AnAngryAlpaca

• I have a limited amount of bandwith on my mobile plan
• if i know a game download is large i go home where i have broadband; i dont download large files over mobile internet
• a text-only website can be rather small with only a few KB. It's only when you get ""Designers"" that things start to bloat, because the system fonts are not good enough and 2MB in extra fonts no sane visitor will ever notice must be downloaded.
• the marketing department REALLY needs those 10 extra trackers and analytics scripts that take 5s to load, even if they last looked at the visitor stats back in 2021 and the login has long been forgotten.
• the CEO wanted that animated AI powered talking gorilla widget he had seen on a local tradeshow where the customers can ask product or website questions (spoiler: they dont!), which ads a few more Megabytes to each pageload even before you even use it.

Or it could be the USSR where people cannot afford cars, there is no money for building mainenance and everyone is at work right now ... /s

Skinner.meme: "Should we build sensible, small cars that are cheap to buy and drive, dont support speeding, need little parking space and prevent horrific high speed crashes? - No, it would hurt the economy and my penis would fall of driving something with less than 400HP that dosn't make vroom-vroom noises!"

Don't have any of that; except that youtube keeps showing me colorfull gambling ads in the style of a farmville game... before and between kids videos.

(this happens when playing youtube via chromecast on the lounge TV; i have adblockers on my computers)

Of-the-shelf SSDs are optimized for speed and price.

Flight recorders are typically specified to withstand an impact of 3400 g and temperatures of over 1,000 °C (1,830 °F), exposure to salt water, and high pressure if it sinks to the bottom of the sea as required by EUROCAE ED-112.

Maybe you could design a flight recorder that uses SSDs, but then you must get it certified again for the new hardware, which will cost a lot of money nobody wants to spend. The next step in flight recorders is to also send a live feed of telemetric data back to some ground station so the last position of the plane is known - with a flight recorder you only get this data after you found the wreck. Currently submitting this signal is optional and can be turned of by the pilot, which is the reason why Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is still missing.

I just watched the video above. I'd say it's a criminally bad design, because the emergency open is completely hidden from the casual observer and completely blending in with the other colors and shapes of the armrest. This makes it useless in an emergency.

There is a reason why Fire extinguishers, seatbelt release buttons, emergency exit signs, emergency brakes in trains etc. are all designed in bright, red stand-out colors with big letters on them.

Bis ihm jemand sein Fahrrad wegen Falschparken abschleppen lässt!

Well to be honest, the advertised tent looks like Snow White's Coffin to me...

Previous company handled everything over email. No Kanban, no Git, no organization - everything was still handled as it was in a random accounting office back in the 90's. I spend half of my worktime searching for who-said-what-and-when emails to code feature x, and then had to email it back to another dev.

There was also zero drive to improve anything. I was yelled at for 5 mins straight for suggesting to add a placeholder to a dateinput (which was declared as '', instead of ''), because the correct format 'YYYYMMDD' was never mentioned anywhere on the form or in error mesages, and people keept having issues.

"Wenn die Ausländer mir nicht die Arbeit wegnehmen würden, wäre ich jetzt Gehirnchirurg, Astronaut, der Deutsche Bill Gates oder Raketenwissenschaftler!" - Ronny-Maik, 45, Langzeitarbeitsloser aus Chemnitz.

Also ich habe mir einen haesslichen und untermotorisierten Fiat Multipla gekauft um fuer mein riesiges geschlechtsteil zu kompensieren!

You could probably shoot down 80% or maybe even 90%. But if the enemy launches a few hundred missiles at the same time then some might make it.