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> So to make this familiar, you're probably used to traditional coordinate vectors in geometry. For example a 3D vector [x, y, z]. This seems sane enough, but is actually somewhat …

> Hang on, is that a Natural number, or a signed Integer? Is it place-value, and if so what's the base? Big- or little-endian? I fail to see how that makes any sense. OP clearly re…

> No. If your device only supports 5 Gb/sec speeds, it's USB 3.0, yes. That's not how things work. Devices are implemented while targeting a standard. If you implement a USB 3.0 de…

> This is supposedly better than USB 3.0 (original standard), USB 3.1 (new standard (...) Not quite. * USB 3.0 specifies SuperSpeed. No need to go on about GenX given it's the firs…

> You keep dancing around my arguments. No, not really. Feel free to point out exactly which argument you feel was ignored. > The issue isn't that things have changed; it's that th…

> But USB 3.0 supported USB 2.0 and 1.0/1.1 speeds already without this "generation" garbage. No, not quite. What do you think the USB3.0 SuperSpeed is? Why, a brand new transfer m…

> I'm not talking about the standards, but the marketing names. "USB 3.0" is now "USB 3.2 Gen 1" No, it's not. If you implement it from the legacy USB 3.0 spec then you don't care …

> But then why rename 3.0 to 3.1 then 3.2? I honestly have no idea what you're trying to ask. Keep in mind that: * USB3.0 was released in 2008. * USB3.1 was released in 2013. * USB…

> Adding a new transfer rate seems like a reasonable place to bump the minor version number of a protocol. After reading all of that I'm even more convinced that it should have jus…

> Why? To solve what exactly? In a sane world, it'd be major.minor, with nothing appended at the end. It's always important to get acquainted with a topic before succumbing to the …

> It's a one time charge and also can be resold if needed. It's a hefty one-time charge that is not required to operate a Uber and thus can baloon the initial investment between 2x…

> 1. Uber is actually a higher cost/less efficient producer of urban car services than the taxi companies it has driven out of business This doesn't seem to be true, given that in …

> Since then, what surprises me is that this project continues to be a useful, possibly necessary tool for measuring and tuning Lambda performance. Is performance tuning a relevant…

> Lord knows they're heading in that direction with the WHO. WHO as in World Health Organization? If so, can you please point out your rationale for your link between the WHO and "…

> As long as you haven't made the active window full screen, or the window you want to switch to, then yes, it works. But it is painful :P What's being described as "full screen" w…

> But are these people going to jail? The first paragraph of the news piece states that "the head of the department responsible for Ukraine was sent to prison." Here's the second p…

> I think "annoying" is a better description. Tying your personal health and that of your loved ones to your employer gives your boss unduly leverage over yourself, particularly wh…