In the sector I work in it’s probably better if you test your product on a crappy Citrix or Windows Terminal Server. They are always run by the lowest bidder.
I had to sit on a call where they had 32 users on a 32Gb EC2 node with each user running ten chrome tabs open each. The CPU was rammed at 100%, the RAM at 100% and the disk IO (page file) bashing the EBS hard.
The irony of this is they were RDPing into this piece of shit from their i7 laptops.
That sounds about right for Uber. My wife got screwed for £47 for food that didn’t turn up. The delivery driver stole it, support was useless, chargeback was instantly taken again within two weeks.
The probability of success, the poor support and questionable acts against users mean I will never deal with them again.
This actually went as far as walking back home 7 miles from a club at 1AM because fuck them.
I still don’t get how people manage to fuck up their phones so badly. Last five iPhones I’ve had were sold on in mint condition.
I go cycling, hiking, climbing, camping with the things in a cheap TPU case and no screen protector. They are my primary outdoor navigation device, my camera and are used for 4-6 hours a day solid. I also drop the things occasionally.
Do people put their 1000 buck investment in a pocket full of old bolts, keys and sand paper?!? I just don’t understand how you even scratch one.
An alternative perspective. The reason we don’t find them engaging and are so easily distracted is because they’re not very good and we didn’t have anything to compare them with until recently. This includes classics as declared by some entirely subjective arbitrary literary authority. It’s no different to wine tasting; status is more important than enjoying the thing. Practicers of Tsundoku are a fine example of the propagandists pushing the literary agenda forwards when in reality they read 5% of every book and are too ashamed to throw it in the paper recycling where it belongs and mistake the physical presence of the book as the value of the words.
For me, peak book-reading was the 80s and involved dragging myself through the local library because the other option was smoking, lurking around in public parks drinking or being a petty criminal. There are better things to do now, like complain about this on HN. There are also far more interactive communication pursuits these days and better story telling mechanisms.
I do still read books. I think I knocked about 15 on the head this year, mostly Pratchett and The Expanse series. But it’s on a Kindle, it’s not a magical romantic experience and I tend to read while pooping, waiting for someone to do the shopping, when picking the kids up from school or stuck on a really long Zoom meeting which I don’t need to speak during.
One notable disaster book this year was The Complete Navigation Manual. I am attempting to relearn map/compass based navigation again after a 25 year hiatus. This entire book could have been condensed down into a single markdown file in github that I could have read and understood the key points in 30 minutes. Such low information density is not something I am used to or like.
I can see the benefit of this. We have similar problem with JIT executing on a whole bunch of containers during a roll out.
However I’d rather scrap the software and rewrite it in something with a full AOT compiler and rapid startup at this point. And without more dependencies which will fuck up mid deployment whenever cloud provider X falls over.
No Apple quietly and understatedly did something positive.
Microsoft just said they did, bulldozed telemetry and Edge on everyone, released a shit show of an OS and buried it under a pile of marketing and blogs that everyone bought hook line and sinker.
To be fair we used to get that a lot in retail stores in the UK. I bought my first DSLR many years ago from a large high street retailer (John Lewis) and was disappointed to find it was used, slightly damaged and carefully repackaged. When confronting them about it they weren’t very interested in making it good. I had to chargeback them with my credit card company. After which they referred it to a debt collector to recover the cost of the goods. The collector told them to go away after being shown the chargeback forms.
The benefit of Amazon is they actually have decent customer service once you’ve navigated the ocean of crap they sell. Really you can’t got to Amazon unless you know exactly what brand and product you’re after already. Once that’s done I’ve never had any problems. In fact some of the “garbage” brands are absolutely fine too.
I worked for a company a number of years ago which demanded accounting of everything company related so I did indeed timesheet stuff I did outside of the office. I got paid for it. Of course I mentioned this to colleagues who did a combination of the same and putting any old shit in it to get paid.
Eventually after a few weeks the requirement to timesheet our work was removed. Clearly it was costing more money than they anticipated. This was under the guise that they trusted us and didn’t need the reporting any more (bullshit!)
One of the glorious things about timesheets is that they are an interesting infallibility paradox. The owner of the timesheet system will tend not to question what is recorded as it proves the system is fallible, so you can record anything.
Honestly that sounds like you aren’t garbage collecting enough. I have perhaps 3-5 tabs open in one browser and 3-5 apps open at any time. Also working in VSCode, terminals and browser mostly.
I coworker runs his windows box with about 100 tabs iOS. Sometimes. Just close some shit.
I had to sit on a call where they had 32 users on a 32Gb EC2 node with each user running ten chrome tabs open each. The CPU was rammed at 100%, the RAM at 100% and the disk IO (page file) bashing the EBS hard.
The irony of this is they were RDPing into this piece of shit from their i7 laptops.