My native language does not have a term for “dream job”. I was, at first, quite confused by LinkedIn.

If I understand correctly gzip, brotli and similar are best used to compress text.

Compression algos should be used on uncompressed data. Using them on already compressed data (most video, images, music formats) is generally useless.

Why 28Kb though?

It’s from an era where everyone just used open standards instead of trying to create their own thing for money.

SMS is literally from a time when every mobile phone manufacturer had their on charger plug. And some tried pushing proprietary headphone jacks.

Vendors LOVE vendor lock-in.

I thought it’s something to do with ducks at first.

Looks to be this. Can’t find high res.

Anyone knows the name of the background painting? I like it.

I first read it as “hobbyists” and was very confused.

Yeah, boy was I pleasantly surprised BR2049 was not a shitty cashgrab. On the topic, I’d like a new story in Blade Runner universe with new characters, not related to original movies.

Man they really are going to fuck him raw and with no lube, aren’t they?

IrfanView. Nothing comes even close. I would probably move to Linux if not for that.

Working from his Twitter handbook, I see.

Another good oneshot about glasses.

I am sober and serious.

At least it’s better than Slack and Discord. Still shit of course, but it could be worse.

Twitter currently has $1.5 billion/year deficit which is a lot, even for Musk, to bankroll.

gps

Can anyone elaborate on gps panic please? What happened when it became available?

Check Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox by Lina Khan (FTC). A very detailed review of how Amazon is a monopoly and how they dodge antitrust legislation.

Still wild to me how competition shoots themselves in the foot. It’s even worse than streaming services.

That’s not how it works. Or, rather, that’s not only how it works. Sure, advertisers dream of users who see an ad once and run to buy a product. But ad effects are spread over time. They build brand recognition. They fake familiarity. Say you are in a supermarket and you want to buy a new type of product that you haven’t bought before. Very likely you’ll pick something familiar-sounding, which you heard in an ad. Ads pollute the mind even if the most obvious effects are, well, obvious and easily discarded, more subtle influence remains.