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> SQLite was already serverless. Yes but now it runs on someone else server! Wait a minute, this makes no sense... 'serverless' is perhaps the stupidest marketing buzzword developers have come up with.
Indeed it's quite stupid. Any alternative catchy name for the concept?
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> SQLite was already serverless. Yes but now it runs on someone else server! Wait a minute, this makes no sense... 'serverless' is perhaps the stupidest marketing buzzword developers have come up with.
Indeed it's quite stupid. Any alternative catchy name for the concept?
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> SQLite was already serverless. Yes but now it runs on someone else server! Wait a minute, this makes no sense... 'serverless' is perhaps the stupidest marketing buzzword developers have come up with.
Indeed it's quite stupid. Any alternative catchy name for the concept?
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Almost like how the English language has been literally hijacked and destroyed. Language does change and evolve. The misuse and subsequent additional meaning for “literally” to now also be a simile for “figuratively” is a good example of how this isn’t necessarily always a good thing.
How is "literally" used as a simile for "figuratively"? A simile would require a sentence in which "literally" is compared to "figuratively", wouldn't it? My impression, as a non-native speaker, is that the misused "literally" is to indicate exaggeration, not the quality of being figurative.
Used to be. Now "literally" literally means "figuratively". [1]
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> SQLite was already serverless. Yes but now it runs on someone else server! Wait a minute, this makes no sense... 'serverless' is perhaps the stupidest marketing buzzword developers have come up with.
Indeed it's quite stupid. Any alternative catchy name for the concept?
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> SQLite was already serverless. Yes but now it runs on someone else server! Wait a minute, this makes no sense... 'serverless' is perhaps the stupidest marketing buzzword developers have come up with.
Indeed it's quite stupid. Any alternative catchy name for the concept?
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> SQLite was already serverless. Yes but now it runs on someone else server! Wait a minute, this makes no sense... 'serverless' is perhaps the stupidest marketing buzzword developers have come up with.
Indeed it's quite stupid. Any alternative catchy name for the concept?
Managed service
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How is "literally" used as a simile for "figuratively"? A simile would require a sentence in which "literally" is compared to "figuratively", wouldn't it? My impression, as a non-native speaker, is that the misused "literally" is to indicate exaggeration, not the quality of being figurative.
> the misused "literally" is to indicate exaggeration Used to be. Now "literally" literally means "figuratively". [1] [1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/literally
> Can literally mean figuratively?
> One of the definitions of literally that we provide is "in effect, virtually—used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible." Some find this objectionable on the grounds that it is not the primary meaning of the word, "with the meaning of each individual word given exactly." However, this extended definition of literally is commonly used and is not quite the same meaning as figuratively ("with a meaning that is metaphorical rather than literal").
That seem to confirm my impression that "literally" is used to indicate exaggeration, rather than being figurative.
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Almost like how the English language has been literally hijacked and destroyed. Language does change and evolve. The misuse and subsequent additional meaning for “literally” to now also be a simile for “figuratively” is a good example of how this isn’t necessarily always a good thing.
How is "literally" used as a simile for "figuratively"? A simile would require a sentence in which "literally" is compared to "figuratively", wouldn't it? My impression, as a non-native speaker, is that the misused "literally" is to indicate exaggeration, not the quality of being figurative.