It's more that any word where one has to slow down and insert extra time between syllables so that they are distinghishable and intelligible is a "poorly designed word". Otherwise, it starts blurring due to the lack of a consonant.
Spacex did launch a rocket with an electron interface...
In practice, though, V8 is the serious impementation. The interesting thing about C and C++ is that I don't know if any given dev is using Clang, GCC, or MSVC until I ask him. I know a JS dev is using V8.
It's interesting when you look at it from this perspective. AWS and other big IPv4 owners have a financial incentive to hold back IPv6 deployment in a convenient and scalable fashion, because that would quickly wipe out billions in value of a scarce resource. It's like some people who own NFA firearms: they support keeping the regulations because a lightning link isn't worth $15k without it, it's just a cheap piece of stamped sheet metal.
Edit: it's also an easy way to outcompete others; IPv4 space has become a huge capex for starting a cloud provider.
I'm somewhat inclined to agree at first glance. If I see unlimited, I expect to get the value. I only order the "unlimited free refills" coke if I'm going to sit and work somewhere for four or five hours, since it's otherwise pretty expensive. On the other hand, Backblaze doesn't price it's personal backup service like restaurants price "unlimited" coke. I've helped family and friends switch over from other services; some were so scammy they were charging thousands of dollars per year. As far as the average consumer is concerned, it's functionally unlimited in that the marginal gigabyte of data he backs up has no additional cost associated with it. I have a hard time calling that "Orwellian".
Edit: I just saw that another employee mentioned the largest customer is storing 430Tb. That's pretty darn unlimited for the price point.
Oh cool, thanks for commenting here. This is off-topic but I had a question from a post a few days back about google drive dropping unlimited storage. Someone mentioned that the economics just don't work long-term due to people who abuse it. How does this apply to Backblaze's unlimited backup service?
As far as the user is concerned, imessage does mostly operate with another "open" platform, SMS. Certain features don't work for apple users texting others, but core functionality is intact. This is also because apple innovated by creating those features while retaining SMS interoperability, and RCS didn't exist at the time.
I had similar issues and will say that quality varies wildly between models. I had a bunch of 9560s that all had awful problems (to the point of return) until I finally returned the last one and got a 9570 (I had done this enough times that the new model had come out.) It's had absolutely no issues.
I was always under the impression that this was the intent and was trying to imply that English was basically bastardized German. Is that not what Twain meant?
I don't really use google for anything; I never did, which probably made it easier than for those who had to switch. For e-mail I run a standard dovecot and postfix set up. For drive, I just scp files to a server. I don't take many photos or care. If I did, I suppose I'd just copy them over to my server as well. I run all of this stuff on a few old boxes at home (ancient laptops, old towers, what-have-you).
As a side question, to those who use google drive or similar, how do you stand it? I hate having to click through a bunch of dialogues to do stuff. Just being able to use a plain HTTP link is much better. I put stuff I want private in a directory that requires HTTP basic auth and it's so much easier. I can copy to/from on a phone by VPNing into my house and using a samba client. So much easier.
> collaborative work in "studios", basically reimagining the offices into collaborative/convening spaces that you go into from ~once/week to once a quarter depending on team/role.
Doesn't this also have the problem with neither flexibility nor community, especially for once a quarter? More importantly, this means that people now have to maintain their own home offices but still have to live close to a big city and pay the stupidly high costs associated with that.
You can find usbc ports exclusively on newer macbooks and ipads, which is pretty significant, and they also come on the desktop macs. I'm guessing it will appear in iphones at some point; I believe Apple was considering a switch for the latest iphones but backed out in May. It's reasonably likelt that the next models will drop the lightning mini.
In fairness to Apple, they didn't just make other ports for the sake of it. When lightning mini was made, it was objectively better than mini-USB. When magsafe was made, it was objectively better than barrel plugs (and for charging, it's still better than USB-C.) Now that the standards are better, Apple is slowly transitioning to USB-C, which is a standard.
I'm really hoping that soon I can use my mic without terrible audio. Though bluetooth is still glitchy as all get-out in Linux, and I don't know if that will ever change.
You're right that cultural attitudes towards such things are different, but as I said, my argument isn't really about number of deaths but values-based. I value liberty higher than life. I regard those that attempt to deprive others of their liberties to improve their sense of security as authoritarians who must be opposed, forcibly if necessary. My attitudes aren't really predicated on how many lives are lost.
The issue is not the fallout but the fact that a nuclear weapon cannot be targeted - it by its very nature and design harms innocent civilians. Compare that to a fierarm, which can obviously be directed one way or the other. It's the same reason I wouldn't load my concealed carry handgun with FMJ rounds.
I typically use less than 300MB for the same reason. It's too pricey for my taste, so I just use only a little bit when necessary. Honestly, waiting for wifi isn't that bad and I can download most of my work in advance.
No, I don't want to restrict ownership of howitzers. Though personally, I'd prefer an M61 vulcan. So no, I wouldn't say I'd restrict based on body count.
I certainly hope I'm not a dying breed, though the last few months have sadly made it appear that you may be right. I don't see why a sufficiently large number of people believing otherwise is a good argument against my position, though. While I'm certainly open to arguments to the contrary, my general worldview is simply that life is not the paramount value to be sought, but rather liberty instead.
Ahh, I love the McNuke argument. It's like "what about the roads" but for firearms policy. I've actually thought pretty hard about it, but no, I don't think so, and I believe my reason is consistent with the ideology I expressed above. The issue with nukes is that it's simply not possible to detonate one without causing collateral damage. Fallout, radiation poisoning, etc. So the government can in fact act to keep these externalities from harming others.
There's also the concern of immediate availability, i.e. if shark-derived squalene is available today and the plant-derived version takes time to scale, we can't just start using that if we want to mass-produce a vaccine very quickly.
I'd argue a fairer metric would probably be to compare gun deaths to car deaths; nearly twice as many people died to cars in 2019 [0] [1].
I definitely don't think Trump will be "Hitler 2.0". He probably won't even be in office after this election.
Again, however, my primary argument is normative and values-based. I'm not arguing that we only have gun rights because they don't kill x number of people. Even if a hundred thousand people were killed by mass shootings I wouldn't support gun restrictions. We don't restrict people's liberties because others break the law. The thing most gun grabbers miss and that most gun rights proponents won't say is that our primary value is liberty not saving more lives.
That doesn't matter. How many people does something have to be able to kill before being banned? The truck attack in France was deadlier than any mass shooting in America.
There are costs to freedom, including the potential for abuse. Just like predictive policing is wrong because it goes after those who haven't committed crimes, banning guns is wrong. The death of a ten, a hundred, a thousand, or more people doesn't justify restricting liberty. All guns ought to be legal.
If that was sarcasm, apologies. In a better world, I'd indeed assume it was, but social justice warriors have spoken to me in that manner with a straight face, and it's hard to know for sure.
I wasn't complaining about the use of the term, I was simply rebutting the parent's claim that the framing of "salesperson" as the deviant term rather than "salesman" was disingenuous given that "salesman" is the status quo.