Yes, or at least that’s the reason Jobs gave in the original Jan 2007 keynote:
> We’re going to be shipping these in June. We’re announcing it today because with products like this we’ve got to go ahead and get FCC approval which takes a few months, and we thought it would be better if we introduced this rather than ask the FCC to introduce it for us. So here we are.
Yeah, exactly. It seems like you understand just fine.
You claimed that “literally no one” has a different review workflow than yours. I do, and my experience is that clear commits make reviews both faster and deeper, which is very helpful specifically in a high-pressure, deadline driven environment where being slow and wrong is costly. You’re of course free to disagree and work differently.
You might be surprised. Yours sounds like the attitude of someone who has not had the luxury of reviewing well-constructed commits. PRs with intentional commits permit both faster and deeper reviews—but alas, not everyone is so respectful of their reviewers’ time and energy.
I grew up about 3 minutes away from a big hardware store, doing projects all the time. This contributed to a very wrongheaded idea about how long projects take.
When I moved into my current house it was suddenly a 40 minute trip. For the first couple years I couldn’t get anything done on Saturdays because I’d never needed to optimize away trips to the store before.
I wrote a thing for this back when you could download the whole hash database as a single torrent, but I haven’t checked it since they moved over to the PwnedPasswordsDownloader system. This doesn’t use any probabilistic data structures though, it just packs the database into the smallest binary file I could come up with.
I don’t know that much about materials science. Why is a “titanium hemisphere bonded to a carbon fiber cylinder” “such a fundamentally compromised design” in this application?
I imagine maybe carbon fiber would be better in tension (e.g. airframes) than in compression (this), perhaps. Or do carbon fiber and titanium not get along somehow?