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Talking about "the issue" is a misunderstanding of how performance of complex software works. Overall performance is the result of the entire codebase, and there can be a varieety of ways that performance problems can manifest for individual users. One of the most productive approaches to improving performance with Quantum was fixing lots and lots of small and medium sized issues across the product that individually didn't have much impact but overall added up to a significant improvement.

There can be all sorts of reasons that specific sites or specific installations might show performance problems that aren't representative of the typical experience. Your specific environment might have some feature (particular hardware, profile data, addons, etc.) that happen to trigger a bad case in some code and so lead to an overall slowdown. Or you might be regularly using a site that happens to do something that's CPU intensive in Firefox but less so in other browsers. This could be a Firefox problem (maybe we implemented a feature using an algorithm with different tradeoffs compared to other browsers and it so happens that everyone avoids the worst case behaviour in Chrome, but not in Firefox, maybe our implementation just has issues that can be fixed), or it could be a site problem (sometimes sites just send buggy, broken code to specific browsers that causes them to use lots of CPU for no reason).

One of the things that was most valuable during the Quantum project was the work to improve the profiling tools. If you can capture a profile using the super-easy-to-use gecko profiler[1] and create a bug with the profile attached it should be possible to figure out what exactly is causing the problem in your case. Without that data it's really hard to make progress because the kind of problem you experience is just not something that would be allowed to ship if it was known.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Performance...
I disagree. Taking a gap year is a bigger career disruption than simply changing employers. It's not by coincidence that one is much more common than the other.

The willingness to do former indicates lesser degree of dependence (or sense of dependence) on an ongoing employment than mere willingness to trade one job for another. That's why the "leaving is leaving" line of argument doesn't speak to me.
> If you wan't to compare against human "sample rate", it'd be equivalent to at least ~200 FPS

Where does this figure come from?
1. A good start would have been to put a good camera in the first place because that one is absolute crap.

2. I'm not sure you can fix the exposure on "fairly cheap" dashcams.

3. "high-light" in night settings are likely much lower than standard daylight, let alone bright daylight.

Though I guess you could have an auto-exposure dashcam standard and add a low-light one which is only active in low light conditions.
I wonder why my Krita in Windows (3.0 - 3.4, also 4.0) has some lag (around 100ms or so) when switching presets. During that, I can't even move the cursor, which is quite annoying since I use switch presets shortcut very often.

I've got no problem whatsoever on Ubuntu though, aside from some random crashes when doing free transform.

That being said, Krita is still my main tool for painting/drawing and some picture editing. The interface is IMHO very intuitive (or maybe just more Photoshop-like) which is nice
I know. You think I'd be sitting here slinging Java code if there was a shortage of Clojure programmers?

Even in my local area (not a tech hub), I'm aware of one small software shop using Clojure, and they have no trouble finding people.
But as shown with the EU's GDPR regulation, even if your data is outside the EU but some of your customers are inside they'll regulate to get you to abide by their laws anyway.
It's bloody ridiculous on several fronts.
Hacking apart the constitution because it is too hard to persuade people to amend it is a bigger problem than videos about AR-15s.
> In a way legislation, taxation, treaties, open standards are somewhat like it. When those change it affects everyone

That's the key: it affects everyone. In constitutional law there's this concept called a bill of attainder, which is a law directed toward a specific person instead of an action. Many constitutions, including that of the US, forbid them. I think any solution to these problems will be as much legislative/regulatory as technical - GDPR is an early model for this - but it has to be about the behavior. Otherwise it's just politicians playing favorites. I've seen some of the replies mention precedent as though it's a good thing, but we hardly need another precedent for the government picking winners and losers.
I think the reason is that they tried to minimize the number of actuators (due to both dollar and energy costs), so more refined, undulating movements cannot be flexibly reproduced - instead, they are built-in in the hardware design.
>> consider cases where you need values to be restricted or linked...

In other words when the values are part of a larger data structure that will break consistency if not updated via the proper functions. a.k.a. there are supposed to be side effects (of a sort) when the value is changed. This has always been my understanding of where the concept came from. It's encapsulation/protection of structure, not of a specific variable.

There are times when you want to change things only via an API and there are times when you don't care. You will usually know in advance but not always. As an example, try making a diagram editor and later decide you'd like to implement undo/redo after the fact.
I think that's a perfectly legitimate strategy. Most of the music on YT is from random people whom have no connection to the musician or label, and so are effectively pirating and selling access through ads.

That being said, if it gets too annoying and AdBlock doesn't work, I'll just switch more to buying more music again so I can have it local.
What do doctors identify him or her as?
I guess I don’t think that way.

Having classes where values are “restricted” doesn’t make many sense in my mind. It’s a flaw in your type system if invalid values are possible... proper algebraic typing with pattern matching would do an infinitely better job at this.

And linked values are more smell to me... it’s a sign you have a bad abstraction if two properties have to be set in tandem or your object becomes invalid. Can you think of a good example for purposes of discussion?
I would not call people friends if they can't take the little inconvenience to text me to invite me somewhere if I don't use Facebook.
As much as I dislike France, I think you're overreacting.
These tech companies were strated by idealistic young men who were initially all about free speech. They just got ground down from years of mainstream press criticism (who love taking potshots at tech companies), the outrage and 'activist' brigade (who now target their campaigns at platforms and advertisers), advertisers who now freak out over individual tweets and even the new tech elite class (e.g. Kara Swisher of Re/code has been on a personal crusade to get YouTube and Facebook to get adhere to her standards of content).

It's a new world. It's no longer the internet of the 90s and early 2000s.
The more social media applies arbitrary rules to speech, the more likely they are to be regulated as common carriers. This puts a lot of restrictions and “the Internet” was against it.

But these items are not illegal speech (although sometimes).

These are private orgs and can legally ban whatever they want. However, phone companies are private too, but they have regulation controlling what is and is not allowed.

The issue is that banning legal speech is a slippery slope. I imagine how I would respond if YouTube banned howtos on ripping DVDs. They can legally do that and it’s based on an illegal activity.

This also opens the door for countries with restrictive laws to forbid speech about what is illegal in China, etc.
I don’t care much about what platforms other people use. My preference is paying for services. While I use DuckDuckGo, I am an enthusiastic Google customer for GCP, Google Play books/movies/tv shows, premium music with no ads YouTube.

I would like to use Twitter more, but I don’t like the ads. I would gladly pay $50/year for ad free Twitter. I like Gnu Social, but not enough like-minded people to follow.

I spend 20 minutes a month in FaceBook, but jump through hoops not to be tracked.
At one point (1920 I think) there was an amendment which made alcohol illegal. It went on for 13 years and then was removed.

So there is a legal framework to add/remove amendments from the US Constitution, they are amendments after all, they were not there originally (I think 3 years after).
> You're right that constant job jumping, or several sabbaticals would be a red flag, but I don't think that a single year off would be.

Probably not - all I'm saying is that a single gap year doesn't carry the same weight as a one job switch decision. The conversion rate cannot be, and isn't one-to-one, so to speak; unless we're going ad absurdum
Floating point IEEE 754 is implemented in the hardware (Intel, AMD). It is a feature of the hardware not any language. We need facts not sophism.
> I'm in favor a well regulated militia.

So people can have guns as long as they're in a "well-regulated militia"? Do we want all gun owners to be in self-governed militias? I don't follow this line of thought.
>> Ideally, we don't allow corporations to control so much of our communications.

> What laws would you propose to actually implement this?

I didn't. Note that I didn't bring up laws until #2 in my previous post.

Programs which educated people on the dangers of social media the same way we educate people around the dangers of drugs and alcohol might go toward changing the way we treat these things in our culture, but on the other hand, there's enough problems with i.e. DARE that they might be counterproductive.

> I like free speech a lot as well, but it seems that boundaries get a bit fuzzy here. E.g. if you were to run your own forum like HN, don't you think you should be allowed to ban material from, say, KKK supporters?

I think if you combine topic-based moderation with a vote system, you don't need to ban KKK supporters. On a system like HN where all posts are in the same data stream, racist posts are going to be downvoted fairly quickly. And if someone posts racist comments on a post that isn't about race, it's off-topic, so topic-based moderation says it's okay to delete it. It's not a restriction on free speech--it's keeping topics organized to maintain the functioning of the forum.

The key exception here is that when the topic is race, then you don't delete racist comments. This is uncomfortable, but racism doesn't simply go away because you censor it--if anything, censoring a racist makes them feel they are a martyr, and strengthens their beliefs. Instead, if you leave the posts up, users will respond to them with the truth. Countering lies with truth is more powerful than countering lies with censorship.

There's a tendency, I think, to see bigotry as a monolithic problem in a person, without any reasoning behind it. But if you actually listen to bigots, you'll often discover that behind the bigotry they have legitimate fears and problems, and they think bigotry is the solution to those problems. Part of the problem we have in the US that those who value equality and acceptance too often see bigots as just bigots, and forget that they are people. If we see them as just bigots, then they can't change, or aren't worth changing, and we can discard them. But that hasn't worked--that's why we have the administration we have now.

Instead, I think we need to see bigots as people, and try to address their fears and problems with facts and truth. (Most) bigots don't benefit from their bigotry--bigotry doesn't solve their problems, and prevents them from seeing the real solutions. So if we can show them the real solutions to their problems, they might see they don't need bigotry any more.

Civil rights leaders of the past understood that a conversation about race had to be an actual conversation, not just shouting your ideals and silencing your opponents. If you refuse to listen to bigots they will refuse to listen to you. It's not us versus them, it's us and them versus ignorance.
Why are safety drivers not:

- working in pairs, so there is social pressure, conversation, and two pairs of eyes to increase alertness and safety?

- doing shifts of 30 - 45 minutes at most [1] (although they could potentially swap back and forth with a co-driver)

- issued a dumb-phone for emergencies and searched for entertainment devices (it's good enough for Amazon warehouse staff)

- being monitored by the driver-facing camera, with training and termination for drivers who can't hack it

- monitored automatically for attention using eye tracking or other methods, with the car safely stopping if lack of attention is detected

- required to take over on a random, regular basis for a short period to keep them engaged and attentive (and obviously, the car keeps driving if they don't take over, but they are marked down)

Due to the boredom, it is an extremely demanding job, but the way it is being done is clearly not good enough.

[1] I can't find anything published about how long the shifts are, but I'm guessing they are longer.
indeed the debt-backed money is the best we know so far!!
check out this article:
https://medium.com/@sennerrichard/the-holy-grail-of-crypto-c...

We could indeed use blockchain to help generate price stability, but in a different way: we need a centralized decentralized autonomous bargaining system for the economy, together with a Keynes-Bancor-type rule between countries.

In a next step, we can talk about replacing USD/Euro...
As a recent Firefox user, I'm super excited about the future evolution of the browser. I switched to Firefox Quantum after using Chrome as mainstay for over 9 years and I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY by the under-the-hood refinements and UX enhancements in v57.0 -- could clearly observe the impact of Gecko's upgraded Servo/Rust components at work.

Noticeable visible differences included page-load performance as well as a smaller memory footprint relative to Chrome.

Faster WebAssembly[0] starting from v58.0 made the speed optimization more visible -- it was at this point when I truly fell in love with the browser -- Firefox dethroned Chrome as my default. Add to this the hardened tracking protection, Greasemonkey's super massive stash of user scripts and values of the non-profit organization that supports the browser -- Chrome felt so old-school.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-fa...
I'm really surprised that we're even talking about the pedestrian's clothes or lighting or even the driver. Isn't the entire point of sensors like LiDAR to detect things human beings can't? The engineering is clearly off.
That's a clever analogy.
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Makes the Police video seem suspect to me.

The police were on the scene of the accident. They presumably would take photos of the scene. So they had other shareable evidence that would show the conditions more clearly.

Yet they choose to tweet out this very low quality video that basically absolves Uber. Plus they have a motive to spin the story after local government invited uber there to run these tests. Seems very CYA-ish.
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Note, JS is breaking benchmarks if compared to Python!
Instead of attributes that lead to creation of getters/setters, how about the simple notion of private or public access to members? I'm not sure which should be the default, but it sounds like Java programmers would like them private unless otherwise specified. Why add code when all you want is to restrict access?
You can put lipstick on a pig, but it is still a pig.

well said
Is there a Voat for people who don’t want to see racism?
Every major city in Florida and North Carolina checking in here. The majority of professionals that I have befriended over the years have gun collections and more than a few wear concealed ankle guns everyday, even in the office. These are heavily conservative finance folks though so maybe it’s a gun demographic. Surely there are stats on ownership we can see.
The dark theme has nice contrast, been using that since it first came
From your experience it sounds like I should do the math carefully before spending any money.

Have you had to replace your batteries yet? I’d assume batteries are a recurring (if with a long period) expense, while wire is a one-time cost. Does the downward trend in battery prices still kill any consideration in that direction?
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I really like the goals they picked, but wish "Native Look and feel" was also in there. I use Firefox as my primary browser on Windows, but on the Mac it still feels significantly non-native. For instance, we're still missing rubber-band scrolling, Firefox still doesn't set the file attribute that causes the progress bars to be displayed on the Finder for each file and on the Downloads stack on the dock, on full screen the toolbar doesn't 'move down' along with the menu bar when I move my cursor to the top of the screen, there is still no pinch to zoom, the back/forward trackpad gestures and checkboxes/radio buttons are not animated, etc.
Mark Zuckerberg isn't going to run for President... the idea is just ludicrous.
Since you are the authority on what is "crazy" and seem to think someone needs more than one gun to fire that many rounds, there is no way I can have a real discussion, it's "crazy" by def.

Did anything remotely interesting happen in SA soon after?
Well, there used to be some YouTube videos on proper firearm maintenance and safety...
I think deploying a world-killing nuclear arsenal hasn’t been bad for economic and political relationships with critical partners.

I think this has been the case with NATO, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Korea, Taiwan, and Pakistan.

On the balance, this obviously doesn’t make the overall strategy sound in the long-run, but the nuclear enterprise has been myopic from the beginning.
I am concerned about how this will affect some educational channels.

A good example is Forgotten Weapons (https://www.youtube.com/user/ForgottenWeapons). It's a vlog about interesting old firearms. These are often supplied for the videos by an auction house that is selling them, so the guns are literally for sale. But these are massively expensive, antique weapons, many of which require a Federal Firearms Licence to own.

The same goes for manufacturing ammunition. Handloading is very common in the precision shooting and hunting community. I don't see how it would facilitate gun violence. I would suspect that less than 1% of firearms related murders use hand loaded ammunition.
What are their morals? If corporations even have morals, the morality based decisions seem purely based on some unknown to me outrage/butthurt quantum. So this fluctuates quite a bit depending on many factors. Interestingly, since social media can be used to manipulate opinion pretty easily (eg, CA) large companies can bootstrap outrage according to their true values.

This could end up being a maximizing rule for revenue. So a pseudo morality may be as simple as “legal, pr coverage, max revenue).
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I don't trust Uber. Thats it.
> Everyone who used their money to support the proliferation of guns have blood on their hands.

Note that among US states, there is no correlation whatsoever between gun ownership and gun homicide.
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Indeed. Try to get onto Fox News every day and push a pro-choice message and see how long it is before your name appears in a database somewhere with a note saying “do not let on air”. ALL media firms have a slant, bias, &c. YouTube and Reddit, by virtue of their size, _have_ to go for “acceptable to a very wide audience”.

This isn’t censorship, it’s commercial positioning. You don’t have to like it, and indeed you can pressure the firm to take a different line but centralisation is the real enemy here.

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That kind of justification seems completely reasonable when you're looking at different screenshots to decide which UI theme looks better, but turns out to be completely counterproductive when you actually try to use the product.
Zuckerberg absolutely does believe in privacy - for himself. If he didn't, he wouldn't be doing things like buying the homes that surround his, and building massive walls around his Hawaiian privacy retreat.
Just out of interest, why is an unexplained gap a "red flag"? A red flag for what exactly?

The chances that someone working for 10 years non-stop needs a break and might be burnt out, is higher than someone who worked for 10 years, had a break, and is now looking for work again.
> The problem is that so many of them use the exact same model and a few years later are the ones dying due to lack of integrity.

Can you substantiate this claim of tech product companies getting large/successful and then “dying due to lack of integrity”?

I haven’t noticed the pattern but if there is one I’m sure interested in the evidence. (And in what sense do they lack integrity?)
I'm waiting for the 'grassroots' campaign to get every human and dog to wear locator beacons to make them easier to spot by self driving cars.

Maybe Cambridge Analytica is already working up a facebook campaign for it.
This is a site about startups and tech and hacking.

Doesn't this sound like a golden opportunity for someone to stand up a video service dedicated to this niche? Basically Google and Reddit are stating that they don't want to lose ad revenue from other channels which they deem as more important. Sure they are wrapping it up as being socially conscious or something but it comes down to money. They are ad companies. Large ad firms for large brands might pull their stuff if they keep firearm channels around.

A service for this niche would probably get all of the firearm ad revenue that is leaving those platforms.
You want to start a personal crusade to change YouTube and Facebook’s standards, go ahead, that’s your first amendment right. Just don’t go taking sideswipes at others for exercising theirs.
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Yes, even my developer friends mostly have no idea something is hapenning.
> The Roman republic had plenty of civil wars, and they had indissoluble monogamic marriage for the aristocracy. And the Persian empire, with harems, also managed to have plenty of successor conflicts. I doubt any wars were started by poor wifeless men.

You’re getting the argument backwards. It’s not “conflict => polygamy”, it’s “polygamy => conflict”. Of course other things lead to conflict as well; nobody’s claiming that all conflict leads back to polygamy. So your arguments about Rome and Persia are meaningless.
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