Historically, non-animated .gif had some uses. For example small border insets in webpages, when the limited (or non-existant) CSS wasn’t enough.
JPEG is awful at straight corners and lines, basically anything that isn’t a photo. PNG didn’t exist back then.
Psycopath is having the status bar absolutely full of notificatipns.
Same with air travel. No matter how you slice the statistics air travel is so much safer than pretty much anything else. Only trains are close.
Yet an unsignificant percentage of people have a fear of flying, but almost no one has a fear of driving/passenger.
Payment processors take a cut of every transaction, so it is better for the provider too. And if they are small, not applicable to Netflix, it is nice to have a baseline of income every year.
Same here, both wired. Lasted for years and still going strong. Wireless is just for toys, everything reliable needs a wire.
“I try to eat the cheese golem’s head.”
“Roll D20 for agility check.”
*natural one*
“The golem is amused as it easily pulls away before you can sink your teeth into it, all you manage to chew on is your own hand and dignity. Roll D6 for finger damage and then golem attacks.”
Better lobbying.
Happening next week instead.
The move or github being down? Maybe both!
Most (all?) browsers throttle tabs that take too much cpu for too long (especially background). The actual numbers vary, but hidden cryptominers are not that effective anymore.
“The S in IOT stands for Security.”
Sucks man. Hope you find something soon
I was unemployed for a long time and things like eating and paying rent is nice. You can be all high and mighty and say you would never work for/with X, Y and Z, but if the only other option is to keep starving… You change your priorities quickly.
Yes. That is an other valid path to use. And you get pretty far with a medium single VPS as well, I mean it is unlikely your little app is going to be another Amazon over night. Starting on a VPS and then adding more, until eventually you might need automatic scaling is all fine.
AWS (and others, but I have used AWS the most) charges quite a bit of a premium but they package it for you. But there is also a big risk of vendor lock-in. Everything is configured for AWS, if they yank up the price you either have to spend a lot of time and money to migrate, or just pay up.
AWS and similar are very expensive compared to a simple VPS. However, AWS offer things that is hard to do on a VPS, not impossible of course but just hard.
Like automatic scaling, your site suddently gets on the frontpage of slashdot/hn/reddit/etc and get 1000x the normal traffic? Your VPS will probaly choke and render error pages for most of the traffic. On a correctly configured AWS scaling deployment, you won’t even notice it. And not only for your webserver, you can do the same for data
And other features like multiregional and easier CDN (also in multiregion) integration.
There are of course problems with AWS also, sometimes you don’t want your site to scale uncontrollably. If you get DDoSed without mitigatiln, for example, you could end up with a huge bill for nothing.
So, as with almost everything in life. It depends what your goal is and how much you want to spend.
Translation: we removed a lot of unused assets we had bundled at the start.
Big tech pays them, that is all they care about. In general (there are very few exceptions) a politician’s only goal is to get elected. Everything else is secondary. Having loads of money helps getting elected.
In a lot of countries going to church wasn’t optional either, you had to. Where I am from it wasn’t abolished as early as you would think either.
PNG took forever to reach baseline usability. Obviously because of IE. I don’t remember exactly, but if you targeted IE you couldn’t use a lot of CSS features and PNG support was shaky at best. I think transparency in PNG just didn’t work.