As a crusty C/C++/Java developer my company has been shifting to cloud services/web tech. While the initial push was in Java for rapid server deployments on top of Apache, we've accelerated into microservices which run better with scripted languages. You can use Java there too - but with AWS' stuff you have longer cold start times. So the remaining common options are .NET, Javascript and Python and my team went with Python and were successful with out first project. That led us to getting more projects and now about 80% of our work is in Python with 20% doing maintenance on our legacy Java services and we're starting to explore migrating them to a set of Python microservices as well.

It's not that Java is bad or old or even too hard (seriously.. Java? The language that was designed from the ground up to be simple?!) It's just that the ecosystem has changed and Java is too ... not bloated but perhaps "complex" when trying to crank out apps that have become containerized within their own VPC and you don't need to worry as much about app level details as much as Infrastructure level details but Java still "forces" you too because of where it's current library/design fits.

Mild Cold/flu symptoms continue on in immune compromised people for long periods as well. We just never looked at it with this much intensity before. What's more important is the concentrations she was shedding.

Get out and vote?

Did you just basically say - “It’s life, Jim but not as we know it.”

Real Dead Crunchy Tomato Burgers!

So long as it's opt-in and they're up front with what data they're keeping.

If you use their cloud drive service to store photos or emails you're ALREADY storing personal info that they're not going to delete anyway.

Not that I'd sign up for it (although I do have a gas card for my regular gas station where they pay me "points" and give me discounts for using my card when making purchases which, I'm sure, gets linked to my Credit Card # and then my name and address and then I'm naked on the internet...)

"Activate Omega 13!"

Yes yes yes, we get it - objective facts don't matter because feelings are more important. Except, you're not allowed to even have your own feelings because Twitter will deny you that right.

Which is why we're in this stupid situation we're in today.

I still won't pay for the service.

There's very little on it or even forthcoming in the next year that's worth the cost.

Apple One's bundling package (games, music, tv and cloud storage) was an interesting idea but $15/month for the same 50gb of storage I pay $1/month for just to add in games, music and TV that I have never had a desire to purchase separately just doesn't make sense.

Sigh. Yes.

And now you'll hide behind "b-but I didn't really make that assertion"

And yet, you did.

Ah yes - the appeal to authority fallacy. Well done /s

I agree that people will learn on their own what works - that's not really anything new.

I disagree that we "learn slower" when we're forced to make a choice - I think you've just shown test bias to authority situations (computer mandated choice) vs personal agency - aka the Milgram Experiment.

Well that sounds like slavery with extra steps!

It’s a lie eh?

Tell me one American politician who provably didn’t. That includes George Washington.