Believe it or not but I’ve seen the mobile apps be required to use totally different abstraction layers than websites, usually due to different authentication and access management methods.

“Back-end” is often relative when talking about these old systems. There are sometimes multiple layers of abstraction with different business logic built into each layer.

It’s fixable of course, but it is costly to unwind 30-40 years of bad technical decisions made by business people who never understood the systems they were making decisions for.

I might know the answer to your last point. I have experience working with financial services and large old institutions.

In short the front end is likely lighting fast and lightweight but the services it relies are incredibly old and outdated. Like mainframes running COBOL old. There is likely some abstraction but there are also likely literal decades of technical debt. Sometimes a call to understand what should be simple like what accounts does this client have might need to call multiple legacy systems that were integrated over the course of multiple acquisitions.

Slackware in 1998 I think, from a cd that came in a book I bought while in university.

It didn’t stick, but it demystified it and I’ve used a lot of flavours of *nix since then.

I remember not being able to get sound to work at all on my pentium computer.

Ya, I’m a lefty city dweller who also happens to be a gun owner. If you have gone through what it takes to get your license I believe most people will realize that the rules are fine.

Edit: pre the most recent liberal bans I mean. The total ban on handguns and specific scary black guns is quite ridiculous. I own an SKS and I’m just waiting for it to be banned.

Now I have also been to several ranges where I meet morons and start to question if they should own guns, but I’m not worried about them committing crimes, I’m just worried about accidents.

Those will help a bit and sound good, but will take decades to bring down costs, if at all.

They also do nothing to prevent investors from buying up all of the land. My main criticism against it vs the liberal plan is that they have no restrictions on the tax reduction on ALL sales of homes.

This is a good benefit for individuals, but a massive benefit to investors. Why they wouldn’t limit it to only primary residences boggles my mind.

He liberals limit it to first time home buyers which has its own problems (prevents downsizing for seniors etc), but it is much better than the cons plan.

I should also say that I believe the only way out of the housing crisis is significant tax reform, specifically a revenue neutral land tax that is very heavy based on what the owner could get by renting the land, but gets equally distributed back to the people.

I don’t see anything that stops investors from buying the homes to rent out. Without it we’re bound to continue to move towards effectively feudalism.

The only thing I have heard of that will actually solve this long term is a heavy cost neutral land tax. Tax the land for the value you can get for renting it and then redistribute the tax income equally back to the people.

I agree that the liberal record in housing is terrible, but looking at the conservative proposed policies I believe they will only make things worse. It’s like it is designed to sound good but enrich investors.

Do we know if it is even possible for another company to take over starlink infrastructure ? These are satellites. It’s not like they’re cables in the ground.