If you feel the need for a new feature in a language, you should ask why the language does not make it easy to build that feature in the language itself.
This turns upside down the standard role of automation in control systems. E.g. the humans sets the temperature on the thermostat controller, or the pilot sets the parameters on the autopilot, but the plane is still under control of the pilot. Automated controllers don’t have goals that aren’t set by controllers above them in the hierarchy. In my opinion it’s definitionally impossible for automation to be the chief executive since there must be someone above setting the goals.
The most important reason for queues is the variability of job inter-arrival times and service times. If there was no variability there would be no need for queuing.
> if people working below the minimum wage are flying to protest at Google headquarters, someone is paying their airfare. Doesn't look like a spontaneous act to me.
The raters who spoke and delivered the petition are members of Alphabet Workers Union.
That model makes sense for aircraft, in my opinion. The software isn’t a standalone product that can be independently continuously improved. It’s tightly integrated with safety critical physical systems. You need to do the upfront work of specifying how the software and hardware interact and do the complex systems safety analysis. Any change to the software specification after design can have unintended effects on the overall behavior of the aircraft.
Forgive me for inferring your reasons, but the reason you actively avoid web based apps is because the web app experience is inferior to native apps because (or at least as the thread claims) Apple and Android actively sabotaged support for web apps favoring improving native features instead of improving and supporting web features.
The other posts in the chain go into more detail. By improving and pushing the web experience on Mac, Apple gets access to a whole ecosystem of web-based application which make the Mac more valuable to customer, instead of relying solely on 3rd party native Mac application developers.
The digital sharecropper analogy is less about the monopoly position of platforms but about the content creator and platform relationship. More platforms wouldn’t change that relationship.
It’s not only “don’t screw things up.” They still develop features, they just go through a gauntlet of design review, experimentation, and then launch review.
I think that’s a gross oversimplification of the history of political violence in Weimar Germany. Much of the Nazi’s rise to power in Weimar Germany came from their paramilitary forces, the SA and SS. The state was unable to control or suppress those forces. Most other political parties had their own paramilitary wing, including right wing parties besides the Nazis and left wing parties like the KPD and SPD. Left wing parties unilaterally standing down their paramilitary forces while other parties didn’t wouldn’t have prevented the Nazi rise to power.
That makes sense on some corridors but I'm not sure about the economics of building 2000 miles of dedicated right of way for a train that runs 3 times a week. Maybe if price, reliability, and speed of the service improved to such a degree it could feasibly compete with air and highway travel between those cities.
ChatGPT already gives wrong answers. When I asked it to cite sources for its incorrect information it made up a non-existent journal article and provided fabricated direct quotes from the non-existent article.
The great thing about California’s welfare program as mentioned in the article is that the amount of welfare received is not dependent on income so it does not disincentivize employment.