Readit NewsAssuming it's true, I wonder if any documentation exists at all from one of the affected souls on those subs.
But it would be interesting to know. I'll be in the German diary archive in March and made a note to keep an eye out for it.
To "force" someone to develop on a Chromebook is like giving someone a bicycle to become a race car driver.
That said, I usually flashed my arduinos and used bare metal C. Ironically I think it makes many things easier to learn and understand, provided you have a programming device.
Having spent several years teaching kids to code everything from games to lightbulbs on Chromebooks, I can confirm that there are certainly difficulties - but they're tradeoffs. I could spend my time coming up with a way to work through the platform restrictions, or I could spend my time maintaining a motley crew of devices and configurations. Having done it both ways, they both have different pain points.
That was not why. Possibly the cable made a difference (had an open circuit that made the NICs back down to a lower speed; noisy leading to retransmissions) but it wasn't the length per se.
When we're measuring time on the scale of nanoseconds then, yes, cable length is definitely something we care about and will reliably show up in measurements. In some situations, we not only care about the cable length, but also its temperature.
It is by no means an accurate or incorruptible system. When we design and prove out a better, more robust alternative, I'll be eager to learn about it.
And you can despise the Romans for the way they went about things, but it's not like the other societies they went to war with were any better, and in a lot of cases were worse (EG Carthaginian baby sacrifice).
Context is really important. As you correctly note, many of the people the Romans were conquering could be even more ruthless as well (by 2025 standards). My point was more that historians wear a lot of different hats, depending on what they're doing. When you're wearing your 'investigator hat' learning how and why things worked, your thoughts might be different than when you're wearing your 'builder hat' and thinking about the society you might want to live in today (and tomorrow). It isn't a contradiction to weigh the tradeoffs that various people in history have made when designing their culture (and politics, and military capabilities).
"Oh, you read as well? What do your read?"
"[this book], [that book]"
"Those are all non-fiction, any fiction?"
"I don't read fiction. If I'm not going to learn anything, it's a waste of time."
"..."
And also fiction.
Frequently at the same time.