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victortroz··on PHP is the new JavaScript?
I get where you're coming from but recent versions are quite different. Specially with the new one which requires also PHP >8.2 afaik.

But having 30s requests in general should be a red flag into other systems, laravel surely won't take that much to bootstrap.

victortroz··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
It's relative to sea level. After transition altitude (18k feet in most places) the pressure setting to the altimeter is changed to standard (iirc 1013 hPa) so all aircrafts are in the same reference regardless of terrain.
victortroz··on Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
pnpm helped me a lot with this.
victortroz··on Google Drive does a surprise rollout of file limits, locking out some users
I believe it's related to the price changes they announced this week, it could double some use cases cost.
victortroz··on Nationwide FAA weather reporting outage
I remember being the other way around, you could estimate height of the cloud based on dew point and base altitude.
victortroz··on RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs
What bothers me most on the Samsung TVs is that there are ads in the menu. It's one thing to see ads in a website or other content that is "free" and need to be monetized. But a TV in which I paid for doesn't make any sense.
victortroz··on Moving AdSense to a first-price auction
Second-price auction is good for advertisers, since you'll pay less than what you're willing to (e.g. if you win with a bid of $10 and the second price is $5, you'd pay $5). I get what you mean and I agree in most cases, but until now advertisers paid less than expected so it shoudn't bother that much.
victortroz··on Moving AdSense to a first-price auction
Changing a network of this size to first price auction will have a huge impact in online advertising. A lot of strategies and algorithms will need to be reviewed to try keep up with current ROIs
victortroz··on How Discord Stores Billions of Messages (2017)
Slack implemented something similar called Huddles, but I think is for paid plans only. I personally think Slack calls quality in general are much worse than other services or platforms like Discord or Meets/etc, so I don't know if it'll really help reaching people and companies that are using alternatives for voice.