Some do, but a lot also use it with a touch pen for notes.

Honestly tablets are perfectly sufficient for most education related things, plus they’re thin, light weight, and don’t need to be plugged in constantly unlike the goobers who bring gaming laptops.

I would’ve sprung for an iPad and done the same (though used a BT mechanical keyboard instead a chicklet one) if I wasn’t in a CS degree that requires me to have a real OS that can run compilers, interpreters, multiple browsers, and uses a real folder structure.

As a student, yeah, I see lots of people using tablets for their work instead of laptops.

Echoing this, civilian GNSS is a passive system, and I’m all for redundancy, you should be using all four constellations for the highest accuracy and fastest lock.

Republicans are the biggest suckers there are. There’s a reason as soon as the jig is up grifters pivot to conservative talking points.

It’s easier to scam someone than convince them they’ve been scammed.

Art is people making stuff, without the people… it’s just stuff.

There are definitely folk who see obese people as an acceptable target because they can hide behind (valid) health claims, and then justify their moral superiority because they don’t have those “personal failures”.

The litmus test is if they think Semaglutide/GLP-1 is “legitimate” or obese people using it are “cheating”.

Turns out burning thousands of kW, cooling, building datacenters, and filling them with the most expensive shovels chips, is actually just more costly per real unit work than paying an actual person. It was a grift the entire time!

Republican (but lets be fair here, most) states basically just threw their hands up and left it up to the “experts” (or their friends in the cable/local phone monopoly) for planning BEAD funds. Really it’s a failure of American politics and a case study on how baseline corrupt the average state is.

The only place that has actually gotten its shit together is, of all places, North Dakota, they have almost universal fiber access across the whole state, if you have power, you probably have fiber. All of contiguous America could have the same, only local politics stands in the way.

Utah has also built out locally owned open-access municipal fiber, despite the best attempts from the Comcast/CenturyLink lobby and state legislature to kill it; among other projects in WA, TN, IA.

My bad, I thought they were moving from Apache to something more restrictive / less open (the way so many have recently, to effectively “source available”), especially by their wording — which conveys to me they’re frustrated they aren’t “capturing” the “value” of their code.

AGPL is not my favorite license but it has its purposes I suppose.

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Not too surprising, it takes a 100kW AI rack to accomplish a fraction of what I can wrt writing code, and I can run on tacos and diet coke.

SLC has a glut of qualified people that could staff these offices, the fact they only got a 4% COL raise this year tells you most of why they might have trouble keeping people. The COL of SLC has absolutely skyrocketed since 2019.

But that’s actually besides the point, you know the real joke about this, they say there are 15 open positions, yet when you search for dispatch job postings, they don’t list any, that’s from their own site – only if you dig through SLC’s specific job portal do you even find a single posting for dispatch.

Maybe they should spend less time on AI and more time trying to hire actual people.

But the point of CDNs is to direct connections to a geographically-near IP, yes?

That’s generally right enough, the goal of a CDN is to deliver content from a server close to the consumer as possible (ideally on their ISP network using cache servers to avoid going out over the “wider internet”.) – however CDN networks typically also use Anycast IP addresses, which means that all of the CDN servers across their network use the same pool of IP addresses, and BGP / the routing table dictate what actual physical server you get routed to. This is typically the ideal closest server, however sometimes you want certain IP pools in certain regions for legal (China), or technical reasons, so the IP address returned by a given A/AAAA lookup for a CDN isn’t a given. There’s also ECN and other optimization CDNs can do on the lookup side but that’s outside of the scope here.

The domain name that any CDN webserver in different regions will get in the HTTP request headers is going to be the same, CNAME or no.

Yeah, so the CNAME just says “whatever A/AAAA address that resolves to” and the HTTP client will send whatever HOST it thinks its connecting to, meaning you can’t “mask” the actual domain you’re using by using a CNAME record.

Technically if you have a totally static IP serving a single site, it’s possible to ignore the HOST field and always serve that site, since logically, any request is only meant for that given site (this is basically the default site on something like Apache).

My main point is that there’s really no getting around that CloudFlare requires you to be locked in to their platform even if you just wanna serve R2 files from a subdomain, and I personally find that a bit spooky, migrating nameservers can have very long propagation times leaving your site unreachable if they decide they don’t want you as a customer anymore, or as a shakedown.

The way CDNs and virtual hosts work in general is to read the host field in the HTTP header, otherwise unless you dedicate an IP for each domain / “web site” there would be no way to know what to serve.

The issue is if you put the CNAME of foo www.foo-cloudflare-cdn.com. then it will just resolve to whatever the A/AAAA record is for that, and send the host of www.foo.com – which they will only service if that domain is hosted with their nameservers (they run automated checks to make sure you’re actually doing so). So there isn’t really an easy way to just give cloudflare some subdomain, unless you pay them $$,$$$+ for the privilege.

Valve actually does that, ironically enough, for the steam community web assets they use Fastly, Akamai, and CloudFront, all on subdomains of course 🙃.

Cloudflare tries to enforce pretty strong vendor lock in by requiring you use their nameservers.

Also subdelegate domains are an “enterprise” feature, so no luck there.

Basically the CDN market sucks, not a shocker Netflix, Google, Valve, and many others operate their own.

It sucks because up until the “sales team” rugpull, they’re the cheapest (and closest to reality) for bandwidth cost, virtually all the other CDN providers charge astronomical prices and their margins are hundreds to thousands of percentage.

Google themselves don’t really follow material all that closely over their entire product line.

Android 6 was basically the peak of the UI, IMO, the icons were very consistent and nice early material.

In later versions they shrank the icons and stuffed them into circles and started using a horrible color scheme, then they killed blobmoji and started outright copying Apple’s hideous emojis with that awful gradient and pseudo-skeumorphic visuals.

I only “follow” because whatever Apple does gets broadcast by every media outlet in existence. Also Google started blindly following Apple design since they killed my beloved blob emojis.

Also not a fan of the critical UI elements being popped out into floating islands, very easy to accidentally hit underlying page content when there’s effectively zero padding around controls (on touch devices, as the ad companies have discovered by making the × icons smaller and smaller).