Alternate take, the people who keep mucking up the perfectly fine UI[1] that I've been using for years should get on that bus, so the rest of us never have to worry about waking up and everything is in a different place for absolutely no reason.
[1] In general, I mean - I actually don't use AWS.
>I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.
- Charles Colson, advisor to Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal
Different resource usage patterns aside, why do people think that robots are somehow less "legitimate" consumers of data than their human operators? Do the authors of this article think that humans only use data for purposes sanctioned by its producers?
I think the world would be a much better place if we stopped treating programmatic access to interfaces differently than human access to it. Anybody can learn to code.
"Reality is that which doesn't cease to exist when you stop thinking about it", they say.
Or, to elaborate, these things have a cost whether people are aware of it (and care about it) or not. Maybe it's not so high now, but eventually it's likely to manifest itself, especially when the codebase needs to run in a new environment or be modified to follow a new paradigm. Those situations are where things tend to either "make the jump" and continue to be used or end up in the (already vast) graveyard of abandoned software because the cost of maintaining it became higher than the return it yielded.
Wait, Chrome is now requiring HSTS for localhost? This is absolute madness. Somebody needs to sit down with the people responsible for this and explain to them that this is not solving anybody's problems and is just making life more difficult for everyone.
Swap has always been so slow for me that I just disable it on all of my machines. I would rather the OOM reaper just SIGKILL whatever is using all my RAM than deal with slowness (which often persists after the OOM situation is gone).
[1] In general, I mean - I actually don't use AWS.