That quote really is the problematic part. The part about switches is fine - it’s an attempt to explain tech to a “normie.” But for a tech writer to ever say it’s not clear why they settled on 256 is worse than embarrassing. They had to be corrected by tweets.
Anyone whose ever had an intro to computers class has had a computing professional explain computers using simple language and analogies. That’s the way this kind of thing should work. It sounds like this author has no more clue about computing than the target audience, which isn’t going to work out well for the reader.
If you look what the last articles for the independent Doug Bolton (the guy who wrote the stuff in question) wrote, it was Condom discovered inside woman’s appendix, and afterwards he only wrote for “Movers & Makers Cincinatti” and some stuff looking like crawler bait for “Old Times Music” so i’m pretty sure the Independent didn’t want him anymore
That quote really is the problematic part. The part about switches is fine - it’s an attempt to explain tech to a “normie.” But for a tech writer to ever say it’s not clear why they settled on 256 is worse than embarrassing. They had to be corrected by tweets.
Anyone whose ever had an intro to computers class has had a computing professional explain computers using simple language and analogies. That’s the way this kind of thing should work. It sounds like this author has no more clue about computing than the target audience, which isn’t going to work out well for the reader.
If you look what the last articles for the independent Doug Bolton (the guy who wrote the stuff in question) wrote, it was Condom discovered inside woman’s appendix, and afterwards he only wrote for “Movers & Makers Cincinatti” and some stuff looking like crawler bait for “Old Times Music” so i’m pretty sure the Independent didn’t want him anymore
Maybe he’s a vibe journalist.
Honestly chat gpt would probably be better at this.
That is both sad and likely accurate.