Directories are nice because they easily and clearly filter information in a human way and they naturally build a tree that can be parsed quickly by a person.

I like the desktop metaphor, because it’s how I think.

Markdown accomplishes 90% of non technical writing needs imo.

I think the retired folks actually made them a millionaire.

Don’t call me if I retire.

In the us, there are very rare cases where someone’s income straddles the line between benefits with a higher value than the increased income. This is not one of those cases, and it effectively only applies to people are below the poverty line and gain only a few hundred dollars in income.

For most small companies that break big, they want to use the new resource to make more stuff, because most of these types of companies are in creative industries. Then when those things aren’t also breakout successes, they get saddled with extra staff and costs and spend up in the machine.

10 million yen is only 60k usd, that’s a big bonus but not nearly as staggering as your comment implies.

Your connection would not allow streaming one Blu-ray quality video stream, and good luck doing anything else in the connection while that is happening.

If your work sent you a 10gb file and you needed to send it back, it would take you 3 hours to do that. (With a functionally useless connection otherwise while downloading and uploading the file)

Downloading a popular game like baldurs gate 3 would take just under 9 hours.

Downloading it twice (to play with your spouse or kids) + updates, and then watching Netflix (which will cut into your download speed) while you wait for it download would toil away a weekend.

Nevermind the fact that slow Internet literally wastes away your life as you spend more micro moments just staring at blank and partially loaded websites.

When you have a fleet of 500 vehicles all over the place at various stages work. Calling each one isn’t really practical.

Managing fleets of vehicles is greatly helped by knowing where the vehicles are.