anothermember
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- Submitted 2 months ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 13 comments
- Comment on Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control. 2 months ago:
there are communities suffering from mass and badly controlled migration
Communities are suffering from 14 years of misgovernment, that’s what people should be angry at, blaming migration hands the tories a massive free pass.
- Comment on King Charles III diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace says 9 months ago:
It’s not the only way, he could abdicate for one thing. There’s the possibility of democratic abolition of the monarchy (but if you go by opinion polls it doesn’t have enough public support at the moment).
- Comment on Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button? 9 months ago:
Page load: The biggest and I mean biggest reason someone leaves a page is page load speed. If you’re deep in researching some information, regardless of your internet speed or if the fault is on the user side and your page load is over 3 seconds, you will leave the site. Loading only 1/4 of the page helps with this along with other tricks like caching at the CDN and lazy loading.
The thing that always bothers me about this is that I’ve been using the internet since 90s dial-up, and even 90s dial-up never had a “page load speed” problem when loading text-based articles. An extremely conservative estimate is that modern broadband speeds are 1000x what they were then so “page load speed” is entirely about the design of the website, and it seems that mostly the excuse is “we want to spy on people”. Am I wrong? Otherwise why not write an HTML page that would be just as compatible with Geocities as it would now?
- Comment on Intel secures $3.25B Israeli gov't grant to build $25B chip fab in Israel amid ongoing tensions 10 months ago:
Glad I bought AMD
- Comment on Pint of wine anyone? UK looks to bring back ‘silly measure’ 10 months ago:
And therein lies the issue, how clear is clear?
For example, if someone managed to get hold of bottles with slightly thicker glass, you could sell a bottle of wine with slightly less wine in than is obvious from the outside, increasing the price per mililitre by a few percent. Not much individually, but it all adds up over the year.
If you’re buying that wine, and looking at a shelf of near identical looking shapes and sizes of bottle, you’re already factoring in grape, flavour, price per 750ml, provinence, alcohol content, etc, so what benefit do you get from one bottle being 750ml, and another being 736ml?
Standardisation simplifies manufacturing (of bottles) as well as purchasing of the end product by consumers. There is no benefit to an overly wide selection of sizes.
That sounds like a case for restricting the thickness of glass bottles rather than restricting the volume of liquid. How would switching to pints make any difference with that? As long as they’re labelled correctly I don’t see much problem.
- Comment on Has HP printers always been this bad? 11 months ago:
If it’s significantly better than what I could’ve bought in the 90s I’d go with it, but if it’s not I’d still consider it scammy since a lot of time has passed since then. Thankfully I don’t really need a printer now.
- Comment on Why advertise on YouTube? 1 year ago:
I use a content-blocker to block ad-networks that track me. It was never about blocking ads, but taking a necessary security measure against being tracked. They could still put ads in videos, like on TV, that aren’t part of ad-networks and don’t invade privacy - but they don’t do that, they want to invade users’ privacy instead.
- Comment on Has HP printers always been this bad? 1 year ago:
Never bought a good printer since 2003. In 2003 I remember you could get a good printer for a reasonable price with reasonably priced cartridges. Ever since then printer technology doesn’t seem to have improved but they all seem to have become much worse quality and incredibly scammy.