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If that was the intention it backfired because it highlighted several problems to National Grid that they weren't aware of before.
I'm still using the HTC one M7. The battery is dying and the charging port is wearing out. I bought a magnetic charging cable so I can keep the plug inside permanently. I have dropped it several times and at least twice on the pavement. It has 5 2mm wide indentations in the aluminum frame. The glass is as good as new. It will probably survive another two years.
If by one thing you mean spreading and taking over linux systems, then yes, it does one thing and does it well. /s
Also full time Firefox user. Most of my issues are either blocking related so that is on me or apparently sites bugs. At work I use chrome for beyondtrust because I cannot get ff to automatically download and launch rdp sessions. Apparently the content type is wrong in downloaded file so ff will not associate an application with the file so adds several steps to launching rdp sessions. Easier to keep chrome off to the side around for that task.

The other issue is that it does not use Windows ca store for certificates. When company uses internal certificate authority for internal websites this requires users to manually update the browser cert store. Chrome and Edge will use windows ca store on windows. My it dept will not automate this but will manage the windows ca store.
That would be like AWS telling all customers that their services would randomly go offline to test disaster response. The responsibility for blackout testing should be at the client level, at each hospital, train station etc similar to fire drills.
This would essentially be begging for antitrust regulation if for no other reason than the optics.

Never going to happen.
I was curious about how both of these could be true:

> 2. The lie about the USPS losing money ignores that Congress requires the USPS to pre-pay for 70 years of worker benefits. The truth is that left to manage their own business the USPS would be making huge profits

So I did some quick reading[1] and in 2006, Congress mandated that the USPS pre-pay for 70 years of benefits - but only gave them 10 years to do it (2007-2017.) The payments were $5.6 billion per year. Okay, so that satisfies part of the comment: if it wasn't for this law, the USPS would have a much better cash flow picture.

Why $56 billion? For long term investments to cover the pension, the USPS is only being allowed to invest in bonds, not stocks, real estate, etc. [3] This meant their 2007-2017 payment structure was even higher (since bonds have relatively low yields.) They currently have over $335 billion set aside for future pensions, though, so between this position and the forced conservative investment policy...I gotta say, suddenly the USPS is looking like one heck of a good place to get a line-level job if you're worried about a recession.

So would they be making huge profits? Yes, but...they wouldn't be covering their pension liabilities. What they'd really need to do is walk back some of their pension guarantees (bad idea for employees), segue into employee-funded retirement plans like 401Ks, or ... take the same risks as other big companies did, and simply not pay their retirees their pensions (ouch.)

1: https://www.govexec.com/management/2017/09/usps-defaults-bil...

2: https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/be-careful-what-you-assume

3: https://www.rstreet.org/2019/05/30/usps-pensions-vs-the-worl...
I've had sporadic RSI issues off and on for 30 years, but less and less over the years.

To me, the key insight was not to focus too much on the immediate source of the pain, and instead think about overall posture. Fix the posture, and the pain will go away. Adopt unnatural remedies for e.g. the wrists, and the pain will, at best, wander somewhere else.

The section "Desk & Keyboard Positioning" in the article, with the emphasis on right angles, seems the most important to me. In my experience, monitors are often set up too low, so that's the first thing I check when RSI issues crop up.

Personally, I also swear by getting regular massages, so back and neck issues never build up too much.
> Mozilla needs to [...] move away from Google as their default search engine

I hope they consider Startpage if so. That might be an easier switch for non-technical users if they explain it's still Google under the hood, but without the privacy concerns.

https://www.startpage.com/
With those team sizes, those pizza must either be huge, or Amazon is ridiculously "frugal", or less politely: cheap.

But it sure explains a lot. I never understood how AWS could both work reasonably well, and simultaneously be such an utter mess when it comes to how configuration looks, how the console UI acts, etc.

However, if the teams actually are as loosely coupled as claimed, valued accordingly with 2 pizzas for an up to 10 person team. If they then more or less all of them all have their own "P&L", then that's exactly what one would expect. Everyone doing what's necessary for their individual P&L, trying to avoid taking on any additional responsibility. Overarching concerns, and aspects mostly existing in the interface between teams will almost certainly be either ignored completely, or only given the very least amount effort necessary to keep up appearances.
> but the fund became fully populated at the end of the ten year term, which has passed.

They didn't make all of the payments - they're over $15 billion short.
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The actual report says that Ipswich hospital wasn't part of the load shedding; so it's not clear why the generators had to cut in in the first place yet.
I use Firefox all the time and use it for web development.

But modern frontend stack - with the whole pile of transpilers, uglifiers, and what not - is almost unusable with Firefox, because source maps don't work with Webpack.

https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/1194

This put me in a position where I had to choose between switching to Chrome for development or not using Webpack that comes nicely integrated into the web framework of my choice.

I went with ditching Webpack, but it's hard.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55669725/require-module-...

Developers will not use Firefox if FF dev tools are inferior to Chrome.

Some comments from devs:

> Can we please fix this? I don't want to choose Chrome as the browser only coz of this issue.

Mozzila took notice of the issue after 4 years...
No human to oversee this, was the goal. The only human was cleaning lady that was cleaning them at the closing time, and she definitely was not trained to do anything else, hence everything algorithm driven. When something was broken a technician was send to repair, or replace, but no person to stay onsite.
I guess Amazon can close the deal right after Trump finishes buying Greenland.
I'll bet you anything, that we purchase Greenland before his 2nd term expires.
> I know i can implement an up-tree or a doubly-linked-list safely just fine.

Great, just make a few unsafe definitions for your list implementation and the rest of your code can enjoy memory safety.
What I was expecting in this article was for Amazon to go big with their own logistics such that Fedex goes bankrupt. Amazon then would pick up Fedex for pennies and round out their logistics ability and totally be in charge of home delivery as they would have an additional advantage over their competitors.
I’m not ignoring it, I’m pointing out that it isn’t really a thing. Discrimination is defined in any practical sense as differentiation on price due to a protected characteristic. If that isn’t happening then there is no discrimination.

Sometimes this acts in favour of one group and sometimes not so much but you don’t get to pick and choose. On any protected characteristic, or there is no point in even having the legislation. Those complaining that their early pension privileges are being taken away is a great example. Imagine if it was the other way round. It’s not discrimination to have an unfair privilege situation corrected.
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So you are saying two teams maintaining two systems which are working together tightly had a conflict about how those systems are supposed to work together and resolved it after some heated discussion?

Sounds like Open Source to me.
Nice. https://mc.bbbike.org/mc/ has lists of more maps. I don't say open or free because it includes those with commercial terms, attribution requirements etc.
> - I need an extension to confirm on quit. I sometimes press Ctrl-q when I intended Ctrl-w. The config browser.showQuitWarning and browser.warnOnQuit have no effect. I had to read FF's source code to understand it was intentional: the code had evolved (IMHO, in a bad way), the doc had not.

That's odd; I'm running stable Firefox, and the second option in my Preferences is "Warn you when quitting the browser" - and it does what it says, for me, without an extension.
I’ve never had this experience, on desktop or mobile.
I suspect it being evening peak made it worse, because that's peak time, so I think in normal operation they're discharging some of the batteries/pump storage that's taken up some of the spare capacity during the day.
I would encourage more people to read the actual interim report - it's quite detailed with lots of detail about the frequency measurement and trips.
Well, I don't really work with CSS much, but js.
Are you consider the debugging tools well done as well? And do you know chrome dev tools? With its elaborate performance tools etc?
I don't know TS, but instead of alert(typeof y(5)) why not try alert(typeof y('a')) I would hope you get a compile error. Looking at the code, I would guess that the "any" means that it's essentially a parameterised type. In my ideal world, it wouldn't mean that you can put literally any type in there at any time -- just that you can put any type that will satisfy the type checker. Because you are using it p as a number, it satisfies the type checker.

Another thing you can try is to pass x in as a parameter to a function. I would expect that this would not compile -- because the compiler can't guarantee (without jumping through incredible hoops) that x is always going to use p as a number. If it does compile, try to pass 2 functions: one numerical and one that uses chars. If that compiles, then I think you have a legitimate error in the type checker. Otherwise I think it's just fine.
From the original comment: "these large, impenetrable silicon valley companies".

Amazon isn't a silicon valley company, perhaps that's why its support isn't as horrible.
Yes, batteries are very fast acting, but that battery in South Australia is only 100MW and the grid lost over 1400 MW. https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/eve... Batteries have a lot of potential, but they are currently small in capacity.
>The trend to get rid of systemd and its metastasis into most of Linux is excellent news.

I don't know where you're seeing this trend, really. For all major distros, it's been the opposite thus far.
> The Rust community prides itself on being independent from Mozilla, when their relationship is pointed out

In terms of decision making, Rust is definitely a community oriented project, but there's not denying reality and at present practically all of Rust core devs who work on it full-time are paid by Mozilla.

Were Mozilla to pull out support, development would likely continue, but at a much, much reduced pace.

> a major beneficiary of those 500 million

I agree with you that the vast majority of it is not going to Rust and I do wish they'd increase the share of their revenue that goes to engineering from 45% to something closer to 85%.
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FedEx Ground wound be a great candidate since their last mike delivery is already outsourced to 3rd party companies.

Couldn’t Amazon just start poaching FedEx’s 3rd party companies in large markets?
As another Firefox user, I know the pop up very well. Not even the results page where people at distracted, it's on the actual Google homepage (as well as other places). Abusing monopoly in one market to monopolize another.
How much of this supposed "ridiculous" behavior is a result of the fact that these companies have the inconvenient habit of selling things to their customers that they don't provide.

Ultimately, that's what it comes down to. Cable internet companies, for example, will advertise these amazing connection speeds and charge people hundreds of dollars a month for it, and then simply not provide it, for example, by having internet service that only works half the time. Or airlines that will advertise specific schedules at specific prices and then simply not provide them---for example, flights during the normal hours at much more expensive prices than red-eye flights, so you pay hundreds of extra dollars for the normal flight, and then, someone loses a fucking wrench or something and you end up on a red-eye anyway.

So much of modern corporate behavior is functionally indistinguishable from buying a lottery ticket, where maybe if you pay a huge amount of money you'll get something distantly resembling the thing you paid for. OF COURSE people scream at customer service reps!
You're not wrong, another example you missed is UK-people will give their weight in "stones".

I moved to Finland and I'm still not used to the idea of giving my height in cm/m, or weight in kg. Until now I've never needed to know either.
Must have been aliens then. I wish they’d come back.
I've switched to Firefox 3 times in the last 2 years, and each time I've been forced back to Chrome by horrendously (2-3x worse) bad battery life on my MacBook, caused by some variant of this bug which Mozilla seems determined not to fix. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404042
No, it's bad for desktop and server systems. It has a lot of bugs and mis-features, and ties too much functionality together.
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> thinking about switching to Chrome. It's because some website don't work as they are supposed to on Firefox (Ex. Google analytics, Codesandbox etc.).

At least on Google's part, that's likely intentional, switching is sending them a signal that being an abusive bully works.
It would be fascinating to see an update to your original article especially on the costs these days.
Webdevs don’t seem to have much of a user-centric view of the sites they develop. The vast majority of use cases on the web are “I want to see a list of options then fill in a form”. All the tech needed to shop online or bank or pay bills or book travel or whatever existed 20 years ago (SSL being the last piece of the puzzle, all the rest is just plain HTML).
I use Firefox and Brave, and the latter does the same but with a smiley:
:D

which is even funnier

Firefox has its problems; most times after opening it for the first time, I have time to input some search terms and _then_ Firefox ends loading up, and suddenly my search blanks out and stops loading. That happens a lot.
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If Israeli soldiers can intentionally, routinely shoot and kill unarmed, peaceful protestors in another country, do you think they care about international treaties so long as United Saudi America will always back them?
I assumed that the LFDD scheme was a small number of large power users such as factories that would get cheaper rates, much like AWS spot instances. Another commenter has said this is how it works in Germany.

Unfortunately, some quick research[1] suggests this isn’t the case, and actually it’s just a contractual obligation of the power companies to disconnect enough demand to bring power use back down. The amount they need to disconnect is banded by the frequency the grid is at, and apparently done at the substation level.

Some industries/applications such as infrastructure, hospitals, airports, etc, is supposed to be set up to never disconnect in these scenarios, but it seems this failed.

[1]:
https://www.westernpower.co.uk/downloads/4093
The amount of features and stuff they add to systemd is seriously impressive. They have bugs sometimes, but I have been running it in production for years and years and never had a real issue. Its an incredibly stable system. Sometimes a new version has a bug because systemd has to work in so many context, those get fixed very quickly generally.

I would challange anybody, to introduce a totally new system layer on linux with less issues.

And Pulse Audio was started by Pottering but he quickly moved on and since then it literally has nothing to do with the people who work on systemd. Blaiming him for the persistence of issues with Pulse is simply unfair and would be done if he was not called Lennart Poettering.
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I'm not sure of your age but I grew up with the internet and this "18+ wall" has already existed for a long time. I don't think I know anybody who didn't lie about their birth year on a signup form at some point to get around an age check.
I’ve been using reeder and it’s just fine.
> You'd have to prove that increasing the risk of doctor infection would lead to a lower rate of patient infection.

The point isn't to infect doctors. The point is to make them (potentially) subject to the tools they're about to use as a way to ensure that they are sufficiently involved in designing and overseeing the systems that ultimately move the needle on patient outcomes.

When things are done sufficiently well these kinds of steps aren't necessary. We don't make the engineering team that designs a bridge walk/drive across it first because bridges have an exceedingly low failure rate and the failures that do happen aren't infant mortality (you designed it wrong) they're old (you maintained it wrong).
I think it's using the old-fashioned terminology. A wireless or wireless radio is just a radio.
"On November 10, 2009, Nowak entered a guilty plea to felony burglary and misdemeanor battery. She was sentenced to a year's probation and the two days already served in jail, with no additional jail time."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak#Developments_in_cas...
To some degree, this is an 'acceptable' experience for a Desktop/Laptop user to have these notices present on the web which some may tolerate this. But still in 2019, this has continued to be worse on mobile, and they have brought the mobile web experience into the dark-ages of the 2000s.

Usually the phrase 'the modern web' doesn't fit well in this regard for mobile web users and reducing the web page real-estate with notices, ads and paywalls drives users off completely.

It is no wonder that they use an app instead and also makes the case for PWAs too.
> My duty was supposed to be to get said monkey off my back as quickly as possible, whether my actions actually worked toward a true resolution or not.

A coach once gave me similar advice... I replied that if people baked the bread he eats like he told me to do my job, he'd be dead within months. He ran to the team leader, with whom I had a 30 minute chat where I vented about how I hated everything about the job except the customers, to which my team leader responded with what he appreciated about my work. The coach never got over that. Still make me smile.
What makes you think they're determined not to fix it? A commit that significantly improves the situation landed in nightly a week ago.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522
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Print version, if you're into that sorta thing: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a89qnbm9tsr0hf6/AAC-VxKRjH76D_K94...
Nonsense conspiracy crap. Red Hat didn't even want systemd initially. The developers wanted it and basically just did it without cooperate actually backing the idea for a while.

But keep your lame conspiracy theory, it will surly get you much open-source street cred.
The article goes into this in more depth later:

It would be unfair to say that no worthwhile science has been done on the station. Advances have been made in learning how humans react to long periods in space and in learning about technologies that work in zero gravity. “If you ask NASA what we’re doing on the space station,” says Robert Park, a professor of physics at the University of Maryland who is a longtime critic of the manned space program, “they say we are learning how to live in space. But it is not clear that we are learning anything new about how to live in space. We have been doing that for a long time, and there is nothing else going on. There is, for all practical purposes, zero research going on on the space station, and it was built as a scientific laboratory, which was preposterous in the first place.” There is wide consensus that space station science is, at best, minor science and, at worst, a rerun of the same antigravity and human physiology experiments that the Soviets were doing on the Mir space station in 1986.
One approach might be to estimate the intrinsic parameters of the camera based on keypoint tracking. Assuming the camera was adjusted between shots, you might be able to get that to work.

Or you could make some kind of generic feature vector from each frame that includes contrast, etc. The interiors are the same, but the camera focus/fov will likely be different.

Nowadays just take an annotated movie and throw it into an encoder/decoder network to assess if a frame is from the same scene?
If he was working as a paranormal investigator, and getting paid, I can see why it would pay off to find at least a few of these illusions to be real. It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
I'm not so sure. We need an "IBM PC" of the smartphone world.

It's not a matter of the hardware manufacturers "supporting an OS". It's about the lack of standardization, hardware drivers, fragmentation etc.

Samsung don't support my 15 year old laptop, but it works and works fine, because it's a PC.

If the kernel drivers for my phone were mainlined that would be a huge step.
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P.S: Already tried Thunkable: It was too restricted to build an actual app.
I use Firefox on Linux and (current) Edge on Windows, in both cases because they feel faster than Chrome (which I used to use when it felt faster). I still use Chrome on my phone because I can't uninstall it. :)
How is this different from Virgins' "keep organizations small and break them up with they get too big" philosophy?
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Weight would be a better measure. Over here, large pizzas can be in excess of 1kg.
WebRender is not really used by Firefox yet. They're currently rolling it out to some very narrow sets of end users.
When you design a library you have to design a way to interact with it. Complaining about systemd because of that is basically saying 'I don't like the api you provide'.

People who hate systemd want traditional C API, systemd wants message passing.

If you don't like some of binaries, you can remove them and make your own package. If you don't like a particular implementation you can write your own subsystem that uses the same API (as many projects have done).

Basically its just people complaining that it does work exactly as they want, when in reality message passing is the exact right way to make system like that.
What would hot upgrades entail in the context of Web and for example Lumen? What would its benefits or drawbacks be? Would it be useful? Would it raise security concerns? Just want to play with the idea. :)
This. Very much this. In the presentations I've seen on the matter, the most vulnerable systems are those measuring and carrying telemetry back from various meters around the power system. One doesn't have to directly compromise the system to have an effect. Simply providing bad data to automated protection systems could be enough to cause instability.