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In my experience, if a company owns the entire supply chain then they are usually a (semi-)monopoly and don't care much about actual the problems you have, unless they also affect a large percentage of their customer base.
I asked you for citations for your claims, yet instead I get diversion...

Wrt having a usable browser, I'm literally using Firefox for Android to talk to you right now. Firefox has been a usable browser for years, seems your salty tho.

Please provide citations for:

- Incompetent directors flying chartered jets and getting $1M USD remuneration for nothing.

- All success Mozilla ever had was due to hard work of volunteer developers

- All the money Mozilla directors scored was due to them slicing off the project piece by piece for last 10 years.
This is great, how about adding reliability, availability, redundancy, SLA's and a few things more. How about needing to have a data warehouse, load balancers, SOC compliance? Not all the businesses go for the cheapest option and these decisions are rarely single dimensional. AWS is an integrated solutions for every aspects of an enterprise IT needs. If you try to compare a tiny slice of it with a single dimension comparison you can beat AWS but if you get the full picture it is getting harder to a point when you can't really beat it.
It's hard to define it as an nVidia bug or a browser bug. You may say it's an nVidia bug because it only happens on nVidia; but then you can also say it's a "Win 7 bug" because it only happens on Win7.

Anyway, as a fact: it works fine in IE and Chrome (after they fixed it). So at very least, it is fixable on browser's end.

It also works fine in any video player you can think of.

Also, from what I can see, neither Chromium dev nor Firefox dev claim it's an "nVidia bug". Chromium dev just went ahead and fixed it. Firefox dev said they're not going to fix it because (from previous ticket [1]) "We don't intend to add new features such as this code is only used on Windows 7." Which IMHO makes no sense because when this bug firstly appeared, it was 3-4 years ago; and Win 7 is still one of the most used OS and is in the supported OS list of Firefox.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1161349#c46
This!

I'd be very happy with a fixed, lower tier of web standard that is easy to implement against. It should contain enough standards to build attractive, solid (eg) online banking interfaces, blogs and news sites, commenting etc. In other words, a minimum for media consumption, rather than apps.
London Design museum was a huge disappointment for me when I lived there.
All exhibitions were prohibitively expensive, especially the Ferrari one last year.

The Tate modern is my second love to hate museum.
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That may not be in their power to grant if it counts as a valuable asset.
In that case, I think you'd be genuinely surprised to discover just how many things have been hacked in this way over the years.
No, they'd spend their time pruning all the google telemetry crud out of chromium. The fact is that Mozilla's next gen stuff is going to be streets ahead of Chrome, and I suspect their efforts will be rewarded in the end.
(Broadly, I do not understand why this man is so hounded for his particular personal beliefs.)

Mims's beliefs came to the forefront several years ago (probably more like 20 at this point) when he was under consideration to take over editorship of the 'Amateur Scientist' column in Scientific American. This column isn't too well-known today, but it was hugely influential from the WWII years through at least the 1970s. It regularly featured experiments in all sorts of areas, from physics and chemistry to meteorology to natural history and archaeology.

I don't remember how the editors at SciAm found out that Mims was a creationist, but when they did, they rescinded the offer. There was a great deal of controversy among the magazine's readership at the time. The decision seemed prejudicial at best. Even without being religious, it felt like Mims was getting a raw deal.

I originally fell into that camp myself, but the events and trends that have taken place since then make me inclined to support the magazine's decision. If it was true that Mims's faith required him to deny basic elements of geological history and biological evolution -- and apparently it was -- then it's hard to see how he could do that particular job effectively.

It's a real shame, because it was otherwise the perfect job for him. Mental illness sucks, especially when it's voluntary.
The Mozilla Foundation is doing a whole lot of stuff besides developing Firefox, whereas not all development for Firefox is paid for by Mozilla.
> For Apple, I find almost the opposite in terms of forced development. If I want to write a program on macOS, I can expect the porting effort to Linux to be simple if not trivial, thanks to UNIX.

Reminds me of the days when I had to buy Windows to test if my website worked on IE.

In the case of Apple, I have to buy the hardware too!
I don't know about you, but I'm somewhat fascinated by these opinions! I mean, if Inception and Interstellar are "juvenile", what possible vocabulary do they have left for all the superhero films we now have in the cinema?!

In all seriousness, of course Inception and Interstellar are very different films to 2001 (just as 2001 is very different to Kubrick's other films, really), and made I think for a very different audience. There actually aren't all that many films that can easily be compared to 2001 - Tarkovsky's Solaris and Stalker are probably as close as you're going to get, and both of those are, relatively, only a little more recent. Malick's The Tree of Life isn't quite a sci-fi film, but always feels to me like a very good companion to 2001.

Perhaps the reason you won't really see much like 2001 ever again is that modern audiences, on the whole, just can't really cope with it - the pacing is regarded as risible and the ambiguity is too much intellectual effort.
And often with a camera ;)
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It should be noted that at least in Australia, DFES no longer refers to burn-offs as "controlled burning", rather as "prescribed burning".

They're finding more and more frequently it's harder to control them in a lot of cases, and it's easier to manage the PR by just calling them prescribed.
> Of course they do. It's an EU directive. Some countries already said they don't intent to move forward with it (Italy and Poland come to mind)

You make it sound as if Directives are optional. They aren't. They must be implemented by a deadline set by the Commission, or the member state is open to legal action either domestically or in EU court.
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Petasense has been selling its ARO system for close to 3 years and today we service over 30 Fortune 1000 clients. Our clients are in power generation, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, metals and mining and critical facilities.
We're looking for an awesome Front-end engineer to conceptualize, design and build our "data-intensive" web UI.

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Homeless people sleeping on warm buses seems better than homeless people sleeping on the streets?
I would love this in Visual Studio.
But that hubris is where progress originates from. You can't separate one from the other, unfortunately. You have to be that stubborn about things you believe you are right about, in order to prove the world wrong. (Even if it is him that is wrong in this instance.)
> is willing to use his giant pile of money to pay other people to litigate

FTFY.

It's easy to be an asshole for an extended period of time when you can outsource all of the assholery to professional assholes.
Ah, of course, a mistake on my end. I mixed up Honolulu, the city, and O'ahu, the island while looking up the plus-code due to misinterpreting Google Maps' peculiar choices of font cues for countries, islands and cities. I am not very familiar with Hawaiian geography.

Honolulu was the only large name on the island, with O'ahu being written in a similar font-size to all the other cities. Of course now I can see that the cue is that the island name is written in black, whereas cities are written in very dark grey...

UX, yo.
I just moved one of the largest (5+PB) data warehouses of Europe to AWS and we saved 35% of a huge (1M+ / year) budget while increased reliability, availability and security. I am not sure why people think that AWS is expensive. Running on a traditional hosting was a nightmare with constant downtimes because of issues outside of our control. Cooling, networking, security you name it. AWS makes these non-existent or very easy to tackle. For example of networking, there are several teams of network engineers oncall for AWS the handle routing issues etc. and you just get an email about it. With the previous vendor we found about the issue, tried to reach the vendor and we had to convince them that there is an issue and it took them 2 days to recover.

I am planning to move to AWS more entreprise clients for saving significant money on IT. AWS is most definitely a competitive option for this.
Knots as in ducks?
Not only Apple but almost every enterprise.
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ConyEdit is a cross-editor plugin. It found a new way to edit code or text，copy as processing, paste as result. With ConyEdit running in background, you can use its commands in any text editor or IDE on Windows OS.
This is true. I wasn't much tech savvy back then. I switched to Chrome because it made my internet fast.

Of course it might not really have, but the sleek look, the circular loader instead of a progress bar kind of a loader that Firefox had at that time, faster JS engine – all this combined to give me a wow factor in terms of browsing speed.

Remember, this was at the time when 250kbps of broadband speed was the "normal". And speed was easily a critical factor.
> how many people were actually active netizens at this point in history, able to find the ISO?

One active netizen with a CD writer was enough for an entire school :-).

I don't know what impact this had over sales. Back then (~2001, 2002) I knew people who bought a Dreamcast precisely because they could get cheap games.
> A hash of the e-mail address is probably reasonable

I even sourced why it isn't but eh, who read post they're replying to, right?
Availability over this year has been about 99.9% for the network, if I need more I can book a server in a different DC and do failovers. There is an SLA you can optionally book.

I don't require a data warehouse, load balancers (beyond HAProxy on the same host) or SOC Compliance at the moment, if I need those, I can build them.

Not all businesses go for the cheapest option but on the flipside if Amazon costs 80x of other providers, the business will probably just find two sysadmins and contract them for the work.

Even if you need bigger, load balancers are available as hardware, they're fairly cheap compared to AWS offerings and come with in-built firewall. Incoming traffic remains free on these. Your ISP will probably peer much cheaper than AWS and Hetzner if you're bringing enough money to justify it.

I know several corporations that do their entire IT out of AWS, some of them use inhouse and others scatter their usage across several cloud providers, AWS would likely increase their operating cost by 100x.
Latest Windows Insider build makes a major upgrade to, uh… Notepad
They also want to have synergy with Electron.
Pretty much, he is a classic self deluded captain of industry who has gotten rich off the backs of us commoners.

Worse yet, he has bought his way to citizenship and has attempted to steal a public beach, blatantly breaking public access law.

Edit: Holy shit he is squatting on land he has never spent a night at, and regrets the purchase of? What an insolent asshole!
My experience with reporting these sorts of things: in Edge, fixed in about a month; in Firefox, normally fairly quickly, but sometimes months and occasionally never; in Chromium, I don’t even know why I bother filing bugs sometimes.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=639223 is a good example of my experience there: a fancy typography thing that is just completely broken in an uncommon but by no means unreasonable situation, and it just sits for years untouched.

But Firefox is still definitely not perfect: as an example that has sat unfixed for ten years, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479829 is about hyphenation and ligatures not mixing well (you can get half your ﬀ ligature on one line and half on the next). I tend to see the effects of that once or twice a year.
what an awful person
NASA’s latest asteroid target had a wet and wild history
The DOM is a structured API to markup (HTML/XML). That means DOM instructions are access to something outside the language. Leaving the language, for any reason, is slower than executing within the language. That said the execution speed of DOM instructions is orthogonal to the execution speed of JavaScript alone.

> Is it not really saving us much in Firefox?

The DOM is the standard technology the browsers use to communicate from JavaScript to markup. QuerySelectors are strings, so they have to be parsed into DOM instructions by the browser using a native code engine. Since the DOM is a well defined standard and it is the standard that all browsers use DOM instruction performance can be directly compared between the different browsers.
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> Nothing wrong with family funded business but if after 18 years the 'dad' is the major shareholder it's a bad sign they were not able to raise much outside capital.

Or they didn't have a need to. Why depend on other peoples money if you're fine without?
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I'm okay with this if the government provides me with a black box that will tell me if content is legal or not.
I love this video, i've watched it more than once!
Respectfully disagree. Yes, naiveté (which disruptive thinking is operationalizing in a sometimes-good way) is a positive characteristic to cultivate in society (ie. systems), to enter domains with a little bit of incredulity.

But if it exists perpetually in one person on one topic in one set of observations and conditions, then they are simply a stubborn asshole.
of course you can separate them

it's not a natural law that creative, driven people also have to be petty assholes
The only reason I use Firefox is because it allows me to automatically delete all browsing history after I close it. Does Chrome allow this as well?
Just did the test with the drop-down menu on Chromium 71.0.3578.80 and Firefox 63.0.3 both running on Ubuntu 18.10. I can confirm the difference in performance, FF takes at least 1s longer to open the menu
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> I don't see how coordination with the city would have prevented Obike from going bankrupt.

They could've been required to put a plan in place (and maybe even some ring-fenced funds etc.) to clear up their potential mess, before being allowed to dump things in public spaces.
> You have to be that stubborn about things you believe you are right about, in order to prove the world wrong.

You really don’t. It’s more than possible to believe in big things in one topic whilst not being a complete asshole in another.
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"There was a time when Radio Shack offered an incredible variety of supplies for the electronics hobbyist"

Bit of a distraction perhaps. Yep, incredible variety. All at the worst value for money known to mankind (at least in the UK).

Pack of three resistors. £1.95. Or was that £5.95? In 1970s or 1980. Enough bits for a simple op amp demo project £80, arm and leg.

If memory serves, they were an early adopter of custom currency. Instead of pricing the items on shelves they colour coded the cheap (lol) stuff. Red dot meant 1.95, blue 5.95 etc. There were only 5 or 7 price bands. I hated the place.

Thankfully in the back of an electronics mag were ads for a mysterious company "Maplin" that had a mail order catalogue. Everything was 10% or less of Tandy prices. Surprisingly Maplin was the one that lasted longest, though it was many years before they had a store nearby.

On to books.

The Radio Shack quick reference posters, cards, etc were brilliant. So I grabbed a a few indecipherable Radio Shack introductory books explaining various topics. They rarely seemed to explain anything. They were all shrink wrapped so you couldn't skim in store. I forget the authors though. I just remember quickly learning their own titles were something to avoid. I may have missed a dozen great authors thanks to that lesson. :)

The ones to get were the Babani books as they were 95p each for a 100 page paperback. Not shrink wrapped either! Thankfully long before the end of the Net Book Agreement (Price printed on cover by publisher) or Radio shack would have sold them for a tenner. Most of which seemed to be by a guy called R A Penfold. Don't ever remember reading an "about the author". Never did work out if he was a real author or a house pen name as he was impossibly prolific. Turns out yes, indeed, he was one guy. Who must have written hundreds of electronics, radio, and other hobbyist books.
24x7 wasn’t a big thing in the era of “data processing”, and things like mainframes were staffed 24x7,
That's sad to hear. A friend of mine has been trying to get me to work in NL for a while and she says a common hatred of overtime is a big plus. Maybe it's just the company and not the country.
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> Konqueror was "suicided" by KDE themselves, right about the time Apple picked it up to make WebKit.

How so? The browser kept working nicely the whole time. Eventually Webkit was offered as a rendering engine option when development overtook mainline KHTML, but that was long after Apple first adopted it.
I won't judge if it's wrong or right.

The thing i notice here is that the belief system which got him that money, now he's using his money to support that belief system.

Don't see anything wrong with this.

His is the public case, many people might be acting like this behind the public scrutiny.
We don't necessarily agree on "what is bad" in this case, so I will leave that alone.
Historical accident of rebooting Copland with NeXTSTEP, which wasn't even relevant for NeXT beyond bringing developers into NeXTSTEP world.

The real Apple developer culture is around Objective-C and Swift tooling, alongside OS Frameworks, none of them related to UNIX in any form.

In case you haven't been paying attention the new network stack isn't even based on POSIX sockets.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975444
You are correct (once the directive is approved), but there are also degrees and (limited) changes that can be put by member states.
> Marriott2016 + Starwood2016 = Marriott2017.

This is a good point that I wasn't considering. It's not like Starwood vanished when it got acquired. It's still there, it just got rolled up into Marriott. So even if I wasn't mad at Marriott2016, most of the people who I am mad at are currently working at Marriott2017.

> Starwood designed faulty systems, and pawned off its ramshackle legacy crap to the highest bidder

Also agreed on penalties, and that's a good way of phrasing the problem. I don't think that Marriott should be let off the hook for having to deal with the breach. And while I've been trying not to criticize their security response, their social response has basically been, "look over there, free credit monitoring," which is clearly insufficient.
Low latency video streaming in the browser is a mess. it's WebRTC or [insert hack]. WebRTC is kind of a single-purpose black box, so it's difficult to deal with. I Would love to know more about how people are solving this problem (like Zoom).
I spent an entire night typing this into my Commodore 64. And it didn't work. I also messed up the save to tape, and never had the patience to type it all over again.

Real world software programming was hard, and it still is. It remains just as frustrating when it doesn't work.
Heard that a few times indeed. Symmetry.
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Dividends come in multiple forms, buybacks for example return money to investors. Companies aloso get sold returning money to investors. However, if a company never returns money and eventually folds then on net it was a bad investment even if some people made money they made money from other people not the company.

That’s the Bitcoin model. If you want to use Bitcoins as your money then it’s even more obvious. If I sell 10 bitcoins to somone they get 9.99999 of them and miners get that .00001 or whatever bitcoin. Wait 1000 years an they are still our that .00001 or whatever coin.

Miners also got coins from the original 2.1 Million but rather than pay people they payed overhead spending electricity and depreciation on hardware. That money is simply gone never to be recovered. Sure, they can sell coins to other people, but that money is new investments.

PS: Bitcoin as a useful service is fine, people lose money to Visa every day but trade that money for other forms of utility.
> Less than some

> above what most

I don't see the contradiction here?
>I mean I can imagine that a Blacksmith was probably safely a Blacksmith for life back in the day, but is even that really true?

I'm guessing in most countries a Blacksmith (a toolmaker if you will) was usually self-employed. Of course they were "in-for-life", nobody was there to fire them. But this doesn't mean that it was easy going, they could still have a bad economy or some other blacksmith underbidding on price (or offering much better quality, marketind, whatever).

You can open your own toolmaker shop as a programmer. Your success won't depend on whether your boss likes you, but whether you can sell your tools, whether you can provide the appropriate quality, and whether you're not underbid by a large competition.
Just like it doesn't have a native Win32 environment, rather different personalities built on top of a common layer.

UNIX environment on Windows is just like how IBM and Unisys mainframes deal with it.
Well 2 of my grand father and my father worked in the same trade for their whole life. Their entourage mostly did.

Now appart from very specific jobs like lawyers and doctors, I don't know many people around me that haven't already changed job several times.

Just a data point of course.
My point is that identity is a bad measure. If you like their identity, that's plea to authority. If you don't, that's ad hominem. So rather than going off of the value of the content, we're going off of whether you agree or not. This is the thinking that gets people stuck in echo chambers. Better to optimize your time by seeking reviews which might hint at whether the content could be interesting for you or not
Likewise if AMD wasn't a thing maybe this laptop would be running Itanium instead.