For "spiced" we also have the word "seasoned." It has a handful of meanings, but if you're using it to describe a flavor it should be clear that's the meaning you're using.
I've also heard foods described as having "bite" to indicate that they have a strong, spicy flavor, but not necessarily a "hot" one.
I don't agree with this at all. Google's projects don't always make money, but I don't think it ever does something without an intention to make money. The idea that Google Fiber existed solely to further a political cause seems far-fetched to me.
Also, net neutrality being in the Democratic Party platform is a far cry from it actually being law. The election isn't over yet and so we don't know who the next president will be and which parties will control which houses of Congress.
Google has done this before e.g. they adopted a brilliant strategy, and drove up the auction prices in a spectrum option forcing FCC to adopt open rules. By threatening to build out a Fiber optic network, it forced the competition to respond.
> We began to see elevated bandwidth against our Managed DNS platform in the Asia Pacific, South America, Eastern Europe, and US-West regions that presented in a way typically associated with a DDoS attack. As we initiated our incident response protocols, the attack vector abruptly changed, honing in on our points of presence in the US-East region
Interesting. Much of the reporting on the day of suggested that the attack was felt exclusively in the United States, but this says otherwise.
Sounds like someone found a way to target one server with all devices worldwide. Shouldn't that be impossible with Anycast? Or did they reveal an ip address that was just referring to US-EAST?
Because executive orders have limited power and are controversial and possibly unconstitutional.
Almost all executive orders direct federal agencies, which are part of the executive branch, to take a given action. An executive order that attempts to compel a state to enact a certain policy is unheard of.
> A famous comic using the attempt of building a tree as the analogy of what is wrong in each part of the traditional development lifecycle
The project in the comic actually appears to be building a tree swing. I'm sure this was just an oversight on the author's part but if anything it reinforces the point the comic is making.
Author here. You are right, I did not know the name of the thing because English is not my primary language. Thanks for teaching me that, I have edited the picture caption to show the correct description of the image. Thanks!
"Tree swing" seems fine to me (native speaker as well), the commonality of all pictures is it is a swing, set up in a tree (albeit incorrectly or poorly in many cases). If I google "tree swing" it is clear that this is not a particularly rare way to refer to this specific sort of swing.
Yeah, it's worth noting that "tree swing" isn't a common idiom; I only meant a swing that's set up on a tree. I just didn't want to call it a "tire swing" though because it only took that form in one panel. Maybe "rope swing" would be the best name for it?
Everyone has preferences, I guess. I far prefer honest and curt to the kind of anodyne, contentless word-payloads pumped out by so many corporate communications departments.
Say, generating corporate communications seems like a promising direction for neural networks. A Markov chain comes close...
