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barrier to entry what? to entry having some (seemingly) working code has lowered. But barrier to enter software marketplace with that has not -- that may have been only increased due to the supply pressure. Having working code was always the easier part, but knowing what to write, and what to do with that later is not solved by whatever coding improvements.

There are a few fundamental reasons: 1. at least iOs app privacy/sandboxing model makes sharing any data files pretty difficult, if impossible. I suspect Android has similar issue. 2. there is no such thing as "just map data" - every app has to do opinionated decision what they need in their maps data (e.g. aerials, elevation, choice of POIs, languages etc), how it gets styled (it makes requirements to actual data). And this is for just simple base map data, you have also routing, address search databases etc on top. So there is not much to share really, and not easy to share. Not even talking about huge challenge to standardize it. (I'm founder of Nutiteq, we also did FOSS SDKs for offline maps)

Author notes. Motivation and target: country detection can be certainly solved with standard tools eg PostGIS, with 3 prerequisites: 1) you know the stack (right formats, resolutions, CRSs, have operational database or certain suitable library properly setup), 2) you have good vector data 3) enough compute for potentially non-trivial task. With this domain-specific solution none of the three is needed - you just import a library (Python and JS provided) and call one method. It is compact (sub-MB datasets for minimal use in eg web browser, for much better accuracy optional ~10MB download) and order(s) of magnitude faster than generic point-in-polygon SQL queries (benchmarks are provided): ~1M lookups per second. No online, no DB servers needed etc.

Is there a browser plugin enabling to swap out any parts of a website/app with own ones? With prompt/vibe-based input, so any user can customize websites in any imaginable way. Maybe it should.

What developers and fellow Product Managers think of the attempt to redefine Scrum to be (even) better fit for the AI-empowered teams? And how these teams would be different?

Reactor h2o itself does not carry radiation, but any extra molecules in tend to do it, thats the reason why the water is as clean you can get, over-distilled. This by itself means that it is not potable (btw for disposal to environment it gets re-salinated), so they told the story of professor drinking it must be an urban myth. It is bad even for skin expose (swimming in it), but hopefully that worker got just a few seconds expose and is well. Source: training trip in a nuclear center.

And “chicken” in which one?

Not just energy cost, but also licensing cost of all this content…