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- 4g hotspot, 150ms latency, ~15gb/month, speeds of ~10-20mbps, costs $50 + $15/gb overage per month
- WISP network, 400ms latency, unlimited data at 500kbps-6mbps, ~95% uptime, costs $80/month
- HughesNet satellite, 600ms latency, 50gb/month, less than 10mb/s down, 90% uptime, $150/month
Or I could get Starlink with ~50ms of latency, unlimited data, ~100-150mbps down, 99% uptime at the fair price of $100 per month. Once you've lived away from broadband for long enough, you can bet everyone is fed up with the other 3 options.
Why not use the USB one? https://www.usr.com/products/56k-dialup-modem/usr5637/
*Work... Docker, Ansible, Rails apps, nothing that requires amazing super power. Everything just runs slower.
To understand why, we need to remember what Delphi was at the time it was made. It directly competed with VB6, an interpreted crap that needed dozens of files in a time when disks were slow. Delphi, on the other hand, compiled large products (we had dozens of modules) in 2 seconds, producing optimized native single file executable. On large forms you could see VB6 controls being painted one by one. Huge Delphi forms were shown instantly.
The development experience was stellar (I guess it still is). I worked for a guy who made DOS software and wanted to move into Windows space (20 years ago). Two of us made a full-blown ERP with over 800 forms and 600 database tables in a year and a half. It was at a time when companies didn't have full-time Internet connections, so we synced the database between customers' branches over ISDN connections using our custom algorithm. This software is still in wide use today and my code is still in there.
My side project was made in Delphi and quickly surpassed my full-time salary, so I formed my own company. The only reason I moved away from Delphi years later was that the database drivers were far less available than in .NET ecosystem (and I make database migration software and need many drivers) Moving to .NET was a pain, but it was obvious that without Anders Hejlsberg Delphi is going to wither down, and .NET is going to thrive and evolve.
Delphi today is a cash cow for enterprise software. Looking at this release, first thing mention is HiDPI support. In 2021.
But I do miss the incredible productivity I had while working in Delphi. A friend once passed by and saw me working. He said "screens are changing so quickly I can't even track what you are doing". We need that development experience again.
Edit: formatting.
Is there a reason I'm missing why this is an API instead of something handled locally in a structured data format? Does it have access to a bunch of licensed translations that I couldn't use locally or something?
I guess I'm just a little confused at what the value add is of having be online instead of local.
That was my first concern.
I don't want to hand an unlocked phone over to someone just to show ID. I'm not surprised, but still glad they covered this use case.
Seems like they could've added QR code + online ordering to each of their parking spots instead but I guess AI is cool too.
Your analogy is a great demonstration why reasoning-by-analogy fails, by the way.