You think they’d call up devs who left them just to ask if they happen to know about a random file?

What makes you say that? To me, it sounds like that’s what they do have cause they tracked the change back to him. The commit message obviously said nothing about the file.

She wrote for the Daily Prophet. Mr Lovegood did the Quibbler.

Thought it was a conspiracy rag in Harry Potter.

Yea, guilty until proven innocent isn’t really something people want.

It’s a litmus test for me. Just tells me not to use their site.

asking how to swim without getting wet

Wetsuit? Though, I don’t think that covers the head. Full on diving gear?

And now I wonder if you can swim in dry water.

I’d be very surprised if that were true for ones not registered with the FAA.

You don’t love your GPU being pegged while displaying a static map?

Probably technically true. He had to steer it away from the train.

This can be rewritten many, many, many times.

How do you account for Space age and Information age?

I am not surprised. I can rarely tell the difference.

Hopefully they didn’t get it from ACME.

I did. The author talks about both and associates one with the other. It really only talks about 2 factors: web page size and CPU utilization. And that CPU speed hasn’t out paced web page bloat. And then uses the data table to try and prove the point.

I’m not denying that low end devices can have trouble browsing the web. I have issue with the claim that CPU performance hasn’t scaled with web page bloat because there are far more factors than just CPU performance and web page bloat in the tests, such as: everything else running on the device (OS, other apps, etc) RAM speed and size, storage speed and size (hopefully doesn’t come into play but you never know), network connectivity strength, etc.

It’s not even close to an “all else equal” type of testing.

There are way too many confounding factors in these tests to say anything about CPU performance for web pages. My only real takeaway is that some of the tested devices suck for browsing the web. How much is the fault of bloated web pages and how much is the fault of the device? Who knows.

I’d be surprised but perhaps my information is just out of date. They do need to make sure you return the correct model but typically that’s done by visually verifying what you return matches what was sold. This can be problematic which is why you sometimes here about people having returned bricks instead of the proper item at Walmart.

Though, a PS5 may have been a bad example because you do tend to reach certain price points were things differ. Like CPUs typically are kept track of individually, though GPUs often aren’t.

That’s not typically how this works. A specific item, e.g. a specific PS5, is rarely ever tied to a new purchase. There’s no reason for it. They don’t care that a specific PS5 was sold to someone. Just that a PS5 was sold.

However, there are exceptions. Pawn shops for sure. They keep track of those IDs because they have to make sure things that are pawned aren’t stolen. So they check databases when acquiring goods to make sure. When you purchase a PS5 the receipt is for a specific PS5, for similar reasons. If something gets reported as stolen they can track it down.

Broadly speaking, if you’re worried about a company knowing exactly which PS5, or whatever you bought, I wouldn’t. Amazon and Ebay certainly have no clue. Amazon would have no way of knowing what item you purchased cause they don’t know which one in the warehouse will be packed. There’s no reason for them to keep track of things like that.

Of course, a wide variety of things can be purchased on these sites so there may be exceptions to this, such as vehicles. Don’t know if that’s still around on ebay but those would almost certainly be for specific VINs.

Do you mean your 1337 2k1llz?

She was banned from all CMA buildings, not the city.