<i>A makes X, and B-Z buy X, and A owns some or part of each of B-Z. So how much is A paying themselves and how much is actual growth?</i>

This is actually fairly common in enterprise: your largest customers are also your providers. That way, both sides benefit and less money actually exchanges hands.

Say company X makes toilet paper. To make that toilet paper, it needs electricity (sourced from company E), machinery (sourced from company M), wood pulp or pulp slurry (sourced from company P), a financial institution (bank B), etc. Well, in today's world, all of those companies (E, M, P, B, etc) will be X's customers. The thinking is my electric company, my bank, my... need toilet paper, so I'm going to buy electricity, financial services, etc from them and they'll buy toilet paper from me. Tit for tat.

To promote Open Document Format, create software people actually want to use. LibreOffice is not it.

Not true. There's entire companies, like PLD Space, dedicated to launching satellites with their own reusable spacecrafts.

https://www.pldspace.com/en/
 

It seems like Fossa Systems' satellite design capabilities will be complementary to PLD Space's (another Spanish company) satellite launching capabilities.

https://www.pldspace.com/en/

2000 EUR is not a good mid-career salary for Spain at all. Not even 2000 EUR net (after taxes, fees, etc) would be a good mid-career salary for Spain.

The tenth most popular language is Delphi, a language that started dying in the late 90s, when its creator moved to Microsoft to invent C# (which replaced Delphi and made the partners that used to develop Delphi components change focus towards C#). And all of that despite Embarcadero (which doesn't advance Delphi that much since decades ago). Impressive.

Spain suffered from a total blackout in April 2025 due to excessive reliance on renewable energies. Do not use Spain as an example of anything. We need more nuclear and I'm 100% in favor of having them in my backyard.

Developers carefully review any pull request written by a human.

But the moment that pull request contains code written by an AI code assistant, many AI skeptics review it just superficially, or even approve it without any review at all. They would never be that careless with a human-authored PR. I understand the AI skeptics are trying to highlight AI issues yet they are doing that in the worst possible way: by applying a different standard.

Aren't PlayStation Plus Extra / Premium essentially the same as Game Pass Premium / Ultimate? It seems to be working for Sony. I don't think that's the cause for XBox's problems.

I had XBox Game Pass Ultimate, playing games via cloud streaming. I tried to buy a physical Xbox for Christmas but it was just impossible. Stores simply have zero stock, even Amazon was out of stock, and they all told me it's not because they don't want to sell them but because they are not receiving them. I ended up buying a Playstation 5 and a Playstation Plus subscription.

American Express, at least for business travelers, automatically does the cancel-rebooking for you. Business rates are usually better and offer free cancellation until same day, or day before, of arrival.

Is this improvement due to Rust being so much better than Java, C++ or others?
Or is it due to early adopters of Rust on Android are more senior and savvy developers? What will happen when the juniors come on board?

I call bullshit. Most of the work of a developer is not writing actual code (where AI code assistants help) but thinking about what algorithm to implement to solve this or that problem, looking at corner cases and what solution to give to them (which usually requires intimate collaboration with product managers or support), fixing L3 bugs, etc. AI code assistants are a great tool but they are *junior* *programmers*, not senior developers.

OK, open sourced. Where? I can't find a single link to the repository &#191;?

No, the OS is Free95, linked in the post, which is a new reimplementation of Windows, from scratch.