They just added redondancy to in/outbound routes.

For some people this is cancelled by the virtuous side-effects of exercising, most notably sleep quality and low stress levels, as sleep and stress are the two most important levers on hunger/self-indulgence. For some others this is compounded by a conscious decision to allow oneself to eat sizable portions (or snack) to make for the effort, which immediatly cancels the calories deficit induced by exercice, most probably with compensation, considering how few calories are burnt by standard exercise durations.

I don't know what you mean by "cloud", but an off-site backup is essential. Your home can be burglarized, or burnt down, or flooded. Basically anything you insurance covers for your home you should cover regarding your data.

> At any moment it could go dark, for any reason, and you have no recourse.

There is no difference between your backup going dark or your main data source going dark. The whole point is that the data is duplicated and the odds of both of them going dark at the same time is low. This only means that you should check your backup regularly.

All those people with their wishes and throughts which bloat one single project usually have precious insights on how to unbloat the overall processes of creation and maintenance. It's of course impossible to fix it all in the span of a single project, but managing every project with the "it works and was delivered on time" mindset is the best way to tank the overall productivity of the company and lose developers, because you missed the insights they had about to improve what they do, and do it well, and do it efficiently.

The proper headline should be "Ad tech films test FLoC".

You don't need to watch WC game to witness that. Any position sharp enough will have swinging evaluations at the search horizon, and even amateurs can find a twist in their favor if they're lucky enough (to have their 8-moves ahead flash of genius actually work 20 moves ahead by complete chance).

In decent engines the heuristics used to prune the search tree range from exact (e.g. alpha-beta prunning) to conservatively innexact (low chance to actually miss something), and unless you find a systematic winning or drawing pattern (like the examples in OP's article), you can't beat the engine with your "intuition".