But, then the water is pumped out to make the tunnel usable. How do they keep it submerged? What prevents the entire tunnel popping up to the surface?

4700 metric tons of balast, rocks and gravel per segement. Sorry, didn't mention that in the GP post but it's in the articles and videos.

First of all, the singular term is "agility" not "agile". Second of all, agility isn't a means, it's the end. The actual goal. And "agile software development" is a thing and will remain a thing in teams and "projects" where it fits and makes sense. Those are scenarios with experienced teams booked on a well-seasoned and under control stack with which every team-member has solid experience to basically take on any task in the scope of the project.

Agile software development is the _solution_ to the problem of clients not knowing what they want and developing a piece of software that isn't military, medical, space, aeronautic, nuclear, mission-critical embedded or some other hardcore stuff. This is why agile software development is most often used in web development and generic user-facing software for vertical markets. Because that's precisely where you find customers who are usually overwelmed with formulating the requirements of a piece of software to be programmed.

And no, it's not at an "end" and no, it's not "dead". Perhaps the fad with dimwitts has died and they've moved on to another new buzzword, but that would be a good thing.

Agility or Agile Software Development is still alive an well for anyone actually aware what those terms really mean. See the original Manifesto for Agile Software Development for further details.

Congratiulations, you are now ahead of 99% of the buzzword crowd. You're welcome.

This is what made the Web so successful and omnipresent while at the same time introducing this type of epically dimwitted security nightmares:

The Web has nice pictures you can click on, meaning everybody has an opinion about it and wants to develop with and for it. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but most web "developers" (emphasis on the quotes) have no idea about how the web actually works and what secure-by-design actually entails.

That's when you get this sort of thing, roughly 70%-80% of the time.

It's super frustrating and can get you severely depressed if you aren't aware of the cultural reasons for this problem. I've been doing non-trivial web development for 26 years now and have learned to live with this problem, but it still is just as annoying as it was in the year 2000, even though I've since notably updated my zen-skills in dealing with these types of people and projects. The upside is that by now I (mostly) get do decide who I work with and those are people who pay me fair and do listen when I say that an idea for a web solution is a bad one and has security issues built in no matter how much the juniors or marketing think it's awesome.

That said, I still consider the Web superiour to most other ways of doing software, for the simple fact that it is 100% open standard, human readable, truely 100% cross-platform and FOSS all the way through. And I wouldn't have it any other way doing professional software development. Fixing and replacing abysmally shitty code every odd project is a downside I'm willing to take with that.

... ook ook.

I suspect the judge isn't going to buy it. I likely wouldn't either.

EOM

A fleet of Zuse Z3 built out of pure gold is probably cheaper than running critical infrastructure on VM Ware.

Nobody I know runs VM Ware. And hasn't for decades. I remember when virtualization was the new hot thing roughly 20 years back and VM ware was aquired by some big corp, instantly turned to shit and the FOSS crowd started pushing out VM solutions to counter the problem. Xen and KVM got traction shortly after that.

A buddy of mine who virtualized ~300 workplaces on an HP Blade setup a few years back ran everything on FOSS and Proxmox. Virtualized storage was done with Ceph and VMs with one of the FOSS offerings (can't remember which). The whole system was high availability to the tee, with a software budget orders of magnitude cheaper than anything proprietary.

VM Ware was dead the moment they cashed out, epic style.

There is a reason experts do not trust anything mission critical to proprietary solutions.

It'll help exactly as much as Unreal experience helps if you apply at a Godot shop.

In case your answer is "Well there aren't many Godot shops", then why is that?

There's no organized conspiracy as much as a less-formal worldwide shift in the Overton window toward more surveillance and less tolerance of erotica and nontraditional gender expression. Left-wing governments in other countries are just as eager to surveil their citizens. Look at how the People's Republic of China has expanded criminal background checks into a numeric "social credit score." The UK has its own share of conservatism; just look at Brexit and the "TERF Island" movement. And as long as global economies depend on hydrocarbon fuel from the Middle East, Salafis (Arabic for "reactionaries") will continue to have a platform.

Anonymous Coward mentioned two categories of "them". In case you don't see AC comments, I'll rephrase:

1. Government agencies interested in performing the same sort of predictive policing that led to Terrorism Information Awareness of the early 2000s.
2. The sort of religious conservatives who ultimately want sex and violence purged from even media intended for grown-ups, as we saw with Collective Shout pressuring payment processors to pressure itch.io to remove erotic works.

Reduced mental workload in having to put on a show of meeting society's behavior expectations for one's assigned gender all the time.

How is Unreal Engine noticeably superior to Godot in a way that noticeably affects a beginner learning video game development for the first time?

Unreal Engine is proprietary software with a free replacement that is adequate for beginners. That's why.

Wider deployment of TLS over the past 12 years, wider use of too-big-to-fail CDNs for DDoS mitigation (such as Cloudflare), and DNS over HTTPS have made firewalls operated by the ISP less effective by hiding from the ISP what websites are being visited.

When has Claude, or Gemini or ChatGPT for that matter, ever been sensitive?

Then perhaps what Google has failed to add on YouTube is a checkbox to exclude videos with only auto-generated captions from search results and recommendations.