I don't know if they still do, but historically LEGO boxes often include pictures of alternate builds with the same pieces, although including instructions for alternate builds is rare. There's a set of Creator 3-in-1 sets that do.
I am quite sure some technics sets from the 1990s had at least two builds with them. Fondly remember a similar thing you described to three in one, smaller set for a motorcycle that could be other things and my cousin having an absolutely huge crane truck set that could be something else.
edit nevermind I can't find anything on the second one, maybe my cousin combined two or more sets to build something custom but it speaks to other points about parts being more universal in the past.
It's probably a good guess that whoever wrote it was a lawyer and not an industry expert, and presumably used these as placeholders for an industry expert could fill in that nobody ever actually replaced.
Hi, here in America we also know this is true. :) Just riding it out til the regime of crazy falls over. When it happens, there will be much rejoicing.
That pays for itself in 20 years and most of those customers won't have better choices in the next 50. The core of that infrastructure will probably oitlive most people on the team. Sounds like a good long term stable business.
Quite true. Sundar Pichai got his start on the path to fame at Google by getting the Google Toolbar install injected into things like the Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Flash installers. Look at him now.
Oh man I totally forgot about that Toolbar scourge back in the day day! These trash piles were all over and everyone’s mom that I knew had like 3 or 4.
Every year, the post-Thanksgiving ritual of deleting all of them from a relative’s PC, at their request because “it’s running slow”, knowing darn well they’d re-install them within the week.
HSTS remains a broken antifeature which violates the covenant of a browser agent being a browser agent. (A server should never have more authority than me on dictating how my agent works.)
Firefox refuses to support the ability to bypass HSTS which generally means I'm forced to use a different browser when HSTS is getting in the way of me doing my job.
(Thankfully or unfortunately, Chromium-based browsers violate the HSTS spec and allow bypass. But there seems to be no appetite to actually repair the HSTS spec to permit this.)
Most commonly when fixing certificate errors! A lot of modern web applications have all of their certificate configuration in the web interface... which you can't access when your certificate breaks. I think once I had to break out IE11 to fix a certificate because Firefox wouldn't let me...
But also sometimes I need to access a website where the certificate lapsed yesterday. This is not a security issue and no reasonable person would assume a certificate expired yesterday is compromised, but we are living in a world of madness. I am not going to wait for some third party to fix their site, I'm just going to circumvent HSTS, I have better things to do.
It is zone-based. If you are close enough to a plaza, you won't be tolled getting on, if you're just after a plaza, you won't be tolled getting off. The toll for each ramp is more expensive the further it is from a plaza. It's possible for you to hit only one ramp toll in a short run, but if you were to math the total paid on any given route it will work out to be roughly linear with your distance.
It's incredible that in 2025, Google has sprung for "basic competency" after operating a bad email service for 24 years.
In my case, many years ago I changed my last name. (Turns out a lot of women also do this when they do things like... get married. But also for a progressive company everyone's purchases being permanently locked to their deadname seems... bad.) But all of my Android apps, my entire digital life at the time, was permanently locked to my old name. I had another account I created as a mail forwarder but if people sent an invite to it for a Google thing it wouldn't connect to my real account, and obviously there was an added security risk of someone stealing my forwarding account.
I remember talking to Yonatan Zunger about this problem during the Google+ era and it seemed to be renaming an account wasn't something the company was capable of.
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