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What tools do you use for load testing / benchmarking?

Same here, on occasion, but I've found they typically make you whole when you get a dud. Good example: I bought two collapsible milk crates. They loaded all my groceries into them …

2) The cone was a temporary icon Turn it sideways (5 degrees per major release) and keep the colors. Eventually it will be a Play Button.

Yup.

Storytime! When I worked for MSN/Hotmail around 2000-2003, there were dozens of helpdesk folks who had access to an admin panel to easily view any email and could view/edit PII for…

AvE tore one of their machines down awhile back[0]. It's so over engineered, I was wondering how they'd ever make money back with their business model. [0] https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQ…

Pay more and cut the line all day long, access to exclusive restaurants, private meet and greets with characters, etc.

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Previous gen Xbox dev kits generally had double the RAM and came with a Visual Studio license. They were very expensive. Now you can pay $19 to unlock a retail Xbox One to run any …

If you're that paranoid, you might want to also keep in mind that it would be far more reliable to shoulder surf via video surveillance. As a bonus, it even works with radios disab…

Source Depot. Forked years ago with tons of added features. Various Halo titles also used it and had easy to use integrations with most of the art and design pipeline tools.

I tried to flag a taxi in downtown Shanghai for 45 minutes and finally gave into the broken English speaking motorcycle taxi who had been circling the block every five minutes. Rid…

How about $50 cash in your pocket for voting? Minimum wage mothers would vote in droves.

Yep! Plenty of pedestrians with strollers/dogs/bikes/etc, vehicles stopping in moving lanes for pickups or dropoffs, a mixture of stop signs and traffic lights, one-ways, two lanes…

Initiating a chargeback is tantamount to terminating your Google Account at a random time in the future when they find in your favor.

Just bought my first house a couple months ago. Despite picking a lender that seemed to have their ducks in a row, I wound up 'at the table' from 9AM to 6:45PM. Everybody involved …

This reminds me of Bert Kreischers' story about his travels in Russia as part of a language immersion trip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PAtFsJY5q0

Remove the extra step going from Phone to Chromecast (plenty of phones have HDMI OR the Chromecast can run an SSH client) and this a great solution with minimal latency. Anything r…

Or any cell phone.

After SF collapses, housing prices will drop and the Phoenix will rise again.

My first NAS build used FreeNAS. For a simple Samba box, it's just about perfect. However, I wanted my NAS to run a few more services than the ones that were easily available and p…

This. I missed repeated posts from a good friend asking for help. If I had seen them, I would have been there in 10 minutes. They committed suicide exactly 1 month ago. Just goes t…