This is exactly how I think Amazon Cornetto looks like

It’s not that simple, but here’s an alternative that works for me

ChatGPT is just fancy autocomplete, so it probably got the notation from somewhere else; it’s not really capable of inventing new stuff on its own (unless it hallucinates). It would be interesting to ask it where it saw that notation in the past if you didn’t support it before, but in a way, you could say it’s a standard form of notation (from a different service).

You are correct! And moreover, fragmentation was bad on HDDs because they are good at reading sequential data, so fragmentation limited performance by making reads more random. However, SSDs are the opposite and are more performant on random reads, so fragmentation actually benefits them! (some of the time)

A special deal? Doesn’t the message basically say “give us your data so you maybe have a chance at buying stock at full price, and be thankful we’re not marking it up”?

From the app no. Even if you could get into the pokemon go app and mod it, they would quickly notice the modified app and ban you

This was a series of decisions with good intentions that went poorly in the long run.

Our customer wanted us to setup a system so their users could track their products from their site from a variety of carriers; but their backend was very old and difficult to work with, and their network very locked down.

We were struggling to setup a single carrier, so we eventually decided to setup a new server with modern tooling on our own network so we could develop this and other “complicated” features with less pain, and they would only have to make a single exception to their firewall.

Fast forward a year and:

• They didn’t request any more “difficult” features, so the server was serving a single API
• One of our carrier’s API keys had expired and nobody noticed because they weren’t using it, and they didn’t request support for additional carriers either
• Somebody on their security team noticed the strange calls to our servers and demanded we moved the API to their infrastructure anyway

There is also a limit to the number of files the browser can download in parallel, so if many files have to be fetched, they have to wait until the previous downloads are finished. This slows down performance even more