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>> If you disable animated GIFs someone will make a JS library that recreates it..

Let's disable that too. My browser is not someones corporate programming play room.
It still blows my mind that any technologically literate person would use Chrome as their primary browser in 2019. Or 2018, or really ever.

The incentives for Google are perverse, this is really simple reasoning.

Google will continue their MS-esque Embrace-Extend-Extinguish march until only Chrome is left. That people who should know better willingly enable this disaster terrifies me.
If one is miserable at work and hates ones life, seeing others suffer who do "shirk" the responsibility is i think sort of social acceptable revenge fantasy.
The same sort "good" christians enjoy when they collectively imagine how god will smash all those hedonists at armageddon.
Care to elaborate what the fix was?
That's what they say.
The consumer is already bearing an unreasonable amount of cost to support advertising. The philosophy here needs to shift from "You kicked over my sandcastle, what can we do to make you not want to kick over my sandcastle again" to "Advertisers are a parasite and need to be contained in a separate sandbox and never let out"

The idea that advertisers are the only thing enabling a free web is bogus and needs to be dispelled, the costs of hosting a small amount of personal content are negligible and prior to the advertising era the occasional dude with cash would just altruistically host random niche websites on a subdomain.
The company could only use cash to do dividends or share buybacks, and the company is worth more than its cash on hand (maybe 10-20x as much more in Slack’s case.) A public offering makes it possible for effectively every shareholder to sell their shares for the full value without the company having to make a strategic financial decision to return cash to shareholders.
Me too. I live at the top of a steep hill, so if I charge fully I can't regen all the way down in the morning, and I have to press this large pedal that hydraulically clamps some friction pads around steel disks attached to the wheels. So I set it to charge a little less than full, and gain about 6 miles of range on the way down.

A resistive dump of 20-30 kW would improve the cold weather deceleration experience, but that's a big honking resistor that'd need forced air cooling.
I'd really like them to add a play button for animated gifs too. And of course have them paused by default.
Build a machine learning app with just a little JavaScript
As I understand what UN doesn't not take into account is cheap smartphones.

Women are getting educated not by schools run by governments but thanks to smartphones.

And women education correlates with low natality...

Cheap smartphones are indeed is a relatively new phenomenon that probably don't show yet in demographic charts...
I doubt they will be used for either side of charging. Super/Ultra capacitors cost a lot more than batteries per watt hour.
Kind of amazing how the modern world survived and even managed to send men to the moon without 17% of the population taking addictive brain melting pharmies that literally nobody understands. What boggles my mind is nobody reflects on this and thinks popping pills is some kind of normal thing.

But hey, having such thoughts is probably a sign of depression.

"There's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is." World Controller Mustapha Mond
To resurrect a dead metaphor, from an aviation point of view, "flying blind" (VFR into IMC such as flying into a cloud when not flying on instruments) is a very dangerous situation that everyone is trained to avoid. If the weather is bad enough then you stay on the ground.
Unfortunately, we live in a free society where I need to base all my actions on keeping myself employable. This means I'll spend 4 hours writing a small tool in JS instead of 1000 hours trying to learn semantic modern c/c++/rust/golang. That's 990 hours I could spend making more tools, learning new technologies that employers would find relevant on my resume, or spending time with friends and family.
Look at GoPro's website. They sell video cameras, and their landing page has a muted video showing video taken with their cameras.
The case for a proper program of infrastructure spending (2017)
I am an open source advocate, but I don't really agree here. Should the IRS, NSA, CIA, and FBI code all be open source? Here are some cases where closed source software, with some security by obscurity could be helpful. Another example would be some software around designing nuclear systems.

But as an example maybe a software funded by the national weather service to run simulations, that aught to be open source (perhaps something like that exists and is open source, that's not my area).

But a counter argument to mine could be that some software that is security focused might be more secure if it was open source. I think this is an area with a lot of nuance, and absolute statements are hard to make.
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What are you talking about? There's plenty of countries where highly-skilled tech professionals can easily emigrate to.
The best thing about firefox is the containers - so I can easily have different cookie spaces for different tasks, I only use my Gmail container for Gmail, so my general web browsing isn't attached to my Gmail profile.
Cert manager [1] also automatically provisions and rotates TLS certificates.

[1] http://cert-manager.readthedocs.io/
You go to Youtube to read the comments...?
Well, it used to be ... https://netzpolitik.org/2019/trotz-eilantrag-in-karlsruhe-se...
I'll be slightly pedantic: the coating is almost certainly diamond-like carbon (DLC), not diamond.

DLC is a complicated class of materials, generally composed of amorphous carbon (no long-range order - kind of like glass) with the same kind of interatomic bonds you see in diamond (sp3 bonds). It's often applied by sputtering or ion beam deposition.

Diamond is sp3-bonded carbon with long-range crystalline order. It's most often made by chemical vapor deposition, which is slow and expensive compared to DLC deposition methods.

The DLC coating described in the article won't do much to reduce glass breakage. But it will greatly increase scratch resistance because it's nearly as hard as diamond.

Diamond doesn't melt unless you're heating it while it's also under enormous pressure to keep it from turning to graphite. It does ablate, or vaporize when hit with laser pulses. This is used to remove small graphite inclusions in diamond.
going to be interesting how quickly sites adapt and prevent viewing the content when the streaming content is blocked/muted. there are more than enough that detect any form of ad blocking or script blocking
In theory you might get a situation where several cities try to wait each other out for similar tasks, hoping another city will buckle first and fund it.
There is a degree of correlation between circadian rhythm dysfunction (i.e. sleep disorders) and depression. Worldview is separate, but trauma is definitely an input to that function. The more trauma one has, the more likely they are to have a comorbid mental disorder.
Yea, even on sites that specifically cater to serving video (like YouTube) I prefer non-autoplay video, it's an extra click - who cares... it will save me the occasional wall of sound when re-opening a browser with way too many random things open.
Imo the former is more readable and more pythonic
Why is this newsworthy, other than Tesla is acquiring a micro cap company in an all stock offer? There's not even a blog post on Tesla.com or a tweet by Elon regarding Maxwell.
>Nondeterministic regenerative braking as described here seems like a serious bug in a vehicle.

When you're buying a high end vehicle "quirky" is the preferred adjective.

20yo $1500 German cars are "unreliable". Chinese EVs are "buggy". When you buy a Tesla, a new high end Mercedes or some other status symbol it's all just part of how it goes. Unreliability or odd behavior is not a negative at that price point. It's all part of the ownership experience. You don't get to complain about it. It's implied by the price point that you knew what you were getting into and can handle it.
>Humans in general are pretty shitty, driven mostly by self-interest.

Water takes the path of least resistance,

Humans take the path of least expected effort expenditure to accomplish their desires

Both are just doing as nature does, being themselves. Why be sad that every person will do the least amount of work to satisfy their desires, when it is an inevitability, but your sadness is not.
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Isn’t Python 2.7 already LTS? If 2010-2020 doesn’t count as LTS, then what does?
Well, I wasn't talking about being kind in order to feel good about myself. That would be the same old turd (selfishness) just wrapped up in a nicer package. Like when I'm sitting on the airplane that's been parked outside the gate for an hour, my ass is killing me and I'm ready to go home and I start silently cursing everyone and everything that stands in my way -- YET, when I disembark, I still smile and thank the stewardess, and let the antsy types cut in front on their way off the plane. I go to bed with a feeling of dignity and peace.
This is an excellent layer on top of bash and has some overlap with concepts in other tools like fish shell, but it has me wondering, are we really at the end of the evolution of shells, so that we're now focused on making tools that improve shells? Or can we evolve the very concept of shells even further, making zsh and fish look like assembly language in comparison to Haskell?
You have misunderstood me.

> First you claimed that having a toolset built using familiar technologies was useful to nobody (0% of developers!)

That's not exactly what I wrote.

> Then you declared that this is useless because no developers actually work on the products they will use for development. I responded by giving your examples where this happens.

Wrong again. A very small subset of developers actually build their own times. Writing a Gulp configuration is not an example of building your own tool. That would be an example of using a tool, and writing your own configuration for that tool.

This is the core of my argument. If you can't grasp this, then we can't get anywhere.

> Now, you are claiming that those tools are pointless because they use libraries in other languages or because there are alternatives in other languages.

That isn't what I am claiming. I am claiming that most web developers do not build their own tools. Writing some glue code (shell script, Makefile, Gulpfile, whatever), which calls out to another tool (like the aforementioned tools written in C), is not an example of writing your own tool.

Do you care what language your linter is written in? No. You do not. You only care about its API. You only care that it's easy enough to use from JavaScript. If you can write `gulp do-the-linting`, and it lints your JavaScript, you don't actually care what language the linting engine was implemented in. Almost — again almost — 0% of web developers care about that.
How can someone buy a truck for $58,000 in cash and not set off one billion alarms?? :O
Probably, but you better check your exact situation which might be illegal anyway.

They are legal in 46 states currently, on streets with a speed limit <= 35mph. Some towns have more restrictive laws as well.
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I very much like muted auto-play, so speak for yourself.
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I suspect the price difference is due to different standards of "road-worthiness" in China v. the US.
Oddly enough, despite the clickbait headline, the article supports this thesis. The only place where social media is used here is in the selection of which articles to consider judging for misleadingness. Otherwise, these articles were all carried in regular mainstream publications.
moonlight is not blue. see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purkinje_effect
If it can have a snow plow mounted on the front and it has a trailer hitch, I'd buy one just for use on my hobby farm. Assuming they make it to Canada. I don't need it to be road legal, either. Just needs to be narrow enough to get down an 8' vineyard row, and be able to push a couple feet of snow.
A friend of mine was scammed in exactly that way. So, yes.
Personally I'm surprised.

Whenever I've heard of the arrest of high profile suspects , there is almost always some smart plan to get the person before they can engage in violence.

This is done to get them to cooperate and get the network that supports the high profile suspect.

I'm not sure why it went down as it did. But I know reality is complex, so I'd guess they were aiming for better but things went badly and they preferred to take him out for sure than let him get away. That would be my guess. That or someone wanted him dead, but the latter is less likely (stupidity being more common than malice and all) - There are probability other probabilities I'm not considering and the fact that multiple factors could be at play... it's hard to tell, the article was short on details.
That's because hidden wiki was seized and doesn't exist anymore. What you saw was a mirror of now severely outdated information + with more unsavory links deleted.
> There are plenty of small, wealthy enclaves in the U.S. where the infrastructure is perfectly fine

Is it though? I would assume NYC falls in that category and the subway is crumbling. The cars are old, and some of its subway stations have not only not been remodeled in years, they haven't been painted or cleaned recently either [1].

Manhattan is an incredibly rich and dense area, I'd say in theory the city is just as, or better setup for success in terms of public transport than Tokyio, Paris, or Mexico City. Yet, public transport in these cities seems to overall be of better quality than New York's.

Reading a bit into it, it seems clear that it's a matter of corruption, inefficiency and lack of will to fix things [2], not just "the way things have to be" due to external forces.

[1]: https://www.amny.com/transit/nyc-subway-stations-garbage-dum...

[2]: https://ny.curbed.com/2017/12/29/16829746/mta-nyc-subway-con...
> everything from gfycat, imgur, and similar would stop playing.

Yes, this would be what I want.
>> Definitely lots of experiences use this solution, and shouldn't be hurt by sites that abuse it (stop going to or use adblock on this sites?).

So your site/idea is OK, but people should stop going to others or use adblock on them.
What was the reason that made the hypothetical 90% go for Firefox in the first place? This seems like the kind of feature one would expect when installing Firefox.
Some big browsers need to disable auto-play by default to force websites to actually support commencing and pausing video in terrible tiny javascript video players.
This is the same experience one has with an ICE engine and manual gear box at higher RPM. Much easier to drive aggressively in that mode for reasons you state.
I haven't read the other book, but "12 rules for life" is not at all about self-deception. In fact, I'd say it's the opposite - it stresses the fact that life is often dark and difficult and depressing, and teaches the reader ways to better handle the difficulties. Judging by the size of the Jordan Peterson phenomenon, the book must be doing something right.
A better website? I should look for a better website because some random sites have autoplay, and I don't know yet until I click, and with a straight face you're telling people to, 'well, don't use the site if you don't like it.' Do you not click on various unvisited URLs in your web browsing like the rest of us? I'm growing skeptical that your comment is in good faith and not a trolling attempt.
[Scratches head...] If you're worried that it is illegal, are you sure you shouldn't be posting this anonymously?
I've seen YouTube videos of American expats coming back home and saying the one big thing they noticed, after spending significant time in someplace like Europe, was how utterly paranoid Americas are. I've felt this myself just after having a short vacation out of the country. It's not really unsafe here (unless you're in downtown Baltimore or Detroit or something), but everyone is just so paranoid that it feels like you're living in a war zone.

You should definitely move back to the UK if you have kids. The education alone is worth it: American public schools are absolutely horrendous, and the worst in the developed world. The healthcare is also an important factor.
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I have to say, this is the best way I've seen this explained. And it takes no sides. Good comment
I honestly like YouTube's autoplay, as I use YouTube to listen to music the autoplay feature allows me to find new artists and songs to listen to. I get a much better "Radio" experience than I have gotten from say Spotify.
Of course not, it's an old joke (meme) from PlayBoy.
"I only read it for the articles."
This is great until netflix can't autoplay the asset you just clicked on to play. All net video uses the same APIs.
This actually would be the first step towards criminal libel.

As traditionally malicious cartoons would be a civil matter. This is just an animated misrepresentation.
I just don't get it. a John Deere Gator with two seats and 4 wheels, and not much else costs over $7000 new. No windows, No airbags, pathetic top speed, not road legal.

A Lada 4x4 costs less than that brand new in Russia. Road legal, standard car top speed. Known as a very reliable car. Why can't I buy a really cheap car in the United States?

edit: also the lada 4x4 is possibly the coolest car i've ever seen, in it's own unique way. I would do anything to import one, but it's not legal.
the usage cases are just going to be so limited, the liability of letting them on the road will probably be moot if the NHTSA holds them to the same crash standards as cars.

I just don't see it, the "upscale" neighborhood adjacent to us is replete with golf carts and most of those are electric, but they have wide sidewalks to support them as the rules do not allow them on road ways.
Google has a large sales force that targets government agencies, defense, etc., with its products and services.

As for the incentives, it's a logical argument:

1) Google is a large, powerful entity.

2) Powerful entities benefit from a preservation of the status quo.

3) Powerful entities must stay on the good side of governments.

4) Social upheaval is a threat to Google's business model.

5) Google's ad business has led to tools that are superior to those built by governments.

Thus, the sales team realizes the opportunity to sell the proprietary tech to government entities. Once this business relationship begins the team effort to suppress some ideas and amplify others, to militarize the core technology, becomes impossible to stop.

Google is at this point a defense contractor to many governments. There has recently been hubbub about Google behaving in this way toward the Chinese government, but what people are missing is that the core service google offers is desired by all governments. Put succinctly, governments all want a great firewall and a social credit score. This is what Google and Facebook sell.

Consider that in the US it's conceivable that a search interface could be built for private user data that also includes the feature of automatically submitting and obtaining a warrant so that all searches performed are legal. The friction associated with needing to obtain a warrant has been removed completely in the US, and likely never even existed under other regimes. In either case, Google is happy to militarize all of the data and technology that it has built.

AI (Google's main thrust) is a particularly insidious form of this because a "trained" AI is a unique combination of data and algorithm. In essence, the data set is baked into the algorithm. So Google can (for example) train a gait analysis algorithm intended to predict violent acts on citizens of one regime, and sell the resulting "trained" product to other regimes.

Governments have a strong need for information about thought crimes and evidence for premeditation of all sorts of antisocial acts. Google and Facebook have created trillions in market value for firms by doing the same thing for consumer behavior but it's worth many more Trillions when applied to criminality and the softer sister definition, "anti-social" behavior.

When will learning about a third party candidate be viewed as an antisocial act by Google and Facebook? Quite likely this happened in 2017.
28 miles per hour pretty much rules them out except for residential neighborhoods. Most major city streets in the U.S. are at least 30 mph. If the Pickman can be improved to go 40, it might stand a chance. Otherwise, it's just a glorified golf cart as the other poster suggests.
Tesla acquires ultracapacitor and battery manufacturer for over $200M – Electrek
And this is how I expected electric cars to come to the USA before Tesla changed the rules.

Of course if Tesla goes belly up, this could still be how our all electric future starts.
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>Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge can't arrive soon enough.

Eww, so you can have your data harvested by an even more evil and scummy company? Why not just use Ungoogled-Chromium or Firefox today? Hell, even Safari would be better.