Scary part is - it actually works for some. One of my managers got his job this way.
He has been "acting" the role by replying with AI generated content for almost an year; seems like a swell gig, because to his boss it looks "professional" (skip is not a software engineer).

That all.

Oops, wrong company, my bad ;-(

So they will stop asking for donations now?

Ooops, the Emperor strikes back

>The pipe was super deep and only one country has the specialized underwater demolition teams for that.
What about the country that built it - won't they have the means to demolish it?

Someone keeps saying the same thing...
It's a bit more than this, the main advantage of the cloud are the "always on" services and "processing power on demand", something that is not (easily) possible in a smaller/dedicated hosting, unless you want to invest in the same amount of resources (not very likely for most customers).

Remember Alta Vista?

So, why mess with a good business model?

I get you. Few years back I got overwhelmed by either having access to too many mediocre books (used) or not having much in common with the latest being published (too much YA fantasies).
I built my own recommendation engine; as with every engine about half of the recommendations are hit and miss, but the other 50% gave me some terrific leads - for example "The Genome" by Sergei Lukyanenko.
Still, it's very hard to define the personal style that people like, so it can be matched against the existing works.

I keep buying books - I guess I am just old fashioned.
Mostly used or second hand though - haven't bought a new one in ages, I guess that's what the article is about.
On a slightly different note - I used to buy a lot from library sales - those used to be epic - you could get a bag of books for $5.
Every year since Covid the selection gets smaller and smaller...

They seem to be doing this every decade or so...

Currently I am willing to plan and wait for my car to charge, but if my plan relies on a single location being operational, the success of long distance, multi-hop trip goes down to zero, with the current state of charging station problems.
So far I have taken only few long distance trips and have been lucky, but it was a 50-50 chance of having to user the backup level 2 charger, which would have greatly affected my trip.
So, having superchargers every 20 miles along every interstate in the U.S. would be really nice.

Or ... hear me out - they install chargers there! Something for the hybrid and EV crowds!

With ICE cars, manufacturers and dealerships are counting on making money from maintenance, especially the luxury brands. It's possible that because EVs have so much less maintenance requirements, their old model is a jeopardy.