I love it. So much in computers is trade offs and this was a fun read exploring it.
It would be interesting to see some economics of what 8,000% increase in encoding time takes to make that money back in terms of storage or bandwidth. I also wonder how brotli/lzma would compare here. Are there some obscene modes on those that had similar results?
The author made a good point here about running trackers and ad ops (think Google analytics or ad words). I'd guess if you don't run those, it'd just be supply chain attacks that could exfiltrate secrets.
This seems like one of those scenarios where you make different trade offs depending on your threat model. The author's threat model sounds similar to a news site where they track and advertise so they're forced to run semi-trusted js.
How much does http/3 help for server to server traffic? Seems like larger websites can use a CDN or load balancer to do termination and then use http 1.1 to the back end. Is that good enough with large pipes and a high number of connections?
The funny thing with wine is that as the market grows for Linux, more and more bugs will be fixed. I could see a tipping point where even the elusive Adobe Creative Cloud runs on Linux.
I had exactly this! I kept having flare ups and couldn't figure out the pattern until we tore up a bathroom and discovered mold. Suddenly I realized my lungs hurt everytime I had people come stay over. They'd use the spare shower, it'd excite the mold and then I'd need an inhaler. Cheap hotels also put my lungs into a tizzy. Definitely worth checking cause mold is everywhere.
So you're telling me if United goes out and gets a bunch of paper bags to attach to the wings it will reduce drag by 30%? Are there industrial materials that can do this on a 747 and sustain hundreds of hours of flight? I have so many questions. Exciting to see.