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by etothepii 1718 days ago
Wouldn't T4 have been a better name? sure it does create the risk of a U5, but prequels are not usually better. (Unless you love endless discussion about intergalactic politics).
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Three years ago I sat in front of a whiteboard with some folks and we sketched out the future roadmap for Cloudflare Workers. Here's a picture of that whiteboard: https://imgur.com/a/nSnrT15

We went with "R2" because it better reflects the fact that we want it to be S3 minus one thing: egress fees.

Q1 will be R2 minus one thing: storage fees.
P0 has already been built: https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
I love the filename on their cleanup script "gift to the open source community":

https://devnull-as-a-service.com/one-less-to-go.sh

  sudo rm -rf $(sudo find / -type f -print0 | shuf -n1 -z)
Certainly not in Canada. T4 is the name of employment income tax slip here, similar to W-2 in the US.
I imagine most people who complain about intergalactic politics in the prequels must have never gotten to the scene in A New Hope where people just sit around and discuss the dissolution of the galactic senate and the political reordering of the galaxy.
That's what my NAS is called