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> I'm curious if brotli's decompression is still fast on high compression levels. This is the case for gzip IIRC.

Yes, it's optimized for fast decompression. Compression, on the other hand, is comparatively expensive. This trade-off makes Brotli very interesting for static assets.

https://quixdb.github.io/squash-benchmark/

You could use a cookie which contains the revision and then the server could selectively push things which have changed since then.

Too bad it was renamed. "Contains" was a much better name.

"Contains" is used everywhere else - the DOM API included (Element.classList.contains).

> Why would any sane person leave the water running while brushing their teeth?

Because turning it on and off all the time is inconvenient.

Operating the faucet with a foot pedal fixes this. People are too lazy to push it down if they don't need water right now.

With a pedal, you can also turn the water off in the middle of washing your hands. It's like a small-scale navy shower.

Fn and Ctrl are the wrong way around.

My laptop also got pgup and pgdn in those position, but they have a slightly different shape than the up key. I flipped them with Home and End with seems to be a somewhat popular thing to do. Works much better for me.

The 1920x1080 resolution is a bit disappointing. Crispy text needs more DPI.

> I believe that any knife that can be opened one handed would qualify, no?

This would include things like box cutters (utility knifes).

And the US doesn't?

By the way "propaganda" and "public relations" are exactly the same thing.

> 2Kb of extra bandwidth

Images, animations, auto-playing videos... ads are much larger than 2KB. 2KB for the network overhead alone, maybe.

Anyhow, my primary reason for blocking ads is that I seriously hate animated stuff next to text I want to read.

Komodo Edit/IDE had some command for selecting the word which is touched by the cursor (|foo, f|oo, foo| -> would select "foo"). It's similar to double-clicking a word. I used Ctrl + Shift + Down to activate it.

Too bad it isn't a standard thing. I liked it a lot.

> 9px Verdana

It's 9pt, but I do agree that it's way too small. I got the zoom level at 150% even without having any disabilities.

Paying with cash is faster.

Inserting your card, entering your pin, waiting a bit, getting some receipt printed, and finally signing it does take significantly longer than getting the right amount of change from a cashier who is used to doing this.

Paying with a debit card always makes you look a bit like a twat. It's similar to paying with a handful of coins.

> var body = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];

You can just use document.body.

I also suggest to use a data URL instead. E.g. "data:," is an empty plain text file, which, as you can imagine, won't be interpreted as a valid image.

  let image = new Image();
  image.onerror = () => {
    console.log(image.width); // 0 -> headless
  };
  document.body.appendChild(image);
  image.src = 'data:,';

> In case of a vanilla Chrome, the image has a width and height that depends on the zoom of the browser

The zoom doesn't affect this. It's always in CSS "pixels".

Yea, I wouldn't mind living in a large fancy RV. There are apartments which feel more cramped.

The 'x' (#cancel-copy) does nothing. You've to focus/blur #link to go back.

> how do I type this?

On Linux, capslock then ß works. No idea how to do that on Windows, though.

> so the only reason to use it is to write a word in ALL CAPS.

Yep, it was only added for ALL CAPS. It was actually added to Unicode back in 2008.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_%E1%BA%9E

IMO it makes sense that it exists. ß -> SS -> ss is a lossy transformation.

> We should really ban big diesel rigs from areas with population density above a certain threshold.

I'd go much further than that. I'd ban all combustion engines in cities.

There are enough alternatives: Walking, bicycles, ebikes, trams, electric buses, trains, and electric cars.

We should try to keep the air as clean as possible in densely populated areas.

> Dart? [...] JS fatigue

I think you might like working with Dart. The entire ecosystem is standardized. And if you do Flutter stuff, Flutter is the only framework.

Learning the language isn't a big deal. You already know most of the syntax and its semantics are straightforward.

You can try doing some Hello World stuff over at DartPad:

https://dartpad.dartlang.org/

Having the dev tools integrated means that they are still available if you're using some machine (e.g. a school PC) where you cannot install extensions.

I quit cold turkey and ate 2 large bags of sunflower seeds in the first 3 weeks. Quitting was cheap.

Quitting isn't that hard. It's just super annoying.

Things like exercising regularly and eating properly take more discipline and willpower, for example.

You do get near-native performance, though.

There are benchmarks. You can run them yourself.

Either the IDE/editor is able to assist you or you have to consult the documentation regularly.

That's just how it is.

JS' standard library, for example, is really tiny but I haven't memorized all of it. If the editor can't clue me in, I have to check the docs.

> The web is the web, there is only the DOM guys, deal with it and move on.

Flutter doesn't use a WebView. There is no DOM.

That's why it's fast.

> Why do I need to care if something takes a `child: (single object)` argument or a `children: [LIST of objects]`?

The IDE tells you what's needed and the latest version of the plugin automatically adds a list literal and places the cursor inside it:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flutter-dev/LXafJQqS...

Personally, I think it makes sense to differentiate between exactly one and zero or more.

> Why do I need to memorize which objects take which styling arguments?

The IDE should do that for you.

> let, const are slower than var, for example.

They aren't slower anymore in V8. Most ES6 features are now about as fast as their ES5 counterparts.

Xubuntu (with xfce instead of Unity) doesn't have that kind of thing. After you've moved panel #0 to the bottom, it's much closer to Window's UI as well.

AOT compiling was initially all about iOS (where JIT isn't allowed), but you can now do that everywhere with "application snapshots" which were recently added with Dart 1.21.

Unlike the script snapshots, application snapshots also include CPU-specific native code in addition to the serialized token stream of the source code.

So, you don't just skip the parsing stage, you also skip the warmup phase. Your application starts instantly and it runs at full speed from the get-go.

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/wiki/Snapshots

Benzos are only used for short-term treatment of anxiety. You get withdrawal symptoms after taking relatively small dosages for a few days. There are also many adverse effects like being unable to retain any new information. E.g. when I briefly took them, I was unable to memorize a 4-digit pin. I gave up after 15 minutes. I couldn't do it. It was terrifying.

Benzos are pretty terrible. That second doc did you a favor.

The only somewhat useful advice I have to offer is to quit smoking if you do smoke. Smoking increases the base anxiety level quite a bit.

I always thought it was odd when they go with the whole "http://www." voodoo ritual, but then they skip the final slash after the domain.

TypeScript and Dart are viable options for scripting. (Try it!)

Wasm modules will be viable options for processing-intensive tasks.