The think the objection is that this is specifically targeted at women, and it's something that someone might be self conscious about.
"Free coffee to shortest/tallest/skinniest/fattest man" would be also be offensive IMHO, because it's singling out people for a trait for which they maybe don't want to be singled out.
Crude humor is great, if all parties are in on the joke; I believe the point that parent was making was that all parties are not necessarily in on the joke.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACID
Atomicity (something happens in its entirety or not at all), consistency (database is always in a valid state
if the database has constraints, they will always be honored), isolation (transactions don't step on each other), durability (complete transaction is complete even if there's a power failure).
Not a database expert, my parenthetical explanations may need work.
I once took a Lyft and the push alert was, "Look for Jesus in a white Toyota Camry."
Did they really take artistic liberties to make the Bay Bridge coloration look like the Golden Gate?
...the San Francisco gold rush in 1949.
Classic CS major, making an off-by-one(hundred years) error ;)
go2rtc, a camera streaming tool that's useful for security cameras, at least has some humor in their choice
port 1984, of course.
You're not just "sticking it to the man" when you do this though
you're being a dick to your city, its residents, and employees.
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that's not why we do it.
Richard P. Feynman
I think the same is true for a lot of folks and self hosting. Sure, having data in our own hands is great, and yes avoiding vendor lock-in is nice. But at the end of the day, it's nice to have computers seem "fun" again.
At least, that's my perspective.
Not every ISP! Where I live there's an awesome ISP, Sonic, which is pro-NN, and last I heard only offers "best effort" service
which means there's no throttling your link, no paid tiers; if the fiber and hardware can support 10Gbps symmetric, then that's what you get.
Sadly, they're not the norm. And sadly, not offered at my address.
Bezos is Washington Post, not WSJ...