But the noun "herald" literally means "official who tells the news"

So this still definitely checks out.

WebKit has been a fully proper open source project - with open bug tracker, patch review, commit history, etc - since 2005.

Swift has been a similarly open project since 2015.

Timeline-wise, a new high profile open source effort in 2025 checks out.

Note: The fact that Web Push for Apple's browsers uses APNS and doesn't require any sort of developer account is not new to Declarative Web Push. It's how it's always been since Web Push first shipped in Safari 13 on macOS - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/usernotifications/...

Can you elaborate on the carelessness here? What should've been more careful?

It needs 100-240V, 50hz-60hz AC power.

Pre-digital age, preserving the combined work of humanity was actually quite difficult. The cost to preserve everything outside of "obviously important" artifacts would've been preventative (or even impossible) for society as a whole.

I believe many (if not most) folks native to the digital age believe that digital artifacts should be preserved indefinitely by default - as the cost in doing so is comparatively trivial - and laws in democratic nations will catch up to that.

Much of Santa Clara Valley has "R1-8" zoning, which means "detached single family homes, 8 per acre."

43,560 / 8 = 5,445 sqft lots.

7,900 sqft is larger than average for many comparable neighborhoods.

Without tapping into another universe - which we're nowhere close to being able to even theorize about - all we have the ability to do is create a localized heating crisis within our universe.

Yes.

We're (much?) closer to Fully-Self-Flying planes than FSD cars because the problem space is - perhaps counterintuitively - MUCH smaller to tackle. And we have a lot more experience tackling it.

Additionally there could easily be remote pilots as backup in case of catastrophe (See remote piloted military and border patrol UAVs)

And pulling a parachute at 1000'+ altitude actually has quite a bit of precedent (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_Airframe_Parachute_Syst...)

Now... There's probably a lot of cultural and regulatory reasons why the "string of automated glider ports" idea will never come to fruition.

But... As far as technical hurdles go, there's not much new technology that would need to be invented here.

Also a pretty false equivalence, though.

Windows 7 was a paid upgrade from Windows XP.

iOS 13 was a free upgrade from iOS 12.

Devices that shipped with iOS 10 got 11, 12, 13, and 14 for free.

(Some/many/most/all) will probably continue getting future iOS versions for free.

https://twitter.com/KielO/status/1335640544496689152

Ever since it was passed, NIMBYs and other types of individualists have found more and more ways to use its provisions to block anything from happening that they don't want to happen.

Yup, grew up with all of those things.

And when they discovered more Plutoids - some even bigger than Pluto - when I was in high school, I loved watching science change as more information came in. Because that's what science does.

I love that we now have better definitions to more accurately describe bodies orbiting a star, and Pluto is definitely not a planet the same way the 8 planets are.