- everfrustratedDidn't the Spanish govt just award Huawei a contract for their lawful intercept program? You can't make it up.
- Sadly there are still no European cloud providers. There are European hosting and VPS companies with aspirations but that's not the same.
- Another missed component is a real autoscaling load balancer. This often gets missed and taken for granted. Possibly due to if you haven't seen a good one (AWS) you might not realise what you're missing. Most aspiring "cloud" companies have fixed capacity single tennant load balancers which is not cloud in any definition.
- In there early days of cloud there were actual definitions created for it. Nobody seems to remember or care any more.
- There's a futures market for RAM prices if you want to hedge that risk. No different than corn.
- The way the regulator regulates capital returns incentivises overspending on lavish infrastructure works as a way to return more profits back to the shareholders.
- AI will cause the value of knowledge to plummet. This will be felt particularly by universities - graduates will be valued to near zero by business. Elite universities will continue to do well but the value there becomes elitism and social status (this has been apparent for a long while already).
Value of experience will grow - compounding this will be less opportunity for junior people to get that experience so they will be increasingly (and rightly) frustrated.
The opportunities to have a successful career as a salaried employee decline significantly - people are pushed to start small businesses out of necessity - and this barrier is lower due to AI.
A flurry of new dev tooling companies start up re-packaging software development processes and concepts into a more user friendly package that allows software development to go even more mainstream to accommodate this.
- I was with you until the last.
Chinese will always be irrelevant to the US car market as both political parties will block chinese vehicle sales on (valid) national security grounds.
Uber and Lyft stocks crash as markets realise the game is up - nobody can compete with Tesla who can afford to burn excess spare factory capacity driving cars directly off the line to start picking up passengers. Waymo might have good AI but can't possibly compete with Teslas unit economics.
- GitHub have proven the ability to execute very well when they _want_ to. Their product people are top notch.
Given the VP of GitHub recently posted a screenshot of their new stacked diff concept on X, I'd be amazed if Graphite folks (whos product is adding this function) didn't get wind of it and look for a quick sell.
- They have much less choice because all of those businesses that cared about quality have gone out of business!
100 years ago clothes were expensive items. Which is why they were class signals - less because of fashion and more because if you were poor you needed to buy long lasting fabrics. Clothes for the poor were expensive as well as the rich.
You can buy those same quality items today but nobody will because we expect clothes to be cheap and not have to repair them.
Take flights... For all the complaints about lack of legroom etc the price of a flight 50 years ago was the same as first/business class today. And yet how few people will pay for it. They'll grumble about small seats and bad snacks but hardly anybody will fork out for the upgrade. Not because they can't actually afford it but because they believe it should be cheaper.
- The West (with particular emphasis on the USA) got infected with this insane ideology that the best way to restore democracy to China would be to "corrupt" them with capitalism. Hence open them up to international trade, allow joining WTO etc. With prosperity the people would demand democracy.
You can also see this in the German approach to energy trade with Russia.
This toxic idea needs to be put to bed. All it did was feed and enrich foreigners at the expense of locals and create supply chain dependencies that made themselves hostage.
- This is slightly reductionist. If consumers _actually_ cared about quality or US-made over price this wouldn't have been possible.
- It's also the foundation of the US economy. Look up the cotton gin patent some time. And the early days of Hollywood.
- Best to find a link to a companies app from their website - searching in the store is asking for trouble. Too many hijacked search results.
- Spain's airports are quite interesting. They're all owned by a monopoly which sets the same landing fee to land at any airport. So high volume airports are effectively cross subsiding building very good airports in the smaller regional areas.
Not great for prices (Ryanair is complaining about high landing fees) but it does mean tourists have a good job being dispersed into the countryside and having a good experience.
- Any idea what the RRP is on one of these cards?
- If I use windows at home (gaming), mac at work and android on my phone - how exactly are these supposed to seamlessly work together?
- That update is from an anonymous "Admin". The X link is directly from the (presumed?) head of GitHub.
- The biggest problem I have with passkeys is being tied to a single device you still need a flow to reset/get in _without_ the passkey. As you're only as secure as your weakest link passkeys don't add any security.
That said, if you have a mac with a fingerprint scanner they sure are very convenient option.
And don't get me started on terrible vendors like Rippling that only support a single passkey! Madness.
- Your device will use a lot more than the Navstar constellation to get a position these days.