You should walk onto a reservation sometime and ask a few natives if they think America has had any genocidal wars.

If I am sitting on US soil, complying with US law, then I do not need to lift a finger to comply with a UK edict. Altering my server's configuration to add CIDRs to a block list is a positive action that I am not required to take, nor is the hassle or expense of subscribing to a geoblocking service.

You've always been able to side load on Apple devices, it's just a hassle with a bunch of manual steps that the average user would not want to do, but you don't need to jailbreak your phone or anything. For a 3rd party app that is unlisted on the Apple App Store(tm) to be commercially viable, you need a 3rd party app store as that's the only thing that a normal user is ever going to use. Otherwise, Apple will remain the only source of apps for everyone except developers, pirates, and hard core tech enthusiasts.

You can do this for Apple as well, it's just a hassle. You can sign an app with a self-signed "enterprise" certificate. But the end user has to go into their security settings and manually trust the enterpise and click through a scary warning. After that though, you can side load the iPhone app from a web link just like you can on android with an .apk.

A nonfunctional requirement is a requirement that does affect the functioning of the delivered system from the user's perspective. You could satisfy it any number of ways while still accomplishing the actions specified by the user's or customer's use case. E.g., what color to make the submit button, what's the point size of the H1 element? The customer may specify these things, and care very deeply about them, but the system would continue to operate just fine in their absence.

Many system requirements fall under non-functional, e.g. what OS does the backend run on? What version of pgsql to use? What's the expected response time? What are the security considerations? They still needs to be specified, but they aren't part of the actual interaction of the user with the system.

Are "reality denial" and "hate against truth" core libertarian traits?

Sure, you can drive it fast, but there is nothing magical about EVs that make them eat tires in particular. It's just that any heavy high performance RWD car with lots of low end torque is gonna chew through tires if you avail yourself of its full performance envelope at every opportunity. It's just that BEVs have brought the performance of muscle cars down into the daily runabout sedan. Hence, don't drive like an idiot and you won't cycle through so many tires. Or do: it's your money.

Regarding lifetimes, I once got a VPN subscription for their lifetime plan which wasn't really, but they at least were explicit by showing prominently on the payment page that by that word they meant 7 years.

Yep. Influential Libertarians gave full support to Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile back in the day; show a lot of support for Monarchism; ranged from indifferent to outright hostile towards the Civil Rights movement, and so on.

I slam my laptop shut at 6pm sharp every day. My work apps are compartmentalized on my phone as well and shutdown and stop sending me notifications as well. I'm reachable via PagerDuty if I happen to be on call that week, but that's it. I get 2+ hours back that I would have otherwise spent commuting to spend with my kids or do housework, relax, or hang out with friends. There is an iron curtain between my social/personal life and my work life. I've definitely made friends through work (you can make friends doing almost anything), but work is in no way part of my social life.

In my 25+ year career, I spent maybe 5 or 6 working in the same physical office as my boss, and by then I was senior enough that I was managing people myself. The only time I worked on a team that wasn't split over at least two locations was during my time spent working at a defense contractor, and even then they were pretty flexible about WFH if you weren't working on something too sensitive.

When I started out I was one of two people on my team in my location and I was stuffed in a corner cube in the legal department. The one other senior engineer in my location was usually traveling since we were a consulting group. When I needed to learn something I read a reference manual since most docs weren't online at the time. If there was something I didn't understand I picked up the phone and talked to someone in another office.

The wealth of resource we have now including searchable online documentation, stack overflow, LLMs, video conferencing and screen sharing with peers compared to what was available in 1997 is staggering. Heck, I remember getting the WIN32 API references on CD-ROM and that was a godsend. It's usually more helpful to do knowledge sharing with a junior over Zoom since we each have our own big screen and keyboard, and I can take control of their screen if necessary to show them something. "learn by watching" doesn't mean watching a physical monkey hit buttons on a keyboard - it means seeing examples, having someone explain their thought process and problem solving strategy, and offering constructive feedback, none of which requires breathing the same air.

One guy I don't like did a hypocritical thing I don't like, so the world can burn I guess?

Once that level is achieved, YouTube and other platforms will start promoting mostly their own AI-slop over 3rd party content producers. This way they'll keep 100% of the ad and subscription revenues generated. No need to share revenue with creators if there are no creators.

Evidently, this transition will be slow enough for most people, both those watching as well as creators, whose revenues will start slowly stagnating, then decreasing, not to notice.

Networking effects prevent that. It's possible, but unlikely.

EDIT: president as during in the then -> president during the then