How many female mechanical engineers do you know? What about simply women who vaguely understand or are interested in how a car works? How many women have you been with?
Even though I'm probably "one of those people", I still understand that exceptions exist. I think it's perfectly possible that a woman could design some original piece of technology or solve difficult mechanical problems. I just think it's very unlikely because most of them are not interested in doing it.
So far the comments suggest that no, nobody has. They are all of the form "it must be OK or they wouldn't do it", ie. the phenomenon where adults think someone else is looking after them.
That is the worst thing to happen to Web browsers that I can remember. When I type an address into that bar, I expect the browser to attempt to contact the server I specify. I do not expect it to decide that what I typed was a search term and send me off to Google.
Firefox had actual quick searches in the address bar years before. That is where you prefix what you type with something that unambiguously says where you want to search (e.g. I've had Wikipedia set up for many years now, I type "wp <search term>"). Having a separate search box, as Firefox always had as far as I can remember, has its virtues too as the box stays around between page loads.
Searching in the address bar does nothing but serve Google by making people forget about urls and having all Web access routed through them.
It means that if someone says something controversial and you get upset, it's your problem, not theirs. Basically, it will be the type of discussion that adults have always been having together.
Banks are not like a giant piggy bank with your savings in it. They create money when they create loans. They're not protecting "your money" with things like this, they are protecting their profits.
By "someone else's" you surely mean "the bank's money". I don't think individuals are going to benefit from this, just a few large players around the world.
I read this thinking it might be interesting because I'm organising a book club at work. But it's more "how to make a safe space". No. My book club will not be a safe space, it is open to everyone who reads the book.
In terms of undoing, I use git and I could undo it with just a few keystrokes. As for the refactoring, yeah, you're right, that stuff would be difficult. I'll keep it in mind if I ever do need to do that stuff. It hasn't happened yet, though.
I don't think a website can decide to use public key pinning can it? But the client/browser can. Google won't let you route their traffic through a proxy (chrome does public key pinning for Google).
Yes, I think it's absolutely about securing profits. I've been downvoted to oblivion before when speaking out against it on HN before, though, so it may already be too late to stop this.
Even though I'm probably "one of those people", I still understand that exceptions exist. I think it's perfectly possible that a woman could design some original piece of technology or solve difficult mechanical problems. I just think it's very unlikely because most of them are not interested in doing it.