It goes deeper.

People learn over time that complex web apps work badly in Firefox, because developers mostly test in Chrome.

So they don't even bother trying it in Firefox.

Maybe. Or maybe Firefox users have sophisticated ads & tracker blocker, sometimes even UA spoofing. Then it really depends on your analytics method, if these users show up at all. You might have a lot of FF users, but analytics tells you otherwise.

RocksDB supports hashing at multiple levels (key, value, files) because Meta also realized the importance of integrity. It also supports verifying them in bulk.

Presumably filesystems built over rocksdb also support this.

What crazy thing will they think next?

Pineapple on pizza?

So stop paying then.

Today you can use it for 90 or 180 days.

But then you download a new one.

There is some builtin command that you could run to reset the counter. YMMV depending in Windows Version.

I think it was `slmgr -rearm`

Don't know why they would ship with this...

Yes but you can only rearm a couple of times. At least this is how it used to work

It works for years

You couldn't sell a package as a cat toy.

Only if made by Apple.

The cuff-links would turn into green bubbles when you're near "poor" people (by detecting Bluetooth MAC addresses of non-Apple smartphones)

This is for cheap tags.

Nike can afford a $1 crypto tag.

It would be easy for competition to reverse engineer the physical layout.

I think it's "secret" because nobody really cares.

Do you care for example how the CPU maps the linear memory space across physical RAM sticks and chips? I recently discovered that there multiple alternatives and BIOS settings which give you some control over this.

People absolutely care!

You can't cheat physics, so at today's CPU speeds, spinning disk HDDs more closely resemble tape drives than not. You have to pay a significant performance price when moving the read head across the disk surface, moreso when you have to wait an entire rotation for the correct sector to fly under the read head.

Dual channel is a thing, I suppose. Probably similar for hard drives: multiple heads, there might be some micro-trickery to align things just right.

I wasn't talking about dual channel, but something else. There are a number of ways to map linear memory space to multiple individual memory chips.

Like all stress tests, linpack will find some errors, but not all.

I had memory stability issues which would immediatly show under Prime95 (less than 1 minute) but pass hours of Linpack.

Prime95 is my gold standard for CPU and memory testing. Everything from desktops to HPC and clustered filesystems get a 24 hour “blend” of tests. If that passes without any instability or bit flips then we’re ready for production.

In my experience, LINPACK (at least the Intel MKL on GenuineIntel combination) is both quicker and more thorough in finding setups that are not actually stable/reliable.