Two at best considering the usual cost overruns, but more likely just one. And it will take 10-15 years to build.

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SCNR.

That number was "the first round of layoffs". My guess is, these 14000 are the second round.

The "experienced developers" have created those old security holes in the first place.

Yes, USB support was added to the OSR 2 of windows 95.

"Doctorow is a communist" is exactly the kind of "easy answers" you describe. Ironic that you haven't realised it.

Not an accident, but a consequence of far right populism being made mainstream and pretty much inevitable.

I have an EV and live in an apartment. I normally charge either at work or at a grocery store. I only need to charge once or twice per week anyway.

Yep and it was not helped by a chancellor that wanted the nineties to continue forever.

We had the market deciding for decades and a zoo of incompatible chargers. Then the EU stepped in and mandated micro USB and things improved a lot. After almost a decade the EU changed the mandate to USB C.
Long story short, the distant commitee of people who are answering to the general population is far better than dozen even more distant committees of people who answer to a bunch of enshittificating CEOs.

The only thing we don't know is *when* it pops

I think it might have happened yesterday.

Call me Jonah.

That is very much correct, but with a caveat - all the high tech must be ideologically correct. Cybernetics (what is called computer science in the USA) was considered a false and reactionary capitalist science at first.

His boasting about travelling more than anyone is probably similar to "both kinds of music - country and western".

Vietnam is indeed a quite nice place to visit. Less touristy and more interesting for hikers than Thailand, actually. Better food, too. The cities can be somewhat dirty and chaotic, especially in the south. The main downside is the very long flight.