Kinda a shit take. Canonical is very generous with licensing. They give you 5 free personal licenses per account AND they license per physical host which is practically unheard of now. Like everything is per VM or container or CPUs or sockets etc now. One pro license on an ESXi host could have hundreds of VMs and Canonical is OK with that.
Source: I work with and use ubuntu pro. Canonical’s alright in my book. More than I can say for the RHEL team
I agree with you! Canonical’s licensing is the best in the business. I like and use Ubuntu pro at work and use it with my homelab. I just don’t love the ads in the terminal.
I only do webdev occasionally and yeah, I’ve noticed this tendency that I want to put everything in a CSS grid. At this point, I’m worried I end up with a layout that’s about as responsive as the early-2000s table layouts. 🙃
Yeah, I’ve done responsive grids before. Problem is, I’m currently working on a single-page web music player and it’s so easy to just nail all the UI elements down. Like I might want to have the play button always appear to the left of the playback bar. But that obviously can’t reflow naturally on smaller screens. Although reflowing that example won’t look good either.
I guess, I’m still figuring out, if I ever actually want things to reflow. I might just need to define static rules, so that on a small screen, the play button should appear in a different grid cell, next to the previous/next buttons, for example…
Have you seen the one where the company says we shouldn’t use the terms male/female in a technical setting because it implies only 2 genders and apparently genders exist on some sort of spectrum?
So I emailed HR to ask for alternative suggestions and if I had permission to refer to ports and connectors as penis and vagina connectors. I think this will be an important discussion because the have the director of HR, legal and my manager scheduled for a meeting next week.
I love trolling over silly policy decisions!
Joking aside, I think "insertive" and "receptive" work just fine while also being more technically accurate.
The justification for the change might make ones eyes roll, because we are talking about plugs not people, but if the alternative is just as easy while also being correct, it's really no skin off my nose to use different words.
That's just my perspective though.
Joking aside I have no dog in this fight. Just tell me what to call it.
Although its a pain in the ass because I work in a country where english is a second language. And technical terms are all borrowed from English. So it may get hilarious when we have to write purchase specs or give instructions to our vendors. They’ll be scratching their heads for a bit.
Incidentally, there’s a reasonably wide range of connectors that don’t fit traditional identities. Some, like most USB connectors, have a situation where there’s a male prong in the middle of a ‘female’ connector.
Others, like Anderson Powerpole, are fully self-mating.
male/female did always seem weird to me to call plugs. It would be better if they were just called insertive/receptive. It’s much more self-explanatory and appropriate.
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