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I would not be surprised if DMV employees were measured and rewarded on their throughput, so punting people who have anything wrong is incentivized.

Apple's Goto Fail bug is similar but not exactly what you're looking for: https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html

As always, relevant xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/386/

Is Blizzcon streamed in China? I agree - nothing will happen. They'll likely heavily filter what they broadcast in China if they do stream there, and that's about all they can possibly do.

I think that's one of the reasons NPR bought Pocket Casts - to get this data. Where are users skipping? When are they dropping out of a podcast? Etc.

Personally I skip forward past ads all the time.

I have half a mind to write a podcast player that skips ads for me. It doesn't feel like an insurmountable problem.

Check out the video game "Soma". It's a horror-themed game but you can play in "Safe" mode if that's not your thing. I'd say more but that would spoil things for you.

I think if you hire another software engineer to help you it could potentially fail criteria C: "The worker is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, or business of the same nature as the work performed.".

Looking at https://www.thebalancesmb.com/what-is-the-abc-test-for-indep... it appears the intent is to handle trades like construction subcontracting, which is very similar to what you want to do.

That 1TB you always pay for, while Backblaze is pay-per-use.

Your relative was before their time: https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/options/page/flow-mul...

> I hope I can repurpose them for other iot signals.

I bought one for that - it's authenticated on my wifi but doesn't know what to order on Amazon. Pushing the button will make it visible on the network but do nothing else. So I wrote some scripts to run when it associates on the network, works pretty well.

I'd say that disk comes a close second, if not first. Overtaxed slow disks with low memory makes for a terrible desktop experience.

Once your memory usage climbs and your OS starts paging/swapping things to disk, seemingly trivial operations that page in new code will take forever.

> Google Mail is quite fast for me as well... And I'm not even using some crazy fast computer, just old PC with Core i5.

If you want to see fast mail, go load the basic html version of Gmail. I have it bookmarked because it loads as fast as you think it should.

Regular google mail loads so painfully slow in comparison, they needed a splash screen.

Probably some combination of things that break principle of least surprise along with not needing to think about that thing very frequently. A good IDE and good coding standards can smooth things over.

I'm ok with regex too, but if you asked me to do something with look-behind I'd have to experiment a little to figure out how it works again.

Re: performant code, the developer writes the code once, it is read many times, and it is run many many many times. Several orders of magnitude more.

Yes, making code that is easy to read and less bug-prone is good. But at the end of the day the customers are going to be running your code millions of times a day, and if you need to make the code slightly harder to read to improve performance, then by all means do so.

If your code is only going to be run once and must be reliable, then you can make a different trade-off.

It should just be turned off for large channels. Pop an error message and direct users who need it to a support article, if they follow up real support people then see how many people complain.

I ran into this earlier this week. Turned out a macro that was implemented as a wrapper function in debug linked differently in ship. I don't see this first-hand very often but I'd be surprised if this kind of thing isn't an uncommon cause of ship/debug differences.

If you made a "office space" kind of game, and it was something you could actually call a game, I wouldn't be surprised to see a community grow up around it as people discussed path prioritization, how to speed run the TPS reports level, and how the recent nerf to casual dress fridays have impacted the meta.

Plus, how much testing has the airplane gone with MCAS in an off state? Certainly less time than in the on state.

You can use the basic html version of gmail: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui

I use this - it's way more responsive and faster than the current gmail UI.

My only gripe with the basic html version is that the back button is broken when you're trying to go back to search results after clicking on an email (you need to click on "Go back to search results").

I realize this is probably not helpful for you, but it works on my machine. FF 65.0.1 on Win10.

It's been awhile since I've used it but Moon+ Reader on Android can sync progress to google drive. At the time the syncing wasn't super reliable, but it worked sometimes.

Win7 certainly has some rough edges in retrospect, but I occasionally interact with old systems and so many things are so much snappier. I'm sure the modern frameworks in Win10 allow for "new experiences" but the plain old desktop experience was well served by Win7.

> and dismiss native apps as being duplicated work.

It's worse than duplicated work, it's duplicated different work.

Is that even a web browser? If you look at the full screenshot, (I'm not 100% familiar with iOS) it looks like an app launched from the app store?

It's mostly a matter of convenience and practicality. I can change the battery of my Nexus 5 with tools (mostly a screwdriver and a plastic prying tool), but I wouldn't want to do it away from home since it requires me to deal with small screws and needing some time to deal with small connectors that could be damaged if I was in a rush.

A common scenario is you're on vacation and taking a bunch of pictures and using GPS. You could bring your tools with you, but changing your battery involves 10+ minutes of careful disassembly/assembly and you need some space to work. You want this to be "changing AA batteries in a toy" difficulty levels.

> they put it into production once it was safer per mile than human drivers

The thing is that I can take precautions to increase my safety margin - don't drive impaired, drive in good weather conditions, get lots of sleep, don't be aggressive, don't follow closely, etc. etc. etc.

I don't have a Tesla, but I imagine there's nothing I can do to voluntarily make it safer. It functions normally until it doesn't.

Steam seems to solve this fairly well. If you need a runtime it is installed along with the product.

That's why I use the basic html version of gmail. It loads instantly. Going to the new one is agony.

How does OsmAnd handle traffic? For my commute I religiously use Google Maps to learn about accidents or other blockages to make my trip shorter. Can I do the same thing with OsmAnd? (I'm thinking no, but I'm unfamiliar with how traffic data really works, so I'm open to learning that I'm wrong.)

IIRC it's Samsung that is pushing the ads. In my case that I observed there's some content analysis that is being done so that they push relevant "smart" ads while a classic ad is being shown. It turns out the day that I saw that ad was the same day I unplugged my TV from the network.