This separation of control-plane/. data-plane provides a common protocol to program the forwarding plane and the ability to. easily program the network using applications on top of the controller. A SDN network defines three layers: the application layer, the control layer, and the. network layer. The applications use an application programming interface (API) to the. controller that has a connection to each switch, providing the ability to populate the flow.
That snowflake is a specific type of word â a name-calling insult â only supports Yagodaâs certainty that it will fall out of favor before long. âIf you look at the history of slang, probably next to words for sex and bodily functions, that might be the category with the biggest turnover.â
The term âsnowflakeâ did have another slang application: according to Merriam Webster, âIn Missouri in the early 1860s, a âsnowflakeâ was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slaveryâthe implication of the name being that such people valued white people over black people.â The meaning has more or less swapped. Nowadays, someone with a Confederate flag in their profile picture is more likely to be the one calling someone else a snowflake. (There is also a rumor that âsnowflakeâ was a term the Nazis used to refer to the ashes of people incinerated during the Holocaust; this has been debunked by Snopes.) Alt-right mouth pieces like Ben Garrison and Tomi Lahren delight in painting liberals as overweight cat ladies, so concerned about the âfeewingsâ of other human beings that they canât see the cold hard facts.