Avgas (100LL) isn’t banned yet. What is banned, starting may 2025, is importing or mixing the lead additive (TEL) itself, so avgas cannot be produced in Europe.

This means that avgas will have to be imported from elsewhere, which should raise its price and provide an incentive to move away from using it.

This is a very soft handed approach, I’ll just say I’m very glad I don’t live close to an airfield…

Edit: jet fuel doesn’t contain lead. Only piston engine aircraft use this fuel.

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As a software house, running our own infrastructure would be a nightmare in so many ways… Just thinking of all the hardware that needs to be deployed, and how many sites worldwide we’d need just to provide the same level of service we have now, and then being able to scale up massively during peak time but have all that capacity go to waste during low season, then dedicated teams on all sites to handle emergencies 24/7, the massive loses of revenue anytime the services are down…

“Just in-house it” is definitely not the answer, there’s a reason AWS makes so much money.

Thanks for the straight answer, brother.

Brother. I work in a company with 10k workers. The company loses thousands of dollars per second of downtime, if it’s something that affects the availability of the main page or the checkout process.

If that happens during the peak season, it could be hundreds of thousands per second.

With those kinds of stakes, you don’t just jerry rig your hosting, and very frequently, you don’t take your chances with in-housing.

You put it in one of the big 3, because they don’t fail, and if they do fail you, you sue their ass.

This is surprisingly myopic from someone who supposedly works in the field.

Where do your full stack applications run, my friend?

Because unless you’re in China or Russia, the answer is either AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

Nobody is looking to reinvent the wheel. The call is for the EU to invest heavily in infrastructure, like building its own chips, creating its own data centres, and yes, developing its software industry to provide alternatives to all the proprietary/closed stuff.

12 weeks paternity leave at 85% salary? Damn, that’s sweet, even by many EU standards.

I wouldn’t think twice about taking it.

I’m a firm believer that hardware must never be linked to any sort of subscription to function. If it does, then it’s because the hardware only serves as a way to access the content, but in that case, it must allow competition between providers for that content.

If I buy something, it’s mine. No one should be allowed to dictate how I use it, I want to be free to do what I want with it.

What the heck are you on about. That’s the worst possible solution to this, are you some sort of masochistic?

If Siri is something that needs to be paid for, don’t bundle it with the system. Charge extra from the start, and people can opt in to that shit.

Also, they run a massively profitable software store, and THAT is what justifies and pays for the bug fixing and security patches to the overall OS.

The “cell a year” practice isn’t to cover development costs, it’s to bring in massive profit by milking the consumeristic herd that buys their crap.

Well, they do feel warm to the touch, but bananas only grow in warm and humid climates, so everything feels that way.

Thank you for the analysis, very insightful!

Do you reckon this is more of an oversight or bug in the BT stack, or a deliberately places backdoor as the title seems to suggest?

That’s not what this is, and even then, that competition wasn’t even good. You had two countries hoarding technological advancements for themselves, with everything having to be discovered twice.

This is a worldwide collaboration, where each assists the others, and it’s a much better way of making progress. See ITER.

Very irresponsible by King then:

https://bsky.app/profile/stephenking.bsky.social/post/3liazdbpm6c2o

Go take some project management courses or whatever, you’re the one bitching instead of doing anything, you figure it out.

They need your planning skills then. Go help.

Irrelevant.

This has got to be the most American thing ever, expecting there’s some hero that’s going to save the day.

Go out and be one yourself.

If you want to do something you’ll find a way. If not you’ll find an excuse.

At least be honest with yourself…

My hot take: yes it’s perfectly acceptable.

You are only partly correct when you say “cruelty doesn’t change minds”. I’ll up that and say that you cannot change the mind of a jackass who buys cyber trucks, no matter what you do.

What you do is show them that there are consequences to their choices, that they’re not somehow immune like they think they are on Facebook or on their preferred social media echo chamber.

And if that doesn’t change their minds or makes them consider their choices much more carefully, then they fucking deserve it.

EDIT: also, that’s written in the dirt, isn’t it? Is that what we call vandalism nowadays? What do you call it when the french burn a few cars down when protesting, a world war? Just go wash the shame off, you slob…

taste a lot like soda water to the non-american beer drinker that is used to a lot more body and/or bitterness.

This right here, you’ve nailed it exactly!

Otherwise described as “tastes like piss”, they usually taste like a watered down version of a proper beer.

It’s like being used to freshly squeezed orange juice, then someone comes along and adds half a cup of water and a bit of sugar because it’s “too acidic” or something.

Yes but that’s from a company that builds decent cards at an acceptable price, and not from the HypeLords of the Lesser Return on Investment Unless You’re a Farm.

(Getting ready for the downvotes!..)