> Swift is better for writing UI and servers and some parts of compilers and operating systems.

For UI, why would anyone choose a language that has no automatic GC that can handle cycles?

weak delegates seem to work fine...?

ARC doesn't do cycles, but it is deterministic and more power efficient than GC.

Licenses mean nothing if AI training on your data is fair use, which courts have yet to determine.

You can have a license that says "NO AI TRAINING EVER" in no uncertain terms and it would mean absolutely nothing because fair use isn't dictated by licenses.

What's the point of changing the license? It will be scrapped anyway.

'The only winning move is not to play' - stop contributing to OSS.

Yes, how can we verify this? Who says three-letter agencies have no access?

Yeah if in the 80s they had to change a law to prevent children from taking their TV to school, everybody would be scratching their heads.

How about a drone system that IS the wheels.

Much better idea. Like a flying roller cart

It can be reused.

This is so far removed from today's politics where the electorate seems to have switched off their brains.

> There should be a law that says that X% of the building costs should be in the facade

Cities solve this with design requirements and through the approval process. Specifying a minimum spend isn’t going to make the buildings look nice by itself. You’d just get weird budget games being played.

Cities with restrictive planning commissions can push buildings toward certain looks. People get angry about it, though, because it gets harder and more expensive to build things in an era where it’s already too expensive to build.

> Cities solve this with design requirements and through the approval process.

Yes I didn't say they have to get rid of existing procedures.

That sounds like a recipe for skimping on safety and design systemically. No thank you. You can’t legislate aesthetics, and there’s already a huge incentive to make buildings look great. People already spend a lopsided amount on the facade making it look better than it is, rather than spending on where they should: foundation, structure, good design, and longevity. In my city, apartment buildings used to require steel structures and lawmakers relaxed the requirement so they went back to wood because it’s cheaper. Now the new ones look great but they’re burning down and falling apart at higher rates than before.

> In my city, apartment buildings used to require steel structures and lawmakers relaxed the requirement so they went back to wood because it’s cheaper. Now the new ones look great but they’re burning down and falling apart at higher rates than before.

Are you in Denver?

Nope, but I’m not surprised if this is widespread… :(

True, except when the chairmaker has to make many times the same chair it becomes less relevant.

This raises some questions:

* Does the spec become part of the repository?

* Does "true open source" require that?

* Is the spec what you edit?