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I like the car analogy for browsers back then:

Back when I first started using Chrome (I think in 2008), I used to describe it as a weekend race car with all the seats, upholstery, and HVAC stripped out. Fast, no frills.

Firefox, on the other hand, was your 1970s custom van with a cool wizard painted on the side, really comfortable seats, and lots of room for further customization. Not fast, but certainly versatile and designed to your liking.

IE7, naturally, was a Yugo.
> Microsoft was legally prevented from doing that, remember?

> Why Google has been allowed to get away with it I have no idea.

Wasn't Microsoft only legally prevented from doing that due agreements made when they settled their antitrust case?

There needs to be another anti-trust case against Google, especially for the cases where it's used its monopoly in search to push its other products like Chrome, since that shouldn't even be controversial under current antitrust interpretations.
> I've been heads down building an app which relies on Google Chrome

IE6 called
I've been doing Khan academy most days (like, 28 of 30) for the last year. It's been super friendly and I've moved through the algebra, geometry, trig, precalc, and differential material... I'm currently working through some integral calc stuff. I'm planning on doing the stats and linear parts of kahn before trying to take some of the online college-level courses; Sal Kahn is super great as a teacher but I am starting to feel like I can now benefit from some more difficult to digest material.

My hope is to generally increase my math abilities so I can do some electronics design classes and some study about how to start applying ML/ AI tools.

But I've found studying math to be quite fun and useful in its own right. It's fun and I feel like it's helped my general intellectual abilities.
Bookstores in tourist places seem to do well (otherwise why is there always a bookstore in tourist towns?!). I think people are looking for something to pass the time while sitting in their hotel or gifts to bring home, and they probably aren't going to get Amazon deliveries on vacation.
Locations are chosen subject to a wide number of factors and influences. But even if local laws prevented such a lawsuit, a cautious manager might still issue the same directive: laws get overturned, etc. They might also be aiming to avoid bad PR (like EA Spouse's 15 minutes of fame).
This seems like one of the best uses of computers for educational media, one of the ways digital instruction can really shine through compared to physical text which can often require supplemental videos or help from a teacher to elucidate a concept.

Feels very reminiscent to me of 3B1B videos [1] on topics that use visuals to elucidate math topics more clearly as well.

[1] = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw
> Realistically, would we have cared if IE was everywhere if it wasn't garbage in supporting web standards?

No, I would have been perfectly happy if IE was a developer friendly, standards compliant browser, but they created a huge opportunity by ignoring this. I remember when I was super excited for a little floating JavaScript debug tool that you had to include in HTML and you could inspect variables without alerting them. I was amazed by it :)

> I wish Google would go back to funding Mozilla like they used to.

I think that's still the case:

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-firefox-search-deal-gives-m...
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It happens both on my Mac Book Pro and my Windows 10 desktop. I don't have the problem as much with pre uploaded videos but with live streaming sites like twitch.
tbh find's command line interface is extremely unnatural, and that alone would justify a switch for me. Ofc, there's no reason that the program itself needs to be reimplemented beyond its argument parser, but that's not that concerning for me as long as its still fast enough
I'm using filezilla, it really doesn't compare in terms of ui or even functionality.
> What do you mean by this?

Supporting Google/Chrome is supporting corporate interest over user interest. We've seen them already taking steps to remove support for 3rd Party Ad Blocking and to ignore privacy related features.
Firefox manages to be both significantly slower for CPU benchmark and significantly faster for GPU, compared to Chrome.

The former gets me wondering what is going on with the javascript. Sure, v8 is usually faster than Firefox, but not 8x faster.

Chrome GPU does it in 0.053s, where Firefox is hitting 0.005s, a tenth of the time.

This is on a 2015 Mac Pro.
I'm guessing Heroku, Google App Engine, AWS Beanstalk and such.
As someone who recently switched to Firefox on Linux partially due to performance.. it is really a toss up. Some sites FF renders faster, others Chrome. Chrome does tend to do a bit better on large javascript heavy 'single-page-app' type sites while Firefox crushes Chrome when displaying large (as in lots of text) pages. The latter made reading documentation impossible, such that I always had to use FF for it.

Plus you get the benefit of Firefox not corrupting its session weekly. Losing all your cookies, tabs and history frequently got super annoying.
The only problems I have with video in Firefox on Mac are with Hangouts / Meet sometimes not working correctly. This is likely due to Google not cross browser testing.
Well, they care about standards when the consequences of _not_ caring about standards become painful in the ecosystem as a whole.

But if that gets fixed, they go back to not caring... until/unless the pain rises.

But in general I agree with you.

> People don't write C++ and think about the standard, they write C++ and see if it compiles.

Yep, you not just have to provide a _reason_, you have to provide tools that fit into workflow as efficiently as conveniently as that. (Ideally, that's a (in this case) compiler that's standard compliant!)
My mistake:

> For example, your service uses 5 ECS Tasks, running for 10 minutes (600 seconds) every day for a month (30 days) where each ECS Task uses 1 vCPU and 2GB memory.

5 workers, at 10 minutes each. That's still $35 / $10 = 350% of the cost, and they're not full-time. The point was that Fargate is not priced to be the cheapest option, unless your product is designed specifically with Fargate in mind.

(And ok, not specifically Fargate, really any architecture that permits the workers to come and go, but mostly go.)

Fargate is a tool for a job, and in the suite of Amazon's offerings that includes Lambda, S3, CloudFront, you really can make some cool stuff for cheap, if you pay attention to what kind of resources it needs, and if it _really needs_ those resources, or maybe there's a cheaper offering that is a better fit, or at least that could do the job just as well.

Don't get me wrong! But if I want to take, say, my Ruby on Rails app and host it somewhere without reinventing my whole stack from scratch, I definitely won't use Lambda because any Rails app just won't fit the model very well, and I won't use Fargate because it's [N] integer times as expensive as comparable offerings.

If Fargate was capable of auto-scaling tasks to zero workers during periods of inactivity while remaining mostly responsive, like Lambda "cold start" vs "warm start", then it would be a much easier sell for me.
”OpenVPN + ProtonVPN”? IMHO that is a red flag. Wireguard would be a better alternative.
Firebug was awesome, then 2011 happened and Firebug’s lead dev joined the Google Chrome team to work on their dev tools [1].

[1] https://news.softpedia.com/news/Lead-Firebug-Developer-Joins...
Well, for example, there is no major OS that brings Firefox bundled with it. So they have to keep creating something good or people will stop using it. Therefore, getting into a monopoly position is kinda hard for the Mozilla guys. Browser monopolies are bad because the ruling browser's implementation will always compete with the web standards.
The answer is agility of thought and execution, and that if you emulate a keyboard on a touch interface as its main interaction paradigm it's to all effects a keyboard, but with less tactile feedback thus harder to get agile with.
Glass bottles had variation, because they had their own deposit/return chain to hang on to their own bottles for reuse. They could afford to use them as unique branding too. If they were getting Pepsi or Irn Bru bottles back, or no bottle back, it wouldn't work.

Now, a bottle of Coke is identical to a bottle of Pepsi, Irn Bru or cheapest own label, except for the label, colour of contents and cap. Just a standard, almost generic, 2l or 500ml bottle. Do they even sell glass Cokes any more? I can't remember the last time I saw one. Beer still comes in glass, so there's far more variation. Deposits are no more. Reuse is no more.

Can't be that powerful in differentiating or marketing in comparison to saving a penny or two using generic plastic.
I'm a D-Wave employee, hacker & graph theorist; I made the animation and helped design the circuit that it depicts. AMA?
A green card gives you status as a permanent resident alien not a citizen.
It is at the compiler level, but there is no reason that the same methods cannot be applied to binaries. Here's a paper I found from 2004 on static analysis of x86 executables: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bgogul/Research/Papers/cc04.pdf.
> The Raspberry Pi is a little underpowered for serious computation, so I need to offload processing to my local Kafka cluster.

The RPI includes purpose built hardware for DSP in the VideoCore so, probably not.

Poe's law in action I suppose.

I'm all for big data but this is a case of nuking a fly.
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I look forward to reality where the US pays Mexico just for being its neighbour.
I like http://trio.rtfd.org way more than asyncio.
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As someone that loves clean UI and blink's speed, is Chromium a trustworthy alternative ?
> Wait, is this accurate? I remember back when Chrome was released, people were talking about how it used parts of both WebKit and Gecko, and the exact specs of which rendering was used changed based on the website.

You are misremembering. Chrome never used Gecko.

> I remember not liking Chrome the moment it came out. Google had poured money into Firefox for years and then suddenly came out with (an initially) closed source competitor. Sure it's open source now, but it didn't start that way

This is completely false. Chromium and its associated source code were released to the public at the same time as Chrome. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#2008
Nuclear politics are a lot more complex than this.
> But the reality is (most) Americans prefer quantity over quality

This is incorrect. I used to manufacture hot sauce, and it's really about the cost margins calculus. The big sellers fill their products full of fluff to keep their costs down, and to squeeze out the maximum amount of profit they can while still keeping sales steady. It's what happens when food manufacture becomes a for-profit venture at industrial scales. I would argue this has led to our current health crisis and should be re-evaluated.
Curious if they have this server segregated from the rest of the network or you can browse other internal resources through it.
I assume there's at least some lobbying going on between healthcare industry and keeping the funding limits in place.

https://www.aamc.org/advocacy/gme/71178/gme_gme0012.html

I can't think of any other reason Congress would be restricting this if they were really serious about the bringing down the cost of healthcare. Yes, I don't have concrete evidence, but the setup of the situation provides a very nice plausible deniability angle to all parties.
> Curious, I remember speed being the primary reason.

This was how I remember it as well. Not only that but the timing was very fortunate for Chrome because at the time Firefox had some very bad memory leaks which in my opinion really helped with Chrome adoption since people who use Firefox were more likely to be willing to switch browsers having already switched from another browser.
> future presidents will be free to declare healthcare a national emergency

Well, actually, maybe it is a national emergency? Definitely seems more of an emergency than some wall.
If the desired effect is to make people consider not using Chrome, painting Chrome's origins in such rose-tinted light is unlikely to achieve that.

Google engaged in exclusionary "embrace-extend-extinguish"-esque tactics from a very early stage in Chrome's life, and on web properties that predated Chrome's public launch in their development. Painting Chrome as "break[ing] the Web free from corporate greed" is a pretty disparaging insult to those who genuinely have worked for years to try and do that.
I bought some name brand smart junk on Amazon day awhile back. Eventually I got around to trying to set it up. The first thing it asked me to do was to configure my router to expose the devices to open internet.

I immediately put it back in the box and haven't touched it since. I hesitate to resell it because part me feels it is my civic duty to destroy it rather than pass it along to another rube.
"Probably the best example of this is the television-production firm we studied. The name that we gave to the culture there was “studied informality”—nobody wore suits and ties, nobody even wore standard business casual. People were wearing sneakers and all kinds of casual, fashionable clothes. There was a sort of “right” way to do it and a “wrong” way to do it: A number of people talked about this one man—who was black and from a working-class background—who just stood out. He worked there for a while and eventually left. He wore tracksuits, and the ways he chose to be casual and fashionable were not the ways that everybody else did."

There's a very old quote about this; I cannot remember where I saw it: "You can't be a rebel if you don't wear the right uniform." Wearing the right t-shirt and sneakers is as important in some environments as wearing the right three-piece suit or military uniform in others.

Likewise, knowing the right jokes, playing the right games, watching the right TV shows, all of these things influence how you fit into an environment and how productive you will be there.
is this article for real? lol..
> And if you build to the standards, it's possible that no actual browser implements them correctly.

> And then what?

Build to standards first, then accommodate quirks last.

Building to Chrome first is just building to its quirks, and totally forgetting about standards.
this post seems really biased towards Epic store.
This!

I've got family in health management and THEY can't reliably figure out what a procedure costs(not even something like a simple statistical characterization) much less what they should charge for it.
This. It’s a daily trade-off, as a working professional, between how deep I should learn the fundamentals and how quickly can I get to solving problem at hand.

As an example, I want to learn how to deploy my models on the cloud but the mechanics of how computing on the cloud works is a depth trade-off. I wish I could learn all about distributed computing concepts but I find that I have neither the time or energy for it, at times.
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"Ironic" in that a lot of people here complain about how slow the modern web is versus the simpler purely static web of the past, when the modern web even with all the javascript BS is qualitatively faster.
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Compare firefox or Opera market progression back in IE heydays to chrome progression when it came out.

Marketing and the antitrust against MS are the difference.
It's an interesting take. For me, I felt BotW was a return to the original form: the first game clearly had a path of progression in mind, but didn't technically stop you from picking up (or refraining from picking up) the wooden sword and tooling around on Death Mountain right from the start if you wanted (granted, you couldn't actually challenge Ganon unless you did beat all 8 dungeons, unlike BotW).

As of approximately Ocarina of Time (if not Zelda 2), Zelda games have been a lot more "on rails" in the sense of a well-defined path of progression that is difficult to break (generally because of the need for some artifact or some plot-point to develop that opens the next path point). BotW gave me a clear directional hint (key for modern game design; we're well past the point where most players lack patience for "Here you are; I won't explain the rules; try not to die" game design), but if I wanted to ignore the hint and go run off into the sunset or try to rodeo a Lynel in my shorts with three hearts, I could.
I don’t care anyways, I only installed smart devices to make my wife happy. I don’t cate if my garage door opener gets hacked.
Why did people downvote this?
Not too seriously afaik.
I'm using both their dedicated servers and the cloud offering and never had any issues. Speed and latency are consistent both within Europe as well as to the US (not monitoring much traffic to Asia). Latency from their DCs in Germany to Frankfurt is around 3ms, so comparable to the central Europe offerings of most cloud providers.
Back in September Google started taking steps to distance themselves from AMP. They even adopted a new governance model so that it's less about 'them' and more about speeding up the web in general. There's also the option to use alternatives to Google's AMP Cache, but folks tend to use Google's since it's already readily available.
I find it difficult to imagine the USA giving up its plastic addiction, given the high levels of consumption and the convenience plastic provides.

I think a reasonable approach for regulators might be to require all single-use plastic packaging to be industrially compostable (corn-derived etc). This way you still get the convenience of the packaging, no need to change habits, but the waste can all be turned back into soil without pollution.
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I personally use JetBrains but anything will do. Features that when you first figured out how to use them made you think "wow, how did I go without this?".
I needed an MRI a few years ago, and my insurance provider actually called me to tell me about insurance-preferred imaging centers, and how much the out-of-pocket cost would be at those centers vs. the one my MRI was initially scheduled at.
Isn’t this due to security and process isolation differences? As in chrome does more to be secure than Firefox as far as how system resources are accessed via sandboxing?
Chrome is poised to comletely monopolize the browser share market.

You can't fault them either for doing this, this is just what pubic companies do, maximize returns for shareholders and monopolies are the hen that lays golden eggs.

This article will not be seen beyond HN. The fact is the vast majority of Chrome users don't care that other browser exists, and don't want it as long as it is convenient for them (to keep using a familiar platform thats worked well).

Anyways, this is just my two cents. I just don't see myself using Firefox anymore, it's no longer deserving of my attention because I am not concerned about Google's goals, we get a lot of shit for free from Google, and we gave up our privacy. Whether this is beneficial or not is up for debate.
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The death of Classical logic and the (re?)birth of Constructive Mathematics
No, this isn't directly related to fusion. The binding energies are already well known and nucleon modification effects in fusion are far to small to be meaningful.
Certainly! :-) I was using a simple nginx+haproxy server and static files for simplicity. I am maybe a bit lazy.
The law of identity is the cornerstone of Arostotelian/Classical logic.
A = A is True.

In the 2nd half of the 20th century the American mathematician Haskell Curry and logician William Alvin Howard discovered an analogy between logical proofs and working computer programs. This is known as the Curry-Howard correspondence.
Mathematical proofs are working computer programs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...

Therefore, if we can write a working computer program which asserts that A = A is false without producing an error then we have living proof contradicting the founding axiom of Classic/Aristotelian logic.

I hereby reject the law of identity, and give you the law of humanity: A = A is False.

A thing needs not be the same as itself!

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Turing-completeness/equivalence is the bar for "reason": λ-calculus ⇔ λ-calculus ⇔ λ-calculus ⇔ λ-calculus ⇔ λ-calculus ⊇ Type theory ⊇ Mathematics

I will spell this out in English: Turing-completeness guarantees GLOBAL consistency. Type theory allows for the containment of LOCALIZED contradictions thus preventing explosions. This is why intuitionistic logic is vastly superior to any "complete" logic that is NOT Turing-complete.
Consistency paralyzes human thought! We are wildly inconsistent!

Being able to contain LOCAL inconsistencies actually allows for the GLOBAL system to become more and more consistent. This is completely and utterly counter-intuitive to most logicians!
Did you even read the article, it addresses pretty much all of these points. It doesn't portray India in a negative light, it talks about they may eventually feel forced into a proportional response to terrorist attacks like those you mentioned. That proportional response might encourage Pakistan to start a nuclear war.

That's very realistic scenario that absolutely does not require India to be at all a "rogue, failed state with crazy leaders".
Sorry for the delay. I don't know if that would work either, but it sounds good. ;-)

Check out "Tensairity" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensairity
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My biggest complaint with BotW was that the pacing was odd. It was clear they designed everything in the world to be completed on the time scale of a subway ride.

I understand why they did this, given that it was the launch game of a new handheld platform, but it felt limiting from a design perspective. Most of the puzzles just weren't that challenging and the dungeons were rather lackluster instead of being big events.
I admit my understanding of these things isn't perfect but I'm not sure the idea of having a generator is as simple as your making it sound.

Typically you have an AC alternator (because DC generators have too high a loss in the brushes). How do you control the excitation voltage, you'd want high enough voltages to allow reasonable sized wiring but not enough to damage the insulation? How do you control the speed of the blades (under and overspeed) etc?

I can see how these things could be easily managed using direct water to heat. Simple spring loaded governors etc.
Yes. And you are not a foreign national. ITAR does not apply to US citizens OR permanent residents. It even allows some refugees and asylees.

In fact, Clifford Chance LLP recently settled after improperly terminating several green card employees, believing that they couldn't work on ITAR projects[1].

[1]: http://exportcompliancesolutions.com/blog/2018/09/20/u-s-per...
Is it surprising that people are happier and better able to deal with their illness when they believe they are doing meaningful work and are useful to the people that surround them?
Firstly, this peace has no guarantees, secondly, the potential destruction is only increasing with the time. Do you think that every country will have nukes in the future? Do you think it is the smartest of all possibilities?

Nuclear weapons could make irreversible changes on the Earth. It is much dangerous than any war.
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