Granted, this was on some virtual machine on a computer from 2007. But I did pare it down and down until all that was left was Laravel itself, doing "nothing".
I don't find it all that surprising. Overly-complex startup times are the convention for web frameworks that want to be taken seriously [by koolaid-driven managers]. These days I'm forced to work with Spring Boot, and it also takes for-eh-ver to get to the point where it can run my code. According to the logs, it's a lot of walking the classpath to find every different class and figure out how to assemble them into an application. Because heaven forbid someone call a constructor to make the object they want.
It's relative to sea level. After transition altitude (18k feet in most places) the pressure setting to the altimeter is changed to standard (iirc 1013 hPa) so all aircrafts are in the same reference regardless of terrain.
What bothers me most on the Samsung TVs is that there are ads in the menu. It's one thing to see ads in a website or other content that is "free" and need to be monetized. But a TV in which I paid for doesn't make any sense.
The argument often made here is that the tv is being sold cheaper and then the value lost is made up with ads. My Samsung TV was pretty cheap compared to others but I just pointed it at my Pi-Hole and don't have that annoying ad anymore.
Second-price auction is good for advertisers, since you'll pay less than what you're willing to (e.g. if you win with a bid of $10 and the second price is $5, you'd pay $5). I get what you mean and I agree in most cases, but until now advertisers paid less than expected so it shoudn't bother that much.
Changing a network of this size to first price auction will have a huge impact in online advertising. A lot of strategies and algorithms will need to be reviewed to try keep up with current ROIs
Slack implemented something similar called Huddles, but I think is for paid plans only. I personally think Slack calls quality in general are much worse than other services or platforms like Discord or Meets/etc, so I don't know if it'll really help reaching people and companies that are using alternatives for voice.
Huddles uses Amazon's chime backend for audio, so it should perform much better then the current "audio calls" that slack had, though I haven't tried it yet.
But having 30s requests in general should be a red flag into other systems, laravel surely won't take that much to bootstrap.