Their previous lock-downs were on the hardware level, not offering ISA slots and stuff. The original Mac (then Mac+ and classic) had no expansion slots at all, and they started adding them only later.

ADB ports only finally went away when USB came out. But I do have to give Apple credit, because those fruity-colored iMacs with the hockey puck mouse, that had only USB ports... those are really what got USB to become fully adopted. PCs had USB ports for a while before those came out, but nobody made any peripherals, probably because Windows had really crappy support for it... Once those fruity iMacs were released, then came the flood of USB stuff.

Exactly. After the Apple II, it was a post-Woz world. There’s a reason Apple owns so many patents on proprietary types of screws...

>Also, does Nasdaq think it's worth killing the reputation of their index for the spacex listing?

If I had to guess, they are banking on the meme-factor. Tesla is already seriously overvalued IMO b/c it's the first real meme-stock. Now, they are learning lessons from the FTX-invented low-float meme-tokens in crypto and replicate the model in stocks. The story around SpaceX with it's valid successes makes for a very good meme-stock.

So, they hope that people actually want SpaceX exposure no matter what and do not understand how cancerous those low-flow/high-FDIV launches are.

Yes, you can sell and buy a different index. However, those who buy ETFs want broad market exposure without picking stocks (or ETFs). Also selling and re-buying means you have to pay taxes now - depending on jurisdiction, that is way worse than holding till you are retired and then selling.

SpaceX/Nasdaq want to distort the rules to make more money off the backs of those passive investors.

If you sell and then rebuy isn’t that considered a wash trade and therefore exempt from taxes?

Some EU member states are bordering Russia, of course they are afraid the next war will be on their soil.

>But does a military really need that many to get the necessary capability?

No. The German army wants a constellation of initially 40, and later just over 100 satellites. They do not want or need to replicate the massive Starlink numbers.

The numbers just don't add up there. With just 40-100 satellites they need to be GEO, and this means crappy transfers, big lags (200-300 absolute minimum, more 500ms), and most importantly - big, power hungry antennas.

It's a PR project to calm people down, not a real solution.

I built an agentic framework that distills ADRs from Teams meetings where everyone discusses freely. Works surprisingly well to record the WHY without someone having to do the job.

Do people discuss detail on Teams in your company? In my place it turns into calls..

Teams calls. I let Teams transcribe it and parse the transcription via AI.

Sounds pretty cool. Is this published?

No, b/c I did so on company time. And it's old industry, they wouldn't open-source it.

But it took ~2 weeks with the help of Claude, so relatively easy to replicate.

>I want my brain to be strong in old age, and I actually love to write code unlike 99% in software apparently (like why did you people even start doing this career.. makes no sense to me).

I am old now, and the unfortunate truth is that my brain isn't working as fast or as precise as when I was young. LLMs help me maintain some of my coding abilities.

It's like having a non-judgemental co-coder sitting at your side, you can discuss about the code you wrote and it will point out things you didn't think of.

Or I can tap into the immense knowledge about APIs LLMs have to keep up with change. I wouldn't be able to still read that much documentation and keep all of this.

To an extend, AI can help with explaining what the code does. So, computer says why it says "no".

Or says random stuff pretending it is the reason.

And who is going to pay for that? Pretty sure it's going to be neither Russia, China, Saudi Arabia nor the USA.

Wait, which part is China and which is Europe? Solar didn't win in China because of social pressure, but also not because of market forces. It did win because the CCP made energy independence a political goal.