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A couple news sites have 'text-based' versions. Became popular as a way to give people in disaster areas with spotty signal a chance to find things out. These are some I found: [0] https://lite.cnn.io/en [1] http://thin.npr.org/
how do I get my browser/OS to modify link URLs when I go there so it prepends the right "lite" URL?
Slow Software
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I sometimes forget how much big companies enjoy spending money. I once worked for a large company where every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office, even though most of them worked inside a fullscreen Linux VM all day. Outlook was the only piece of Office that my coworkers and I used, and I would have been happier using a tab open to a webmail provider inside the VM than having to use Outlook to connec…
If you're working in the game industry, and your repository includes a lot of huge binary files that are mergable, perfoce is a godsend. Also, p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS, and I always install it alongside git if I work in Windows.
>p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS
What makes it "the best" ? Honest question, i found it kludgy and settled for Kdiff3.
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is there any tool out there that monitors IO calls from one specific process? I get extremely annoyed when applications simply freeze without them doing any important cpu task.
resource monitor in windows can do that
It does not monitor latency caused by cpu doing fetches from ram (to the cache) though? Depending on the app, they can be a real killer.
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#174Input latency, I can understand. Web latency, at least you know what you are paying for (trackers, fonts, bloated stylesheets, MBs of JS libraries...). But core software latency, that is pure madness. Android share menu: what on earth takes 500ms-2000ms to display a menu?? Android scrolling: I could have a smoother scrolling if I rendered the view on a wall in Doom III. Why on earth is the scrolling process not prior…
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You too, huh? Last employer moved to McAfee "because active malware protection". Basically, AMP is a set of rules you can apply to disk accesses per application -- like for instance, "no application can delete PDF files from My Documents" (this is one of the "anti ransomware" rules). It wasn't too bad with just the signature-based virus scan, but the updater and AMP were horrendous. The PCs (3.6GHz 8-core Xeon workst…
At this point I'm kinda glad they went all the way, because now they don't exist anymore. I just hope the idiots don't ruin another company like that.
You can't have viruses in company that doesn't exist I guess.
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#176> When dragging items on the screen, for example, users perceive latencies as low as ~2ms This seems doubtful, given that even a state-of-the-art 240Hz screen only refreshes every 4.16ms. I guess they could compare dragging on a screen to dragging a physical object, but that would still be comparing 4.16+ms latency to 0ms latency, which doesn't explain the 2ms figure.
you could say with a 4.16ms refresh rate it takes on average ~2ms until the next frame?
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I wrote some Python to convert a long yaml file into jira epics/stories/deploys to avoid having to use the UI for anything aside checking what I have on my todo. Has already saved me more than it took to write.
That's great for you, but I'd bet no one else can effectively use your scripts. The beauty of the UI is that anyone can use it almost immediately.
Why does this matter?
There's no obligation to always make software useful for other people. There's a lot of space between doing something manually and selling a product.
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#178I work at a large company that is not one of the famous silicon valley tech companies. One of the worst parts of working there is the heap of various enterprise anti-virus software they install on our computers. It brings huge typing and disk access latencies. Even opening files in vim with FZF is slow. I can't explain why but this makes programming so much less pleasant. I really just want to work somewhere without…
You too, huh? Last employer moved to McAfee "because active malware protection". Basically, AMP is a set of rules you can apply to disk accesses per application -- like for instance, "no application can delete PDF files from My Documents" (this is one of the "anti ransomware" rules). It wasn't too bad with just the signature-based virus scan, but the updater and AMP were horrendous. The PCs (3.6GHz 8-core Xeon workst…
Similar environment here.
I was thankfully able to strip McAfee out because it was monstrously terrible.
Still, corporate IT has enforced a browser plugin and tray app called Triton AP-Endpoint and Triton Forcepoint Endpoint.
It's sole purpose is to block you from moving any sensitive data to external drives. I, up until now, have had 0 problem removing any materials to any drives anywhere. I don't think it works very well. It does however chew through my 2015 MB pro battery and cause the fan to nearly continually run and even at times overheat.
I think I could remove it, too—but am mildly concerned they'll get a notification and come start inspecting things.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sometimes forget how much big companies enjoy spending money. I once worked for a large company where every developer was issued a full copy of Microsoft Office, even though most of them worked inside a fullscreen Linux VM all day. Outlook was the only piece of Office that my coworkers and I used, and I would have been happier using a tab open to a webmail provider inside the VM than having to use Outlook to connec…
If you're working in the game industry, and your repository includes a lot of huge binary files that are mergable, perfoce is a godsend. Also, p4merge is the best merging utility for any VCS, and I always install it alongside git if I work in Windows.
p4merge is indeed awesome. I work exclusively in Linux environments, but p4merge always gets installed. The experience has actually gotten better in that regard since git started supporting it straight as one of its 'mergetools'.
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#180My least favorite type of latency is when you start typing and the application takes at least 1 - 2 seconds to catch up with you. This still happen to me often enough to be a normal occurrence on both my desktop computer and phone.
I work with Embarcadero Rapid SQL and I got used to these hiccups already, sometimes up to 10 seconds delay. I don't want to start on how crappy software is in terms of user experience, but I see people getting their jobs done with it and not complaining just one bit. Should I think I got spoiled with snappy fast barebones editors? I'm getting better at ignoring the ugliness and I feel it's a good exercise of willpow…
> I don't want to start on how crappy software is in terms of user experience, but I see people getting their jobs done with it and not complaining just one bit.
Most people, including technical folks, don't complain (unless extremely agitated) because they know they can do nothing about it but accept it. Doesn't stop making them miserable, though.