I don't think anybody was suggesting to remove benches and replace them with stairs.

The existence of stairs is not an attack on disabled people this time.

Right, but at least with the expensive machine, one is making a conscious decision to spend a certain, known amount.

Exactly. These people thought they were using the tech well. They weren't. I like stories of tech gone wrong as examples to learn from. I thought others might as well.

It doesn't seem to. My current place is all in on AWS and we have about 6 "DevOps" people dedicated to dealing with it all.

Last place we did pretty similar stuff with 3 data centers, all self hosted, self managed, mostly OSS stuff with about 6 sysadmins and way less hassle.

Batteries usually degrade. That's why people ask this question. We have all been carrying around phones with batteries that start to perform badly enough after a couple years that we end up buying a brand new phone.

Not everybody wants to buy a new phone every couple years, and not everybody agrees what a standard car lifetime is.

It's only 67% more. Practically the same price!

I have also never met a flat earther, or seen any discourse online that seems like such.

I am not convinced that they exist in nearly the kinds of numbers that folks like to suggest.

Just watch this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind_the_Curve

I recently managed to get my hands on a non-smart TV and bought a roku stand alone device for it. Mostly because the interface is simple and has been the same for years.

I prefer the moving fast and breaking things to stay away from our limited TV time.

I guess clear market winner depends on what one defines as market.

Anecdotally though, I have been working with medium sized startups in NYC that are heavily API driven for the last several years, and I haven't seen graphQL in production once. Not at my companies, nor in any external API we have interfaced with.

I will even go a step farther and day that I cannot recall a single time that another of the several dozens of devs or managers I have worked with has even mentioned the idea of using it.

I can only assume the market OP is referring to is a very specific one. I could make a guess or two, but wouldn't want to ruin the reader's enjoyment from doing the same.

I read mine also. The lender seemed way more surprised than I would have expected.

Then the title person later was like, "Almost all of this is standardized stuff. It's not really like you can negotiate it at this point."

Whatever, lady, I want to know what I'm signing, I want to see that this version matches the version I already signed last night (it didn't), and for half a million bucks, you can hang out for ten minutes while I do it.

Yeah but they break those laws for their own gain, not for you.