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> You won't be singing the same tune when they take away the tax breaks, your right to visit your partner in hospital, your right to live in the same country as your partner should you be of different nationalities, etc. etc.

Here in Australia, the government has decided that unmarried couples in long-term marriage-like relationships (with characteristics like intentions of permanence, sharing of finances and mutual financial support, living together, raising children together, etc) should be treated equivalently to married couples, and receive the same rights and entitlements as married couples do – those long-term marriage-like unmarried relationships are called de facto relationships. This has been enshrined in law, and is now mostly true (modulo some obscure legal technicalities, and the fact that some government agencies at times fail to adhere to the spirit or even letter of the law – although to my knowledge immigration is the main and maybe even only offender). So, in Australia, there are no special tax breaks for being married – unmarried people in de facto relationships can claim the same tax breaks. Family law courts, etc, treat long-term de facto couples as if they were married for issues like property settlements and child custody. This gave a somewhat different character to the same-sex marriage debate in Australia – unmarried couples, both opposite-sex and same-sex, already had pretty much the same rights as opposite-sex married couples, and extending the right of marriage was primarily a symbolic statement of equality rather than a change in people's real world rights and entitlements.

I think other countries, including the US, should do the same thing as Australia has – extend long-term/serious unmarried couples the same legal rights and entitlements as married couples.

And once you've done that, there really is no obstacle to abolishing marriage as a secular legal institution. People who want to participate in it, either as a cultural institution or as a religious institution (or both) are free to do so, but there really is no compelling reason for the government to get involved.
We should take into account the fact that Terry Pratchett lived in England where there is very little in the way of either deadly wildlife or significant natural disasters.
I was happy with docker-sync only in the first hour or so. I was trying it for a php+js setup (so many small files) and was frustrated after some time. Sometimes the sync happened instantly, sometimes it needed multiple seconds. Its reslly frustrating refreshing a webpage to see a bug still happening again and dont understand whats happening. Changing again and not fixing it again, adding some test output and not seeing it finally understanding that the sync is slow again or you need to restart it again because it silently broke.
I suspect OP is confusing number of attributes with number of abstraction layers.

Attributes are not a problem as long as they're listed with intent and not just thrown into a bucket, and there's some rationale for their existence.

It's much harder to trace flow down and up through multiple abstraction and encapsulation layers. And it's harder still to remember the layers for different classes/applications. And it's even harder to do this when all the class names are related and hard to tell apart.
I don’t know if you heard the news but they just stopped. Also Mozilla existed quite a while before Chrome.
I don't think either party comes out especially well here, but my sympathies lie with the CEO. The only thing I might have done differently would be to include a tarball of the site in the "Sorry it was not a good fit" email, thereby avoiding the accusation of wasted work.

If I'm providing a service and someone has a problem with it, I expect them to look to resolve it with me first, before tweeting about "shady practices".

Added in edit: People seem to think I believe the CEO acted well and that I'm defending him. I don't, and I'm not. But neither party comes out well from this, and I can see why the CEO acted as he did, even if I think it was flawed.
Sure, most definitely. Although I hope I wasn't giving off the illusion of neglecting my core topics, I certainly wasn't planning on that. I was just thinking that perhaps some of the topics present a sort of diminishing 'rate of return', since going too in-depth past a certain point may not be too useful/enlightening(?). But this may just be purely ignorant thinking on my part, since I have not fully grasped the important parts of each commonly taught CS topic yet.
And the well to do tech bros coddle up to the testosterone filled reactionaries. “Round them up!” Easy solution, that’s just lazy, you’re not even trying. San Francisco is also not equal to the rest of the US, I would dare say it’s closer to Mexico than anything else, but culturally California is quite diverse in attitude and flora. San Francisco puts up with a lot, always have, always will. It’s just embedded in the humanitarian pro immigrant pro minority passion of our city. I believe there may be remnants of this San Francisco but it is gone for good. 250 Million for Tech Buses and Two stems at Safeway, from London to San Salvador in one fell swoop.
I left FF several times for being slow, being a memory hog, dropping extensions, not adding power features (vertical tree tabs) and come back from Chrome for ideological reasons. I might not be the core audience or user group, but I have not left because of i.) - iv.).
Oracle. Its so sad.
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Or this article is a well intentioned attempt to say: "This is the wrong path, turn back before it is too late!"
" I use it because it's not google. "

Me too.
Chrome has a more responsive UI, but as for actually rendering and laying out pages, Firefox is usually much faster.

I've actually checked with both browsers open side-by-side while developing my own webapps.

What's worse, Chrome is super buggy and will often randomly crash on complex CSS or too many table rows, etc.
>Firefox is slow with many tabs open on Win10, Ryzen X3900 with 32gb of RAM (writing this from FF)

How many is many?

I'm using up to 10-20 and it never felt slow on worse setup.
> Thinking in general works very much like vision.

Well, that's a sweeping statement. No reason to read any further. One simple argument against it: thinking about problems is supported by much more memories, and of a different kind, than e.g. face recognition, and it's much slower, too.
It is exactly what it is. Author described with how to write those content without making it spammy. All marketers use this strategy heavily as their #1 way of getting to front-page, but genuine content is hard to come by.
Actually, that fertilizer is not an Orica product. It is a knock-off with a slightly misspelled but similar name. That said, if it was the result would have been the same. The problem was not the product. If you follow safe handling and storage guidelines ammonium nitrate should be safe. Obviously storing it with fireworks and welding next to that combo is probably not in the Orica safety data sheet.
I had a few laughs with this, but (maybe because I have been using Python since 1.2) I just can't relate to the Python bits.

I migrated all my "working set" stuff to Python 3 piecemeal over a couple of weeks and never looked back (except when I needed to pick up some older project and take an hour or so to refactor it).

The "There Will Come Soft Rains" reference, however, was brilliant. I hadn't thought of that story for _decades_ and it hit home.
I think it's the difference between what feels like work and what feels like an emotional resonance. Or I guess, whether you end up enjoying the process, or the outcome.

For example Doom Eternal is basically, IMO, one of the best games ever made, because it's one of the only games where the combat loop gets a physiological response from me. I can't play it at all if I'm in the wrong headspace, but it's amazing when I'm in the right one.

Factorio really has to hit the same sort of "zing!" feel. Programming-wise for me, it's the feeling of unbridled power at just tearing things apart to refactor. Because that's a hell of a different feel to the day job.
I like how APL made it into Common Lisp wholesale. There's a library that compiles APL to Common Lisp, allowing you to mix APL and Lisp code, working on the same data structures with both languages.

https://github.com/phantomics/april

Example session I just did, copying APL code from https://aplwiki.com/wiki/John_Scholes%27_Conway%27s_Game_of_...:

CL-USER> (april:with-april-context ((:space *lifespace*))
(april:april "Show←{'·⌺'[⎕IO+⍵]}")
(april:april "glider←3 3⍴1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0")
(april:april-f "Show glider")
(print (april:april "glider")) ; to prove it's a Lisp array
(terpri)
(april:april "grid←¯10 ¯10↑glider")
(april:april-f "Show grid")
(terpri)
(april:april "life ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵}")
(terpri)
(april:april-f "Show¨{life⍣⍵⊢grid}¨0,⍳3")
(terpri))
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(APL being compiled to Lisp is important, not just because it gives you proper interoperability out of the box, but also because on implementations like SBCL this means APL code will get compiled, through Lisp, to native code. And you can do that at runtime too.)

Now I wish I could find something that does the same for J, because I'm sure as hell not going to buy an APL-friendly keyboard.
1) get a car

2) live near the border with another nation
Yeah, if you actually do your research, you will find that not everything works this way. So e.g. it is almost always much easier to get visas for married partners than for unmarried partners. And in general, marriage is strong objective evidence of a real relationship. Without the certificate, you're at the mercy of a homophobic government official's judgment call about whether your relationship counts.

This impractical pie in the sky stuff about abolishing marriage as a legal institution is almost always just a lame excuse for opposing same sex marriage. I'm not sure why you're bringing it up or why you think it's relevant to Brendan Eich.
If you run the J GUI, written in J, it is going with blow your mind about how general purpose it is...
The old extensions were synchronous and ran in the GUI thread. Running firefox with extensions on a HDD would freeze all the time for me, before electrolysis.

There also was not a good security model.

WebExtensions fixed these problems.
The water problems of Bangladesh seem to have little to do with climate change. It's a mix of political problems with neighboring countries, arsenic contamination of the soil, lack of sanitation.
Renewed: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...
If you want less frequent updates but a very stable build I'd suggest tying Firefox ESR.
I'd advise against trying to turn this into a product.
Companies will be hesitant to grant a third-party that level of privilege on their infrastructure.
And sophisticated companies already have the means to manage their costs.
For sophisticated deployments a third-party is unlikely to be in a good position to make those decisions. It's not as simple as "just turn it off".
Unsophisticated companies tend to have a simple and predictable architecture with a (largely) fixed monthly cost. The product will be too complex for those simple companies.
So I suspect a product like that will be "not good enough" for the serious companies, and too dangerous/difficult for simple companies.
> iRobot stunt

You mean Mr Robot, right?
The Board didn't defend him publicly. I think, when a Board fails to publicly support their choice of CEO in face of a controversy, for a CEO that's basically a form of constructive dismissal.
No! Talking or writing about another person like that (in public) is shameful for that Guy and for that Hellwig Clown (the guy who lost against VMware) too. If you say something like that in private..ok, not nice but acceptable but NOT in Public that should be absolute clear for any decent human being.
The sad part about the js ecosystem is that even the biggest corps like Google can't keep their own js ecosystem stable on the last version. I have a small Angular app with Firebase backend and every time I come back to it to update, the libs are out of sync
I don't claim an existential risk to humanity, I claim there's an existential risk to our current global civilization which manages to feed, cloth and shelter almost 8 billion people in largely tolerable conditions and which will need to find room for another 1.5 billion before global population peaks. If parts of the world where large numbers of people live become heat stressed to the extent that living in them is impossible without air conditioning and agriculture starts to become a lot less productive in currently fertile areas then the secondary effects of billions of people trying to find somewhere else to live in a short space of time are likely to be not good. I don't think we face extinction. I do think we face having to transition to a low carbon lifestyle. We can either do that in a peaceful way and maintain and even increase the standard of living for the majority of the human race or we can do nothing and face decades of major disruption that kills huge numbers of people.
Maybe it's the opposite. Just like there are likely evolutionary advantages to some of our cognitive biases (better to mistake a rock for a bear than the opposite), it might be worth considering if holding on to more than seven things has disadvantages.
I really don't think Chrome has a better product because of the outspending for technical work . Firefox post quantum is on par and in some features actually better browser than Chrome.

If it all took was money to spend build , Microsoft would still be doing building Edge , they have deep enough pockets and it was technically really good product, scored most in standards compliance etc.

Google makes sure it apps work very well with Chrome, apps that is used by a lot of people daily. Youtube on Firefox is/was a good example of this bias. When most of the time you spend on the web is on google sites, if they don't perform well on Firefox you will switch to Chrome.

Google uses its dominating market share in Chrome to implement features way before it becomes standard or is agreed, this forces web developers to adopt these non standard features to compete in the market. AMP is typical example of this kind of abuse. You don't really have a choice but to make your site work very well which google products and Chrome.

Firefox and other players are forced to redo their work. A recent example of this is Edge redoing their ORTC implementation to kind WebRTC implemented in Firefox/Chrome, ORTC was a simpler better implementation but Edge had no choice to switch directions for compat reasons) or they have play catch up to Chrome, it is always moving target. This kind of market abuse is not new, Microsoft did it when IE was at its peak, it is way to keep your dominating market share by ensuring competition keeps following you not lead you.

Firefox is always going to lag in some areas unless they can get large enough market share to pull their own way like before. They need to find areas where they can shine, real privacy and trust is one reason for the 9% share they still have, Servo/rust was a route to really out perform the bloat Chrome is today and truly leverage multi-threaded concurrent performance . MDN was great way to build brand with developers who can make sure their apps work in their browser. These were couple of the projects killed.

GNU utils are building blocks for so many commonly used products today. GNU and GPL found support where it mattered with developers. OS X or Chrome OS or Android or iOS or of course Linux directly runn code written in GNU projects many times code written in 80's by Stallman.

Firefox should be focusing on being developer friendly, projects like positron the electron competitor should have been funded and invested far more and led the way. Had firefox developed a better electron than electron perhaps they would be gaining new kinds of market from having saying Slack developed on top it instead of chrome based electron.

There are people who use Firefox on mobile because it is the only browser to support ad-blocking on mobile , building a unique value proposition and carving a large enough user base for that usecase will allow them to survive.
I ought to have specifically said “refugees”, which is what I think people fleeing catastrophic climate change count as.
Take that stance too far and you get spree killers.
Or, as they always seem to argue, "oppressed individuals defending their rights against a social majority by any means".
They store a pile of fireworks next to 2700 tons of explosive materials, then they send in people to make sparks right next to the fireworks.
Yep! The simplest explanation for why this is true is that when V is infinite dimensional, V^* and V^{* *} need not have the same dimension, which precludes them being isomorphic.
They are more concerned with their public image than innovating. Hence why there are so many defenders of them because their marketing works so well to the tech crowd (just spam "privacy", "freedom", "open source").

There's no grand strategy one can come up with instantly, but their corporate leadership stifled any chance Mozilla could discover the right angles to innovate. With $500M a year, they could've had a sea of strike teams clawing its way towards the right answer. But alas, any such group would suffocate under a top-heavy culture more interested in their image.
I work on Firebase. His characterization of Firestore is incorrect and lazy. It did not replace Realtime Database (which is the product he’s calling Firebase) they are two products which live side by side and both are being actively improved.

People assumed that because we made a new database we were killing the older one, but that was never true.
Probably because bandwidth is cheap and artists are expensive.
> 71% chance of victory, which is anomalously low chance given current polling data.

Your question is based on 71% being low, which I don't think it's true. It's way way higher than I would expect or predict and certainly higher than what the polls indicate. Have a look at 538's methodology for creating it and also look at Nate Silver's article on how you shouldn't count Trump out yet.

As far as Taleb goes - who cares, the more people ignore him, the better.
Yes, once one goes really deep, it's more like C in the end. One good thing I find about J is that you can still have a clear picture in your mind about how it will be executed, without actually having to write the details yourself. It also ties with SICP lesson of developing a language over a language with right abstractions at each level.
Ok. So that infographic mentions 147 million migrants, of which 86 in sub-saharian Africa. It also says that the population of sub-saharian Africa is projected to double in the same timeframe, but of course it's easier and less expensive to decarbonize the entire world than to introduce family planning practices in Africa?
I suspect that gold is a very common metal throughout the inner solar system, and the asteroid belt. It’s only valuable now, because of its rarity on earth.

But once we can mine the lower gravity of Mars, then someone might dig up a gold mine.

And Venus I would suspect has a lot of gold. If we can slow it’s runaway global warming, then we might be able to establish a colony there, and mine gold.

The same concept goes for Mercury.

I’m surprised that the Moon hasn’t revealed trace elements of gold yet. I suspect that it might be buried deep inside the core, where it sunk, while the moon was still molten and forming. If someone can find a gold mine deposit there, then they can build a mass driver to launch it on a return trip back to earth. Or just use it to build new spacecraft in outer space.
Let me give an alternate perspective. I'm gay and polyamorous which means I can't get married to my partners. The vast majority of people are currently opposed to changing the definition of marriage to include my chosen family. Should I take the position that I am being deprived of my human rights and thus anyone not on my side is doing me harm?

The problem is, when you frame this in terms of self defence, practically any action is justifiable.

I'm a believer that we need to change hearts and minds to make progress; social change isn't a war that can be won by force.
Google Chrome Enterprise exists for this purpose [0].

[0] https://chromeenterprise.google/
This would likely require the bulk of Mozilla to be based in Europe. It could be achieved for sure, but it would take years to transfer the relevant knowledge. I don't expect MoFo and MoCo leadership to be willing to entertain such possibilities, considering how "valley" their outlook seems to be.
That is on point, Thanks.
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That's fine, happens with all of us! Just that we need to be positive, in the end... we are all trying to figure it out, be it Rust...or CSS ;)
> Why is that?

Because Firefox's "powerful extension model" basically constituted direct access to its internals, which prevented the Firefox developers from making the architectural improvements that were so sorely needed to make it performant.

> Firefox is slow with many tabs open on Win10, Ryzen X3900 with 32gb of RAM (writing this from FF)

Admittedly I'm on Linux, but I currently have approximately 7800 tabs open (no, that is not a typo). Firefox is a little laggy in its UI, but Chrome has never even managed to have more than a few hundred open without becoming unusable, so I'd say that Firefox is doing fine here.

Interestingly, the slowdown actually seems to originate from rendering the tab bar, not from the tabs themselves.
For what it's worth I vaguely remember listening to a podcast episode some years ago where some people were discussing a decision to become an Apache project.

It may have been this one (but not sure as I didn't listen to it again): https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/378
It’s strange what people put up with in C#
Any chance of sorting out your landing page?

It's still hanging 12 hours after the original comments here.
Collect the $500M ad money and then turn around and claim Google is evil and they are the only company fighting for internet freedom and world peace.
Exactly. The limiting factor isn’t megabytes, it’s how long the customer will be willing to wait for a download.
>review these turds

Are you talking about the Kernel-maintainers or the Patches?
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Parts of australia are too rural for starlink... Without a ground station within ~500km you won't be getting service. That'll be the case right in the middle of australia I'd guess.