Does blocking work?

I’ve worked with three incredible developers who I’d consider 10x: people who can reliably build a solution quickly, or debug problems that go deep into the OS. One would fit your description, one is a mom who shuttles her kid to after school stuff, and the other is a really nice music nerd.

Like the post states, some people are in the right place at the right time: they have the right background and temperament to do really well at their job. They don’t need to be shitty people.

I don’t really get what selling Chrome and Android would accomplish.

There was a leak of Google’s old page ranking algorithm (not PageRank, but how they change the order of results on search) - it looked like they used a bunch of signals from Chrome about the amount of time users spend on a page, how quickly they go back, etc. Chrome gives the search side of the business an advantage.

Conversely, Android feeds a bunch of extra data to the ad business about what people do in real life.

Both products give the rest of Alphabet a significant advantage over their competitors, and make it harder for new entrants to get a foothold.

Summit is open source now.

Awesome!

Reddit users attribute this boost in GPU performance to changes in Android 16. However, my Pixel 6a is running the latest stable release of Android 15, and it still saw a nearly 23% increase in the Geekbench 6 GPU benchmark. In fact, my Pixel 6a scored a total of 8252 points in the test, outperforming even the Pixel 9 Pro. Therefore, it’s unlikely that anything particular in Android 16 is responsible for this boost in GPU performance.

I’ve noticed that animations seem a bit smoother, but that’s hella anecdotal.

I’ve got a couple of side projects I’m working on, I’m running a game of Cyberpunk RED, and I always enjoy reading with my kids.

1. ghosts

2. Chances of being isekaied are much higher immediately after moving to Japan.

I’ve disabled background processing and I’ll see what happens.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Reddit and Summit were both in the foreground for about an hour.

Really.

Sure thing. I’ll post today’s results with 1.58.2 - that’s the latest version I see on the Play store.

I guess the most important metric is what is the absolute value of the battery drain and is that level acceptable?

That’s a good way of putting it.

Last week I noticed that my phone needed to be charged before the end of the day. I was using Summit roughly the same amount as I used Sync before that. When I was using Sync, I didn’t need to charge my phone before the end of the day. That’s what prompted me to look at the battery usage chart.

Yeah, I have it enabled on Sync as well. But I don’t think it works any more due to the API changes.

That makes sense.

With that method of reading, it looks like Summit is using more battery than comparable apps. I’d expect Summit to use roughly the same amount of battery for each minute of SoT for Reddit or Sync (for Lemmy), but it seems to be higher. For example:

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/81bd9579-c4a5-4efa-b215-f6e4f8f736d7.png

shows

• Summit responsible for 47% of battery consumption with 7h06m of SoT
• Reddit responsible for 8% of battery consumption with 5h12m of SoT

and https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c2ee348a-06a1-4298-9032-ea05a0fc4e5b.png?format=webp shows

• Summit responsible for 40% of battery consumption with 56m of SoT
• Sync responsible for 2% of battery consumption with 23m of SoT

It’s possible that these values aren’t comparable, or that more is going on (I’m not paying attention to background execution, for example). If there’s another app I can use to measure battery consumption, I can do that.

Some of us are here because of your ass

Not all morals or beliefs have to be unshakable or viewed as morally reprehensible for disagreement.

The tweet suggests the sample group disagrees with this statement.

I think you’re expressing the general consensus: people get a lot of their morals from their environment, but there’s some stuff that’s universal/non-negotiable; and we should be able to find common ground with that.

At least, I think that’s the general consensus. I’ve gotten into trouble with that assumption though.

Don’t trust anyone over 30, man.