Considering that Grab has building iOS apps for over 12 years instead of developing PWAs, I would guess they know more about their business than you. Have you presented your ideas to Grab?

1) Commercial pilots have to be certified to fly models of aircraft. No rules say pilots can only certify on one type of aircraft for their entire career. Some pilots certify on multiple ones. 2) UPS and FedEx fly more than the MD-11 as mentioned in the summary that it was a small part of their fleet.

Sci-Fi like Star Trek provided a positive future to aspire to, and I always hoped for more such positive visions to guide us. Certainly felt that a lack of it will hamper our potential. Yet, I never expected the tech bro culture to be stupid enough to actually want to emulate the dark and dystopian visions. Yet, here we are.

Honestly the issue with the story is Ken Paxton, he literally has negative credibility. I know virtually nothing about Roblox or this case, but if Paxton is the first AG to pursue it my automatic assumption is he's prosecuting them because they either failed to give him a bribe or he thought they were helping Democrats register to vote or something.

1. Wresting was on TV long before video games. 2. Brothers and cousins were hitting each other slingshots and rocks long before TV was invented. 3. Your anecdotal evidence does not "discount" everyone else. It only reflects your ego that you think that it does.

Yes because wrestling never existed before video games. . . oh wait it did.

Like many things in the cloud, the flexibility was probably they could add/remove more machines easily with no long term commitment. The problem with cloud has always been at some point, the cost of leasing is greater than building on premises as the number of machines/data/bandwidth reached a certain threshold.

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Yes. Watt peak. And it does, at least for me. Let's say I can get 120 Watts on average over 8 hrs at 300 days/year, this means that I can get 300 kWh a year. If I pay 20 ct/kWh, it will pay back my initial investment of $300 within 5 years.

There is nothing that forbids me to install more than one of those $300/800 Wp systems in general. But I am no longer allowed to just plug them into the next wall socket according to local regulations, and inform my utility after the fact. If I want more than 800 Wp, I have to apply for a larger system, and I have to get it approved. If for instance, I want 10 kWp, I buy 12 of them, costing me $3600, a power management system for maybe $1500, and I need a board certified engineer to approve the setup. At the end, I'll pay maybe $8000 for the whole 10 kW setup, but not $50,000.

Only if saving money was the only goal and nothing else. In this case, not being able to develop iOS apps using Windows or Linux is a significant obstacle over any cost savings.

Then you haven't been paying attention. Since the Mac Mini launched many, many companies have used them as servers. The main reason is they offer high performance per watt in a small package. The demand is high enough that companies offer custom racks for Mac Minis for higher density in cabinets.

And why is it a questionable decision? Currently, the M series chips are the best in performance per watt and can beat Ryzen chips in some benchmarks. For Grab, since they need Macs for iOS development, what alternative do you propose?

If you read the story, the main reason they are going away from a cloud based solution was cost. As the number of Macs increased over 200, they found that buying their own hardware was cheaper. The major change for Grab is they own the Mac hardware now instead of renting it.

Due to demand, companies have designed racks to hold lots of Mac Minis in server room cabinets.

In this story, Grab is replacing 200 Mac Mini servers they are renting on the cloud with 200+ Mac Mini servers they have on premsises:

Obviously Grab does not think Mac Mini servers as "the worst idea ever".

Maybe you should read the histories of 19th century real life Gangs of New York

The Bible has depicted violence for millenia. The Iliad by Homer. Books by depict violence since the 1700s. It appears that basis of your arguments is recency bias.

The problem for Microsoft this generation is their own policies have hampered games on the X. Microsoft requires any games developed for the X must have feature parity with games on the S. However, the S has weaker hardware than the PS5. In some cases like Baldur's Gate 3, the Xbox launch was delayed as they had development issues on the S that was only alleviated when Microsoft waived that specific requirement. Many other game developers simply optimized their games for the S instead of optimizing for both. As a result many games that have come out on the X do not run as well as the same game on the PS5. Developers on the PS5 only need to optimize games once as the main difference between the two PS5 consoles was the optical drive.