2014-2017 I worked for HGST, just as it was being assimilated by WD.
There were definite hardware differences between drive categories back then, and as well as the firmware adjustments, there would be things such as additional accelerometers to detect and help protect against shock (eg: portable drives), higher quality bearings and head/head mechanism differences.
But, or course, that was then and I can't speak for now.
Well, I read the HN headline and said to myself, I bet this requirement is pitched as "...to enhance the user experience...", and, yep, it's there.
That's akin with a response to some incident where companies "Take [user security etc.] seriously", when the immediate thought is, yeah, but if you did, that [thing] probably wouldn't have happened.
Dunno why I wrote all that - I don't use Google search, because I wanted to enhance (aka unenshitten) my search experience.
IMHO The 5 should have been a separately-branded product line because it's not the best fit, cost-wise for someone just doing blinky, sensory, roboty stuff that would work fine with a 3 or 4.
Viewsonice, Benq, and even Samsung make dumb monitors for conference rooms and digital signage. They just are more expensive and people don’t want the added cost. Its like consumer grade laptops are loaded with adware that supplements the price paid, compared to enterprise line of laptops which are more expensive.
Adobe wanted £24K for a ColdFusion maintenance licence. We were code frozen into an old version and didn't actually need any support or upgrades as we were migrating to a new and different platform. They also wanted another £24K for the dev instance we retained in case any issues turned up with our old code. Adobe had changed licensing terms and so dev instances needed full licencing too. This instance was spun down for most of the time.
In effect, they wanted £48K for nothing.
Yes, Lucee was in our future, but I left before that came to be.
About 3yr after leaving that company, Adobe tracked me down via LinkedIn and my personal Web site and messaged me using my personal email address to put them back in touch directly with someone at my old job who could pick up licence negotiations.
I told them to phone Head Office - they said they'd done that but had not received a return call. I very politely told them to fu....go away as it was not my problem.
Steve's book is fascinating and a good intro to the architecture, but some of the chips used are quite obsolete (even more so that the mainstream obsolete ones!) and so building a computer from that book would be very challenging.
Huge shout out to Small Computer Central/Steven Cousins. I have four or five machines designed by him, with various main boards and backplanes. The parts are all tested working, and the build instructions are comprehensive. It’s a very enjoyable project to go from a pile of parts to connecting to the UART and blinking some LEDs.
Having a dog means that I can record updates and additions as I walk varied routes around the area.
Updating the map later using its Web interface is very satisfying and much more worthy than doomscrolling through social media (which I don't really do anyway).
There were definite hardware differences between drive categories back then, and as well as the firmware adjustments, there would be things such as additional accelerometers to detect and help protect against shock (eg: portable drives), higher quality bearings and head/head mechanism differences.
But, or course, that was then and I can't speak for now.
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