Oracle has put a TON of work into mysql over the last several years. Innodb group replication is a biggie, but not the only substantial improvement mysql has received over MariaDB.

But we see a large performance regression in MySQL 8 compared to 5.7 or any later MariaDB release.

Are there any articles you would recommend that cover this topic? Or are you just speaking from experience?

This improves the impedance of high speed signal transmission - at high speeds the currents want to flow through the ground path as close to the signal path as is possible. Said another way - designers work to reduce the total area inside the electric circuit to support high switching speeds. The additional power pins in high pin count chips serve to reduce the distance between high speed signal paths and their return ground paths. This is actually true for both ground and vcc, but is easier to visualize when working with signals and their grounds.

This is not really true. Generally speaking, at the grossest level of averaging, regularly eating 2 meals instead of 3 or 1 meal instead of 2 results in a long term net reduction of calories.

Additionally your stomach shrinks under this regime - that one meal will definitely make you feel full and satiated.

All this goes into ease of adherence - I just don't have to think about it. I eat as much as I want for dinner each day and have dropped a steady 10lb/year for the last 5 years.

Yet more shit I do not want inflating the price of a service I can barely justify as it is.

Government money is regularly used to build access to new / remote places.

Should I provide examples or would that be considered cherry picked evidence?

You're missing the point. ISPs did not build out their plants to support more bandwidth with Obama money. Serving a handful of remote areas to have the appearance of it isn't enough. Why isn't the US covered in fiber? We spent the money to make it happen, and it didn't happen.

I think I disagree on this premise - government subsidies for telecommunications over the last 20 years have largely served to connect new and under served markets. If you have broadband (by the pitiful FCC definition) you have not been a target of investment.

Sifting generally. At the end of the process the largest thing in the mill will be the balls.

Later research into thermionic devices did produce miniaturized versions, but nothing close to the scale of silicon transistors today.

If the same R&D might went into thermionics, we might just have devices of similar scales.

Aren't all millennials over 30 now?

The “article” is from 2014. Should be added to the title.

Per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials, someone born in 1996 (who would be 27 this year) is a Millenial, and some people extend that to people born in 2000 (the last year of the 2nd millenium).

Yeah, very very edge of millennials are under 30, but most are over. My goal post for American Millennials is if they remember 9/11.

You struck a nerve on this one ;)

Core inflation at 4% yoy is not gone.

Core was 5.2% (from report I heard). But it is a dead man walking; the ground has fallen out from underneath it. The two main drivers were post-pandemic-supply-chain-shock oscillations, and corporate monopolistic price-profit increases. The supply chain has largely normalized, shipping rates are collapsing, we're decoupling from China, etc.. And corp pricing power has reached it's limit as consumers start saying "nope, not buying it" and/or downshifting purchases.

Core came at 5.3% YoY for May 2023 and 0.4% MoM.

It has been quite sticky, an seen little change compared on a 3 months annualized to May 2022 (5.3% vs 5.8%).

It might as well be a dead man walking, in the zombie apocalypse sense of the word.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm