I’ve known companies to give exit packages on firing to avoid a lawsuit since you sign away rights to sue for illegal firing and it’s a nice cheap bribe. Mostly the big lawsuit targets do this. Not usually as good as the layoff package, but something. But not all places do it, of course. I mean even layoff packages are optional, really.

I was able to. You just have to fill out the same paperwork. Give people an option to opt out, etc.

Yep, same. The process is obtuse, maybe intentionally to weed out bots and scammers too stupid to read instructions. But if you are legit and know what you are doing it was fairly straightforward, just pretty slow to hear back.