consto's comments

Isn't Discord burning through VC money right now to aquire users?

It's incredibly unlikely, but not entirely unforseeable that enough sensors would fail at the same time for the same reason. All four engines on the 747 BA9 failed at the same time due to volcanic ash [0]. If you just take the median of nine, it's possible that a mere five failed sensors could break MCAS. And then you are back to the issue of handing over to the pilots.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_9

It is probably worth noting I purchased the laptop from a major computer retailer sans extended warranty.

Meanwhile the hinge in my £600 Lenovo ideapad broke after 4 years of carrying it to university pretty much everyday. After a quick phone call they agreed to fix it free of charge (including return postage to Germany). This was because Lenovo had independently determined that my laptop model suffered from weak hinges. A year on, I am typing on that very same laptop. It is starting to show its age and its price. And you know what? When I do finally replace it, it is probably going to be another Lenovo. That is great customer service.

Meanwhile the richest company in the world fails to acknowledge a significant design flaw in their expensive, "Pro" laptop. Really, they should be willing, if not eager to replace the screens in every affected laptop free of charge. A laptop that fails after opening and closing the lid for a year or two is defective. There is should be no doubt about that.

I don't know how the laws stand in the US (it probably varies state by state), but in the UK with the 2015 Consumer Rights Act, customers have potentially up to five or six years to make a claim irrespective of warranty: https://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/consumer-...

> Nowadays it's almost impossible to uninstall an app completely, because most of them creating files willy nilly. And it's same on all known OSes. The side effect we see is system size growing in time.

Unless I am mistaken, I don't think this is the case for iOS, Android, ChromeOS, FirefoxOS, and many game consoles.

This is really just a problem with desktop and server operating systems, not with operating systems as a whole. It's also getting bettwe with package managers, the Windows Store, and UAC.

If you are not using or planning to use sub-domains, the only issue is that you cannot use CNAMEs. This is nearly a non-issue as many DNS providers offer ALIAS/ANAME/ACNAME records that essentially provide CNAMEs on apex-domains.

Why not? I have a chrome extension to darken and/or invert webpages and PDFs, and I have SumatraPDF setup white text on black background for editing LaTeX?

What a load of hyperbolic rubish. To suggest that Youtube is cheating the music industry out of at least 60% of its potential revenue, a figure a couple of billion less than Googles net revenue in 2015 is crazy talk. It is this type of logic that results in the billion dollar ipod: https://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ipod/up-nex...

I am not saying that Google shouldn't pay more, I am not saying that Google says less. But do a quick sanity check before posting silly numbers in a blog post. Or better yet, provide solid evidence to back up your assertions.

Deciding who can see what content based upon User Agent is nothing new, it's why User Agents are such a mess in the first place.

It looks sleek but the lack of physical buttons seems pretty bad from an accessibility perspective. And it is another always on screen that will inevitably always be a little too bright for comfort. As boring as the traditional terminals you see all around the UK are, they get the job done.

Clearly you haven't been using enough shitty enterprise software!

Had a little play with it and it's looking really promising. I'm probably going to stick to the terminal for simpler stuff, but this tool will definitely help pry me away from Gitlab, and the merge conflict resolution feature looks so much better than my current workflow.

I have a question, or rather a request. As a long term Sublime Text user I like to hide the menu bar which you can't seem to do in Sublime Merge. Would you consider adding this in a future release?

This is pretty much exactly what I have been looking for. I recently ditched Google Analytics and all other possible third party resources (except for YouTube which I implemented a click to play system) on my blog (consto.uk).

I just have a quick question. What subset of the javascript implementation does the tracking pixel provide? If all that is missing is screen size, I might just choose that to avoid running third party code. For performance, I combine, minify, and embed all scripts and styles into each page which lets me acheive perfect scores in the Chrome Auditor.

I wonder if a fake phone mast, similar to a stingray, would be useful for locating people lost in the wilderness. If the person had a powered on phone, and the area was located quickly enough, the device could at minimum tell you if you are hotter or colder. Use multiple and you could even triangulate!

Maybe people are over critical but the service and experience of a meal is not to be ignored. I'm sure you would agree that if they literally threw the food at you it wouldn't deserve a rating regardless of the food.

Not surprised fewer went away this year. I was travelling around for nearly four weeks and it rained once, at 8pm. The weather and temperature were beautiful, in the high 20s to low 30s even in Stockholm!

Oracle makes me want to avoid Java.

I was in Stockholm a few weeks ago and among other things, went to visit this subway station. Granted I didn't visit during rush hour, but it was quiet, clean and rather nice.

The station itself may be the deepest, but it isn't the busiest, and if you look at a map it makes sense. It's a single stop away from T-Centralan where all of the lines converge and it is the last station on the line. Leaving the station you emerge in a garden near the centre of the city, but there are other lines that will probably get most closer.

I went there in the middle of summer and honestly, the entire city didn't feel that busy in the same way London feels. I wouldn't be surprised if many locals are holidaying elsewhere, and Stockholm while a capital city, isn't at the top of the list of city destinations.

Also, shameless self-promotion and photos, but a friend challenged me to blog my trip and post online, click here for photos: https://consto.uk/2018/07/16/interrailing-into-stockholm-day...

Good

I'm not convinced.

Your problem was not that your CSS was 340 KBytes, but the simple fact you were using 5 CSS frameworks. And if you start removing unused styles at random, any time you want to work on the site and add features you may encounter edge cases where the style you want to use has been removed. And, if your CSS is used on multiple pages with different layouts, it looks like you will need to manually browse each one and merge the results.

However, this is not to say that merging and compressing stylesheets is bad. If you do so then you can embed the style in the page to remove a render blocking resource and speed up your site. Then you can repeat the same process with Javascript.