You might be conflating "cloud" with serverless. Serverless is where developers can focus on code, with little care of the infrastructure it runs on, and is pay-as-you-go.
> You might be conflating "cloud" with serverless. Serverless is where developers can focus on code, with little care of the infrastructure it runs on, and is pay-as-you-go.
That's not what serverless means at all. Most function-as-a-service offerings require developers to bother about infrastructure aspects, such as runtimes and even underlying OS.
They just don't bother about managing it. They deploy their code on their choice of infrastructure, and go on with their lives.
A runtime is notably NOT infrastructure, had you said instruction set you might have landed closer to making a compelling argument, but the whole point is that AWS (and other providers) abstract away the underlying infrastructure and allow the developers to as I said, have "little care of the infrastructure it runs on". There is often advanced networking that CAN be configured, as well as other infrastructure components developers can choose to configure.
Unless the engineer takes steps to spin down EC2 infrastructure after execution, it is absolutely persistent compute that you're billed for whether you are doing actual processing or not. Whereas lambda and other services are billed only for execution time.
Compatible with work profile, so apps like Shelter can be used.
Compatible with private space
...
The name of this one is a bit too clever: On GitHub in the URL it's just launcher, on HN uLauncher, actually on the website and stores it's µLauncher. I don't even know how to type and pronounce this 'micro' character - or is it 'mu'? https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/wy53dr
For accessibility and shareability to people without an academic background an easier name would be better.
The reason for µLauncher to exist is that I really like the approach of Finn's Launcher (gestures for the important stuff, search for everything else) - massive thanks to Finn! - and had been using it for years, but - after switching to GrapheneOS - I needed a launcher with support for private space. Launcher was unfortunately no longer actively maintained, so what started as a weekend project to implement some improvements ultimately lead to me becoming maintainer of a fork.
> The name of this one is a bit too clever
The name of the original app is simply "Launcher", hence the name of the repo - as I said, I didn't intend to maintain a fork when starting this.
Not being very creative (and unaware of uLauncher) I just called my fork µLauncher (I'm pronouncing it 'mu'-Launcher like the greek letter). On a German keyboard, µ is readily available and I had never imagined that this small fork would be used by anyone except a few friends...
I guess it's been a while, but using µ in a name isn't exactly unprecedented, μTorrent was the BitTorrent software to use at the time, and so that discussion played out then. Everyone just called it uTorrent because it was the easier thing to type and made the pronunciation obvious and singular.
Until just now I would have sworn uBlockOrigin used μ. It's the first thing I've installed after the OS since it existed, but your lack of mentioning it made me check.
The character "μ" itself is called μι or μυ (both pronounced "me"), and is the exact equivalent of Latin "m". For some reason, English speaking countries tend to pronounce it "mew" (they also pronounce "π" as "pie"). But English speaking countries mispronounce so many words it's par for the course anyway.
Pet peeve: I really hate when they replace "μ" with "u". Completely different letters. Of course replacing capital Latin "E" with capital Greek sigma ("Σ") is even worse.
As to the μlauncher: It's anyone's guess as to how the author meant for it to be pronounced. I'd call it "me"launcher or "micro"launcher (micro is also pronounced wrong in English BTW, it's not MY-crow, it's more like mee-CRAW )
"u" has the advantage of correctly rendering basically everywhere, which"μ" does not. My initial attempt to share this was automatically corrected to "Mlauncher" for example. I'm pretty sure this is the reason the one symbol is used so often where it should be the other.
The solution is just to stick to the Latin alphabet, but you can't deny that mixing in a little Greek every now and then is fun.
They already supplied famous Rock am Ring festival with friespickers last year!
reply