A few aspects of this article are strange or not well expressed.
Why does it matter if Cathedral follows some bug bounty rules? Black hats don't follow rules.
And IMO the citation about acting irresponsible when a company "relies on conventional business software" is taken out of context and is about AI safety, not a vulnerability in Slack.
Until I saw this I was wondering where Switzerland and Belgium got there cocoa from, because I have never seen a tree growing in either country, and one is always hearing about Swiss and Belgium chocolate.
“For most people, tulips, windmills, and bike lanes spring to mind when they think of the Netherlands. But most people would be surprised to learn that the Netherlands ranks first in the world as an exporter of cocoa products, recently overtaking neighboring Germany.
The Netherlands recorded cocoa exports of 12.4 billion euros in 2025”
I would guess that’s a holdout from colonial times. Indonesia used to be a Dutch colony up till world war two. Might even date back to when there was a Dutch colony in Brazil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Brazil), but that page doesn’t mention cocoa, and I wouldn’t even know whether there was cocoa in Brazil at the time.
That's because Rotterdam is Europe's largest sea port. About half of our exports are actually re-exports that don't have their origin in the Netherlands.
Part of the flavor is the bean, how the fruit is grown and harvested. Part is how its processed, fermented, and maybe roasted, but the final step is usually that it is then sold and processed - melanged and conched and mixed to a desired flavor profile, and then turned into a form that is edible. So who's to say, really.
What is interesting is that the reason "US lenders fear chatbots could shift billions of dollars in deposits to higher-yielding accounts", and not securitty fears.
It's interesting. I remember around COVID, there were a bunch of startups building 3d printers for concrete housing. Then I looked up the actual cost of construction for a typical house, and only 14% of it was the most visible part (the balloon framing and physical house). Most of the cost is in foundations, plumbing, wiring, and things like insulation, flooring, cabinets, etc.
I guess at Microsoft coding is similar to building a house in that sense. Either that or all big orgs devolve into large amounts of time spent on politics.
90% of my time these days is trying to understand what the wall of claudeslop jira ticket is actually asking for. It's like archeology digging for the original customer issue to work out what is actually wanted underneath paragraphs of root cause load bearing seams.
Yes, as I understand it the population growth of the arable community is far faster than the hunter gatherers. This is because hunter gatherers often did not wean children off breast milk until they were 5, whilst arable farmers breast fed there children only up to 1 year.
Farms yield more food than forest of course as well. But what is more, the whole math of children changes between hunter gatherers and farmers. For hunter gatherers, more mouths in the tribe are a liability. Everything has now gotten harder. What few game species and edible plants in the area have not changed in number and are being demanded further.
For agriculture societies however, the planting is easy. Harvest and processing is the challenge. Tendency is to therefore overplant and struggle to harvest it all unless some crop failure or other catastrophe befalls. This keeps you in a pattern to avoid famine but also incentivizing constant population increase to handle harvest.
Now take it a step further and what might you do in times of low food output with excess males? Might be a good time for a war, spend down some of those males and maybe return some more arable land to alleviate food pressure in the remaining population. Maybe the agriculture chiefs of old didn't think in these terms so explicitly, but they are bound by these incentives and history seems to support this sort of model playing out over time.
Food. In Arable societies children could be weened onto porridge or milk from cows. Food that hunter gatherers survived on is less digestible for babies.
So you would get higher population growth in Arable societies but not necessarily healthier.
Better engine design, for one. For example, if you have a truck division which is making very high end turbos for high endurance applications, you can build a "split turbo" with a very long yet precisely balanced shaft between the compressor and the turbine, and route the piping the most efficient way to reduce penalties of routing air via bendy pipes, and have a more powerful engine than others.
Think raspberry pi on steroids that are on steroids that are on steroids.
It is primarily the hardware to software interface. It runs every feature in the car that converts software code into an out out voltage to do a thing. It is also how everyone interfaces with the car - teams, drivers, f1 tv, and even the race track itself.
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