tonyedgecombe

The motivation was the same for all of them. Money.

>Do you still enjoy coding in C++?

No, I migrated away from it in 2014 and it was one of the better decisions I made in my business. Productivity and quality went up.

The increases have mostly been on very expensive cars (> £40,000). Not much has changed for the average driver. Petrol is the cheapest it's been for a long time in real terms.

The UK isn't in the EU and doesn't apply tariffs on Chinese imports (unlike the EU).

>I agree, but AI also there is hope!

It's like a religion isn't it.

Some of us think that is a mistake.

As a person over a certain age I mostly like the fact that cars are so much more reliable than they were when I started driving.

I like the creature comforts on a long journey. I would have given my right arm for satnav when I was driving for work.

I’m much the same when it comes to technology. A phone that doesn’t break is much more valuable to me than a repairable device that fails.

This seems like something they could turn off if it really is impacting their bottom line. What’s much harder to deal with is if we all switch to ChatGPT because the experience is so much better.

> A large population of extremely skilled and talented people are being laid off by their employers to make space for AI investments.

Outside of programming and a couple of other sectors I’m not sure that is true. It isn’t visible in the unemployment figures.

I don't think we are anywhere near it yet but perhaps in the future the App Store is a single app that conjures up whatever you ask of it. It could be called "The Last One".

I like the bit where you get overcharged for shitty food by people who hate you but need the job.

>Now the vast majority of code is written by them.

Is that really true outside of the HN bubble? I'd like to see some studies that back it up.

If I didn't release an update for a couple of months I would get people asking if the software is dead. It got to the point where I would do trivial releases just to make it look alive whether they were needed or not.

Perhaps the ad performance is so poor that selling someone the same thing a second time is the best they can hope for.

My wife signed up to the Pinterest mailing list. I’ll never understand this.

> It's shocking to me that, sometime in the last 10 years, everyone forgot that adblocking's primary argument is security.

I’m not sure about that. I suspect people don’t like how intrusive ads are. Especially in videos.

The security issue strikes me as a post Adblock rationalisation. People know how the sites they visit are funded and need some way to justify cutting that off.

The number who understand the security implications is going to be very small.

You just need to look at how much more expensive walkable neighbourhoods are to realise there is unmet demand for these types of environments.

It will be interesting to see how that works out in Oxford street. It has been a thoroughly unpleasant place in the past.

>Do non-Apple OS run on the newer Macs

Yes, see https://asahilinux.org

>Can you distribute software for Mac platform without Apple as an intermediary, outside the App Store?

Yes.

>Can you create new kernel extensions / system software for macOS without Apple as an intermediary?

Kernel extensions are effectively deprecated in favour of system extensions.

>The answer to all that is No

It's easy to be blinded by your biases.

It does have a lot of polish. I'm just a bit sore that it no longer supports PostScript.

We don’t, burglaries have been on a decades long decline in the UK.

One person’s anecdote is not data.

The UK wouldn’t accept the pain necessary to start making things again just like we were never going to accept the changes needed to make Brexit a success.

5/3/27 if you are in the UK.

Heidelberg had a student jail.

https://www.tourism-heidelberg.com/explore/historical-sights...

Also supermarkets. The rot set in before the internet came along.

Rethink business rates, crack down on shoplifting, change the welfare system to encourage work, tax internet shopping (temu, etc).

Or just accept the world has moved on.

Or American sweet shops. I doubt it’s a big enough market to justify the number of them in my nearest city.

That’s a long way from locking down the bootloader the go was talking about.

Probably how old you are as well.

People have been complaining about this for years and it hasn't happened.