MBPs also have a fan, so they’re less prone to thermal throttling causing performance degradation.

Well, if the thesis is that we're running the heavy work on a remote server that's less of an issue.

Ethoxyquin is used as an additive in fish feed.

It's used as a preservative/additive for chili powder, paprika, and ground peppers in the US.

I've seen some sites, mainly in the video game field, that have even higher numbers such as 750. Do I want to share my info with your 750 partners? Um, no. Typically I just leave the site.

That's a problem with how companies see employment, rather than a description of how it should work. This leads to employees basically pretending to work, like in school how a teacher would assign us useless task sheets and call it "busy work".

It's been my experience that the people who pretend to work do so no matter how much real work they have.

I’m talking about people doing it specifically in response to this helicopter management style. There may not unlimited work to be done, but they expect employees to be doing something productive continually. This also penalizes people who work more quickly or efficiently than others.

This is definitely not something I want, ever. Maybe someone could be helped by it I guess.

Google seems to prefer reimplementing every portion of an OS possible in Chrome.

If you want things to work every single time on a billion different devices this is how you do it.

Yeah, and then 100 different apps can repackage the browser engine as an Electron app, each weigh 300+mb.

I saw this recently with Balena etcher. It's a firmware flashing app with about 10 buttons total. It's over 400mb because it's written in node and has an electron GUI.

Good jerb.

When your flashing app starts getting bigger than the operating systems it's writing, you should start asking yourself some questions.

  ~$ du -h $(which dd)
  76K     /usr/bin/dd

Etcher truly is the clowniest Electron app of them all.

Better and similar size:

    $ du -h $(which pv)
    116K     /usr/bin/pv

pv has a progress bar and nicer syntax. Next time you need to write an image, try:

    sudo pv -Yo /dev/blah /path/to/your/image.img

The -Y makes it sync after each write so that the progress bar represents actual progress instead of just how fast you can copy to kernel write buffers.

My life improved measurably after I contributed that '-o' flag to pv and it then made its way into all my systems through regular OS updates :)

Nice pro-tip! Thanks stranger.

Long live dd! Except every time I use it I am terrified I'll blow out the brains of the wrong device :/

Another example clown app: the MacOS downloads of TuxGuitar, a Java app, used to just ship as a zip with a big jar in it. Now it ships an entire Java Runtime environment specific to your processor architecture. It's 480MB. Derp.

> the MacOS downloads of TuxGuitar, a Java app, used to just ship as a zip with a big jar in it. Now it ships an entire Java Runtime environment specific to your processor architecture. It's 480MB.

MacOS used to include Java out of the box, and then they stopped doing that. How else should an app reasonably behave to keep supporting new versions of the system?

Requires: Java 22 [link]

And now you've made it the user's problem. You can do that, but they won't thank you for it.

> It's a firmware flashing app with about 10 buttons total.

What you're saying is it's the ideal kind of application for not obsessing over its background resource consumption, given that it's only going to be running for 10 minutes once or twice a year.

Indeed. The most goofy is their proprietary Print dialog. I think(?) they added it to gain a previewing pane, but Apple added that capability to the native print dialog about 10 years ago. Chrome still forces its old bespoke one though, and when you do the extra click to get the OS standard one, they apparently don't use the previewing API, so it's missing.

Edit: This bothered me enough to find the "solution." Well, it won't get the previewing UI, but you can still skip the dumb print dialog and go right to the real one with Command-Option-P (Command-Shift-P on Windows).

I really wish I'd gotten Borland C++ for my Amiga, but it was $350 in 1990-91. Still years before free software would be usable at home and PCs were quite relatively expensive compared to now (I was blown away when I calculated the modern price equivalent of my A3000 - over $10,000).

The Atlantic is only found in exclusive high end doctor's offices?

I don’t think I have seen a real print copy of The Atlantic in my entire life fwiw lol

Used M4s will be cheap in a few years, and this makes them more useful and keeps them from being electronic waste.