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They could have hired me for 200k and I could not do this in a year. I do not have the context, and I do not know Zig or Rust, perhaps I could pick it up in a month, but I would be extremely slow.

All that really proves is that you’d be an astoundingly poor choice to hire. If you’re spending $200k on someone that doesn’t know at least two out of three (context, Rust, or Zig), you’re just burning money.

That’s not to say that experienced engineers familiar with the stack would or wouldn’t be able to do it in a year, but they’d certainly have a better shot at it.

It’s also not that this project sprung into thin air from a quick prompt and LLM magic… it was driven by a dedicated, highly talented, subject matter expert with extensive SWE background and extensive support from the leading experts in the world. You’ll continue to need someone to steer the ship, even in the Wal-Marts and Targets. An LLM is only ever as good as the input it’s given.

Apples/oranges/not my car, but I had a similar situation in my 2011 Impreza and was staring at a $3500 repair bill for the head gasket. If you get the work done, there’s a litany of other things you really ought to do while you’re there (water pump, belts, etc). Sure, it’s not a new engine, and it’s certainly less than a new engine would cost, but either would be nearly as much or more than the vehicle is actually worth. For a 16 year old vehicle, almost any repair other than basic tires/brakes/etc can be “fatal” if you’re not doing your own wrenching. If you do opt to pay, you’re gambling on what else might be lurking around the corner.

Fortnite was previously on iOS, at least until the events and lawsuit referenced in the main link. It’s kinda literally the entire point of the legal battle.

There really should be a legend somewhere, but in practice the amateur astronomy community has standardized on a convention that's more or less the same in color scheme and scale to the one reported here: https://djlorenz.github.io/astronomy/lp2020/colors.html.

You'll see the same scale in use at other light pollution sites, such as:

http://www.cleardarksky.com/maps/lp/large_light_pollution_ma...

https://www.lightpollutionmap.info

https://cires.colorado.edu/artificial-sky

The linked page completely omits that you’re not simply saving money by forgoing technical support; expert accounts are also Single Region instead of auto-replicated. You don’t find out about that detail until you visit the pricing page. Presumably that’s what actually accounts for the reduced price.

Cards on an Apple Watch are provisioned separately from those on a paired phone. They have different card numbers, and are provisioned as two separate passes, each with its own fraud control. Once a pass has been added to one Apple device, a reference token to that physical card is added to your iCloud account, which can be used to initiate the provisioning flow on other devices. Usually that token requires at least a CVV to prove possession, but may also require bank-issued OTP or phone call verification as well.

The Secure Enclave is small, but supported between 8 and 16 cards, depending on hardware. As of iOS 17, the atorage is based on actual space available and can store upwards of 30 cards on an iPhone 14.

A bit of context:

Apple devices had a hard limit on the number of cards that could be stored on the secure element, depending on hardware version. Originally it was a limit of 8 cards, while the latest devices could manage up to 16. Attempts to provision more than that number would fail until a user removed one of the existing cards.

iOS 17 seems to have removed the hard cap in favor of a more dynamic limit, based on actual space used. Depending on the mix of applets in use, it looks like the new functional limit is substantially higher than it was previously.

[Here's](https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/comments/144idjq/ios17_db10...) a Reddit thread with a bit more discussion and some additional screenshots of the new UI, including in English.

In ye olden days, Apple didn’t have its own mapping application, and Google Maps was the default map application for iOS. That changed in iOS 6 when Apple launched Apple Maps, users were defaulted to the inferior app. Google Maps wouldn’t launch its own standalone app on iOS for months (years?).

https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/26/the-apple-ios-6-maps-fiasc...