> Basically they've overspecified their datastructures and we're now paying the price
I strongly disagree, and I'm perplexed how anyone can describe fundamental traits such as object lifetimes of fundamental infrastructure such as standard data structures of being over specified.
Just imagine the shit show it would be if upgrading your compiler broke your code because std::set started leading your code to throw exceptions because they sneaked a major breaking change such as moving objects that should not be moved.
It's also perplexing how breaking backward compatibility is depicted as a perfectly acceptable thing to do to a major programming language while completely ignoring the ability to release code as a third-party library. If the new implementation of a std::set alternative is any good, people would be lining up around the block to adopt it. I mean,it's already a standard practice in game development to use custom data structure implementations with custom allocators. Why is this not an option, but breaking half of the world's code suddenly is?
A significant portion of these transfers went to Ukraine. Thanks to them, is managing to resist Russia's 3-day invasion for the second years and counting.
Given Putin's repeated threat of nuclear Armageddon and annexing west Europe up to Lisbon, undoubtedly the world feels free thanks to its ability to oppose these imperialist ambitions of a few tin-pot dictators.
> Feels kind of gross to include the nieces observation that he had been stressed as some kind of counterpoint to the statement in the title.
You're grossly misrepresenting what the nieces actually said.
The article is quite unequivocal: the quote in the article is literally "stressed and depressed".
Why did you opted to omit the reference to depression? Do you think direct statements from his family should be ignored but your personal baseless assertions should take center stage?
In addition to that, here's what his own brother had to say about the apparent suicide:
> “He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing, which we believe led to his death,” the brother said.
> You have two options: -highly accomplished and highly experienced engineers were actually too stupid (...)
You're making quite clear you are the type of person who is extremely quick to accuse everyone and anyone of being incompetent in the absence of evidence or in spite of evidence.
You do not need to Google too hard to find tons of open-source benchmarks of real world servers showing off performance gains from switching to HTTP/2 and HTTP/3.
But here you are, claiming everyone is incompetent and that their work was bad. In spite of all the evidence.
It's clear that you have nothing relevant to say about the topic and no evidence to even suggest your beliefs have a leg to stand on.
> Your error in thinking is that you assume that they really wanted to build something better instead of building something new that would propel their careers.
How do you explain that some HTTP/2 server implementations handle an order of magnitude more connections than their HTTP/1.1 implementations? Is this something you downplay as accidental benefits of doing something to propel their career?
> (...) they will just turn around and say your real world data is not valid or that they need peer-reviewed article in Science.
This sounds like a bullshit conspiratorial excuse. If you have real world data and you aren't afraid of having peers looking through it, nothing prevents you from presenting it to peers.
So where is that data?
Instead, you just have vague unsupported unbelievable claims made by random people in the internet, as if that's any way to decide over policy, and any faint doubt raised over that claim is faced with conspiratorial remarks complemented by statements on how everyone around OP is incompetent except him.
I will go as far as to claim OP's assertion is unbelievable, to the point of sounding like bullshit. It's entirely unbelievable that people designing protocols for a multinational corporation whose bread and butter is stuff done over TCP connections were oblivious to how TCP works, and the most incompetent of them would bother to design the first major revision of HTTP. Unbelievable.
But hey, some random guy online said something, so it must be true!
> Eminent domain is not cheap to use given the fair market value compensation and the almost guaranteed legal fights.
I don't understand what point you tried to make.
Fair market value is what you expect to pay anyway, and the point of eminent domain is not to fleece property owners.
Legal disputes are also not a problem, and quite expectable. It's part of the checks and balances of not having corrupt government officials just steal property to hand it over to the highest bidder.
The key factor is political will. Government officials need to fight to get this sort of project through, and be able to invest their time and effort to navigate political chicanery.
> What do you consider a budget phone needs to cost?
Spending $300 on a phone is not something anyone anywhere in the world does if they are on a budget. In some corners of the world, $300 is close to a monthly wage. How out of touch can someone be to claim this price tag is something someone spends when they are on a budget?
The reason why Chinese manufacturers like Huawei are gobbling the smartphone market in particular and the telecommunication sector in general is that they understand what "budget" means. Their product line targets budget-minded consumers, with plenty of models that cost less than $150. You can get low-end models for around $50. What could possibly suggest anyone that "budget" implies a price tag that's 6 times greater than that?