Yeah, it really hurts to read. So many decent arguments andthe author goes for the foot-gun.

It's at least a standard, and that's the important part. Narrow down what exactly the best way to tell is later, the SAT fits the bill of good enough to re-impliment quickly.

I’d say written tests is a common thing in many countries, and at college age you really should be doing more than multiple choices

I agree with that, but it sounds more like a college readiness certificate concept than a competitive exam concept.

I would add more robustness in the computer systems. Ideally separation of critical systems and niceties, and definitely manual ability to select A/B systems for when the inevitable bad update hits.

For my two cents, the jiggly images are distracting from the text and the site makes my (admittedly somewhat old) phone stutter when scrolling. Overall it feels like you tried doing too much with it when simpler would have been better.

No? Clippy was an attempt at an assistant for average joes who didn't really know how to use a computer, and got out of your way when you hit the go away forever button. It could've been link bonzi buddy, same era, except clippy genuinely wasn't malicious. All the tech was there for clippy to embed itself into your computer and steal your data, but it didn't. A genuine winner of the yellow paper star of you tried.

Nowadays a lot of people still need computer use help, but every assistant is a bonzi buddy that wants to hijack your computer. Clippy was the last big non-malicious computer assistant.

In addition, the solid yellow background is another readability impediment.

Author's right about one thing, the user expects security to be invisibly taken care of by the OS itself and doesn't care about how. In my experience, the first time most users learn about a security feature is when it throws up a roadblock, and from there the only thing they care about is how to get around it. The real issue here imo is how Windows expects the user to be diligent in setup, record their recovery info, and keep it in a known safe location, instead of just mashing "next" so they can just use the computer already, but that's another conversation.

I'm actually pretty hopeful about this - I do some home computer help as a side gig and Windows recovery is usually either great or a complete roadblock. Usually if it can get to the recovery environment and people remember their passwords the existing tools are great. If not... well either wipe or good luck. Anything that helps Windows get to the RE is great.

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