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Only 829KB? ONLY?
This[1] is a (dynamic) on-line course for all beginner sport shooters in Poland, each page takes about 15KB. And i still sometimes want to rewrite the CSS, as it's now 3 requests. It shouldn't make a difference on HTTP/2, but that's a lame excuse.
It's not very fast (100-200ms) and maybe i should get a faster server -- there's room for improvement. But in my view, if it's static, it's supposed to be as fast as a native app on your smartphone. 1MB of bullshit js that nobody wants is not "ONLY".
Btw, maybe mine is lame and ugly. But i couldn't sleep if i made people load 1MB of fonts, javascript and CSS. It's just a shameful waste.
[1] https://patentstrzelecki.eu/ (polish)
But for a bigger place the setup is costly: you either need a couple units or a proper design, otherwise you'll end up with a only a portion of your home warm. Plus, AC units are still significantly more expensive than just a "trash-burner" type of furnace that is the most popular.
Electric heat should be the cheapest form. That would end a lot of air pollution that is a very serious health risk in Poland.
I'd move to electric heat in a heartbeat, but it's 2-3 times more expensive than coal, natural gas or oil (those are the most popular choices in Poland). If the price was 1/3rd of current, tens of percent of all citizens would move to a different heat source, using a lot more energy than they do now.
So it's just a price problem. Make it cheaper (maybe renewables will) and the demand will come quickly.
I would switch to a per-mile-rent if it was affordable. Electric, self driving cars will be cheaper than people.
It works well, and i like having unlimited aliases that i can kill at any moment. But there's no way of disabling deleting messages. I wanted to be extra sure i wouldn't loose any messages and what support said was basically "just don't delete them and you are all set".
What is worse, they accept the default deleting of messages of some email clients. Gmail won't allow deleting from a POP email client, which is much saner in my view.
Based on this work i maintain a basic gun knowledge course, which sees more than 5k trainees a year. Now in Poland a lot more people can pass the official exam (it has two parts: theory, taken care of by my course, and shooting, which requires additional classes at a gun range), since learning is faster, simpler and more thorough.
Men are attracted to fit, young females. Maybe because women in the past tended to pick not the youngest but the most powerful (in this particular social circle?). Thus humans learned that both parties are ok with age difference.
It seems a bit gross, a 70yo with a 25yo girl. It happens less often now (a wild guess), so maybe social pressure helps a little bit. But i believe that men still prefer fitness over education in women. Not 100% of the time, not in edge cases, but in general. Even in the press, a guy is more often smart, funny, successful and a girl is beautiful, elegant, and so on. Not always, but more often than not.
It's also awesome how it all isn't a huge, inexplicable mess. I cannot make a CRUD php app without dirty hacks, you mess with 40 years of programming effort by thousands of people and it still behaves sanely.
When the AI comes, will it appreciate how hard we tried? I sure hope so.
Sorry for being off topic. IT is great and it's stuff like this that reminds me of it.
Let them study all the things!
I know that Dropbox doesn't care about my tiny dollars and all. But why not let customers pay for what they use? This "constant growth" bullshit is probably the reason they don't care.
I hear that East coast has more european style (of cities, buildings and cuisine), so maybe it's better there. OTH, perhaps just missed all the good bakeries.
Now a google ad is treated (by customers with adblock) the same way as the most shitty ads = gets blocked. Maybe if chrome blocked the worst kinds on its own, less people would use adblockers in general.
Ad blocking is not a hobby. It's a must nowadays. Google needs to step in or face the possibility of 80% of users adblocking. And when you install Ublock you don't pick and choose only "light" filters. You go all the way, to zero ads. Mozilla should have bundled an adblock with firefox ages ago. They could start with blocking only the worst ads. That would be some pressure on the market.
It doesn't have to be perfect. Just very good and improving. Some time ago google shared a gif of a wheelchair chasing a duck in the middle of the road. The car didn't understand it, so it just stopped. Good enough for me.
Obviously, they have a lot of work ahead of them, but don't be so pessimistic. Most people drive shitty (myself included), we aren't impossible to improve upon.
Educated people will continue fleeing if nothing is done to keep them in. You cannot solve homelessness by giving out houses, jobs are the biggest help.
Oh, i forgot. Google is here to make money. They might write some blog posts about CO2, but will not use their leverage to change things. That would damage the bottom line.
Why is it that all the big companies are 100% driven by short term profits? Maybe our understanding of capitalism isn't so great after all. We need more responsibility.
Are you telling Indians or Africans that they cannot even have electric cooking? Coal stoves kill thousands each year. Remember, you guys only have like 5% of the population.
You can limit your consumption -- it is grotesque -- but much of the rest of the world don't even have one lightbulb.
It should be everywhere, but i guess in the states population density is too low in many places.
[0] https://blog.sote.pl/wp-content/uploads/Paczkomat-InPost.jpg
I don't watch much BBC so i don't know if that changed lately. It's a change for the better imo.
I haven't had a book this good in some weeks. Cheers!
Almost always you'll loose more time on I/O than on pipe processing.
It's easier to spot the difference when somebody is actively using their device. But its not obvious. I think that vast majority of the population have no clue which model is "the hottest". Maybe geeks, maybe Apple fans.
To me it looks as we all have the same phones, using them the same ways.
I listen to music 5-6h a day now, all for dirt cheap (less than $2/month/person). I wish somebody would do the same for video content. Right now you have to subscribe to many different providers to get all the good content. So pirating is still more convenient and i still download rather than just pay a small, fixed amount.
Well, maybe music is just cheaper to make and easier to sell as a bundle.
Many times you could have won quickly if only the units obeyed. But they didn't ;)
America has this huge ego, where some of you guys feel "the best". It's a third world country, seriously. Don't like how you roll and won't come back, once was enough.
It's your problem, so maybe try relaxing and listen to advice if it's sensible.