Two things:

1. People using the word "advertisement" when commenting on this situation aren't necessarily saying that's what's happening, and they may find these tips/ads distasteful anyway (I know I do).

2. Even if someone isn't literally paying Microsoft to insert these tips/ads, promoting third parties which are themselves Microsoft customers still benefits Microsoft.

It doesn't to me.

By my understanding of the term, Netflix can most definitely advertise Netflix shows on its own platform, a flyer that a barber hangs on a public bulletin board is an advertisement, and the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile is advertising hotdogs when it drives through my town. Do you not consider these things to be advertisements?

I pretty much agree with what https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/advertisement says.

> Micro/nano-plastics negatively affected the blood glucose metabolism, lipid metabolism, and reproductive function in mice.

That depends on how you draw the line. Most would consider buffalo[0] to be native to North America, but they arrived less than 200000 years ago. If you go far enough back, no life is native to anywhere except wherever abiogenesis occurred.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_bison

I still scrobble to Last.fm from Spotify (and other media players). I rarely use it for discovery anymore, but it's occasionally interesting to look at my historical listening trends.

I thought projects that stay on 0.x.y forever mostly do it because it means they're allowed to break things. Also, since 0.x.y means "anything goes", projects can introduce their own conventions within that range without violating the spec.

I know that some package managers (including Cargo and npm) confusingly treat 0.1.0 → 0.1.1 like a "minor" update, despite the spec. Is this what you're referring to?

Sorry for being nitpicky, but yes they do. Semantic versioning[0] allows arbitrary changes while the major version is 0:

> Major version zero (0.y.z) is for initial development. Anything MAY change at any time. The public API SHOULD NOT be considered stable.

[0]: https://semver.org/

What are you basing this on? Got a source?

> If you have a web application with more than one server, you have a distributed system. If you have background job workers, you have a distributed system. If you have a cron job, you have a distributed system. If you talk to Stripe, or send emails through SendGrid, or enqueue something in Redis, or write to a Postgres replica, then you are (I regret to inform you) operating a distributed system.

As soon as you have at least one client talking to your server you have a distributed system.

Not that this is much better than directly selling to third parties.

The other widely-used one is Go with its structurally-typed interfaces.

Programs like top, emacs, tmux, etc are most definitely not implemented using this stack, yet they handle resizing just fine.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference/A...

TFA has many examples of big tech companies using Wasm in production. It's not exhaustive either, e.g. the article doesn't mention:

- Google using it as a backend for Flutter and to implement parts of Google Maps, Earth, Meet, Sheets, Keep, YouTube, etc

- Microsoft using it in Copilot Studio

- eBay using it in their mobile app

- MongoDB using it for Compass

- Amazon supporting it in EKS

- 1Password using it in their browser extension

- Unity having it as a build target

(And this was just what I found with some quick web searches; I'm sure there are many other examples.)

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> the fact we haven't heard much about was use is probably because it isnt as valuable as we think

One of the conclusions of the article is that it's mostly used in ways that aren't very visible.