Comment Re:Any Firefox Extension Displaying Weight ? (Score 4, Interesting) 110
The Network panel of the Web Developer tools (control+ shift+I) will measure the size downloaded web page along with the speed to download it.
The players then banged on a trash can with a bat or a massage device known as a Theragun once or twice to signal to the batter to be ready for a curveball or another off-speed pitch. If it was a fastball, they would not bang on the trash can.
Even for more mundane less important components they require multiple vendors are available in case one implodes like that.
The government doesn't seem to care about multiple vendors much at all. In fact it's been my experience all the government cares about is Microsoft and the default answer for a developer requesting to use anything else is, "No", with an uphill bureaucratic battle ahead if anything else is ever gonna happen.
Like, once we had to use Microsoft TFS which is a garbage product that competes with Atlassian JIRA, OpenProject and Notion. I'm no fan of JIRA mind you, but JIRA is like playing with puppies compared to using gawdaful TFS. TFS is so bad, the government started using JIRA.
(I like both Notion and OpenProject a lot! I use Notion for free personally)
...It'll never be YOUR wife or YOUR child who dies from some untested medication or contaminated food or unsafe electrical appliance.
Don't you mean, "The leopard won't eat my face".
The referenced article makes oh so clear, heaven forbid you find yourself working for the Federal government as a scientist working on something like climate changes for American farmers growing crops during Trump's second 4-year term. Like if you didn't already know as a scientist, you're gonna realize you've got a massive target on your back because of all those 'alternative facts' and special interests.
"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs