That is true, but does it actually matter if the outcome is the same? GP is saying they don't need to remind them.

The outcome is definitely not the same, and you need to remind them all the time. Even if you feed the context automatically they will happily "forget" it from time to time. And you need to update that automated context again, and again, and again, as the project evolves

I suspect there is more tech out there. 20 years ago we didn't have smartphones. 10 years ago, 20mbit on mobile was a good connection. Gigabit is common now, infrastructure no longer has the hurdles it used to, AI makes coding and design much easier, phones are ubiquitous and usage of them at all times (in the movies, out and dinner, driving) has become super normalised.

I suspect (although have not researched) that global traffic is up, by throughput but also by session count.

This contributes to a lot more awareness. Slack being down wasn't impactful when most tech companies didn't use Slack. An AWS outage was less relevant when the 10 apps (used to be websites) you use most didn't rely on a single AZ in AWS or you were on your phone less.

I think as a society it just has more impact than it used to.

Yeah. That falls in the same bin as number of Olympic swimming pools or distance to the moon.

The best, meaningful comparison I've read is from Bill Bryson in A Short History of Nearly Everything. In it, he notes that there are 1M seconds in 11 days but 1B seconds takes 32 years.

An regular user would associate 4k is premium / expensive and difficult to use without better phones/network/plans/signal strength etc so the idea would be to be signal it is 1M times with a somewhat challenging thing for them.

Non-tech savy users know how live streams crash with sports like with Netflix recently during boxing etc or on Twitter last year and usually those come with some n Million users in kind of headlines or the like, so they have some reference to that scale.

As analogies go, there are worse examples. BleepingComputer is hardly the New Yorker or Atlantic, best we can hope for these days is a human is writing the article I suppose.

I've always disliked the "it's like X amount of [resolution] video!!" Are we talking a UHD 4K Bluray? or 4K Netflix? or 4K YouTube? Bitrate is all that matters.

Well I found it helpful for putting it into perspective.

I would imagine the .au on the Australian Communications and Media Authority's domain gives that away.

It is, although I'd imagine many Americans aren't aware of this.

That's sad if that's your bad. They were fined $3m only a few years ago for failing to comply with Australian consumer law and illegally witholding refunds. They didn't even bother getting legal advice.

I'm not anti-valve, but "complying with consumer laws in a country you make sales in" should be a minimum standard at least.

I can't speak for your country, but in Australia it's illegal to sell MA15+ rated material to an under 15, and R18+ material to an under 18. CS is MA15+.

> The USA is the strongest passport because it is the only passport that allows permanent residency and/or visa free travel in the US

Very much perspective depdendent. I could name 50 countries I'd be much more interested in spending time in, and you could not pay me enough to live there. From my perspective, it's not a bad passport, but there are plenty better.

I was wondering that too. I've taken it to mean "if this situation had happened in the Americas..." as the most generous interpretation I can make.

I agree. I don't like change and I'm usually the first to criticise, but it's fine. Some of the animations feel nice, but I'm yet to see anything that wows or upsets me.