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Basically because a modern CPU is a distributed system, which is hard to get right.
Mastodon really needs a better way to share/publish long form essays (or anything not tweet sized)
It should be rather simple to add an (optional?) article-view which roll's up a chain of comments from the same author, and presents it as a flat collected text. Each comment would a single paragraph, showing if there are comments from others, to this specific paragraph, which could be shown as an overlay, inline or on the side. No functionality would be lost, but it would improve readability significant. I don't understand why twitter and similar services, never made an attempt to improve their chaotic system. I mean on Twitter there are even bots doing this on external websites.
It has, the post length limit is an artificial limit imposed by specific instance's configuration and can just be lifted.
or at least better compatibility with reader view... it would just make sense. i was about to suggest it when it worked with brave's one (xtwitter articles and bluesky threads didn't), but then it didn't work in safari
The same problems as current software.

1. Its horribly complex

2. People are happy to buy buggy products.

"... how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 1/31"

1/31. Sure buddy closes the tab

Marketing Dept plus upper management.

A release date is set by them, developers need to cut corners to make that date. These days it is far worse then it was 40 years ago due to marketing.

> If a CPU is already operating near the edge, aging might cut this slack all the way down to zero, causing the core to fail consistently.

This to me is really interesting. I've always assumed (incorrectly) that CPUs themselves don't age. It's the stuff around it (capacitors etc) that eventually cause a failure that might cascade to the CPU, but the CPU itself couldn't degrade.