A lot of people want a Mac because they have a nice form factor and they work in the Apple ecosystem. Macbooks were a bit expensive. It's obvious that an iPad masquerading as a Macbook was going to work, because a lot of people like a proper keyboard and don't need touchscreen. Macbook Neo fits a perfect niche. I'm not surprised by its success, I'm just surprised that Apple are. I'm stunned their business case didn't imagine bigger volume. Why buy a more expensive Macbook for basic admin, web browsing, and streaming?

You may be right - I guess I've been thinking too much about Mars missions where it's a lot more important. The moon isn't that far away that it makes a big difference, from what you say.

Reasonable to assume that, in fact, we might choose to fly to the moon when it's closer to perigee.

It's become very "I built this with AI" and "how your business is going to improve with AI" and all sorts of terrible content, and GAMES! WTF.

This is one of the projects that I've built - https://tldr.express/ - it's on the simple to moderately complex side of things. They are valuable to me and that's how I think about this software - https://paul.kinlan.me/generat... and https://paul.kinlan.me/the-dis...

I do suspect you won't agree with me at all :D

I don't think I did conflate patterns and framework, at least in my head I didn't when writing the article. The code that the tools have been generating have been most successful when they've not been using frontend frameworks... and, the patterns that I would have normally followed or seem to be less likely to be used in the code it generates, however the maintenance and broad sweeping changes have not been an issue (and this is the thing that surprised me the most).

> It won't be maintainable. It won't be extensible. Not even by the thing that built it.

Time will tell. I don't believe that your argument will stand based on the tool that I've been using. That being said, it's early, it might not playout like I think it will.

Thank you.

I remember AudioGalaxy which was much less exposed, but was a great technology. You ran a "satellite" on the best connected machine you could find, but you could search and choose what to download from any machine on the net. Then you just picked up your files on the satellite when you had enough to fill a a 700Mb blank CD, and hived that off to your hard drive (if you had space) or just kept a bunch of mp3 CDs that many physical HiFi players could read. It was like Napster on steroids. It was shut down pretty quickly though. DCC on IRC channels worked well but was pure 1 to 1 peer to peer only.

We'll be sending each other CAPTCHAs soon enough

Is getting close to 100% quality due to genuine manufacturing process improvement, or is it due to hiding defects? With such a disparity I have a feeling that while Indian processes no doubt need to improve, that Chinese reporting on percentage of manufacturing defects could be artificially high. Totally agree with another comment that suggested improving quality is less about cracking the whip and more about people management and having everyone feel directly responsible for quality as a desired outcome.

In spite of his faults, he is an intelligent guy. He inspires his workforce and delivers on a number of things. He's late on others, but you have to aim high and keep pushing.

GAFA very common here in France, see it in mainstream press and on tech TV

This is like the Amazon thing about moving to Long Island City - it's not fair for everyone. GAFA in Europe have created jobs but have taken business away from other companies who just CANNOT compete. Taxes are way higher on smaller businesses. Google have got bigger tax breaks by headquartering in Ireland but really making revenue elsewhere. They also have operations and tax breaks from operating out of Luxembourg. All in all it's a direct tax on those companies to offset their (perfectly legal, but incredibly unfair) tax deals with various EU states which allow them to trade almost tax free IN OTHER EUROPEAN STATES.

The older you get, the more you wish you could slow aging and the more you tut at 7 figure Slashdot IDs.

Easy to fix though, right? Like make sure people stay logged on for at least a certain amount of time, or cut their surge fare bonuses or something. Quite easy to stop opportunist drivers just working rush hours (fake or real).