At 2013, the disks in question were spinning disks. I didn't understand from the article whether the stats for 2021 and 2025 were about spinning or solid state drives.

Comparing reliability over time of spindles to solid states is almost meaningless. The failure scenarios are just not the same.

Two questions:

1. Did you have a choice? Was there an option, maybe even a more expensive one, that did not include the lock-in?
2. Is the company where you signed the contract a monopoly?

Because what usually happens is that you don't have a choice but to sign this contract, or you can't get the service at all.

Thankfully, Duo is not the only way I'm learning German. I also have a private teacher, a class I attend (organized by my work place), as well as just trying to talk to people around me. Yes, I now live in a German speaking country (arguably. Opinions on what the German people of Switzerland speak vary). As such, Duo's way of teaching does not hold me back too much.

But, yes, I only recently figured out what "an" vs. "am" actually mean, and it was a lightbulb moment. Duolingo just asks you to translate stuff and they say WRONG!!!! without really explaining.

The anger over firing people may not affect their bottom line (though I, personally, avoided going paid for that precise reason), but the results AI produces may.

I'm studying German with it, and you can see the quality of the sentences slipping. It seems that they are stuffing their lessons, now that it's so cheap to produce more of them, and that affects how it feels to learn with the app. I've definitely started looking for other sources to learn German from.

If your idea of winning an argument is to pretend I said things I never did, why even bother joining the conversation?

MrNaz claimed Israel supporters often make arguments based on starting "halfway through the story". So I asked him where the story's start point really is. I know what his answer likely is, but unlike you, I refuse to assume the worst about people I'm debating.

Enlighten me. When does the story begin?

At least, it's not complex if you decide to filter out pertinent facts. If you decide to actually get the context, complex it is, and no side turns out looking particularly nice.

Israel has a similar law. On Oct 7th United stranded me in the US. No accommodation, not even minimal attempt to find me an alternative flight, of course no food. When I asked to wait it out in Conneticuit, where I could crash at a friend's house, they wanted over $5300 for the added stop.

I had to sue them in small claims. I'm still waiting for the court date to see how it goes, but I'm fairly optimistic I'll get at least something.

You are technically right, in that this is a warning rather than an error. In fact, you used compilation flags no one ever uses to make your point (no warnings at all). That goes back to a core ideological, and quite purposeful, difference between the languages, where C++ wishes to help the programmer avoid errors whereas Rust wishes to prevent the programmer from making them.

In practice, I think this is a distinction without a difference. The tools Rust provide you on that front are available to you with C++, with the only practical difference being that they are not mandated by the language.

The fact in my code I achieve the exact same effect in C++, using the precise same tools. If you want an example, check out a FOSS project I built, add an enum case for the tokenizer (under lib/tokenizer.h), and try building. You will get precisely the behavior the speaker claims is impossible in C++: you can't build warning free until you've handled all of the cases, with the compiler telling you where you're missing cases all the way until you're done.

That's exactly the behavior of enum classes in C++ (since C++11).

I am getting the distinct feeling that these arguments are just people who don't know C++ well and people who don't know Rust well shouting at each other.

I'm not familiar enough with Rust. In the timepoint you linked the guy talks about using enums to replace flags being ORed. I have not found what Rust construct was used. Can you please provide a link?

In particular, how are Rust enums different than C++'s newer enum classes?

This!

Also, I have my browser delete all cookies every time I close it. Once I do watch a few videos, recommendations start coming in.

Since before this change (and, to a degree, also after it), what it would recommend me sans knowing my history was right wing shit, I think this is a major improvement.

I'm a creator. I'm not eligible for monetization. Whenever I watch my own videos without an ad blocker, the ads are just terrible.

Since I'm not eligible for monetization, this is all on YouTube. I have zero say in the matter. I believe, though not sure, that my longer videos even have mid-video ads.

Regardless of the merit of this argument, I think we can all agree that if you look at what's going on over here over the past few weeks and your best take is "Oh no! The Internet in Gaza is going down", you're doing something very very wrong.

There were three stages done here.

The first was limiting the call completion costs. The big providers could set any price they wanted when other provider's subscribers were calling. This meant that the bigger the provider, the higher the cost they placed, causing small providers to be automatically more expensive than big ones.

The reform capped the call completion costs. Very soon after that providers started eliminating structured prices. The consumer pays the same amount, whether you call someone on the local operator, a different operator or a land line.

The second step was numbers migration. The government forced the cell operators to allow migrating customers to take their phone number with them. Over the past ten years I've changed operators at least 5 times, while still retaining the same cell phone number throughout.

The third step was to encourage small operators, and force the big ops to support MVNOs, and limit the pricing.

This step is actually a mixed bag in terms of how successful it was.The first small providers is called "Golan Telecom", offered a flat rate plan. You pay 100NIS per month, no matter how long you are on the phone. The plan also covers international calls and international roaming. You can spend as much as a month and a half out of every year abroad, and that is all you'll pay. That price was about a third of what all other operators would charge you at the time, and their plans had minutes limitations.

That was soon followed by other MVNO providers. Today I'm paying less than 30 NIS/month on my plan.

The reason I'm saying this was a mixed bag is that it did not, in fact, result in new operators popping up. Aside from Golan, who launched with a mix of their own network and MVNO, all other small providers were MVNO only.

And then Golan started rolling back its own network deployment. Today they are fully MVNO.

Still, with MVNOs having their own numbers, and the ability to migrate their entire network between the big providers, prices, so far, have not gone up for quite some time.

Another thing that happened, but I'm not sure whether that was government triggered or just a byproduct of everything else, is that operator locked phones are gone from the landscape.