It is also being ripped apart by external actors - Iran, Israel, France, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria, United States and I am probably missing others.
External actors, hmmm... I believe you mixed that up with internal actors like Hezbolla and others, who have a tight grip on the countries political system.
>Apple is the most environmentally responsible purveyor of mobile devices in the game
I would say that Apple devices are long lasting despite Apples best efforts to the contrary. In my country, India, at least, Apple charges absurd amounts for out of warranty repairs. 10 out of 10 cases i know, it would maker more economical sense to buy new rather than repair at authorized service centers. Sometimes the Apple service centers give the same advice.
Luckily the 3rd party networks provide good and affordable support for Apple phones at least. But Apple is fighting tooth and nail to shut these guys out. Pushing up the cost of repair with every new generation.
On laptops its worse. Apple is really pushing hard to shorten their useful life. Worst part is that they're setting the path for the rest of the industry to follow. Non-removable batteries, soldered RAM, CPU, SSDs, removing backward compatible ports, Use of adhesives, glass in place of screws - making repairs expensive and error-prone. List goes on and on..
“Site builders” like wix, Squarespace, etc. are basically all the same. They sandbox you into a selection of annoyingly rigid templates and a dumbed down UI and abstract the important stuff away.
Webflow is more of a “visual coding” platform. If you don’t know basic html/css you’ll have a hard time using it. It spits out static sites on the front end with proper readable html/css and SEO.
It’s a bit of a steep learning curve to get the hang of their UI but after a few hours, building things is insanely fast and you have control over everything.
I rebuilt my company’s entire site in it in about 4 hours and was blown away how easy it is to update things.
I’ve heard pretty much all YC companies are now using it to build their marketing sites because of this.
Interesting. Do you include websites built using SSGs like Hugo, Gatsby in your statement? Also, any tips on how you handle security (with minimal maintainence) and page-load performance in Wordpress?
Security is always the trade off, and I don't have any good answers to that problem (aside regular maintenance).
The websites I'm thinking about, though, tended to be marketing websites ('microsites') for large consumer brands, that really didn't do a great deal functionally, and didn't need particularly robust security in the grand scheme of things.
I haven't made CPUs before ( I am guessing you have?), so I am not sure of what you are implying. Are you saying that CPU technology is as easy or copy-able like a javascript framework? I can see that ISA would be copy-able. But what about a modern implementation?
CPU design is a mature field that has been studied extensively. I've thrown together a few toy CPUs, and studied some F/OSS RISC-V designs. New tricks are still being developed for modern software workloads and modern constraints (low-power is key now, whereas before other things might have been priority), but architecture things really haven't changed much since the 90s.
My comparison with JS frameworks comes from my perception that CPU designs are all, kinda, the same. There are also a million ways to do things, but the core principles are obvious to people who study CPU design.
The idea that the Facebook has a direct data pipeline into Jio's 370 million subscribers and vice versa and that Jio has a direct pipeline to the Indian govt. is a very frightening thought.
Anil Ambani's firm was chosen as an offset partner by Dassault, not by the Government.
"Chosen". As in forced to chose by the Indian govt. We know this because the French President literally said so in an interview.
“We did not have a say in this,” Mediapart quoted Mr Hollande saying. “It was the Indian government that proposed this service group, and Dassault negotiated with Ambani. We did not have a choice. We took the interlocutor that was given to us.”
No, chosen means "chosen" in this context. Reliance defense is only one of the many offset partners. There is a long list of them. Did the government strong-arm Dassault to go with all of them? Something tells me that Dassault will have much better things to do.
French government said that there was no pressure on them. In such an important matter, I am more likely to believe the government than a news agency I have never heard of.
>The reason cited was that it was not the government who was responsible to choose an Indian partner for the “offset clause” of the deal, it was Dassault who entered into a JV with Anil Ambani’s company.
Because the Indian govt. forced Dassault to deal with Ambani. We know this because the French President literally said so.
“We did not have a say in this,” Mediapart quoted Mr Hollande saying. “It was the Indian government that proposed this service group, and Dassault negotiated with Ambani. We did not have a choice. We took the interlocutor that was given to us.”
