So the "many eyes" of open source legend is false? It doesn't really happen. Open source devs just link in libraries without reviewing the code, just like those evil closed source devs do?

I wasn't saying or implying that Harvard is the norm or really talking about Harvard specifically. I was just presenting extremes of the college experience. Those extreme's make the averages meaningless. It's like comparing my wealth to that of Elon Musk, the local car dealership owner who is worth $20 million, and saying that on average we have over $300 billion. Doesn't give you much meaningful information.

Your small private college wasn't really the norm either. Most college matriculants numerically are going to community college, local state schools, and for-profits. Non-profit privates (both elite and non-elite) are the minority.

I don't think TFA is saying that kids couldn't read a sentence out loud. They can "decode" words. The accusation is more about attention span and reading comprehension. It's a stretch to attribute that to lack of phonics instruction.

The use of averages to obscures huge differences within higher education. Harvard isn't going to bend over backwards to accommodate a horse because they don't have to (unless they think the parent is going to donate a full equestrian center). They don't have trouble filling their classes with full-pay students. By contrast, your local CC or directional state school isn't getting remotely like 40k for a student in revenue (let alone profit). It's students at the latter that disproportionally make up freshmen dropouts. At highly selective schools, graduation rates typically exceed 80%.

The unions are very regional and also aggressively gatekeep. A few years ago I had an interesting conversation with a plumber in NYC. He had been shut out of the union and barely met ends meet. Outside of the East Coast, most plumbers aren't unionized. What often happens around here is you have one licensed plumber and a bunch of low-wage assistants (usually barely above minimum wage) who do most of the worth. Similar issues with a lot of trades.

I think you've been sold a story by people with a political agenda (i.e. attacking teacher's unions and anything they think is "woke"- i.e. anything they disagree with). Public teacher's unions and schools aren't responsible for curriculum selection. That's done at the state and district level. And any teacher I've met would laugh in your face if you said they thought correct answers to math problems are "white supremacy."

Look up the concepts proactive and reactive and then reconsider who is the idiot in this conversation.

Don't need to, it's common knowledge for the audience this article applies to. Those interested in an obscure Linux distro.

Nope. Automated AI scans will do better, which is the point of the comment. Imagine if all commits were scanned by AI, perhaps the attack would have been found at the first attempt, and rejected, and 1500 packages would not have been compromised.

Here are some new concepts for you: proactive, reactive.

"Eyes" available to both open and closed source code. A potential win for all.

You citation says no such thing. It mentions two new plants, two modernization efforts to reduce current emissions. That is nothing compared to China.

Nope. You are misrepresenting the percentage of coal used in electrical power generation. That percentage is only going down because renewables are growing faster the coal is growing.

"[2026 March 26] Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and build new coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace. Analysts say the nation’s new five-year plan will ensure further coal plant expansion and jeopardize China’s ability to deliver on its climate promises.
The 15th Five-Year Plan offered a chance to correct these negative trends and get China’s climate ambitions back on track, but it is an opportunity the government appears to have missed ... Instead, they changed the way they calculate energy intensity, perhaps to disguise the failure to meet Xi’s target, and set a looser ambition for the next five years. "
https://e360.yale.edu/features...

"[2026 Feb 10] Despite media and other reports that China is into “green energy,” the country is still using coal to power its economy, with about 80 to 100 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity added in 2025. The Statistical Review of World Energy reports that coal accounted for 58% of China’s primary energy consumption in 2024, with fossil fuels accounting for a whopping 88%. Coal also provided 58% of China’s electricity generation in 2024. While a report by Ember indicates that populous developing countries like China and India “led the charge in adding more renewable energies” in the first half of 2025, their generation shares show that coal is still king in these countries, and their coal-fired capacity additions indicate that coal will continue to power their economies for the foreseeable future.
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https://www.instituteforenergy...

"[2025 August 21] Coal-power capacity could surge by as much as 80-100GW this year, potentially setting a new annual record, even as coal-fired electricity generation declines." "
https://www.carbonbrief.org/an...

Nope. I said, American industry has been moving away from coal for nearly 70 years. This isn't China where Xi can order folks to use coal. Industry can ignore the US President.

In this case the US President is supporting rare cases where industry wants to continue using an existing plant. The US Gov merely helping them to reduce the pollution of the old plant. Industry still decides. And industry overwhelmingly chooses to move away from coal, the rare exception you exaggerate do not change this.

PowerPC and Intel Macs officially ran other OSs. PowerPC ran MkLinux, Apple's Linux distro. Intel ran Microsoft Windows. Than opened the door to others.

Booting off USB is a setting in macOS, off by default.

Only the Mac Neo to a degree. For other Macs, absolutely not. The Neo is a fantastic machine for its intended market, K-12 school district purchasers. And it will do a good job for K-12 users. But it is intentionally nerf'd to make it less capable and less attractive to traditional Mac buyers. The nerfing is accomplished to a large degree by using iPhone components, rather than the regular Mac components. For example the slow usb-c port.

You are contradicting yourself by acknowledging macOS can boot off of USB. That is very unlike an iPhone. I've boot off of USB flash drives on Apple Silicon to wipe and reinstall macOS. Booting off USB is disabled by default in macOS but you can change that setting. That's not a hard thing to do.

Also, it's got nothing to do with iPhone components or code, it's simply this is the way the Secure Boot code has been redesigned since Intel days. They don't need Windows dual booting as they did on Intel Macs. Only allowing verified Apple code to boot is just a shared design concept that supports their security model. It's about security.

"Many Eyes" is a good thing, but it's been oversold. Having coding AI's scan everything will probably work out better in the long run. We're only at the early days, coding AI are also oversold in they own way, but it's a safe bet they will get better over time.