If AWS becomes a separate business now, they may be able to build better products, given a bit less focus on one large customer (Idk if Amazon.com has any priority in their product roadmaps now)

* Long term cannabis users that do not slide into something worse over time or just do not consume too much.

Yeah, maybe people able to stick to moderation over many years are just more likely to have their lives together in general.

I doubt it’s killing open source. The “too big to fail” software will be maintained no matter what, but the contribution model will change. It is not great, but we can live with it - majority of users of OSS never touch the code, so nothing is going to change for them. For a few enthusiasts the barrier will be higher, but we need some trust building incorporated in the process anyway.

The small libraries will be eliminated as a viable solution for production use, but that’s a good thing. They are supply chain risk, which is significantly amplified in the LLM age.

It may happen and it will be great if it happens, when open training datasets will replace those libraries to recalibrate LLM output and shift it from legacy to more modern approaches, as well as teaching how to achieve certain things.

Privacy by design is easy. If you are incapable of dealing with GDPR, don’t start a company, because you lack survival skills amyway.

The most interesting part is that they do not rely on Western software solutions (Russia still needs hardware, China may reach full autonomy soon enough). If they could do it relatively quickly, EU can do it too. And EU now has exactly the same incentives.

I predict a lot of office wifi names with small typos used to share internet from smartphones.

Might need to change the MAC address and netblock to match the office one too, but entirely doable.

Operational excellency was always part of the job, regardless of what fancy term described it, be it DevOps, SRE or something else. The future of software engineering is software engineering, with emphasis on engineering.

Not really. The forging pan-European nation composed of many nationalities is a thing in all meaningful contexts. European civilization, European economy, European products, European voters etc.

Not really, no. Europe is neither a sovereign state nor a single political entity. It's a continent composed of many individual nations with a versatile history.

I mean sure, your example shows that the virtue of being "European" represents a certain demographic and a sovereign territory. Again, it's a continent, so what?

Probably never... European nations rather seem to enjoy forming Unions, Agreements and Organizations.

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