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.

For those people who have the outdoor space to grow, or even window space, how about pouring that same time and energy into growing a real garden (or learning a language, or doing *fucking anything* else than playing games..)

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.

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.

I gave Google Bard a Youtube video of multiple speakers engaged in a discussion, and it gave me back an indistinct collection of viewpoints. I then asked it how many speakers are talking, and it responded "one". So.. is this actually analyzing the video, or is it analyzing a transcript of the video, that doesn't retain clear indication of who actually says what?