They don't need to read your mind. The systems that push ads to you are also owned by the companies that are pushing contents and shaping how you see the internet. It's like how magicians incept ideas into your head then use it like they can read your mind.
The problem is not too many choices. It's actually the lack of choice. Each series is going to a different streaming platform which means we have to pick up more stream services
The problem is prototypes end up being production code in the real world. Writing tests is about managing risk. You should write some basal level of unit test as you go to validate your logic as you go. That basal level is determined by the team or individual tolerance of risk
Who said anything about production ? Haven't You seen requirements changing even before first prototype is ready? I had a meeting literally today where client's CFO and head accountant throw out my team's week of work because they forgot about key requirements (and this have happened third time this year)
Well, VIM doesn't crash :) But edge cases in general are where the bugs lurk, and 9MBs of spaces is certainly an edge case. A possible cause might be that they try to render the whole line, try to allocate too much memory, and crash when the allocation fails. Whereas if the file had many lines, they'd probably be smart enough to only render part of it.
Which would imply that their soft-wrap algorithm consumes an inordinate amount of time when confronted with a single, 9MB long, line of space characters.
I think the writer is trying to talk about how this show portraits, in his mind, a distance future yet it is a show about now. One could easily see this show, if created just 10 years ago, a futurist crime show. The author is trying to describe how in 10 years so much has change and how digital everything is and how much computers has taken over our lives
Very little speculative fiction could in any way be described as accurately depicting the future. Having said that, what do you think of 'Max Headroom', set twenty minutes into the future.