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I regret to inform you that, while I think the current Windows development methodology could use better testing (to put it mildly), things like [1][2] still crop up in other platforms.

[1] - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201685

[2] - http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1811.2/01328.html
Those have been helpful for me:

- Everything as practice (great thread IMO https://www.reddit.com/r/getdisciplined/comments/8zf5uw/need...)

- “Without adversity there is no advance”, just offer the boring parts of your job as sacrifice or use as mindfulness practice, or execute them now with 100% of your attention (eg making coffee at the office say)

- Don't complain about stuff you can do in two minutes (mentally), just do it and be glad to serve others instead. This has been a great "energy conservation" trick for me, when I can do it..

- Remember Parkinson's Law...

- Just start it, a few minutes is enough. If you can cross a first small task in the beginning, that will get you going. (read here I think: https://sivers.org/book/PersonalMBA)

- Set a maximum time for some task (20min, say - good if a little unrealistic) and work with 100% intent/focus (But I can't work 8 hours like this...)
I love the work being done in Julia, as competition is good, and maybe it would make Python community be more supportive of the ongoing JIT attempts.
I used those VMs maybe 10 years ago (I remeber one with Windows 8 maybe.)

Then I stopped and none of my customers ever complained. Either nobody uses IE/Edge or the web applications I work on are too simple and render well in every browser on every OS.

Actually I remember a few complaints: somebody using IE7 (?) on Windows XP when it was already EOL (my customer decided not to support it), a bug of Safari we investigated and worked around (can't remember the details), something not working on Chrome because I tested on Firefox (my bad, one such a bug in 10 years.)

Am I sorry about the death of Edge? Not really. Safari next, but being Apple what it is, this is not going to happen. I wish we have only browsers that work across operating systems.
Can't stop myself from staring at those modulating peaks; hypnotizing stuff! Leapfrog integration, as foxes pointed out, is not symplectic if you apply an adaptive time step. I'm not that concerned about the integrator being symplectic as it's not my intention to run simulations that last for millions of years. If it's possible to add comments to a thread here on hacker news (new to this site!) indefinitely, I'll give you a heads up when I've implemented an integrator with an adaptive time step, and in case you get to it before I do, do share :D!
Unless you are using a constructor to fill the var, it makes reading/exploring/understanding source code more difficult. If the value comes from a method, enjoy chasing it down in your VCS. In your IDE you only need to hover it, but it's still an unnecessary extra step.

Sometimes I explore source code on GitHub, excessive use of var makes reading it very uncomfortable.

Turning it around, what are the benefits of var? Slightly increased typing speed. More time is spent reading source code than writing it and var makes reading harder and writing easier, so it's not worth the trade in my opinion.
I've spent years working on computational fluid dynamics software which can simulate different things. You don't know what you're talking about, insinuating that this AmigaOS lookalike webshit is a simulator, but that's okay, you are neither the first nor the last.
I know what they could do. Release it as Internet Explorer Edge and include IE11 as Lecagy Internet Explorer 11.
My main machines (both personal and work) runs macOS and I find Firefox to fit in fine. Certaintly does what I expect 99.9% of the time. Scrolling for instance seems to work as expected (and on par with Safari which I occassionally use). Can you share more examples?
In that case how laymen are ever going to learn if we use incorrect words to make them feel safer?

"Ah, they were ENCRYPTED so I don't have to worry"

The thruth is they are most likely already reversed.
The lifecycle will increase dramatically. Just a few parts need to be beefier. The motor and battery can last a long time.

Its 12 cents to charge, and I imagine there will be city infrastructure added to accommodate charging on the streets. Pay someone a dollar to plug it in to the nearest streetlamp at the end of their ride.
You could just set duckduckgo as your default search provider. Then you can use their bangs[1] to quickly search on specific sites. "!thes test" will find synonyms for you.

It works flawlessly in all browsers I use.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
I started reading the "Origin of species", but found it very long-winded. Going to give "The Voyage of the Beagle" a try soon, hope that is better...
Tell us more, no good links on youtube (English).
What's bad about Quora website is that, whenever you see Answer notification, when you click on it, instead of a popup for quick review, the website will go to new url for the answers.
That's why i don't use Quora much these days due to the stupid UX.
What about using a completely segregated secondary account? I have a Simple account, and that's all I use it. I only ever have a couple hundred in there at any time.
I'm sure the firefox team would agree with you wholeheartedly.

Chrome is the new IE though. Making whatever specs they need for Google Sites - standards be damned.
Why can't people just get over it and stop blaming the language for their own sloppy code?
Why are you not convinced? That's precisely the logic used by a sugar tax, and is the same logic used in tobacco taxes.

In countries where there's public healthcare, the burden of it on the public purse is a very real consideration where trade-offs must be made in varying ways. One of these ways is to tax things that contribute to higher loads on the spending of those public policies. Australia's tobacco laws are a key example of this.
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You're confusing the yield at market rates with the interest paid by the borrower. If the US were to buy treasuries at above the nominal rate, the market yield would be lowered, because the market yield is the sum to be repaid on the due date minus the purchase price, converted to percent. Neither the due date or the sum to be repaid would be affected.

I'm impressed by how high these rates are. The US 10-year bonds pay 2.9%, according to the top post in this thread. Remarkable. According to Bloomberg, the US pays interest rates like Italy, nearly ten times as high as those of Germany.

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GBTPGR10:IND https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GDBR10:IND https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USGG10YR:IND
Personal attacks will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
On youtube there's a comment of some guy who went into this Cave V (he named it that way) some years ago. it's is huge he said.
https://youtu.be/m0zCbxYravM
I don't see fixing the tools everyone in the team is using as you go along as yak shaving. That's just good manners.
Unless the course is objectively bad - giving wrong or misleading information, for example - having more always a good thing. Different people learn better from different styles of teaching.
Is there any tool to test for standards? Also do you use W3C or WhatWG standards? /s
>If the drop is smooth it would not be a problem. There can be a problem if there is a very abrupt drop and until the next difficulty recalculation the block generation rate would be too slow.

That's always been a weakness in the difficulty recalculation algorithm. There are a few other ones out there that can do much faster re-targeting in interesting ways, such as gravity well[1]. I'm assuming that if we faced a sudden exodus of that scale that dramatically wedged block generation, we'd see a hard-fork to change the recalculation algorithm. The hard-fork would certainly win because anyone who refuses the hard-fork can't mine blocks due to the difficulty being too high for the network.

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/21730/how-does-t...
> old grumps

I'm 22 and privacy-conscious. I also love tech, but I really enjoy my personal privacy and knowing that I'm not being surveiled all the time. I am also a FSF supporter and try to run libre code wherever possible.

Convince me: why should I give up my privacy to use products that will inevitably treat my data irresponsibly?
Yes Apple could do leagues more to improve testability of Safari; they're by far the worst in this area.

The broader point is that applications may perform or behave radically differently even under a Chrome monoculture. So you're still on the hook for platform-specific testing, if you actually care.
I haven't had too much issue with them as a pedestrian, though I'm baffled as to why they're forbidden from using bike lanes on roads and are therefore forced to use the footpaths. They travel with the same sort of speed as a bike, and the user wears a helmet. Surely the risks are pretty equivalent.
Sure, will fix. Thanks
i don’t think some css layout bug or js script will crash windows.
The people complaining about monoculture probably don’t install or recommend Chrome
Firefox now highlights the search keyword and limits history matches to just that site.
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I remember in 2013 when Amazon announced their 30 minute drone delivery system, the British bookshop Waterstones announced their competing O.W.L.S system https://www.waterstones.com/blog/introducing-o-w-l-s
How were the passwords hashed? Wait. You know what? At this point it doesn’t matter. Using the same password everywhere is a broken concept and password managers are still unadopted. At this point the only solution is either SSO from a few point of trust (facebook, google, twitter, etc.) or/and password managing+generation by default (safari, iOS)
Would be nice if they would pull their fingers out and update the rendering engine in Outlook from the 1995-esque bollocks they insist on using to this day.
As others have said, we have them in Brisbane.

Amusingly, they're forbidden from using all roadways including the green bicycle paths on the sides of roads. They must be ridden on the footpath, or on dedicated bikeways that aren't on roads. I don't understand why this is the case.

The helmet thing is currently tackled by having a helmet on each scooter. I haven't seen any go missing yet but I've also not ridden one myself, though I both live and work inside the proximity for using them.

People I've talked to who've used them have found them fun and convenient. Friends have used them to get to work faster than walking when running late. Others have gone out on the weekend to just sight-see and enjoy the weather, which I think is a positive change vs. sitting inside. I think they're a net positive, but there's some downsides that I think can be addressed.

edit: For additional context, we have a bike share system in Brisbane too (called CityCycle) which is tied to our transit card system. I see it getting some use, but it seems like the scooters are far more popular (at least right now). With our CityCycle system, you pay a ongoing membership fee ($5/mo) plus usage fees (after the first 30 minutes), though there's also a day pass ($2/day) rather than ongoing membership. This makes it a bit harder to start using or sporadically use compared to the scooters. Additionally, you have to return them to dedicated rack locations rather than just park them anywhere. Lastly, they're somehow more dorky than a lime-green scooter, given that they have bright yellow plastic and ads on them.
They announced web extensions in summer of 2015.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-dev...

At the end of August of 2018 they stopped supporting 52 ESR which is the last extended support release that supports the old addons.

During the 3 years between a and b mozilla worked to provide support for flexible interesting addons which is why all the notable interesting addons I'm aware of have new versions.

I'm sure that the will to port every useful addon in existence just isn't there but it seems challenging for firefox to move forward without ditching the old addons.

Did you realize the new addon system was released over 3 years ago? It kind of seems as if perhaps as a user you were only peripherally aware of matters and derived an erroneous interpretation of events.
Also, "old" doesn't per force imply "outdated". Especially in ecology (or, as it was known, natural history), there's a lot of good work that was done in the 19th century that would deserve much wider attention today.

Just yesterday I was identifying a species of African ant. As I researched it, I found myself using taxonomic keys and descriptions published between 50 and 150 years ago - in English, French, German and Latin! Fortunately they had been digitized, and at least partially translated...
Even Udemy is not that bad. If you wait for the right price you can get a decent introduction to a topic you are interested in. I learned to use Blender that way, filled some gaps with different platform SDKs and so on. Great way to kickstart a hobby.
Then how are you testing your browser? Are you assuming that testing Chrome on ThisOS is sufficient testing for Chrome on EveryOtherOS?
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Given the FAA rules on this (line of sight from operators), there's just no way that this could work. It basically defeats the whole purpose of using autonomous drones in the first place. Even if the rules were modified in their favor, it's dubious whether the infrastructure investment and potential for liability would be worth it for Amazon.
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In the same unfortunate manner that the chrome icon means the same to more? Not saying that Chrome is a bad browser, but we railed against the IE monoculture, we railed against Webkit when Blink was released. Now we have a Google run monoculture.
> "The first fix was to avoid calling CommandLineToArgvW by manually parsing the command-line."

> "The second fix was to delay load shell32.dll."

If your build pipeline is continuously spawning processes all-over, to the point "delay loading" makes a significant difference - it's time to start re-evaluating the entire pipeline and the practices employed.
I use Firefox nearly every day and it's pretty good. If it was the only browser in existence it would be hard to complain. However, when switching between chrome and firefox I'm always much happier when I switch to chrome than I am when I switch to firefox. And it's not because of site rendering or anything like that, it's always a matter of UI, speed, and resource usage. The firefox UI is pretty clean but it has just too many weird clunky edges. For example, there are many situations where chrome just "does the right thing" while firefox does not (and it's more common for chrome to be easily configured to do something different if you want it to), this is especially true with handling tabs and the new tab page. Updates are another example though, chrome's updates are fast and nearly painless, firefox is a lot better than it used to be but updates are slow and it's far too common to launch the browser and for some reason see that it's not updated.

There are also many cases where doing "ordinary things" while browsing will lead to firefox slowing to a crawl or using crazy amounts of resources. Chrome is a notorious memory hog and yet somehow it manages to behave better than firefox in most situations, at least for my browsing habits. I also really like chrome's search integrations, if I want to search wikipedia all I need to do is hit ctrl-t then type "wiki <tab> search string" and boom I'm there. Same thing for youtube, amazon, etc. It's a small thing, but it's the addition of all the small things which make for an overall superior experience.

For reference Mosaic was my first browser and I've always been open to switching over to whatever browser had the best experience. I was using phoenix project builds before they renamed them, I was using Chrome back when it was in beta (speed, process isolation, minimalism, better acid2/3 scores, what wasn't to like?), and I keep checking on other browsers to see if they're worth switching to. The Mozilla org is great and firefox is a solid browser but it needs to up its game if it wants to be seen as a state of the art browser.
Is it definitely a good thing to have more people experiencing more pain?
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That is surprising. I never once got the impression they were trying to do something much bigger than themselves; pretty low key on their mission there.
Ugh the original source is now marked as a dupe and The Verge version is on front page. Dang/sctb please do better!
I kind of agree, but there's often some double standard in place: Having a minor slip in Safari would often be totally unacceptable because some designer is Mac user and sees those. People are often extrapolating their own perspective to the whole world, which is known as a common error when designing things ("you are most likely not the average user").
Do you not work around the way chrome does things in any way shape or form?
Just waiting to be able to ride one in San Francisco without a driver license (which is impossible right now). I can’t wait to be able to commute short distances without having to take cabs everywhere.
...and it’s still no closer to being practical, legal, or safe.

Small drones have a very limited range and payload capacity. And how would they deliver to offices or apartments (with no private garden or driveway to land or drop the parcels)? How would they avoid collisions with anything from skyscrapers to trees to power lines? (Does that level of 3D map data exist yet)

How do they prevent the risk of propellor related injuries, or of stolen drones (perhaps even shot down ‘for the loot’)

Then there’s the FAA (and other aviation regulators worldwide) to deal with.

Still seems like a marketing stunt for now, or a much-longer-term goal
I think at this point it should be standard practice to say what hashing algorithm is used in passwords when disclosing a breach.

The email I got from quota just says “encrypted” passwords, and while the blog post says “hashed”, it doesn’t say what algorithm. For all we know it could be something useless like MD5
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When you log out, Firefox will block it and warn you that you are about to close number of tabs. When you select "OK", your tabs are gone.

But Chrome will quietly exit, and when you start it next time, will offer to restore the tabs that were open last time. Chrome approach wins, hands down.
Not letting me repost now. Here's the link meanwhile: https://medium.com/@guimonz/little-things-that-matter-in-a-s...
I used to think this too, but After seeing some colleagues using FireFox dev tools and making the switch (back) to Firefox myself, I realised that there really isn’t that much between the two and in fact it’s mire a matter of what you’re used to.

Much like the debates about other developer tools in fact (text editors et al).
> The amount generated by sponsored posts is small compared with other top YouTubers, Forbes writes. It is "the result not only of how few deals Ryan (or his family) chooses to accept, but also the fact that his pint-sized demographic isn't exactly all that flush".

They then proceed to disprove this "fact" in (literally) the next sentence:

> The toys featured in one of the channel's videos can sell out instantly.