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Comment Re:Should not require an app (Score 1) 44

Every airline has a website that allows check-in and can generate a QR-code like boarding pass (which can also then be printed!). Both iOS and Android have "wallet" capabilities for storing such things. So the need for an airline-specific app is...?

Can you still log onto their website prior to flying, download the QR code boarding pass image to your phone, and use that to check in without the need for any app?

If the QR code is what the gate monkey needs, then the QR code is what the gate monkey gets.

Comment Re:Meanwhile slashdot has released popup ads (Score 1) 31

Visual Studio and Eclipse are typically used for statically typed languages (C# and Java), so you get IDE magic like automatic refactors, renaming, jump to definition, etc. It's nice, and helps you program faster.

However, in the real world most people use dynamic languages like Python, which loses all that IDE magic (AI can kind of help here). btw IntelliJ has been more popular than Eclipse among Java programmers for more than a decade now.

The conclusion is that most programmers don't care about programming more quickly/efficiently.

Comment Re:Exported deflation (Score 1) 122

Maybe. Here in North America, the big three have already conceded the budget market. None of them are interested in anything other than luxury cars. For the first time, the average car purchase in the US has hit $50k.

Forget 2026. The big three look like they’re still struggling to sell last year models off the lot. As every new car lot can attest.

Not sure what the big three conceded to sell in North America, but it ain’t cars at $50K+.

Comment Re:The headline is wrong (Score 1) 63

You can't call something a "serious bid for top talent" when you don't even know what the terms are. Applications haven't opened, and the details about eligibility haven't been released. It's premature to make conclusions about what they are trying to do (let along what they will do) without those details.

Comment Re:There is no unmet demand in the US (Score 1) 122

If the gate to production is lithium batteries, then you might as well use the batteries you have in luxury cars instead of cheap cars. At least, that is optimal from the manufacturer's perspective.

If you can get batteries for both (which will eventually happen as production increases and prices come down), then you will make both luxury and cheap cars.

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