Memory and network stop being cheap AF when you multiply it by a billion users. And Whatsapp is a mobile app that’s expected to work on the crappiest of networks and connections.
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For high volume wire formats using
uint8
instead ofuint32
can make a huge difference when considering the big picture. Not everyone is working on bootcamp level software.
It depends on how much you practice disconnecting. I found that working 4 day weeks allows me disconnect almost immediately every weekend.
Disconnection is not really a vacation issue per-se, it’s a work-life balance issue that can’t be solved if you spend the overwhelming amount of you waking time working.
I wonder what this kind of people think about >20days of vacation in Europe.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialto Games@lemmy.world•The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impactEnglish1111·6 days agoSo does not allowing food companies to sprinkle lead and uranium in food. What’s the point?
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•for helping me escape when I needed toEnglish7·7 days agoSecret, secret, I’ve got a secret, now I have the song stuck in my head. (Thanks)
Is this one of those things that when you start trying to make it feasible ends up with trains?
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs showEnglish14·10 days agoThat’s the thing, Software Engineers have choices.
Yes, all big companies will do some dubious things.
But then you have big tech that does all those dubious things and is also breaking democratic institutions everywhere with a sledgehammer.
And then you have Palentir, which are literally Hollywood movie villains.
At this point they are light years of their livelihood depending on it. There’s no way they don’t notice where the bombs are falling, they had plenty of time to look around and have decided they don’t care.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialto Technology@beehaw.org•Nudify app’s plan to dominate deepfake porn hinges on Reddit, docs showEnglish54·10 days agoThey have two types of people:
- Software Engineers and Computer Scientists that don’t care who gets hurt as long as they get to work on their interesting problem. I call them the Wernher von Braun club.
- The ones that are also prospective customers
The Venn Diagram might be close to a circle.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. And if your neighbour is dosing the neighbourhood with gasoline while wildfires are on the horizon, you smack him, you don’t go and get your own can.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialto Privacy@lemmy.ml•Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say noEnglish11·11 days agoIn a glass half full perspective, it won’t send all your data to Google’s servers. The part they are not saying is that the data even remotely related to your query is going to be sent to Google anyway. They are claiming they will delete the data after 72 hours, which I believe they will for now, but knowing them, there’s probably going to be a sneaky policy update in a couple of years.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Serious question for the ball owners out there.English18·14 days agoEw! People that are these bad at taking care of their balls should be parted from them.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialto Android@lemdro.id•Google Pixel 7 gets sales ban in Japan, Pixel 8 and Pixel 9 also face sales banEnglish7·15 days agoYes it was, that’s why they kept the patents when they sold Motorola.
Sometimes classics are classics for a reason. And by classics I mean crabs 🦀.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialto Linux@programming.dev•On X11 and the Fascists MaggotsEnglish22·18 days agoIs it so surprising that the mindset that makes people unable to face changes in one area of their lives also makes them unable to face changes in other areas?
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialto Programming@programming.dev•Revisiting Knuth's 'Premature Optimization' PaperEnglish12·20 days agodeleted by creator
ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialto Programming@programming.dev•Revisiting Knuth's 'Premature Optimization' PaperEnglish152·20 days agoYou don’t even need to go at a low level. Lots of programmers forget that their applications are not running in a piece of paper in general.
My team at work once had an app running Kubernetes and it had a memory leak, so its pod would get terminated every few hours. Since there were multiple pods, this had effectively no effect on the clients.
The app in question was otherwise “done”, there were no new features needed, and we hadn’t seen another bug in years.
When we transferred the ownership of the app to another team, they insisted on finding and fixing the memory leak. They spent almost one month to find the leak and refactor the app. The practical effect was none - in fact due to the normal pod scheduling they didn’t even buy that much lifetime to each individual pod.
I forgot that was a thing. Since we are talking about passwords, predictive T9 would be truly evil.
On real world cases even predictive T9 beats typing with the arrow keys on a alphabetically order virtual keyboard with a remote’s arrow keys.
T9 doesn’t belong there. You need practice to be good with it but it can be pretty fast.
It makes more sense when you consider that reviewing papers is expected but not remunerated, while scientific newspapers charge readers an extortionate fee.