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Why on earth you'd backup swap?

Also encrypted swap is pretty easy to setup, then again most distros don't give that option on install.

We have tiny swap, like 1GB, working basically as "early warning" of "hey, this server probably could use few GBs more of RAM". There is very little use for any more swap than that

>I don't think non-cloudy admins realize there are cloudy admins out there with forests of little systems with like 8 GB of ram and 16 GB of storage, so the "old" rules from the 1980s about provision twice your ram as swap would increase the disk required from 16 GB to 32 GB doubling my costs for, essentially, nothing.

The "old rules" for swap were never relevant. But dumb myths die hard.

> (If you're willing to use swap files anyway you can always add more swap space with a swap file even if you started with a swap partition. However, if your swap partition is too big, shrinking it or limiting how much of it gets used is more annoying.)

You can't shrink swap file without swapoff & swapon anyway so it's illusion of an improvement

It could be interesting in niches like say have some thermal storage (that say gets recharged at peak solar) for heating water on demand instead of draining battery for that, but that's a lot of extra complexity to save on some more batteries

Like, there is some merit in say heating up the "heat battery" at peak solar power (or just when grid energy is cheapest) then using that to heat directly but... you're still doing it at 100% efficiency while heat pump does that at 200-300% using nothing but ambient temperature to get that efficiency.

I guess you could use it as a hybrid solution with heat pump for very cold climates that would normally disqualify heat pumps (heat the brick during the day, use heat pump to get the heat back) but even that is kinda meh.

Execs hired incompetent (or maybe just "profit oriented") management and that incompetence trickled down to the bottom.

"secretly" ? Why you'd need to tell your employer that in the first place ?

https://esl.com/

first link I get

From their perspective it worked for decades and now someone decide to jam it.

From engineering perspective, yes, they are defective and don't have enough filtering on the input to stay within its band

That is incorrect. You can register and send "key held" input on the first bounce, immediately, then just ignore the key for the debouncing interval. Probably still want some capacitance on the input to not get triggered by any EMI tho.

That moves the latency to key depress but as there is a very little chance someone presses key for less than 10ms it doesn't matter.

The "interrupt, wait, interrupt, send signal" method might be easier to code I guess, especially if you just have few buttons and use hardware interrupts for them.

    grep -P is only true way

That really perplexes me. They had multiple both video and text chats. Their video chat was one of better ones even way before Zoom.

All they need to do is stop making tech demos and make one app doing it. But they just make one sorta kinda decent one, throw it away, and make another one to replace it.

More like for every 10 products they kill they maybe let one live... Have you not seen killed by google ?

> Google can and does support dozens of good products, and pretending otherwise is getting tiresome. If your best criticism is, "I dunno if Google will support this long term" that, to me, means you couldn't come up with anything better to say, which means it's a pretty damn cool product.

It's pretty fucking important to know that if you're going to splurge a bunch of money to put it in your offices. You're just being ignorant at that point.

If there are two groups (and in addition they are roughly equal size) those are entirely interchangeable as there is no logical "standard" to compare to except eachother

Just compare yourself to most useless coworker.

Same with the "10x programmer" myth, anyone can be 10x if they pick target to compare to that's low enough

Uh,no. It's usually getting more and more work coz someone left/got fired and employer goes "well, productivity looks the same" (coz everyone is working that bit more) "why hire more?".

Or frankly you just learned more and are more productive than you were year ago... for same wage.

"This app only needs wifi network list, it isn't spying on me" would be easy mistake to make

I'd imagine it would be important for "come back home" like functionality in case drone loses signal or whatever

> but there is absolutely no reason to use it for something like a phone stabilizer, which it absolutely requires and will not let you continue unless you turn it on

App making photos or movies using GPS to tag location of the photo is kinda common. Refusing to work without it would be sketchy tho, but "developer is kinda incompetent" is common enough...

Not saying it isn't malicious but those are easier explanations.

Hell, it could require permissions and not send the data now, just add that tracking in update...

How do you prevent fraud? How you fight bad actors on both sides? How would you track reputation ? How would you prevent from someone botting their way to 5 stars while scamming customers on every step (our outright robbing) ?

Such wishy-washy "oh if it was DECENTRALIZED it would EMPOWER everyone to get into the business" falls apart pretty quickly when hitting reality.