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Well my ISP's headline speed has gone from 75/10(?) to 120/10 in the last year or so. On the other Elephant, I only ever saw anything near 75 except during offpeak hours and have only seen anything near 120 at minimum usage times.
A decade ago, I could generally figure out when they were planning an upgrade that I'd officially learn about in another month or two because I was suddenly getting a 20-40% faster connection than what I was paying for. 
And OFC, a nominal 120 down is about the practical limit of a 4 channel docsis 3 modem; which was the limit of what they'd support and allow me to use when I bought my current box.
The theoretical limit in the US is 160, real world performance can never actually be that high though; marketing will as always prove that they're lying scum by claiming 173 as being possible. That number would require the larger more widely spaced euro channel layout that's not actually used anywhere in this country; continuing the fine decades old tradition that dates back at least as far as the 56k modem; despite FCC frequency limits meaning that more than 53k was theoretically impossible. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Revised as open source, Swift 2.2 has contributions from hundreds of developers outside of Apple Coming soon: slower hardware for your faster code
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Coming soon: slower hardware for your faster code
I think you'll find Apple already have that covered nicely.
(At least in bang for the buck department).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: hundreds of developers
I laughed.
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It's only been out for one year and they've already started depreciating stuff. Christsake, can they not make up their minds?
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He's cashed in his chips....
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Coding and cooking bring a sense of control that other occupations do not offer, but this is not their only connection. You put code in the microwave, and it's ready in 30seconds?
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No, nothing else is like coding.
Try cooking exactly the same cake five times.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Try cooking exactly the same cake five times.
Ever work in a bakery?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Try cooking exactly the same cake five times.
I think this is a very keen point ! Signature worthy 
Enthuses me to spontificate:
Coding is cooking exactly the same cake five times when the recipe, and the kitchen, are unpredictably changed every minute you are at work.
Hacking is getting inside the cake without disturbing the icing.
cheers, Bill
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Better to warm it on the compiler and cook it with the linker. Use some spicy libs for better taste and smooth flavor 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Note to self, stop reading articles from jaxenter. They are likely to be of this quality.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You put code in the microwave, and it's ready in 30seconds?
It may take 40 seconds, or 20, depending on how fast you can copy-and-paste code from CodeProject and StackOverflow into your IDE.
«The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.» Soren Kierkegaard
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Today, Apple slammed Microsoft during the launch of a brand-new, smaller iPad Pro, which it bills as a laptop replacement. "When two tribes go to war"
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Those vanilla comments are considered "slamming"? Wow! 
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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On Monday and Tuesday, two comets will pass Earth in their orbits around the Sun. "Ruling the calm spaciousness of that heaven was the great comet, now green-white, and wonderful for all who had eyes to see."
Sadly, it won't be that good.
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I have an excellent sample from the famous radio transmission of that "Intellects, vast, cool and unsympathetic, regarded this Earth with envious eyes."
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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In the 1990s, Smalltalk was poised to become a dominant programming language for the enterprise, thanks to IBM. Developers are really bad at making small talk?
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Ooooh small talk would be one of the bether choises. What we have now? VeryWeakScript_AndOthers<atseveral"languages">
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Uups, my original response Looks something different from what I see now....
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: was poised to become a dominant programming language
Pfft, no it wasn't.
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This article fails tell me why I should care about Smalltalk?
I guess I will just keep on ignoring it then! 
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My reply below was originally intended as a reply to this message - should give you a number of reasons.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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IBM's version of Smalltalk was insignificant - it pretty well only had one release, and that wasn't the best. The problem was that the good commercial Smalltalks just cost too much for people to take the risk - a real shame as it pioneered many of the best ideas in development.
Smalltalk-80 (that was released in 1980) already had:
* Classes as first class objects
* Methods and blocks (closures) as first class objects.
* Pervasive reflection.
* The ability to break into and inspect the state of a running system.
* The ability to select any piece of text (in a text box etc.) and evaluate it as code.
The Smalltalk community also pioneered many of the best ideas in development:
* Unit Testing and Test-Driven Development (Kent Beck wrote xUnit originally as a Smalltalk project)
* Refactoring (the Refactoring browser was written for Smalltalk).
* Design patterns (many of the original design patterns arose from this community).
Many of the luminaries of software engineering, including Kent Beck, Martin Fowler, Uncle Bob, speak of the influence Smalltalk had on their development.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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