Have you taken a US domestic flight? Everyone wants to bring their massive roll-ons into the cabin, nobody wants to check if they can avoid it.

No they don't, they procure them from Taiwan Solar Energy Corp. They do not produce or manufacture their own cells, they're using off the shelf components.

This is underselling it: it's in a side street off Newbury, where nobody would have any reason to go, with a tiny little door about half the size of all the other doors marked "Puppet Library"[1].

I visited many years ago by complete accident: I was out running with some friends on a Tuesday afternoon, we were going down the public alley because Newbury was heaving, and saw this sign. We wandered in, and...yeah, there's a lot of puppets.

[1]: https://maps.app.goo.gl/pa6sTiQ1cFsp2mqcA

BMW is heavily invested in Neue Klasse[1], the iX3 has a long waiting list and a 800KM range.

[1]:https://www.bmwgroup.com/en/company/neue-klasse.html

Liverpool Street isn't managed by TfL, it's managed by Network Rail.

That may be generally true, in this case Apple actually has an engineering team in Czechia that works on biometrics and authentication:

https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/ekonomika/apple-posili-v-praze-ty...

https://jobs.apple.com/en-gb/details/200636301-2611/software...

I don't read the OP as saying that: to me they're saying you're still going to have plumbing and bullshit, it's just your plumbing and bullshit is now going to be in prompt engineering and/or specifications, rather than the code itself.

I think there's a lot of historical evidence that doesn't support this position. For instance, Internet Explorer was generally agreed by all to be a much weaker product from a security perspective than its open source competitors (Gecko, WebKit, etc).

Nobody was defending IE from a security perspective because it was closed source.

You are assuming adding APIs is a net positive, and the debacle that was Chrome’s privacy sandbox initiative suggests that’s not the case

> why are we all dependent on Apple, alone, to save us from ~60% Chrome?

How’s Firefox doing now? They’re literally dependent upon Chrome to exist. Without Google they have no money to fund development.

The only viable non-Chromium browser engine today that is not funded by Google is WebKit.

I don't...think this is true? Google has no problems shipping complex software projects, their London HQ is years behind schedule and vastly over budget.

Construction is really complex. These can be mega-projects with tens of thousands of people involved, where the consequences of failure are injury or even death. When software failure does have those consequences - things like aviation control software, or medical device firmware - engineers are held to a considerably higher standard.

> The private market is perfectly capable of performing this function

But it's totally not! There are so many examples in the construction space of private markets being wholly unable to perform quality control because there are financial incentives not to.

The reason building codes exist and are enforced by municipalities is because the private market is incapable of doing so.

Not that puzzling: the most likely explanation is pilot suicide and the Indian government does not want to acknowledge that.

In other words, you won't be refused an offer simply because the university thinks you can't afford it.

No. The vision document[1] lays out the direction of travel. Currently the focus is on shared business logic and libraries, rather than full native applications (although that's certainly a goal, albeit a very long term one).

[1]: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift-evolution/pull/2946/files

...the author has reached the wrong conclusion from this. The problem is they weren't able to articulate why the modernization tasks were business priorities, not that the modernization wasn't a business priority in the first place.

If the tech debt is problematic, fixing it will presumably bring a number of benefits (faster development cycles, reduced defect rates, etc). They were doing the wrong work - they were doing a terrible job explaining why that work was necessary.

In many ways, tech debt and modernization is a near guaranteed way to have business impact, in a way product work is not. If you're at Meta and you figure out how to save 1% of total CPU time on the server by fixing some tech debt you can expect to be showered with money.

It’s already a thing, the EMVCo standard predates ubiquitous internet connectivity. Mass transit systems typically use it, airlines used to for in-flight purchases before the advent of reliable WiFi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV#Offline_data_authenticat...

It is somewhat common to maintain a denylist of known fraudulent cards, but as you note the main mitigation is on the bank to track the card down. One of the key things you need to figure out with an offline payment system - and what I imagine is needed here - is a consensus on who has the liability for offline transactions and what the dollar limits are.

It's so textbook that Google two weeks ago came out with their own competing "open" standard for doing the same thing!

https://ap2-protocol.org

There is no evidence at all in the announcement that is the case. It just says "100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially in this deal". What "participate financially" looks like is not elaborated upon.

It is possible you're right. It's also equally possible that the founders have still screwed over their employees, we just don't know. Nothing in this post supports either position.

You are misreading the documentation, it's a key/value API.

`DISALLOW_FUN` is the string key you pass to `setUserRestriction`, which takes a boolean value.

Mastercard and Visa don't block companies from processing because of morals, they block them because they lose them money. They will happily process your payments for all kinds of shady schemes that are - to them - low risk.

You can absolutely be dismissed without cause in the UK, protections against this only kick in after two years of employment.