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I mean, if you're motivated enough you can decompile the binaries. They don't lie at the end of the day.

APKs are pretty easy to decompile as well with existing reverse engineering tooling, fwiw.

I wouldn't necessarily read too much into this.

I think most people's aversions to the concept of IPOs stems from the fact that it lies at the end of the not-too-uncommon lifecycle of VC-backed companies:

• Get VC investment
• Subsidize your product using said investment
• Grow like hell on account of handing out things at a too-low price
• Prepare for IPO by worsening the deal for customers to improve financials (also known as enshittification)
• Use IPO money to pay off VCs and leave both them and founders with a large chunk of money

Post-IPO the company has to abide by the regular rules of being a company, meaning that they never really re-capture what it was like when they had a large stack of free money to make all deals sweeter than the competition.

All this to say is that the damage is done once you raise VC capital. Raspberry Pi has raised one fairly small round, so there's potentially some damage done there, but it's way less than your average tech startup did throughout the years, so this doesn't necessarily have to mean that everything will go to hell now.

Google IPO'd back in 2004. Do you really consider that to be the pivotal point in Google's history?

Reddit hasn't even IPO'd yet.

That's the intent - it's a layoff in disguise, with a discount on the severance package.

It's definitely not as pleasant, and the required prep has led to a culture of not biking during winter conditions in many places.

Ice is often not a problem with studded tires - it can be, but it's rarely been my primary concern when out and about. Loosely packed snow - the kind where you sink down a bit - has been far more problematic.

Salt is a double-edged sword in many ways. It will corrode your bike a lot faster, so being good about cleaning becomes more important in winter, and you might want to have a separate winter-bike for the purpose. Salt improves road conditions as far as bikes are concerned though, making it on balance a good thing for the winter biker.

Snow banks narrowing the road surface is also a bit problematic in some places, in particular where there is no bike infrastructure in place. Taking the lane can be necessary in some cases.

It's not strictly speaking impossible to bike in below-freezing temperatures, although I'll concede that it's definitely not as fun as it is in spring/summer/autumn-conditions. It requires winter tyres and dressing approximately the same as for comparable winter sports, with more emphasis on warmer dressing for the extremeties. Hands in particular are very exposed when riding in winter, doubling up the gloves is a wise choice.

Note that winter biking doesn't have to replace every trip to be useful - I don't commute by bike in the current conditions, as transit is just a much better alternative during this season. I still use my bike to go shopping and for some other trips, further supporting the possibility of not having to own a car.

That's a car problem, solved by the removal of said cars.

I wouldn't say that this was truly a last in/first out-situation, on account of them claiming the firing was performance-related. Any quality of last in/first out is also probably accidental in this case, if my understanding of tech company layoffs is more or less correct.

You could just do what other parts of the world do and prohibit firing without cause, and introduce some rules for how businesses are allowed to lay off when the need to reduce headcount arises. Last-in/first-out could be one such rule - it's what we have in Sweden.

Though, it makes me wonder how much better cities fair, as I'm not so sure they're doing much better being able to afford covering the costs of all their crumbling infrastructure.

That's going to depend on density. Higher densities means more people paying for the same amount of infrastructure, leading to better affordability.

It's also going to depend on the type of infrastructure - car infrastructure scales hilariously poorly, while transit generally becomes better when you add more riders.

I'm mildly partial to 'Global Weirding' - with more energy in the system, the weirder the weather becomes.

I've got 12 km to work, a bit hilly, takes a bit under 30 minutes in favorable conditions. Parts of it have good bicycle infrastructure and parts of it do not. It's the best alternative for me during spring, summer and autumn, but I'm currently not biking during winter as transit becomes too good of an alternative for biking to make sense.

I'd say that 17 km is doable, but compare it to your alternatives of course. Note that you don't have to bike every day either, it can be a few days a week for the fun of it/for the exercise.