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901.
by orev 5y ago
Sure. In theory. But every other response to this comment are clearly talking about web stuff, and in practice brotli is really only used for web stuff.
902.
by orev 5y ago
Contrary to popular belief (sadly, even among the tech crowd here), people use computers for more than just web stuff.
903.
by orev 5y ago
You might be interested in Pure Text. It’s in the Windows App Store and let’s you do the same using a shortcut key.
904.
by orev 5y ago
There’s a huge difference between “I need to reboot to fix some wonky thing” and “all my data gets deleted every time there’s a Windows update”. People would very much notice the latter as being a problem.
905.
by orev 5y ago
Not saying that there aren’t issues, but the fact that billions of people use Windows and don’t routinely have their profiles wiped out with every update points to a specific issue with your setup; not a systemic Windows problem.
906.
by orev 5y ago
If the turkey is terrible, it’s probably not because it was frozen. “Never frozen” is a marketing gimmick and actually produces a worse result than a frozen one. Freezing makes the thing extremely hard and very resilient to rough handling (
907.
by orev 5y ago
“Unsold inventory” would be understood as “items that are leftover and need to be cleared out to make room for new products”. That’s not what BF is. Many items sold for BF/Christmas are new products that have just been released (like s
908.
by orev 5y ago
Black Friday is only associated with Thanksgiving in the US because it marks just about 1 month before Christmas, but otherwise it’s not part of Thanksgiving. It’s also to start selling products for Christmas gifts — not related to getting
909.
by orev 5y ago
I appreciate your math, but you’re not addressing what I said. I’m talking about weight of the devices, not the power loss/inefficiency of wireless charging. Wireless chargers require relatively a lot of wire in coils, and that adds
910.
by orev 5y ago
In both the US and Europe, public transport is, for the most part, very safe, but there’s still an attitude that many people have that only poor people use it. This is more of the issue that prevents people from using it (and also a reason
911.
by orev 5y ago
This is exactly the approach RHEL has taken with version 8. Typing ‘python’ results in ‘command not found’. All the system tools that use python are set to use a custom path dedicated for those tools.
912.
by orev 5y ago
If you’re DevOps you’re not an ex-sysadmin, you’ve just adopted a new label for the same thing that was invented to sound cooler.
913.
by orev 5y ago
The stuff that DevOps and SREs do is what SysAdmins have always done, but developers don’t seem to have known that, or intentionally ignored it, and invented a bunch of new labels for things that already existed. The idea that SysAdmins are
914.
by orev 5y ago
The weight of all those single purposes wireless chargers on planes is already a nonstarter. Airlines track weight of standard items down to the ounce, to the point that the in-flight magazines finally got removed because they were not just
915.
by orev 5y ago
For frequent travelers, every gram of weight and size counts. A little charging wire with USBC or Lightning is far lighter and smaller than a (relatively) giant MagSafe disc.
916.
by orev 5y ago
The contempt towards the “old ways” in this piece is really irksome, especially since those “old ways” are perfectly acceptable for 95% of applications (you only need this hyper scale stuff if you’re running a MAANG level app). The rest of
917.
by orev 5y ago
They’ve said before that the work that was done in Servo has already been incorporated into the shipping version of Firefox. It would have been better if they didn’t have to do layoffs, however the Servo project served its purpose.
918.
by orev 5y ago
This is the holy grail for mobile carriers — have enough bandwidth in 5G where devices will come with mobile data already activated without user intervention at all.
919.
by orev 5y ago
I’m talking about pest control services, not lawn (i.e. mowing) services. Depending on where you live, it’s legal to “treat” the entire lawn area preemptively, not just the areas within a few feet of the house. Part of the sales pitch is al
920.
by orev 5y ago
A lot of pesticide use on the consumer side comes from pest control companies where people have a recurring service that preemptively sprays the entire yard and house. The customer just sees that they don’t have bugs, and assumes it’s becau
921.
by orev 5y ago
The Outer Limits has an episode on this (Think Like a Dinosaur) which explores the ethical implications of transporters by explicitly separating the steps of the process (where destruction of the original is a separate and final step).
922.
by orev 5y ago
The word “decrypt” means “make (a coded or unclear message) intelligible”, which is more broad than the IT-specific jargon of using cipher algorithms. It’s perfectly fine to use “decrypt” in the general sense in an article meant for general
923.
by orev 5y ago
Right, because the CEO of Google doesn’t get paid as much, and instead of donations Google just helps itself to all your data? /s
924.
by orev 5y ago
It sounds like that “bad” code was good enough to provide enough business value to keep the company going and you employed for at least 2 years, so I’m not sure your assessment is accurate. Maybe you mean “destruction of value” in terms of
925.
by orev 5y ago
Planet Money has a great report in this: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/10/901110994/big-rigged
926.
by orev 5y ago
It’s a way to goose the numbers to make it look like more people saw an ad than really did. This type of tactic is usually employed when a company is facing a real decline in users/views, so they start coming up with “creative” ways to
927.
by orev 5y ago
At the low number of pages printed at home, I don’t mind buying the actual name-brand toner. If you’re only changing it every 2 years, the cost doesn’t matter much, and at least the company (i.e. Brother) gets some profit from being a good
928.
by orev 5y ago
There really is no reason to be printing photos on your own printer (for consumers, though I suspect it’s similar for pros). Every corner drug store (in the US) can print them with better quality and at a lower cost. Maybe it’s a slight has
929.
by orev 5y ago
Remember when LinkedIn made an app that MITMed email connections just so they could add a signature to your messages? [1] Or when Facebook was distributing internal dev certificates to the general public so they could collect data on teenag
930.
by orev 5y ago
As was made abundantly clear yesterday, Facebook’s apps also include Instagram and What’s App, which are very much in-scope for this topic.

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