I think the thousand cuts analogy applies in general to the housing crisis, specifically affordability.

You announce or plan some "affordable" housing in an area, or actually these days ANY housing that would increase housing units and decrease demand for existing homeowner homes, and it's like a telepathic demon takes over every homeowner regardless of Trump or Biden signs on the lawn.

The knives come out, and it gets killed.

People would rather have homeless outside their houses than any sort of project that will dilute their unsustainable growth in housing values.

At this point the Wayland project is effectively keeping desktop Linux from succeeding. It might as well have been a plant project or a strategic intelligence war from Microsoft to keep Linux on the server only.

It's a ten+ year disaster project that held desktop linux back at the precise moment of complete insanity on the part of the Windows designers with Windows 8 and the dual desktop/tiles disaster and yet-another-window-kit.

Microsoft is still pissing off its customers actively, but now we have real traction with Steam for getting gamers off of MS and onto Linux.

The opportunity is still there.

Isn't LFP dense enough for power banks now? And far more stable/safe?

Heck, isn't Sodium Ion getting good enough now?

LFP is too much nuance, they will just ban "lithium" and that'll be that.

Agentic will be the worst word invented in the last 100 years of humanity.

I love the subtle double meaning of "the last 100 years of humanity". Kudos!

You could, you know, just Google it: https://waymo.com/safety/impact/. TLDR ~90% reduction of serious injury compared with human drivers.

Now, before you say this peer-reviewed paper is corporate propaganda, all self-driving companies are required by law to disclose accidents they are involved in, whether liable or not, in CA. You could access each raw accident report published by the CA DMV periodically and come up with your own statistics.

Is it from NHTSA with a NHTSA or an auto industry group diving deep into the software and testing its edge cases? No?

Yes, it is corporate propaganda. "Peer reviewed" doesn't mean anything if it is SPONSORED BY THE COMPANY. There is peer reviewed studies to kingdom come that are industry sponsored and have plagued our society for at least a century.

I AM NOT THE PERSON that should be doing this research. A FEDERAL AGENCY TASKED WITH HIGHWAY SAFETY should be doing it, barring that, the auto insurance industry groups should be doing it. Not a corporate sponsored shill paper.

Yes. They have 99.9% of the mobile phones.

The phone was the end of open computing, the tech companies obtained an iron grip on the platform, this time with fully accepted total monitoring and data collection down to everything you say, hear, everywhere you go, and with smartwatch biosensors, everything you feel. The only thing left is to get smart glasses and they will know everything you see. Smell they can probably interpolate.

It happened over a decade ago, and that might as well be 100 years ago in modern attention spans. All the governments have to do is pay the companies money, or simply force-legislate, or threaten under the table for all that info, and for permanent forever access to active tracking and monitoring.

AI provides all the analysis they need to watch the firehose. It's all there.

At this point it doesn't matter if an alternative comes. It'll be such the minority, that the social graph will fill all the holes. And they can simply track your IMEI regardless from the towers, listen in with other nearby microphones/phones. There is no escape.

All that remains is for the key to be turned for worse-than-1984 authoritarianism. It's right there, ready for the AI-empowered 50% of consumption controlled, 90% of stocks owned oligarchy to use.

Open computing still exists. It's just overshadowed by the prevalence of locked mobile devices because those are convenient and good enough for the vast majority, who would rather use those than a less convenient desktop, laptop, or even raspberrypi.

Surveillance on the internet is challenging to avoid, but internet surveillance and tracking doesn't extend to (outside-of-browser) local compute.

1) double write essentially

2) migration involves the problem of mixing a migration write with an actual live in flight mutation. Cassandra would solve this with additional per cell write time tracking or a migrated vs new mutation flag

3) and then you have deletes. So you'll need a tombstone mechanism, because if a live delete of a cell value is overwritten by a migrated value, than data that is deleted comes back to life

Not a boomer but that's basically fast food or fast food plus.

I'm surprised there isn't the complaint about over tipping. And the fact there is now inflation in tipping percentages.

Yes, and I no longer subscribe to amazon prime because they added adverts to their standard plan. Indeed when I went to rejoin a year later there wasn't an ad-less plan.

As such I don't subscribe.