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Are there other embedable, modern, multi-platform and open-source browser engines besides webkit?

I'm looking forward to the day when we will be able to use servo instead, but we're not there yet.
Why? Are people in other countries unable to follow precise instructions, especially when money is involved?
Did anyone take a better video? Because that was painful to try to watch.
Had boeing mentioned that not having that feature frequently causes planes to crash and kill everyone onboard, I'm sure they would've bought it.
I want the ethics of Firefox and the speed / user experience (eg. select & move multiple tabs) of Chrome, so I moved to Brave. It's a Chromium fork that's a bit more Firefoxy -- made by Brendan Eich, former Mozilla CEO and inventor of JS, (eg has the "Switch to Open Tab" feature I love from FF), although there's some cryptocurrency stuff thrown in that I'm not a fan of, but so far it feels like a net positive over both FF and Chrome.

It's very privacy oriented, to such a degree that it actually breaks a lot of websites (but you can disable the shields easy).
True but I’d assume (at least right now) faked calledid makes up < 1% of telemarketing / scam calls.

Plus the type of robocalling described in the article where they ring once and hang up wouldn’t work if you fake the callerid - you’d just get them to call back someone from their contacts
His intention was to comment. The world is not a child's cartoon, there's mean things I can't imagine why you like to pretend there aren't.
Intriguing, but in order to lift the phone at the precise time they'd need to have some form of alarm or notification. At which point, their concentration would be interrupted.

So really I don't see the point.
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This is also described in the book "The End of Average" https://www.amazon.com/End-Average-Succeed-Values-Sameness-e...
For the last one - meteoric rise of services like JustEat meant that I haven't had to ring anyone to order food for at least 8 years now. If your restaurant is not on justeat/Uber eats/you have your own website that allows ordering, then I'm not interested in ordering from you. Also, if you order through a phone how do you pay? In cash??
Why would the battery be consumed in a new phone in the box? Or why would Apple not give you a normal warranty?

I don’t have any issues with battery life and I’ve had this phone about 2 years now. The Battery Health in settings shows a max capacity of 87%.

I’m not concerned about a warranty on a $200 phone - at this point I could throw it out the window at a rock and get a new phone. That’s one reason I have a cheap older iPhone. I don’t worry about losing or damaging it.
The thing is if they just want to create a hyperosmotic solution they can add something won't be transported across the membrane, the way they did will change a lot of things on the membrane and inside the cell rather than stress introduced by hyperosmotic stress
> One of her concerns was “what if physics was broken”?!

I think this is the wish of very a many physicist as they drink their morning tea and contemplate the day.
I was referring to the required punctuality and I wasn't being entirely serious.
This is a technicality, users do not care about technicalities, they have their own expectations and if you are on -say- a stable branch with autoupdates enabled your expectation is that you'll get the latest version that everyone else is using.

A/B testing through that branch breaks that expectation (and no, mentioning it somewhere hidden in some EULA or equally obfuscated place does not mean people will not have the expectation - hell, even mentioning it right below the download wont make a difference).
Some of us didnt even hear about it existing until the latest issue of 2600 dropped. The website normally updates around the new year, letting us plan to go - February rolled past without such.
I've switchted to qutebrowser, but not sure if it will fit your needs.
Myspace existed before Facebook
I don’t really know that this is a particularly appropriate comparison. XFS is a fine filesystem, but ZFS is more than a filesystem, it’s RAID, LVM, deduplication, etc. The real competitors to ZFS from my understanding are largely BTRFS and proprietary technologies such as apple’s new APFS. I’d very much like to see a comparison between those. I’ve run ZFS on my systems for years, but moved away from it towards btrfs on my laptop, as it was just too much pain to keep the kernel modules up to date. I wish the CDDL were compatible with the GPL, cause if the drivers were in-tree there wouldn’t be any argument at all.
This article makes a few statements that are currently being demolished;

>"Also a matter of conventional wisdom is the idea that human beings are on one side of a great divide while all animals are on the other"

>"To modern science it is, if anything, the hard problem of consciousness, also commonly thought to be the province of just one species."

My usual response to these kind of assertions is to direct people towards, 'The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness' - http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConscious...

Here's the summary;

>"“The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and manyother creatures,including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.”

Also, I'd add something to the section on anthropomorphism. One that is touched on by the first paragraph in that section;

>"Though thanks to Darwin (if not Aristotle) it should come as no surprise that animals seem to experience in some way many of the same things we do, physically and emotionally, in science the supposed imposition of “human” characteristics on non-human animals is a powerful taboo."

I have long thought that from an evolutionary perspective it would be incredibly surprising if the characteristics of humans appeared in some catastophic development, such as in Julian Jaynes' book, 'The Origin of Consiousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind'. Anthropomorphisis of animals is often dismissed as being an arrogant practice that serves the person and not the animal. I would argue that a flat denial of 'human' attributes to other animals is far more so.
For listening exercises I use subs2srs which takes an arbitrary video file with subtitles and turns it into a CSV file that can be imported into Anki and it also generates audio snippets and snapshots. The tool assumes that you have two subtitle tracks but in my experience the subtitles don't line up perfectly so I only listen to the audio and then try to translate it into English which I then compare with the answer.
Wow, I thought XFS was dead but apparently it is still supported.
I don't understand why the phone companies don't do more prevent this kind of thing in the USA.

In New Zealand, I have had periods where spam phone calls have been pretty bad for me. 2 or 3 a day for a week or so, and that was annoying.

But they always seem to stop.

The last spam call I got was long enough ago that it doesn't show up in my iphones call history. Certainly several months ago.

Can't the phone companies look at calls the same way email providers do and use all the information they have at their disposal to filter out the spam?
They don't. Mycelium can decompose some very complex carbohydrates like oils spills, but that's as far as they go.

They will, however, absorve and concentrate those heavy metals. You would need to remove the mushrooms and dispose or recycle the heavy metals. It's worth to mention that such suit could be a health hazard if people would eat the mushrooms of the decomposing body.

- https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0cf9/889e0d096b66a1c9300114...
Should a fair comparison not include the features of LVM etc that Red Hat etc are layering together with XFS?
This right here is why management consultants exist.
Just as a few others have mentioned, I too never have such problems using Taobao.

The way I use it is with the app, click to sort by number of sales, and usually buy from one of the top sellers. I don't usually talk to the sellers unless I have questions about the stuff I'm about to buy, and I turn off the notification for the app so 80% of the time I just never reply the seller. They might still send the message asking me to confirm the address, but they'll still send the package even if I don't reply.

As for the delivery time it depends on where you live and where the seller is in. When I lived in Shanghai most of the packages arrive in at most 2 days as I usually choose the sellers from Zhejiang, Jiangsu or Shanghai
I can't find a reliable online source to back this up (I think I read it in Welty's "The Thai & I") but I seem to recall that Thai culture predominantly dined in the Indian style using their hand before adopting fork and spoon.
Scmp website has way too much fancy JavaScript making my iphone lag and not resulting in a better reading experience
It is the FS for Red Hat 7 and CentOS 7.
>Amazon is a shitty aggregate selling site.

Yeah, that's exactly what I was complaining about. The "shipped and sold by amazon.com" experience is super luxury. For consumer goods, and a whole lot of industrial parts? I have next-day access to a giant warehouse of stuff. I'd pay a lot extra for that. They cheapen that by adding in the shitty aggregator capabilities. (though, like I said, the biggest problem is mixing reviews, and making it hard to limit your search to just 'shipped and sold by amazon' - when looking at a listing, an experienced user can easily see if it's amazon or a shady third party)

A lot of my friends have big storage units full of stuff for projects, books they found that they want to read at some point, etc, etc... things we have bought before we needed them because we didn't know that those things would be available when we needed them.

As amazon gets better, there are more and more classes of things I don't need to own until the day before I need them. For those of us who live in areas where storage or living space costs way more than "stuff" - this is huge.

Think about a world where we don't have to go shopping. Especially where we don't have to go exploratory shopping, where you don't have to buy the things you will need ahead of time.

(actually, I mean, this is a very silicon valley perspective; I visit family members elsewhere in the USA, and it is so weird to me that one day shipping isn't available if I forgot to pack a thing I needed. At that point, it becomes a lot less luxury.)
Fascinating! As somebody who uses that kind of software, old timer electrical engineers seem to be very very unforgiving to UI problems and even more unforgiving to any change for better or worse. I learned that while volunteering for UI/UX at horizon-EDA which aims to become a more usable kiCAD¹

I have never seen worse UX/UI than in electrical engineering tools and I worked a lot with 3D software. They are completely inconsistent with other software, often even with themselves. It often resembles the heating room of a 500 year old building were everybody added things but nobody deared to clean up the things that were already there.

My suffering as a user of such tools motivated me to change things for the better. I never got the idea behind resisting change in UI/UX. It seems to be rooted in the believe that change in UX always means change for the worse and never for good. Which is weird, because even someone like a carpenter is very much interested in the usability of their own tools.

Maybe the problem is that each change in the software means they have to adapt and this demands a certain adaptability, or a will to stay on top in a changing world. It certainly costs energy to do that.

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¹: Check it out here: https://github.com/carrotIndustries/horizon or watch the FOSDEM19 talk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13xmFwgikh8

It is quite usable already, but there is no 1.0 release yet so useful things like installers and documentation are still lacking.
IIRC this is because it gets posted here every month and there is always someone complaining about those kinds of things and they addressed those points.

It also gets brought up a bit with the Pharo Smalltalk website(lack of code snippets), but Smalltalk is such a radically different language than what we're mostly familiar with (C, Java, Python, JS) that showing a code snippet is mostly pointless. People try to bring this up, but to no avail.

Sometimes the syntax just isn't very important. I think in Zig's case though, that it is fair to ask.
People who write this stuff don't have a clue how revolutions work actually work.
SpiNNaker is very open-ended: it consists of a huge number of ARM chips connected by a custom network fabric, and scales extremely well.
Looks sharp and clean. Are there any projects already using Luda, that anyone would like to share. So we can see it in action?
Dow futures drop more than 500 points as China considers skipping trade talks
When I was contracting I would always get an offer towards the end of my contracts. I never accepted as I enjoyed the clearer supplier/customer relationship you get with contracting. Most of my peers refused because it rarely made financial sense.
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Indeed, the 737 MAX is a dangerous bastardized old design but a managerial marvel.
I think in this case we do need regulations since as long as some producers continue to abuse antibiotics this way it affects all of us.
Agreed. Where I feel personalization could be super helpful is in the "new" section, where good content often falls by the wayside because it isn't controversial enough to attract discussion or too niche. This is where a good recommendation engine could help.
The Felisa Wolfe-Simon / NASA debacle from 2010 was trying to claim that GFAJ was using Arsenic in place of Phosphorus in biomolecules (especially the DNA backbone). This was quickly debunked.

The paper (indirectly) cited here is claiming that some micro-organisms use simple Arsenic-containing ions for electron transport as part of their metabolic cycles. This is a much less outrageous claim and, I think, already documented in high-Arsenic environments. The only big deal here is, I believe, that this is a low-Arsenic environment.

Original paper: http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1818349116
I'd love to see a reliable citation on that.

Also, as a bonus, on whether existing resistant strains tend to lose their resistance if they're not kept on their toes with a steady supply of antibiotics.
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You know, you should really be able to just look at the current landscape of popular services to see pretty clearly that having a good name means absolutely nothing whatsoever in terms of becoming popular.

Every single popular service today has an utterly awful name. It did not stop them.
True.

I find it hard to relate to. Do priest believe god is real, (if so: also realistic,) or do they just believe in him?
Oh BTW: I'm also no native english speaker, so, any hint on stuff, which is wrong is also greatly appreciated :-) just got my first spelling error correction pull request. You guys are really awesome, thanks :)
> MCAS used trim to counter-act an overeager upwards angle during key parts of the flight like take-off.

Great post, but minor correction: At take-off flaps are set which disables MCAS.
(first since a few years ago), but thanks so much :)
I believe this is one reason why spam calls are less of a problem in Europe - in Europe the caller pays the higher rate to call mobile phones (vs the north America system where the cell phone user pays for incoming "airtime"). Just looking at skypeout rates and an example, UK landlines cost 2 cents/min vs 10 cents for mobiles
"Nothing of value was obtained without blood, unfortunately"

That's a pretty big statement and completely false. Every single day things of great value are obtained without blood.

One thing people could do to change things politically is not to comply collectively, pressure the government via social media, protest peacefully and firmly etc.
I think that is what he means
I think US didn't know that he came here at 3.

They might have seen him as an illegal immigrant without any specific timeline and deportation might have been their usual process.
And got a the former CEO and other exects indicted in two countries and cost the conptany billions. The story is still ongoing. And might have contributed to the issue with the new Golf 8. Did I mention that some former managers are in jail already?
> No lock-in. All data stored in GitHub issues.

How is that not a proprietary lock-in if all your data is stored on a single company's servers?

People keep on treating GitHub and other corporations as public services. They're not.
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Times have changed since then! Now most journalism is gifs and embedded tweets. What a time to be alive...
What about amazon fresh? That seems like ridiculous levels of luxury to me. I mean, this is America and most of us have giant vehicles we could take to the store to get food... but amazon will deliver fresh food to your door. You don't even have to talk to anyone; they'll stack it by your door and you can deal with it when you get home. (The Safeway service makes you be there and makes you sign papers... a lot more work)

(I personally don't really relate luxury to good customer service... Luxury, to me, is about convenience and comfort. If you have to deal with customer service at all, they've blown it. But then, I guess I don't really understand the concept of loyalty, either, at least when it comes to corporations, so we might just be talking past oneanother.)
Nice, a short piece.
I like Socrates take on this, from Phaedrus;

"The soul through all her being is immortal, for that which is ever in motion is immortal; but that which moves another and is moved by another, in ceasing to move ceases also to live. Only the self-moving, never leaving self, never ceases to move, and is the fountain and beginning of motion to all that moves besides. Now, the beginning is unbegotten, for that which is begotten has a beginning; but the beginning is begotten of nothing, for if it were begotten of something, then the begotten would not come from a beginning. But if unbegotten, it must also be indestructible; for if beginning were destroyed, there could be no beginning out of anything, nor anything out of a beginning; and all things must have a beginning. And therefore the self-moving is the beginning of motion; and this can neither be destroyed nor begotten, else the whole heavens and all creation would collapse and stand still, and never again have motion or birth. But if the self-moving is proved to be immortal, he who affirms that self-motion is the very idea and essence of the soul will not be put to confusion. For the body which is moved from without is soulless; but that which is moved from within has a soul, for such is the nature of the soul. But if this be true, must not the soul be the self-moving, and therefore of necessity unbegotten and immortal?"

http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/phaedrus.html

I think I particularly like it for being a proto-physics and non-religious attempt at a proof for the immortality of soul.
Isn't Sweden offering asylum and it seems from his case can qualify for one? As he came to the US at 3 and still got deported now his survival is threatened as he only learnt how to live in a developed western world.
It's been a problem for me in Sweden the last couple of years. I've had the same company phone number since 2011 but the last 2 years I've seen strange calls from international numbers.

They seem spoofed because you can see them increment the numbers and try again. Also they come from various countries both in and out of europe.

They always ring 2-3 times then hang up.

I've blocked dozens of them by now, they just come up with new numbers.

I don't understand what the point is because nothing happens if you call back so there's nothing to keep you on the line.

Also nothing happens if you respond.

I understand that these are all things I shouldn't do but a) at one point the numbers resembled those of RedHat in the UK and b) I was curious.
Studies do send telemetry which is not quite the same as being spyware.

You can actually check what is sent, though there's no option to more finely disable studies requiring, say, cursor, keyboard or tab name monitoring. I haven't seen any such studies though.

The "remote code execution" thing is already there, it is called JavaScript. Almost every browser has it. Add-ons use it all the time.

As for browser code itself, it is open, go read the changelog. If you're extra paranoid, you can build it yourself. Study code is also fully readable.
> even incorporating the Chinese words for noodles which are also the names of popular dishes in Malaysia/Singapore

What words are those? Mainland mandarin uses 面 mian. (In this use, the character has the sense "flour"; 面 is technically short for 面条 miantiao, "flour strips". But in practice it's always 面, never 面条.)

I see the article says this:

> It was originally called kway teow pad Thai – kway teow being “rice noodles”

That "teow" is a good match for 条, but I'm stumped as to the "kway".

> it was originally a Chinese diaspora dish, even incorporating the Chinese words for noodles

(sorry for the overlapped quote)

The use of Chinese words for noodles doesn't really imply that the dish was originally Chinese, similarly to how English using an Aztec word for tomatoes doesn't imply that pizza originates with the Aztecs. I know Vietnamese is riddled with words borrowed from Chinese; Thailand didn't have that level of exposure, but a foreign ingredient is pretty likely to come with a foreign name.

All I'm really saying here is that if there was an obviously indigenous noodle dish, it would be totally unsurprising if the name of that dish referred to noodles, and also unsurprising if the word for noodles was borrowed from China even though the dish wasn't. Words have a lot of staying power.
As Summer is arriving, if you haven't chosen a fun science fiction book yet and are interested in the subject of this article, you may enjoy Neal Stephenson's book, "The Diamond Age". A tablet-like "book" plays a central role in the story.
From what I understand it’s size is the same as estimated before.
Basically it just took less time, to reach its current size.
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And how often does that happen, in real life?

The answer is "not that often".

The example you gave was of someone who was suspected of murder.

The amount of people who are in the population of "people suspected of murder, and are jailed for not giving up their password", is a very small population size.
I was using "syncing" and "resolving" synonymously. What I was distinguishing between was keeping the most recent file (which is what happens if you use typical cloud syncing for the whole database file) vs. the most recent entry in a given file (which is what you get when KeePass itself gets a chance to actually examine both versions and figure out conflicts internally).

I can't figure out how the KeePass (or the plugin you use, or whatever it is) was handling your Dropbox syncing; it sounds like it was doing a dumb file-level merge, when in fact it's capable of doing much better than that. I use the Google Sync Plugin which has never failed me, even when I'd modified databases on two clients independently before syncing. It uses the ImportUtil.Synchronize() function which I think is what handles the dirty details. See the Technical Details section here: https://keepass.info/help/v2/sync.html