Let’s start with “what would happen” and run the experiment instead of starting with “they could probably”.

> Where it actually breaks

I had a sensible chuckle when I got to this part. This kind of article "____ is all you need" is like another case of Betteridge's Law of Headlines. The answer is "that's not true" every time.

"Latent" is another one, as in "latent bug" or in one particularly odd case "latent twin".

Reading this made me ill. Nice job!

My allergy to Claudish is also rapidly progressing. I think it’s now at a boundary that is genuinely worth exploring. Oh no!

Here are some. I typed them just for you.

It's a hedge against the risk of the current government. Leaving a bunch here is part of the hedge. It's not as "multifaceted" as you're making it out to be.

Hey, I’m simply echoing what the Dutch government said. I’m taking them at face value since the Dutch are pretty direct.

The Dutch are pretty direct but not to Donald Trump, who has a famously thin skin and can cause a huge European crisis with a single tweet.

You have to see all European diplomacy through that lens. Everybody’s tiptoeing around the orange idiot’s feelings and meanwhile working hard to make sure we’re never again so dependent on a country that’s so untrustworthy. This gold move is one of the many little steps taken in that direction.

You could make the argument that leaving gold there also leaves them ammunition for later. The threat of removing the rest is also a useful tool. Personally I'd be getting out of all US bond holdings and investments and making sure the banks are limiting exposed too, well personally I have. Keeping investments in the US, in US debt is just irresponsible at the moment.

Yes, there is a post that made the rounds not long ago entitled Taste Is All That's Left: https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left

Knowing what not to do has always been important, but it is perhaps more important than ever.

Taste, judgment, and wisdom.

Aka “actual deep understanding”.

This reminds me of a story I heard (read?) a long time ago. At Disney World they had a rule about a garbage can being within a 10 foot distance of basically anywhere in the park. The logic was that when a garbage can is nearby, there is additional social pressure not to litter, and the result was that they were able to save money on park cleanup because people used the cans.

When I see lone overflowing garbage cans in big cities I think about this.

This is kind of a shallow assessment of "slowness". Slowness is a feeling, not a fact. Network is slow as a rule relative to other parts of the stack, but it is not usually what contributes to the feeling that your software is slow. It takes a good amount of incompetence and arrogance to cultivate that particular experience.

Fair, it's shallow because I was succinct however, I do understand the problem space more in depth than this.

But if I were to pick one single thing that would speed up the most UIs across the board, it would be poor handling of the UI in networked systems. As you noted, that doesn't mean eliminating them, it means handling the inevitable in a way that doesn't tank the UI feel.

True, dev environments are fast. One dev implements a wrapper with roundtrips, another integrates it into a UI and no-one stops to think if it'll have terrible lag in practise. They don't notice so even if there's a ticket it'll starve and end up WONTFIX.

Somehow I don't think I'm the only one who presses a button and when nothing happens presses it repeatedly until something happens, or I kill the app, or even power off whatever piece of shit computer I'm using.

I agree, but it won’t be because we can’t do it. It will be easier than ever to achieve, but of course money for the tokens to do it will go toward some other aspect of the business. That the products get worse seems to be the rule.