For years I've been thinking "I should watch the WWDC videos because there's a lot of Really Important Information" in there, but... they're videos. In general I find that I can't pay attention to spoken word (videos, presentations, meetings) that contain important information, probably because processing it costs a lot more energy than reading.

But then I tune out / fall asleep when trying to read long content too, lmao. Glad I never did university or do uni level work.

(there is probably a third, fourth, fifth option but this is an internet comment section)

In the case of moon landings, the only truly time-critical maneuvers are the ones right before landing... and unfortunately, a lot of fairly recent moon probes have failed due to incorrect calculations, sensor measurements, logic errors, etc.

I find it hard to believe that his influence was so strong that it had an inertia that lasted for 15 years. Ive left his mark on it for longer.

This post also explains why compressed belts are better for performance on very large bases. But despite 1000+ hours in the game I never reached a point where performance was an issue.

I don't believe it to be honest; model making and painting remains a popular hobby for millions of people, the only question is whether filmmakers will want to use it.

And recently, especially in e.g. Star Wars franchise entries, they have gone towards using models / sets again instead of just using CGI for everything.

For the "bus factor", there's one guy and then there's me, but I stopped being a primary contributor to this project nearly two years ago, lol.

I don't believe an iOS distribution specific certificate falls under the license you're referring to, but I'm no expert on these matters.

That is, I'm calling you out for fearmongering, for a possible what-if, but given how popular VLC is you'd think it would've happened / is actively happening already. And there is no evidence for that.

And this is part of the agreement between an app developer and Apple; for a long time now, a developer doesn't upload a full compiled app to Apple, but a package containing partially compiled (itermediary language) code and assets for many different platforms and resolutions, leaving it up to Apple to do the final assembly based on what device it downloads. This allows them to (re)compile for newer hardware, 32 vs 64 bit CPUs, save bandwidth and storage space by only having the device download the assets for its device (and for e.g. games the assets for the level they are playing at that time), etc.

So again, what trust model are you thinking of? Apple is a trusted party when it comes to this, I'd even argue they're more trustworthy than the app developers themselves.

I suspect it's an issue with too big and diverse of a dataset, listening history going back years and tens of thousands of songs.