I'm aware that Swiss politics is sometimes difficult to understand if you grew up in other countries. In the case here, the title (and the Politico reporting) is at least misleading. What we did vote on (and approve) is a new paragraph in the constitution which says "Die Schweizerische Nationalbank gewÃhrleistet die Bargeldversorgung" (roughly translates to "The Swiss National Bank ensures the supply of cash"). We did *not* vote about whether businesses (or private citizens) need to accept cash as well. So while the vote ensures that there is always enough cash available for people who want to pay with cash, nothing ensures that they will be able to use that cash wherever they want. I doubt that a vote to force everybody to *accept* cash (instead of credit cards etc) would gather a majority.

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I don't see how this would significantly increase snail mail volume. If I need the physical address of somebody today, I can just send them an email to ask. So the volume would basically stay the same.

Which basically means that the federal government is using these contracts to restrict free speech. This is wrong regardless of who is president.

Iâ(TM)m in Europe, those stories you hear about Europe limiting free speech are mostly fairy tales.

OTOH I hear stories about the US government harassing universities and museums to comply with its view on how the US should be. Wonder how this aligns with free speech?

To be fair: a six figures salary per year is pennies for Google.

Any decent password manager comes with browser integration nowadays.

The original Apple Silicon developer kit used an iPhone CPU, so itâs safe to say that that macOS does run on these CPUs (which is no surprise). And while we only know for sure when/if that new MBA is released, I doubt that Apple would lock down a Macboon.

Making less profit is not a loss (unless one assumes that Apple is entitled to a certain amount of profit), the title is highly misleading.

That's actually not true. You can easily order alcoholic beverages in Switzerland online today.

https://www.acityonmars.com/ lists a lot of challenges related to even getting to Mars and back safely, not to mention landing people or even settling. Musk has some work to do for sure â¦

Canât wait to see all the petrol stations popping up on Mars. With gas taken from the Mars dinosaurs!

So, after pushing the âzAI will take over the worldâoe narrativ for several years, Gartner extends the same to software engineers? Need to keep the hype up, guys.

I assume you never worked in a bigger company not managed by engineers? Tech debt reduction always takes lower priority than next quarter’s sales targets/functional features, you often need to wait for a big “event” to get the green light for tech renovation. Sure, you can hide some work behind functional changes, but this mainly helps with local/component-level tech debt, not with bigger issues.

Ignoring for a moment that yet another abstraction layer“ is most likely not what the world needs: It‘s rather hard to build an abstraction layer based on your knowledge of one cloud provider only. And building one which will still work with the new kid on the block popping up in 5 years is obviously impossible.