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I was wondering what features will exactly make it the proper YouTube competitor, and I had the same feeling about it being more or less extended stories.

On the other hand, YouTube seems to be set on making every other platform more attractive at the moment, so let's see how it plays out.
The point is near the end:

"All these challenges arise because of physics’ adherence to reductive unification. Admittedly, the method has a distinguished pedigree. During my PhD and early career in the 1990s, it was all the rage among theorists, and the fiendishly complex mathematics of string theory was its apogee. But none of our top-down efforts seem to be yielding fruit. One of the difficulties of trying to get at underlying principles is that it requires us to make a lot of theoretical presuppositions, any one of which could end up being wrong."

"Instead, many of us have switched from the old top-down style of working to a more humble, bottom-up approach. Instead of trying to drill down to the bedrock by coming up with a grand theory and testing it, now we’re just looking for any hints in the experimental data, and working bit by bit from there."

In practice, both ways to look at the evidence are needed. And in pure science, sometimes a lot has to be done in many different directions before some of non-obvious directions bear fruits. One of big dangers is inventing the experiments that will surely "confirm." The big insights come also when something expected by the most is not confirmed, like the famous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson%E2%80%93Morley_exper...

Without these experiments Einstein wouldn't be able to invent General Relativity. The popular culture talks too much about Einstein but sadly doesn't understand and hardly even knows Michelson.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_A._Michelson

His experiment, from the end of the 19th century, is also the basis of the LIGO experiments that just recently confirmed gravitational waves:

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/ligos-ifo

"Although much more sophisticated, at their cores, LIGO's interferometers are fundamentally Michelson Interferometers, a device invented in the 1880's."

The 1880's experiments didn't "confirm" what was "expected" but they are one of the most impressive science success stories, looking from what we know now.

Of course, LIGO itself is a technological marvel compared to what was possible in 1880, and we should celebrate all the advanced experiments where our reach extends. Not "confirming" expected can be even much bigger story, even if it disappoints those whose "pet" "expected" theory is not confirmed.
Some of the pics I took in that place (in the mountains & taiga near Lake Teletskoe):
http://i.imgur.com/2DwEDg5.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/3ISH2C9.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/1ymYIbk.jpg
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I agree. Anything you do as a form of escapism might help you. For example if you watch a lot of TV and English is not your first language, after some point you'll ditch the subtitles and your English will vastly improve.

If you play a lot of puzzle games, you will be mentally sharper.

If you play a lot of shoot 'em ups, your reaction times will improve.

If you hang around in the internet and have an interest for computers, you'll eventually get into computer science and programming and you'll learn quite a lot whilst trying to escape reality.

I had a friend whom I would describe as a gaming addict. He was the brightest pupil I knew from the high school. He didn't eat properly, he always wore the same hoodie (his favorite) even in the coldest winter days. He refused to drink water and only drank ice tea. He went on to a college in a distant town and disappeared.

After 3 years I saw him, he was still the same. He told me he earned some money from the youtube channel he opened in high school. He had purchased a big box of chocolate marshmallows from the supermarket, which would be his meals for a couple of days while he was visiting his friends in a different town. He struggled at college. He played obscure anime games.

After another year, he told me that he changed his major (econ) after 4 years of studying. He started CS and his life turned around.

It could be the case that you resort to gaming to escape reality. But resorting to gaming could also make you unable to change that reality and break out from that spiral.

I don't know if he would've made the decision to jump ship and start anew sooner if he wasn't playing. But in the end he was able to break out of his habit with time.

I think with time the addictions wear off, whether it is TV (in my case) or gaming. I used to watch hours and hours of TV every day. If I didn't I would feel stressed out and couldn't function properly. But now that I've grown I don't feel the urge to bing. It resolved by itself.
Edge is the most resource efficient and respects modern Windows conventions, therefore it has the best, pen, touchscreen, tablet (including share button and stuff) and precision trackpad support. And since it's WinRT/UWP, it can suspends its tab processes, and also itself when minimized or automatically during tablet mode in the background, and during fullscreen it also automatically unhides the taskbar when you hover over it, for better multi-tasking.

It also has nice features such as the set tabs aside session manager that even retains history and session cookies, and it a nice PDF and ePub reader with support for notes and highlighting with the pen, and Cortana integration. Before Edge, I primarily used Firefox and dabbled with Chrome and Vivaldi.

Edge is on both iOS and Android, and no I don't work for MS, I just value proper modern OS integration and battery efficiency, so that I can use my device as intended.
Looks like it's roughly as far from Tehran as Los Angeles to North Dakota, and as far north from Kabul as Minneapolis to Houston.
They don't, that's the thing; they wanted to monetize their service, and selling e-mail addresses and user data is one way to do that.
Also very simple but highly useful Extension: Cookie AutoDelete

Deletes cookies & local storage after you leave a website. You can whitelist a few domains like Github etc. for convenience. The only downside is you'll get "privacy reminder / cookie accept" popups every time anew.
I think you mean 20% out of 125%, because that brings you back to 100%
My view is that the compiler cannot remove any of these NULL checks. There should be a separate tool that gives the programmer hints that she is making unneeded checks and suggest program transformations, but removing NULL checks is unsafe when done automatically. Because I might be on a platform where param->length is actually referring to valid memory, so my program won't segfault and the NULL check is the only way to know.
Can I ask you what is other issues when you use xps 9570 with Wayland?
BTW asked our guide if any of his acquaintances were scavenging this stuff, he said smth like "some did... all of them are already dead"
High School Fun: Virtual Girl 2018
I use it for watching videos, and if a site doesn't work in my browser of choice (Firefox) Edge is usually what I try it in first since I tend to have it open pointing at Twitch or Youtube. When I open stuff in it, it's usually pretty slick - it just has weird stability issues (randomly hanging, etc) that stop me from using it more often. I do value having my Firefox profile everywhere (mac, windows machines, android phone) and I can't get that out of Edge, but that's not really a factor in why I don't use it much.
> because the UI breaks in Firefox: intercom.io, trello.com, notion.so

This sounds like something you've done; do you have some weird extensions installed?
Microsoft acquires machine learning and AI startup Bonsai
I've switched to firefox last year for privacy reasons, but soon realized it was way not enough.

I used different profile to do what sandboxing is doing for facebook. Both methods are very good at isolating cookies, but it's still an easy job to know who you are based on IP address and a bit of easy fingerprinting (IP address + screen resolution + browser version gets you a long way).

This year, I decided to start using tor-browser as my main browser, keeping a firefox profile for facebook and making an other for google products.

It's a bit slower, I had to change a few habits (like being always logged in or retrieving url from history by simply typing part of it), but in the end, I'm glad to not have this paranoid-friendly feeling of constantly being watched anymore. I realized that even if I never thought anyone was looking at me specifically, I was acting as if it was the case, because of the perception that everything was recorded and could be used. Mass-surveillance and private social profiling are creating generations of paranoid, this can't be good.
Yes. At work, principles don't apply.
Aerodynamic and surface comparisons of the balls of 2018 and 2014 WorldCups
now all we need is to connect them to a virtual grid of sorts. some kind of brain over silicon tech.
Yes, I use it as my primary daily driver. I use it because I have a 2-1 laptop and the touch support is superior to all other browsers when using Windows 10 in tablet mode.

When doing any kind of web development I do switch to Chrome.
I use Linux so I can't use Edge, and even if it were available, I'd probably carry on using Firefox. I have a dedicated Windows gaming PC, but on that I probably use Steam Browser more than anything.

My partner, however, does uses Edge as following a clean reinstall of Windows 10, we found it was honestly ... good enough. We didn't need to install another browser.
Sweden manufactured rather excellent nuclear power plants too. For some reason they were not widely exported.
Crazy bonkers idea...

The cities I've lived in (in the US) provided the garbage and recycle bins. How about printing the recyclable materials and exceptions ON THE BINS. Put it on the lid, so it can be easily customized for each community. It amazes me that no one has proposed this yet.

Another idea - randomly choose streets to spot check recycling behavior and flag the cans based on their score. Nothing exotic - don't have to do it constantly or over large areas, simple 3 score system (good, acceptable, and poor), and just a quick peak in the bins as they are manually thrown into the truck. Your score is affixed to the bin, which you are rolling out every week for all the neighborhood to see. Of course there would have to be some discretion, like people just moving in, hence the process being manual, and probably some exemption process. The next week, those rated poor will be rechecked and rescored. Fail again and you get a warning that has the problems checked off from a list. After 4 consecutive failures you receive a fine. Or maybe you have to deliver your garbage to a sorting facility where someone will go over the process. Or there's a class.

There are lots of options beyond throwing up a website hidden behind 3 different local government portals.
Thank you, didn't know that!
Since Firefox is a cross-platform project it'd be easier for them to target Vulkan and then use the MoltenVK library to do Vulkan on macOS:

https://moltengl.com/moltenvk/

https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/
Getting forgiveness after permission was denied is difficult too.
Nope, there are tons of other reasons.

Huge pool of programmers. Huge pool of libraries. Tons of existing code that should continue to run. Excellent documentation. Very fast compilers. Debuggers and profilers a plenty. Top notch vendor support. Choices of IDEs. Works great in embedded. Predictable.

The alternatives being what, e.g. Rust, a 5 year old language with a single implementation that still tries to find its place, and brings extra baggage to the table?

>Not take any risk but stick with tried and wrong tools.

Engineers don't take risks. You wouldn't want risks in the people building your bridges and planes, why would you want in your OSes and network infrastructure?
I think a better analogy is expecting a Counter-Strike: Source modification to work with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

I was also upset by the death of most of my favourite add-ons, particularly Vimperator, so I bullied a friend into writing Tridactyl with me [1]. If you tried it around the death of keysnail it might be worth giving it another go now, as I think it is a lot less bad than it used to be (although I can guarantee it still has bugs). It certainly is not as polished as cVim.

Other alternatives include Vim Vixen and Sakakey.

[1] https://github.com/cmcaine/tridactyl
The average user has only one account. You are lucky that you even have the option of switching accounts.
Unlikely, in the EU, because who the hell is going to consent to that in line with GDPR?
I switched to Firefox 5 months ago, and the experience hasn't been great. I expecting good things after reading about Firefox Quantum, but it's noticeably slower than Chrome. There's often a lag while scrolling, and it just doesn't feel as smooth.

It also doesn't support Chromecast, so I have to switch to Chrome whenever I want to play a YouTube video on the TV. I've seen quite a few websites with JS or CSS bugs on Firefox, and some Chrome extensions don't have Firefox versions (e.g. Streak CRM.) I also have to switch to Chrome whenever I use "Google Meet" for a call. (That's not Firefox's fault, but it's an issue you experience when you use Firefox.)

The only reason I switched to Firefox is so that I could remove the little blue dot on pinned tabs [1]. I would get a new email, and the Gmail favicon would update with a (1). I'd read the email on my phone, and the icon would go back to (0). But there would be a little blue dot telling me about a change on the page, so I'd still have to click the tab to remove the dot. Same issue for Drift chat, Trello, etc. After months and months of clicking the tab just to remove that little blue dot, I finally cracked and switched to Firefox. Firefox also has that little blue dot, but at least you can disable it by hacking some CSS [2]. If Chrome gave me the option to disable that blue dot, I'd switch back immediately.

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/sxDEUm...

[2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1181537
Education videos from MIT being blocked by YouTube
Site says it's unavailable in Europe. What happened to the first2 Ws in the acronym WWW?
Any client with proper log files (many IRC clients, Pidgin, etc) is much better than Slack, which uses word indexing rather than full search, meaning it doesn't find the message "helloworld.com" when you search for "world".
I didn't mean that he was wrong, only that they were trite observations that somebody always mentions. Even the fact that his work is not popular among the masses doesn't add much to the conversation, any more than pointing out that the average American doesn't care about Jeffrey Eugenides, Toni Morrison, Jonathan Franzen, or Thomas Pynchon...
It's great Firefox 'is back' but I never really left, and when I did try to use Chrome I just felt a bit 'dirty'.

For me, whether FF is faster or slower than Chrome is largely irrelevent (unless ofc it's extreme). What matters to me is that it feels like Mozilla are fighting for me, and Chrome are fighting for the advertising revenue.

Mozilla, for all their mistakes, do care about their users and privacy (but make some stupid mistakes).
Yes to me too.

I can also use it on android with ublock etc.
Chrome hasn't even been installed in my main computer in maybe a year, firefox works for everything I need, including google apps for business mail and youtube.

My biggest reason for using it is the fact that it is open source, the other is that ad-block software actually block calls to adds not just the display of them as in chrome.
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How Gremlin is making chaos engineering accessible
exactly my words!
>.NET, Java are good COBOL replacements.

Not even close.

As for the links, those are still about COBOL the language.
> material wealth

You know that one of the cause of the Revolution was a Financial crisis, right?
Swiggy raises $210M from DST Global and Naspers to enter the Unicorn club
What add-ons are available for Chrome-likes that you miss in Firefox?
Maybe Google's Swift for Tensorflow will eventually change that.
The abilities of a feature complement its positioning to users. I would imagine that the limited 1 minute videos are in the main Instagram app, where they would likely want to retain the feel of Instagram, which wouldn't work well with long form content. Now IGTV might be their play for long form content. Sure, both are video, and both are from Instagram, but two very different ways of positioning video, for different purposes, in different places, targeting different people.
> This is an alphabet soup of fads and terms put in a political blender to make a barely coherent point

It's in the Opinion section in the Guardian; this shouldn't be a huge surprise.

I hate how news sites -- and the Guardian are particularly guilty of this -- mix opinion and news in very similarly styled layouts. The Guardian seemed to have started this with "Comment is Free" back in the day. The Guardian is very authoritative for news, and often pretty worthless for columnists / opinion pieces.

I appreciate the Economist having started 1843 Magazine, which appears to be a specific counter to that. It's promoted by their social media outlets, and yet it's clearly a separate brand.
I've notice that some of the new fancy webapps that boosted of being write once run everywhere have issues in firefox.

Most notably is asana (it sometimes makes firefox use 100% cpu) and slack. Unfortunately we have slack at work but we're working to replace it as it has become increasingly bloated, user-unfriendly and buggy.
$450 per year is a new phone, or a return flight to somewhere for a weekend break. Or a coffee machine. And that's just the lower end of potential outlay.

When i was at school in the 80s one of the mandatory classes we loathed was Home Economics. However many of its lessons have been fundamental to my life since. One example being to consider the cumulative cost of small daily expenditures.
Hm you're right. At some point I could no longer move lists around, but it's back now. It was the third UI to break after Intercom (customer replies not shown unless I reloaded) and Notion (down arrow does not scroll the page down), so I tried Chrome and it fixed the problem. Maybe I should have tried restarting Firefox...
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> a) Arguments don’t work because team doesn’t listen and/or doesn’t want to change because they wish to stay in their comfort zone.

It is a problem if there is no communication. To bypass all formality only hides the real problem is not solving it. It is not easy to know who is right. That is part of my job when one person is in a fight with the rest of the team my job is to listen to everybody and help to get a decision thru. I have seen all combinations, the team is right the lone ranger wrong, the lone ranger is right and the team is wrong, all are right and one path needs to be decided, all are wrong and I help them to find a different solution.

> c) Those who see a bigger picture do not care to or cannot explain it and/or keep it a secret.

Again this happens and it is a big problem that needs to be addressed. To hide it doing things rogue stile only perpetuates the problem. Sometimes is better to get everything to a halt until information is shared than to tag along for years of painful fights.

> e) Software architects

Yes. I am one. And my main problem is the arrogance of other architects, not the managers, product owners or developers in the teams. :P
For physicalists, yes.
Well, usually the first step in investigating the database is to look at the table definition (either in the migration or in the dump your database can produce), that usually clears up such confusions.
Same. For recommendation, Which one did you read next ?
XML is verbose, and overcomplicated. But most purported replacements trimmed too much.
Type hints are almost always a crutch or fix for bad design/unclear data flow/`None` abuse.

The idealist in me wishes type hints had never been introduced and we would just write obvious, beautiful code. The pragmatist/realist is happy because type hints are a gradual improvement. The pessimist is saying that the bad devs who introduce awful data flow and abuse None also won't bother using type hints/getting them right, so why bother.

Pick whichever you feel is most appealing.
is it possible to write man pages for tasks rather than commands.

so you could have: man search, man restart, man compile. etc.
It's 34,361 and rising: how the List tallies Europe's migrant bodycount
> our early experiments show an average memory savings of 7% from this and a few other memory improvements

This seems little. I wonder if they knew it beforehand and decided it is worth the effort, or overestimated potential memory savings.

> Chakra was able to reduce RegExp bytecode memory in some popular extensions in this release by up to 10%

Same as above. My current total size of ad filter rules is less than 1MB. Even if all of them were RegExps and bytecode representation was few times larger than raw rules, that would be quite insignificant gain.
I've been using it, on and off, for a bit over year as an experiment more than anything else.

And honestly it's a perfectly fine browser. Admittedly not better than Chrome (my other 'main' browser) in any way I care about, but also not worse.
It is indeed weird that the PeerTube dev chooses to use Medium.

Sean Tilley has something cooking in this sphere: https://github.com/DeadSuperHero/postmodern "A federated article platform for journalists, powered by ActivityPub"
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It's been there at least 6 months already.
I think I started using it around the time it was added. According to my password safe, I put the sync name/password in there on 1st of December last year.

EDIT: I want to add that I run the Snapshot versions of Vivaldi (currently 1.16.1211.3), and it could be that the Sync was introduced only in a Snapshot in December. So I have no idea if the sync can be found in the Stable releases as well. Anyways, it's under Tools/Settings/Sync tab if it's there, otherwise it isn't :)
I suppose most "10x developers" would rather ask for forgiveness than permission, though, or their productivity might drop to 1x.
React Native is dead, long live React Native
No. I'm not using CSS Grid
No. It's a work computer (Ubuntu 16.04) so I just use Firefox as is. I checked and the Trello bug was gone, but the Notion bug is still there: for content that exceeds the screen, the down arrow will not let you go down further than the visible content.
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