You are presuming that people are monogamous up until their divorce when infidelity is one of the top reasons for divorce.

Is it that uncommon for people to be monogamous?

I mean, that's also exactly what you would say if you had a $150M offer on the table, had received a lot of push back and were now just checking the waters and waiting to consolidate your position.

I just had flash backs to a previous job where I was brought in to optimize another teams builds since they were now taking minutes instead of seconds.

I tracked it down to a folder with thousands of C++ files called things like uint_to_int.cc and inch_to_cm.cc and cm_to_m.cc. Basically the developer in charge of writing the conversion library took our typed units library and autogenerated a C++ file for every possible conversion the application might need to make.

Every time we added a new typed unit it would create another couple of dozen files to be compiled.

> There's an alternative: Android. I'm perfectly free to use that instead. I don't.

I think this is my entire problem with most of these conversations. When they say "The walled garden has to end." ... they mean "YOUR walled garden has to end.".

I also like the Walled Garden. Do I think Apple should be able to charge more than Stripe? No.

I wish they would stop conflating the gate keeping price to enter the walled garden being too high with the wall garden and the gate being a moral wrong.

Apparently, the market can bear Apple charging more than Stripe. Hell, Stripe's business model is just moneychanging at its core; at least Apple can make an argument that they do more than that.

A friend of mine works beside one of the Eglinton line sites and called me a few years ago to tell me they were taking down the hoardings... because the hoardings had rotted and needed new plywood and studs.

Yeah, the blue lines under a random word in a perfectly correct sentence is such a waste of time ... did I mistype? Nope.

Yeah, something happened a few months ago where by iOS I'm now "hitting" the wrong key a lot, words like we'll and we're are constantly being automatically "corrected" to well and were and, most frustrating, it will auto"correct" the last word in a sentence from what is on the screen when you hit send. It went from almost always helpful to often frustrating.

My “favorite” version of the last issue is trying to acknowledge with “K” which inevitably becomes “I”.

Oh they TRY to ... it's just that the "non-technical unqualified people" get brought to heal (usually) by regulations. I've been in the room where people have tried to force a decision and a PEng, Lawyer, or CA/CPA had to say "absolutely not". It happens all the time, which is why you NEED regulations.

> We can build huge things like airliners, massive bridges and buildings without starting small.

We did start small with all of those things. We developed rigorous disciplines around engineering, architecture, material sciences. And people died along the way in the thousands[0][1]

People are still dying from those failures; The Boeing 737 MAX 9 crash was only two years ago.

> Incremental makes less sense to me when you want to go to mars.

This is yet another reason why a manned Mars mission will be exceedingly dangerous NOT a strike against incremental development and deployment.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_building_and_structure...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

All the sites that I'm personally aware of are either NOT behind Cloudflare, are large and targeted, or are behind Cloudflare because they have actually experienced a DDOS attack(s). I don't know of anyone that is just sticking themselves behind Cloudflare willy-nilly.