Web languages are nothing without their libraries, so the lack of a unified database driver interface (until rather recently) is a noteworthy problem with PHP.

Personally, I never touch PHP.

As a comparison, in the JDBC world, most databases do not even have non-JDBC drivers.... The existence of mysqli is a tribute to a long standing problem with PHP. In reality, development of the MySQL PDO driver started with PHP release 5.3, which was not even three years ago! PDO might be the future of PHP, but it is a pretty shitty defense of the language to this date.

Running on something inspired by PHP is NOT the same thing as running PHP. Don't forget that everything at facebook is loosely coupled using webservices, many different languages being used in the back end, with Something Similar to PHP, but not, mostly running UX stuff.

Tight coupling with database drivers seems to be a recurring theme in PHP, as one example.

Besides that Facebook isn't. They use a proprietary solution that started with PHP, but is really something else now.

Two of the ads are for the same thing with different branding. Whats worse, the products aren't even shipping yet! They stink of some kind of preorder-never-get-your-thing deals.

That is an uncivil response to a simple error.

Nobody is debating whether current can be induced by a changing magnetic field.... It takes more than just doing to invalidate the first law of thermodynamics.

Mobile wifi is limited to 1w eirp (250mw with 6dbi antenna gain), not 4. In practice the transmitters are less powerful than the limit. Furthermore, they are not constantly transmitting at full power.

Passive RFID tags are powered directly by a reader that generates a high intensity RF field, specifically for energizing the tag. This is more akin to a wireless battery charging specification, where the device must be placed in a very specific location, than the RFID device being magically charged by whatever EM radiation happens to be around.

They probably were not even using the MFA provided by Amazon. It is kind of shitty to blame hosting providers for clients that do not even perform the bare minimum of suggested best practices.

One of those, "you wouldn't even know if the dynamite exploded", kinds of things.

I used an analog Tektronix scope in my younger years. It worked, and was cheep. At the same time, it made new scopes seem like small miracles. Just a thought.

When $300 for Alibaba knockoff stuff seems like a great deal, we are talking about a very expensive thing. Newer Tektronix equipment costs orders of magnitude more. In this market, even though it is possible to buy something for $300, it is still a very tiny budget.

For an oscilloscope, $300 is more like a nanobudget, or even picobudget.

Scalability is not just for the enterprise. In AWS you can feel safe starting with a $15/month setup, knowing that you can always move to the $100/mo plan if the workload changes. When buying hardware you do not have a similar liberty. It is either buy more than you need, or risk having to buy again.