"However, it’s only 829kb, and that includes every single non-image asset (fonts, css, all libraries and dependencies, and js)."
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.
you can go as high as 4 in most heat pumps. Obviously, it strongly depends on the outside temperature. But if it's above 4 degrees C, you should be fine.
Certainly. I heat a small flat (~35 m2) using just a AC unit and it works great: low costs, very comfortable. The only problem is increased dryness of the air.
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 think demand is far greater than what is currently visible, but the price is still way to high.
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 had to send more than 500 emails / day. So i switched over to FastMail.
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.
I'm using ouicards[0] in my project (example: [1]). First thing i did was writing a 'thank you' email to the author. They saved me many hours and gave me a jump start with design, which is always the most difficult thing for me personally.
I did change many parts, but it was a breeze.
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.
You cannot cheat biology with feminism or education. Some things are impossible to change overnight, regardless of the social pressure or guilt.
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.
God, i love human ingenuity. You are real engineers.
I only have experience doing real high level stuff -- the easy parts, so i didn't follow most of the text. It's impressive that there are people who understand the boxes we all take for granted and can fine tune them.
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.
Dropbox is cool and all, but i hate their pricing model. I just want to keep about 50-100 GB there (i don't hoard stuff). I don't wanna pay $10 / month for that.
At backblaze i pay less than $0.5 / month. I could pay quadruple, since Dropbox is a lot better service (and quite a different one, too). But not 20 times as much.
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.
Sorry, but American bread (at least on West Coast) is really bad. Maybe you can find something edible somewhere, but most of the shops carry only the worst of worst IMO.
In Europe (not including UK) the quality is like night and day. I've noticed bread getting worse as it's produced in bigger batches since couple of years, but american stuff is in its own category of bad.
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.
Why isn't it? I'm sure Google can make well behaved ads that bring them lots of money.
Implementing this would make it even harder for any competition to get a foothold into the market.
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.
There arent that many novel scenarios on the road. Sure, Google can't program around the possibility of an airplane falling down on you, but how often does that happen?
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.
I'm guessing that's the reason they are doing a moon mission. Have to give them hope, have to jump start the economy. Can't saw trousers for eternity, can they?
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.
Google could invest a bit more money in R&D. They sit on awesome pile of money and yet aren't a significant player in energy. Why? Not smart enough? Don't think so.
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.
I think you forgot that while Americans can and should save (a megawatthour ISN'T, or at least shouldn't be the average per month per house, vide the article), the rest of the world is way, way behind.
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.