They’re all paying each other. That’s literally the point this image is trying to express.

What’s especially insane is that the companies that are actually providing the service to end users, i.e. Coreweave et al, are not the ones seeing massively inflated prices, contrary to your point about the monthly fees justifying the higher evaluation.

I would be ashamed of myself and be tempted to leave the industry in disgrace if setting up DDNS and allowing a single port through a firewall took me 45 minutes.

Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.

It’s exaggerated. I’m from Newfoundland and have little to no regional accent, but still have very slight grammatical and phonetic tells that are apparently obvious to people from elsewhere.

I use more long “O” sounds than people in the US which is apparently obvious almost immediately, and I have some odd grammar whitch apparently singles me out as from NL very quickly to anyone in Canada.

Also, apparently the way I say “thirteen” has a stronger hint of Newfoundland in it than the rest of my speech, at least according to one of my co-workers from Ontario.

It’s quite possible that having such a wide ranging family same social circle has simple acclimated you to the various regional differences in dialect.

Reddit had no monetary cost.

It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.

Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Since you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.

*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m sorry, did you just “no actually” someone who was espousing books as disconnected entertainment?

I honestly cannot tell which side you’re trying to argue for here.

Encryption and hashing are different things. You can’t get the original back out of a secure hash. They’re used only to confirm that whatever piece of data you have now matches the one that was provided originally, because they produce the same hash. You can’t store hashes for any data that you ever want to be able to read.

I know that sounds ridiculous, since I can “simply not use them,” but I want to spend my money on an appliance, not a consumer data collection tool.

For what it’s worth you’re actually spending the manufacturer’s money (or at least some of their profit margin) on a data collection device that they won’t get to use.

Smart devices are cheaper because the data collection subsidizes them.

I won’t stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.

Compute will become pervasive, as in Windows experiences are going to use a combination of capabilities that are local and that are in the cloud.

…what does Davuluri think “pervasive” means?

I’m in exactly the same boat. Five linux machines in the house plus two windows gaming rigs, mine and my partners.

It goes a layer further than that even. If the rate at which that growth is happening isn’t itself growing then investors start getting nervous.

Ah, if you need to build a .NET project that makes sense

Nuget is a the .NET package manager. Like npm or pip, but for .NET projects.

If you needed it for a published application that strikes me as fairly strange.

While desalination does need a lot of energy it’s dealing with the waste brine that’s the bigger problem when actually planning one. You can’t just dump it back into the ocean without killing a huge swathe of marine life.

I’m not sure why you’re taking a oppositional tone. To be clear I’m complaining, not trying to justify it.

Literally no one I work with likes Teams but we keep using it because that’s just what we do. Other options basically don’t exist simply by virtue of being either not Microsoft or not overwhelmingly the market leader.

This was my very first thought as well. The first section of almost every Wikipedia article is already a summary.

I stand corrected