I think they might build a cloud offering. Something like Cloudflare workers but AI centric, perhaps running Swift on the Apple equivalent of V8 isolates.
Makes sense from a business perspective - there's significant growth potential for them as their presence in web tech is approximately nil.
>> Lowering the data protection of it's citizens in comparison to the rest of the world. I was under the impression governments were supposed to protect their citizens.
This depends on whether you see "citizens" as individuals or as a group.
In other words it's possible that to improve the security (and thus protect) the majority, the rights of individual citizens need to be eroded.
For example, to protect vulnerable citizens from crime (the cliche of child porn is useful here, but it extends to most-all crime) it's useful for prosecutors to be able to collect evidence against guilty parties. This means that the erosion of some privacy of those parties.
Thus the govt balances "group security" with "individual privacy". It has always been so. So to return to your original hypothesis;
>> Lowering the data protection of it's citizens in comparison to the rest of the world.
... and also, making it easier to detect and prosecute criminals, and thus protect the citizens from physical harm.
Now, of course, whenever it comes to balancing one thing against another, there's no easy way to make everyone happy. We all want perfect privacy, coupled with perfect security. Some will say that they'll take more privacy, less security - others will take more security and less privacy. Where you stand on this issue of course depends on which side you lean.
More fundamentally though there's a trust issue. Citizens (currently) do not trust governments. They assume that these tools can be used to harm more than just criminals. (They're not wrong.) If you don't trust the govt to act in good faith then naturally you choose privacy over security.
"also, making it easier to detect and prosecute criminals, and thus protect the citizens from physical harm."
Did this happen though? Whilst I agree with your philosophy, in reality the UK government are no closer to lawfully accessing our data, but our data are less protected from potential other threats (e.g. unlawful access to a data centre, rogue Apple employees).
It's what actually happened as opposed to the government intention that matters to the people affected.
So my statement "Lowering the data protection of it's citizens in comparison to the rest of the world" still stands, and I'd add "whilst the UK government achieved absolutely zero in its quest to lawfully access individual's data".
I'm a bit surprised you didn't mention inflammation management. The western diet almost entirely consists of inflammatory foods - refrigerated dough, packaged snacks, burgers etc.
Whilst my tennis elbow is probably caused by poor ergononics and not warming up properly before exercising, I'm finding tiger milk mushroom, a known anti-inflammatory [1] is helping a great deal.
In my case I didn't find much impact from diet and any blood tests I did showed no signs of inflammation. Though as I mentioned closer to the end of the post, I think generally focussing on your health (and I'd include diet in this) is always good. Most things might not have an impact but something often will.
Working on a Swift project which is integrating an irreplaceable C++ library, this is really interesting.
My immediate thoughts are: would it be possible to interface with Carbon from Swift, delegating things like memory management of C++ objects to Carbon?
What I know as a developer is web security is really hard. Last week there was a DOM clobbering gadget deep in my TypeScript world and I really didn't have the energy to understand who wants to clobber my DOM and why they need a gadget. I want to build stuff and what worries me is this stuff is just simply not foreseeable.
DOM security is a completely different beast from process isolation with WASM (in a web context or otherwise). The attack surface is vastly greater, due to the much larger API complexity.
Turing and Champernowne coded Turochamp by hand in 1948, but never executed it on a computer. The instructions were however executed with Turing as the computer:
I wonder about this, while living and working in SF gives you the networking opportunities, surely building a pure tech company can be done from anywhere? Cost of living is vastly different even inside the US, moreso in the EU, and a digital nomad can live and work from anywhere.
Makes sense from a business perspective - there's significant growth potential for them as their presence in web tech is approximately nil.
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