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In 1996 Motorola's StarTAC phone cost $1,000. It was the world's smallest commercially available cellphone, and was the first ever clamshell/flip mobile phone. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_StarTAC
Would you mind to explain how using gmail is fine but having to log in into chrome is not?

I obviously get the idea of privacy. But using gmail somewhat contradicts it.
Nice, though I use Bing daily (I am the only one, if I believe my collegues), I didn't know this exist.

I do wonder however, why the search function doesn't try searching on sub-parts of the image automatically.

Bing really has been improving compared to Google. I can find stuff on Bing which I can't easily find on Google because Google keeps rebuilding my search query, causing irrelevant results to show up.
One of my favorite courses as an undergrad at Syracuse University, was Laurence Thomas' Moral Philosophy course. I vividly remember a fellow student who said some really racist things, and then apologizing, and being surprised when after his apology, Thomas still let the student know that he had work to do, if his intention was to regain the respect of his fellow students and peers. Making an apology is the start of that work, but it is not instant gratification. Some of Thomas' works are quite relavent Living Morally https://www.amazon.com/dp/0877227780/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_uU.P... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Thomas
I am happy to read about programs like this. I have struggled financially for the better part of a decade due to a variety of issues ('08 crash wiped out pretty much every job that paid a living wage in the city I lived in, sickness/cancer in my family, people that I relied on for work dying, my personal issue with PTSD, etc.)

Housing has always been the most influential factor in whether I was able to achieve even temporary stability. For the periods of time that I wasn't homeless, my place to stay was wither explicitly temporary (often for arbitrary, unknown periods of time) or cost nearly 100% of the income I was able to scrape together.

Just three months ago, after nearly ten years, I was offered the opportunity to live in, maintain and fix up a small investment property in the middle of nowhere. As it stands, this arrangement should last a year, after which I can opt to stay and pay rent at market price (which in the middle of nowhere is very low).

For the first time in as long as I can remember, I am stable enough to apply for school (starting in October, fingers crossed!), and try to really focus on doing some freelance website work for small businesses on the side. I wake up every morning and actually eat breakfast, which doesn't seem that significant, but for me that has been historically difficult or impossible because of my severe, sometimes crushing existential anxiety.

I still have problems, but they are considerably smaller and more manageable. In these three months I have spent most of te money I've earned on either food or supplies for the house. As of right now, my most pressing problem is getting $40 to get a copy of my high school proficiency certificate, and beyond that it would be nice to get a beer at the only bar in town to meet some folks, but I'll take that set of problems over worrying about being cold, or hungry, or getting arrested for sleeping outside any day.

So yay! These arrangements can be an absolute godsend for people that otherwise would have difficulty digging themselves out of a hole.
The science is still out and likely will be for a long time, but I think people are generally too eager to label anything they don't understand as impossible or a placebo effect. Not everything true is scientifically known, or ever will be.
Also a fan. I'm also switching permanently to Firefox after this incident rather than use multiple browsers depending on the purpose.
> I hope that this the case, otherwise humanity will die on this planet. If there are no new physics then there is no faster-than-light travel and escaping earth will be pretty much impossible.

In the long term, we have the entire solar system to work with, which should be plenty to keep us going for a very long time. The Earth is just a small fraction of what's available even if we're stuck with our sun. Frank Drake from SETI thinks that alien civilizations have no good reason to ever leave their home stars, because a star will provide all the energy they will ever need, and traveling light years just isn't worth the cost (assuming no FTL).
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I also switched to Firefox. I wanted to give Opera a try but they also use Chromium, where this feature now exists.

Firefox it is, and they have done a great job with the new version.
I wasn’t around at the time, but I think people argued the same when 35mm analog cameras were the new kid on the block. Cameras using larger film still have their use, but eventually, they almost only were used for studio work.

Having interchangeable lenses may save them, but it wouldn’t surprise me if DSLRs went the same way viz camera phones. Reason: if processor speed keeps going up, there’s a lot one can do to counteract the disadvantages of having a device only a few millimeters thick.
I wish I could use it but it has serious performance problems on macOS. I tried and it was just terrible. (thought not all Mac users have problems, quite a number do, and Mozilla has an open issue asking for debugging logs from Macs to find the reasons).
> They’ll keep doing stuff like this until it reaches some publicly unacceptable limit

Which as we know from things like Facebook, that limit will never be reached. These things are far too opaque for the general public to understand or care about. Even we software engineers barely understand the scope of what Google is capable of. It's going to take a principled stance from within the industry to push back against the encroachment of these corporations on personal privacy.
Well, with Firefox I have a separate issue which is that I never know when an update will include default-enabled integration with Pocket, a phone service, or some other startup that's scratched Mozilla's back in the past six months. So Firefox isn't a replacement. Also I was badly burned by Firefox removing support for XUL extensions, and refuse to depend on that browser again. I have serious misgivings with how Firefox is managed. You're not being helpful since you know I know about Firefox, and my question is about Chrome.
In Japan and many other countries people share footpaths with cyclers including electric ones and nothing too bad happens. It is just a matter of culture. It is funny how in much less congested areas like suburban America or Australia people freak out when someone drive a scooter on the almost empty footpath.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

-- Upton Sinclair (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair)
At least on iOS and macOS I see no reason not to use Safari, Edge on Windows is pretty good too. Power users will stop recommending Chrome to the average user after these changes and over time market share will hopefully decline.
It shows a big blue banner (or is it a button? I don't dare click it) announcing the current state as "Sync as <username>". If the developers need to explain this repeatedly over twitter to a professional, what impression do you think normal users who don't follow a niche twitter discussion get?
Interesting. I would never have considered some of those to be pejorative, particularly the word "silly".

It appears that "silly" was initially a positive word, then it acquired a harsher meaning over time. But it doesn't - to me at least - carry any overtones of actual disability or differently-abledness. Perhaps I'm missing something?
> For all we know, the new approach has privacy implications even if sync is off. The Chrome developers claim that with “sync” off, a Chrome has no privacy implications. This might be true. But when pressed on the actual details, nobody seems quite sure.

This seems more like, I'm being told the thing I'm worried about isn't happening, but I don't believe it.

Which is fine, but not sure what's changed with what's being done, rather than a change making clearer what's possible (when signed into google, chrome has your google cookie).

> For example, if I have my browser logged out, then I log in and turn on “sync”, does all my past (logged-out) data get pushed to Google? What happens if I’m forced to be logged in, and then subsequently turn on “sync”? Nobody can quite tell me if the data uploaded in these conditions is the same. These differences could really matter.

Again, how is that possibility any different than before this change?

It seems this is mostly a well intentioned (for a subset of chrome users) but poorly thought out UI change (giant blue button).
Well I went to turn this login thing off and the only way to do it was to click a button under the heading "Sync" that said "Turn Off."

But if these things are unrelated, I guess we'll just have to chalk that up to Google's famously shitty product management and design skills.
I'm guessing that the parent is referring to this particular build/"fork": https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
For now at least, there's this escape hatch: chrome://flags/#account-consistency

Edit: Some are saying this doesn't work on Chrome 69. :(
I am not sure it is ok to reply to yourself, but I was not sure where to put this. First, I appreciate all the thoughtful comments and would not down vote any of them.

Just to level set, when I say that I think my Fathers beliefs are irrational, I don't mean that in a derisive way, I simply mean they are not fact based or not based on logical reasoning. That is sort of the basis for faith I think. But I am not being disrespectful, I simply choose a different path that is science based.
Chromium != ungoogled chromium, also not when it comes from FOSS repositories.

This is ungoogled chromium: https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
The exact same can be said for bicycles. They go the same speed, they have to be used in the street and not the sidewalk, and bicyclists can be just as careless and oblivious on the road. Yet there is no age restriction for riding a bike on a roadway; you can bike down a 45mph road perfectly legally the day you get your training wheels removed.

The problem is not the scooters and who rides them, it's the danger posed by cars. Cars have to be physically separated from other forms of transport. Buses should get their own lane to beat car traffic, bikes and other lower speed vehicles like scooters or even runners should stay in the bike lane. This is a transportation issue, not a scooter issue, and you can't fix it with an age restriction.
Strange. I almost exclusively use OSX (El Cap) and haven't had performance issues asides from needing to restart the browser once a month or so. Hopefully they get those problems resolved soon, the browser is super quick when it's working right.
One also has to wonder how many of the homeless who use drugs, or have mental issues came to do so because of their situational homelessness.

It really isn't difficult to imagine becoming homeless, which then leads to depression and other mental issues and then using drugs to escape that. So some proportion of the "problem group" are going to be redeemable too.
I switched to Brave - not looking back :)
> what impression do you think normal users who don't follow a niche twitter discussion get?

I imagine they don’t care one way or the other.
Exactly - and the same is true with regard to special vs. general relativity. Special relativity is another special case of general relativity for inertial reference frames. And special relativity itself is a necessary consequence of the theory of electrodynamics that Maxwell described holding true in every reference frame. But it no more replaces Maxwell's theory than brings it to its necessary conclusion. And even in the quantum world - which physicists famously can't reconcile with observations of general relativity - Maxwell's equations are true even though we have quantum electrodynamics - which include Maxwell's equations as their foundation.

So the paradigm shifts aren't often as earth-shattering as they seem to outsiders or as Kuhn makes them out to be, because they often subsume and contain the prior theory. The way Morris characterizes Kuhn makes it seem like the different worlds of theory, before- and after- revolution, are orthogonal to each other - or can't even talk to each other at all, because they are using the same terms to describe totally different concepts. But I don't believe that to be true in the slightest.

That said, I must admit that I haven't read Kuhn so I would have to rely on Morris' interpretation of Kuhn - which seems, ahem, somewhat slanted.
I was in a boarding school with hundreds of other teenagers. My classmates never* slept in (always attended the first class), and I’ve never seen anyone sleeping in from other classes/groups. We went to classes and were in a good shape, I don’t recall anyone complaining.

There was one exception - a classmate that I believe was secretely drinking alcohol. Even for him it was an exception to sleep in. Also I’ve see the monitor looking for the sleepers, like that guy, so the problem was not entirely unknown.

We were not selected based on our sleep, but on academic performance. This was long ago and we were poor enough to allow no electronic devices whatsoever, alcohol was forbidden, and lights-out were strictly enforced. Not much spare food either after dinner.

The “teenage owl” thing has to be almost entirely environmental in order to explain my experience.
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Thank you for the link! Indeed, that's very interesting reading.
I would love to do this. However the warnings signs have blared into a real crisis: Google Docs has a stranglehold on “work”, in the broadest sense of the term, the way Microsoft Office once did. Until documents are decoupled from corporate lock-in on a mass scale, I’m personally stuck & likely many others are.
The ones used by bird and lime are around $500.
I love Firefox in theory, it's just that in practice I've never been able to stick with it. One thing or another always leaves me running back to Chrome. It's possible that it's just my own bias and familiarity, but I'm not principled enough to endure an inferior experience in any way. Plus working in chrome dev tools all day long, you really miss it when you want to pop something open and look under the hood real quick, and I don't think Firefox is quite up to par there.
Thank you for clarifying (and sibling who posted the same!).
Driverless buses proposed for regional areas to help with lack of transport
How little you think of people.
If Google's decision-making processes were as blatantly short-sighted as you seem to make them out to be, they would have prevented ad blockers years ago.
I just did the same because of this login shit. Long live Firefox.
I gave up on Firefox on OS X for performance reasons and switched to Safari a while ago and it’s a decent browser. It has support for extensions that I use (ublock origin and 1Password), uses less battery than any other browser, and is fast
Is that a Rick and Morty reference?
I've heard a lot of scooter-hate - really reminds me of skateboard hate. The common retort is safety and driving rules.

My response is we should be teaching kids to drive (scooters/bicycles/motorcycles/cars) as if the environment were much more chaotic - like a race/motocross track, and like many countries in the world.

When I drove in countries where traffic was chaos - I found it was just as I learned to drive on the motocross track on a motorcycle as a kid: key rule try very hard to not hit anyone and try very hard to not be hit. Don't get bent out of shape - enjoy the ride.

I'm not suggesting that we change our driving regulations to be more chaotic - but a different approach to training and changing our attitude while moving through traffic might help.
But it could have been decorative markings on a skeleton for halloween, only 1000 years prior.
And blocked site list, right? I forgot the name but there is this anti-phishing and -malware list with 40% false-positives that Firefox uses and is maintained by Google.
I think they were referring to https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium (which I suspect is not what Ubuntu ships)
How do accident rates compare for an 18 year old with 2 years of driving experience vs a 50 year old with 2 years of driving experience?
We're dangerously treading into political hot water here, but I just want to add that I don't think it's fair to say that one party prioritizes safety nets. It's more correct to say that most of the safety nets we have in the US have come from one party, and since the 1930s.
Yep. And Google Voice runs horribly on iOS.. 20 second lag time to check messages, no joke. Earlier versions would freeze at the beginning of each character you type.

Makes me wonder if companies aren't just slowing down their competitors..
> DJB’s custom search engine

I can't find anything on this, does anyone have more info?
> They call it a 'miscompilation' - how can you 'miscompile' something which is undefined!

It simply implies that they consider themselves, rather than the C standard, as the authority on how C should behave.
Your comment was in defense of the rationality of believing that a god, specifically the Christian god, planted fossil evidence in order to test our ability to discount it entirely. Now you're saying that this God character doesn't follow from this "purpose" and that invoking that idea is suddenly a straw man outside of this discussion?

Purpose is not something that exists outside of the minds of creatures that can harbor intent. It is inherently subjective, and is often intersubjective. We generally agree on the purpose of the specialized tools we create, but not because the purpose is an inherent property of the tool. Even if the universe was created by a race of gods or pixies or what have you, the purpose they had for it would not necessarily be shared by us.

Actually physical laws are just descriptions and models. To whittle them down you must remove additional assumptions, not add. The fewer assumptions needed to explain the evidence, the better the model. There may be additional data out there that ends up poking holes in our models, in which case we respond by revising the model. Some of the better models we've come up with have actually made surprisingly accurate predictions.

It is rational to base your beliefs on consistent and verified observations, rather than our fanciful imagination.
According to the page, it even has a small fuselage.
When you're looking for escape hatches, you know the software is working against you. At that point, it's better to move to an alternative browser, it's not worth it to fight it with hacks. If too many people use the escape hatch, they'll remove it.
Can't it be done with something like Z-wave with a hub that isn't exposed to the Internet?

You could use a VPN to connect to the home network to control devices when you have to.
I think most people have more important things to do than worry about whether Google knows where they’ve been online.

Edit: To clarify, I care about whether Google knows where I've been online. That's why I don't use Chrome. I just don't think most people care.
Sync and log in are two unrelated settings. They were never related (except that you had to be logged in to be able to sync).

You could always be logged in and not sync. You just had previously chosen to be logged in and synced.

By disabling syncing, you turned off a feature that you previously had to have opted in to.
Writing HTML in HTML isn't so much about separation of code and markup (for everyone at least, for some it admittedly is), but about representing DOM in the same way as HTML. The rules and semantics are the same (because we use the browser's HTML parser), it looks the same, children and attributes are represented the same. It'll be familiar and understandable to programmers new the library, but familiar with the web.

FYI, lit-html isn't string interpolation and templates are data, so you can transform and compose templates, operate on arrays/iterables of them, or Promises or async iterables of them, etc.

And it doesn't re-parse HTML (because it's not string interpolation), so that particle demo could also be fast - elements can also represent draw calls like a scene graph. I've been meaning to do a similar demo actually...
These issues seem like they’re (finally) fixed in the betas of Firefox 63.
You read the headline and think it's fine, kids shouldn't go crazy in traffic, and you click on the article and it isn't bōsōzoku on Vespas, it's random teenagers on an electric-assisted kick scooter. If the parents don't take decisive action soon they'll buy bicycles and ride them to the library to read banned books. And the next year they'll listen to wild jazz in the park.

Being cooped up with tiger parents in exurbia can't be good for mental health.
Here's the gist of it as I read it... the current list is a topic you want to learn, and as you're working on it, everything that you don't understand is added to the current list. As you check off the subtopics (and their subtopics), you'll have the requisite knowledge to understand the topic you wanted to learn in the first place. The pending list is stuff that will become the first item at the top of your next current list.
I stopped using chrome a long time ago because its user experience was horrible and it ate up all my computers memory. This would push me over the edge if I hadn't already gone there.
Incorrect:

'The average GP earns an average salary of £90,000, but doctors can earn more by linking up surgeries, making record earnings by managing tens of thousands of patients. Figures revealed more than 200 ‘Super GPs’ in the NHS earned more than £200,000 a year in 2015/16. Four were on salaries between £400,000 and £450,000 while 11 were paid between £300,000 and £350,000 a year.'

'Britain’s highest earning GP paid at least £700,000 a year'

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-britain-highest-paid-gp-...

I understand there are those for whom criticism of the NHS is sacrilege, but the current situation doesn't look much like sustainable socialised medicine to me.
On iOS they can't use their own engine, everything is just a wrapper around webkit.
No it doesn't! When you use GMail, you understand that Google have some potential sight of your emails and you accept that because that's how it works.

What you DIDN'T sign up for is Chrome, which can see every site you have every visited, sending all of that info to Google as well to perhaps start targetting some different ads at you. I'm sure that would work well if one of your housemates had visited a dodgy site, which then picks up some suspect ads when you are doing online shopping with your girlfriend.
It's useless for figuring out what is true. You are right that not everyone cares about that, in which case logic has no real use for them.