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These are wearing your SSD down.

And no, they will not be combined together because most of these shitty apps have O_DIRECT flag set or call fsync() after each write(), making the OS obligated to hit SSD with 4kb write.

SSD's don't operate that way, though, a 4kb write is guaranteed to become a bigger write since SSD cell/block is usually either 512kb, or 1mb, or 2mb, or hell even 4mb. So one 4kb per second becomes 4mb per second, and that's 345.6GB/day.

Pretty scary how one shitty app can ruin your ssd so fast, huh? I saw google drive app do 50 small writes per second. That's ~2TB/day.

Since it's not happening to everyone (check the original twitter thread), I'm 100% sure it's third party apps writing in small 4kb chunks with O_DIRECT file opened, therefore creating write amplification effect where 4kb write becomes SSD block size write (for example 4mb), therefore one 4kb write per second, instead of being 0.3GB/day, becomes 345.6GB/day.

Can you find/quote where that principle comes from? I'm genuinely curious.

Good luck with that. The moat is so high that even if you have tech from year 2222, the business side trumps technology.

  * deferred vs forward rendering (deferred adds latency)
  * multithreaded vs singlethreaded
  * vsync (double buffering)

It's far cry from simplified pure math people think of when they think of fps in games or refresh rate for office and typing. Software is very very lazy lately, and most of the time these issues are being fixed by throwing more hardware at it, not fixing the code.

As per the linked article, the observed delay improvement isn't one frame, more like ~3 frames. It doesn't go up from 1/24 to 1/165, it goes from 2.5/24 to 2.5/165.

Computer software waits a lot more than it did in 1977. That's why 240hz displays feel much more snappier even if it's supposed to be less noticeable -- you're waiting for same 3 frames, but they pass by much faster.

That sounds like one of those things that original article says "can never be verified". Correct me if I'm wrong.

Factorio but in 3d.

This kind of pressure is helpful, because otherwise stories of OP will be dominant and security problems will stay unpatched.

If you are going to use windows explorer and enter a directory full of images — windows explorer will fetch thumbnail for _every_ image. If you have 50000 files there, that's 50000 requests + bandwidth for 50000 files.

Same for video or audio. Getting metadata isn't free.

But the worst case scenario if you have a big big file, let's say vhdx disk image, that you mount and keep modifying every minute.

S3 protocol doesn't have 'modify', it will _have_ to reupload entire file every time even if a single byte is changed. For a 10G file changed 1000 times that's 10 terabytes of traffic.

By using this you will violate contractual obligations to prevent leaks. That includes majority of NDA agreements.

>> a Seattle appeals court said on Wednesday. It’s neither a public forum nor a “state actor”, and it can’t be held to First Amendment court oversight as if it were a government body.

>> »violation of First Amendment protection of free speech. That argument doesn’t fly, the appeals court said on Wednesday, given that YouTube isn’t a public forum

The big mistake people make is that youtube is a public platform/forum. It is not, it's a privilege that their server accepts your browser's request, not a right. They have every right to refuse for any reason they want. Same for videos you upload there, them holding it is a privelege, not a right.

It's in company's best interest to make people believe that it's a public forum, because people will start using it every day. In case of google, people use their browser to visit their website, sometimes using their ISP (google fiber), and log in using their account. As soon as you do something google doesn't like, you risk losing access to one of those, because it's not actually yours, it's a service provided as a privelege, unfortunately.

then they will use every excuse not to pay you

1. suddenly you're frauding

... you fix that ...

2. suddenly you don't have proper paperwork

... you fix that ...

3. prove that you're a legal business

... you fix that ...

4. we found inconsistencies in your paperwork, we will hold the money until you prove to us that those inconsistencies are minor

... you fix that ...

5. your bank has refused our payment (bank then says they never even seen the money), please try a different bank

... you fix that ...

6. with so much time has passed, we will not send you the money right now and will bundle up the payment with the upcoming billing cycle

... you wait for that ...

7. GOTO 1

Ukrainian users see a state/province border (top image)

German users see a disputed international boundary (middle image)

Russian users see an undisputed international boundary and Russian spellings of city names (bottom image).

(and I think there are generally no borders shown in the oceans)

apple is blocking exec flag on mmap'ed blocks because of security concerns.

Malware _relies_ on that ability to avoid static analysis.

The only kind of place I've seen prices less than MSRP is discount stores like cdkeys. For example, try to find microsoft windows that costs less than MSRP -- on all stores, first party and third party, the price will be the same.

So, lack of 30% markup is very unlikely to reduce the final asking price by 30%.