danachow

> We're on 400Mbps, and even then I manage to block internet for others when I download a large file at full speed.

That's more of a router/QoS issue. A large download shouldn't negatively affect quality for other uses, especially VoIP. If the place you're downloading from has a pipe bigger than yours and can saturate your bandwidth you're going to need to implement some kind of rate-limiting/queue management.

> included alpha channels

I would be very surprised by this. Raster ops, yes. Alpha channel image compositing operations, no way - that's an entirely whole nother level of complexity.

What block layer cache?

> Programmers are not commodities

But usually, they are treated as such. American companies have a hard time treating most of their white collar workforce as anything but. On the other hand, Stripe has been seemingly well managed up to this point - but they have only existed in happy times so far. Many companies change their tune when the chips are down.

> It's also very expensive and difficult to hire new ones, even if you're hiring them at a cheaper salary than the last ones.

This may be true - but the average tenure of a tech worker shows most firms are not able to do act on this.

> Stripe 100% wants to retain its employee base, just like any company would.

I wouldn't put it past Stripe, but "just like any company would" is pretty naive. Serious retention efforts are by far the exception in my observation. This also weakens your argument - is Stripe not actively working to retain talent or are they just like "any company?" If really the latter, then they are fucked.

I think from the part of the sentence that you took out it was clear the point was about consoles.

The Atari Pong console was also successful but I tend to not count it as I was only considering programmable consoles.

> and not when the console was still in production?

The "Atari 8-bit" refers to a line of 6502 based personal computers manufactured from 1979 until 1992! There was a commercially unsuccessful video game console, the 5200, derived from this general architecture - it's wild that for their illustrious place in video game history, Atari was a one hit wonder - they never really succeeded in a console release after the 2600.

Atari also had a line of 68k based 32/16 bit computers that sadly also discontinued in 1992 so that Atari could focus on their pathetic attempts to break back into the console market.

It’s a fair point but also back in the day - “everybody” (especially the younger BBS and hobbyist crowd) incorrectly referred to them as 1200 baud or 2400 or even 9600 baud modem - as evidenced by the numerous historical references.

> 219 bytes per second and with 98 percent accuracy.

Perhaps I'm a boomer, but 219 Bps is damn fucking fast - faster then the first few modems I used.

> where do you draw the line?

Probably somewhere fucking much further below any point where human communication was deemed practical in the past 150 years.

Somewhat pathetic to me that people can't imagine 200 Bps as a usable bandwidth.

Wow, people like to shit on Apple, but this is yet another example of something that just works.

QR code is not particularly dense (like compared to something like a hard drive) - why waste space that could not be put towards more redundancy (error correction)?

> But 40% of non-obese Americans are sick with metabolic syndrome.

40% of the non obese adult population in the US? More BS dude.

It should be easy to point to some relatively reputable public health agency or peer reviewed publication where this is substantiated.

Among non overweight individuals I’m going to peg it more around 5%.