yes, ff does a ton of background connections. use wireshark to see what it is doing. i tried to block all that crap once but after a while i just gave up.
it is still my primary browser because it is now the only alternative to google's monopoly(even though mozilla is de facto living off of google's money).
Scrum/Agile is awesome! I always used the daily calls to ask as much dumb shit as possible to make the meetings as long as i could so i could keep charging my hourly rate without actually working.
No, i just remember a comment from some former MS dev who knew something about the testing process in MS. I think it might have even been a comment in here actually.
interesting. i was actually yesterday pondering whether youtube gave up on this since i have not had issues for months now. before i had to scrape all cache and logout. usually once a week. but then it stopped and all went back to normal. i am using ubo, still.
i remember reading years ago about the reason windows updates since 8 or 10 were so bad was because MS fired all testers and scrapped their testing hardware and now they are testing virtually in cloud. I guess nothing has changed, still. cost cutting at its best.
essentially that is how integrals are calculated in mathematics if i remember correctly. you take a curve and divide it into columns, the thinner the column the smaller the deviation(because the curve has round edges so your bar will have inherent error) and you simply calculate each column and then total it and you get the body/volume of the function. same principle like radians with circle. you are merely splitting the work into smaller pieces that you can process.
say you load 1 million records and you average them at 5.1. you then load another million and average them at 4.5. so you 5.1+4.5=9.6/2=4.8. rinse and repeat. as long as you keep the amount of records processed per each run about the same, your numbers will not be skewed. only the last chunk will most likely be smaller and it will introduce small rounding error, like if it has only 10k records instead of 1M. but still it is the simplest solution with good enough outcome.