The fruit company still has an internal culture, especially in hardware-focused teams, with a relentless focus on shipping products followed by iterative refinement.

So, should we assume that they vibe-coded this patch? Sad...

They had plenty of bad patches before this. Microsoft products just aren’t great quality.

It’s insane how many bad patches they’ve had recently though. I swear it didn’t used to happen this often

Some 20 years ago they had patches for a buffer overflow vulnerability. The first patch made the buffer one byte longer. The next round of patches addressed a supposedly new vulnerability and the same buffer got another byte longer...

Meanwhile, I've had the same blender for thirty years, and it's still going strong.

I would love to go back to more skeumorphic system interfaces. The layered panes of glass metaphor has been a pain in the ass from a usability perspective from the get go, enough so that I cheered to hear of Alan Dye leaving Apple.

One of the few languages I've known that didn't provide any standard features for libraries (until the sixth major revision), Scheme, has been the worse for it.

Not giving real output is a complete fail. Try again.

This.

Oh, it would be nice if it were just feature size. Over the prior 15 years, the nand industry has doubled its logical density three times over with the trick of encoding more than one bit per physical voltage well, making the error bounds on leaking wells tighter and tighter and amplifying the bit rot impact, in number of ECC corrections consumed, per leaked voltage well.

At the physical device layer (i.e. what a nand controller vendor programs to), a nand flash device that supports ONFI 2 SLC Mode can be configured to use (some of) its blocks in SLC mode rather than MLC/TLC/QLC/etc. This allows one to divide the array into high-reliability versus high-capacity regions.

There are also expensive high-grade SLC NAND flash chips available that offer significantly higher retention time than the cheaper commodity channel TLC NAND (i.e. 10 years versus 3 years).

In general, though, whether NAND or NOR, the fundamental way that flash works is by creating an isolated voltage charge for each bit (or several bits, for TLC), making it effectively a vast grid of very tiny batteries.

Like all batteries, no matter how well-stored, they will eventually leak energy to the point where the voltage levels change enough to matter.

Further, it's not enough to simply make power available to this grid since the refresh of the cells requires active management by a nand controller chip and its associated software stack.