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I noticed in the comments below how somebody mentioning Firefox's limited market share was heavily downvoted.

I'm a Firefox user since forever, and will keep using it. I also want Mozilla to win, and strongly empathize with their engineers whom are trying to make the best of it.

That said, I think the reality check should not be avoided. There is no good in do-good software without reach.

Based on statcounter, Firefox's market share went from a 2009 peak (32%) to a mere 3.29% as we speak. Just in the last year alone, it bleeds market share from 4.25% to 3.29%.

So it keeps bleeding market share, 12 years in a row. The reason it's still losing market share likely is due to the mobile market still growing in size, whilst Firefox has no presence there: 0.48%.

I have access to a handful of web properties, one of which very large and global (billions of page views). In our dashboards, Firefox does not even exist. It's not in the top 10. Above it are Chromium clones most have never heard of.

So to the "ordinary" world, those without a particular stake in open source, it's a dead browser. It's even smaller than weird regional browsers that most businesses wouldn't explicitly support.

(note that "support" is overstated as most web tech works just fine out of the box in Firefox)

Besides the ordinary world, the grip on the developer community is also lost. Increasingly, I'm seeing developers coding up demos and experiments that break in Firefox, it's not even considered at all, where just a few years ago it was a developer-default browser.

It's an extremely harsh reality check. Effectively Apple, an enemy of the open web, is our only savior against a full Chromium monopoly. Apple actively sabotaging and blocking the progress of the web, is our "hope". How bad can it get?

Anyway, I'm sorry to bring this up, in particular in a release announcement. I bring it up because I believe impact is central to the discussion and trumps any feature and any engineering. If the crash is not reversed somehow, it is inevitable that very hard questions have to be answered.

It's not what I would want. I hope an independent implementation will keep existing forever.
Subjectively, I appreciate my running routine because it's so meditative. I obviously can't say what the brain waves might look like, but there are so many physical cadences that create a nice synchrony: heart beats, steps, breaths.
Eh, navigation layout should definitely be different for mobile, and we shouldn't ship the desktop navigation to phone browsers, and I still think it's reasonable to offer phones smaller/more compressed image sizes and stuff by default.

I agree tracking scripts and the like should be blocked and removed across the board. But I think there's probably a suitable amount of visible UI and content that should be shipped differently or less to phones, because of how they're interacted with.
Could you please list your sources? Because the Plato one is apocryphal ( and actually from last century ) :

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
Or, learn what applies to each situation, and either apply it yourself or delegate to the correct person to have a look at it, when their time allows it.

There are so much that always need fixing. If everyone would do what you suggest, nothing would ever move forward. The need to have meetings for every minor issue, is like running on brakes - unless the meeting really can be used to resolve something.

The downside is nobody notices your work, but there are upsides to it and less risk.
This is the way to go and I'd love to see more API's with robust events endpoint for polling & reconciliation. Deletes are especially hard to reconcile with many APIs since they aren't queryable and you need to instance check if every ID still exist. Shopify I'm looking at you.
You didn't go wrong, not at all.
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They release the carbon as the decompose or burn. Sahara sounds like a very likely place for wildfires
> It's not like the carbon is going back into the atmosphere, at least not without some process like combustion.

Western USA has had a "fire season" for every year for the last like 4 years. Last year, other places like Brazil and Africa join in on the fun.

So planting trees without a robust animal/insect ecosystem to decompose them before they combust is an incomplete solution.
>I didn't state that the old and infirm deserve to die.

When the few-in-a-million chance of complications for the young and fit are more tragic than the 610x rate of horrible, suffocating, isolated death of the old and infirm[1], you're making space for eugenics.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
I run email for two companies. In both cases, everything from SES goes straight to quarantine and users never see it. I would just reject SES altogether but once in a while something legit comes in and someone asks me to release it. I see a massive amount of spam from SES and pretty much all email service providers.
Left click and hold doesn't seem to work. Firefox 89.02, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
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Same and it comes with charger, albeit 7W only. It’s weird almost 1 year later there isn’t actual magsafe 15W car mount.
With carbon credits, planting trees can be a profitable land use.
There was a thread on Twitter a few months ago about "history balancing on a knife's edge." All the examples (many of which also appear here) are fascinating.

My own favorite (no disrespect to the others) is C. Wade McClusky, the hero of the Battle of Midway in WW II. He just happened to find the Japanese carriers, where no one else would have thought to look, and sink them.

Had the US lost, it might have lost Hawaii as well. Then what would have happened? I can't say and neither can anyone else.
Plant and trees are definitely a very good solution. The real engineering challenge is really : 1. how to measure precisely how much carbon is in that tree and this other one here. 2. how to plant them efficiently so you can remove 1000T of co2 per year.
A special life moment for me was being in Paris for the first time, reading a book about the revolution. It seems like this book would be even better for that experience. I.e. visiting places mentioned in the book as you read through it.
That's kind of the point of the article. He argues that upwards wage rigidity makes people dislike inflation.
That's a key qualifier though, energy we can extract.

I don't think energy recovery from sewage is feasible, not in the short term, not with our current infrastructure. But either way we should be treating our waste more deferentially in an attempt to recover the minerals 6 billion people poop every day. Except for water, everything in pee and poop is valuable if recovered (urea ->energy, phosphate ->mineral, sulphur ->mineral, starch ->energy)

Instead it all gets dumped to the oceans and the ocean dies from too much nutrients
> But you don't actually know the reasons?

I know the reasons that have been cited for some policies aimed at encouraging men to take more maternity leave, including the workplace expectations/social pressure one cited in this article , which has been cited prominently around the Swedish policy with 90-days for each partner that is non-transferable plus a large pool that can be used by either partner. I haven't cataloged every argument cited for every policy of this type in every country. If you can find one that supports your characterization, you are welcome to present it.

> As expected, they don't dare to mention the real reasons (female privilege)

So now you are not only arguing that “feminist want us to believe X” without any evidence of feminists suggesting that, you also have added a hidden motive with similarly no evidence.

Your unsupported ideological fantasy is getting more elaborate, but not any more supported.
Thanks for your candid feedback - I agree this is something we should do a better job of surfacing. I've added this to our backlog to improve - feel free to email me and I can let you know when the experience improves.

We mention elsewhere in the post that for service and resource level recommendations we do this as often as your Vantage account syncs - which you can initiate at any time from the top navigation bar.

For recommendations like Savings Plans and Reserved Instances we are running this process weekly for now but that may change so we will definitely add a timestamp as to when that occurs.
Newspapers had the same rule, called the inverted pyramid, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
Wow what an enlightening comment
The main focus of my comment was their funding sources, because the IEEE false suggest they are crowd sourced. The website I linked described those funding sources, and they can be corroborated elsewhere.

I've since linked to articles by Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté detailing just some of the issues with Bellingcat's work.
If it's like pulling teeth to motivate your users to use dashboards, you're building useless dashboards.

Dashboards are great for at-a-glance metrics roll-up. Build small, single-page, targeted dash that answers questions your user asks, and they'll be used. I want to see the lay of the land and know I'm heading into the weeds, instead of being kicked in the shin by a monitoring alert when I'm already in the weeds.
Does any browser these days support multi-row tabs? I used to use Tab Mix Plus on Firefox but it seems like everyone (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) has adopted WebExtensions which are incapable of this.
I think financially it's not reasonable and you can't actually get enough carbon back or enough cooling for it to work on its own. Part of the solution but no it really isn't that simple.

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/366/6463/eaaz0388.ful...
Number of shows would be an odd thing to normalize on, since not every show is up for possibly nomination. The networks choose what to submit for consideration.

Maybe normalize based on total network content spend? That might be available. Or possibly on total number of shows submitted for noms? Not sure if that's available.
Do trees actually help? AFAIK once a forest reaches equilibrium it puts out as much CO2 as it takes in through various decomposition processes.
DiamondCoin: The world's first cryptocurrency based on Proof of Carbon.
I don't doubt the commonplace nature of moral panic. I do, however, wonder to what degree it is culturally hidebound. It might, perhaps, be a general human characteristic, but the cultural leeway any desire or compulsion is granted is a determiner in to what it effects are (and the way in which it manifests).

For instance, Japan experienced a similar type of moral panic (through a combination of government and media) around anime and manga at roughly the same time (or a little after) the crusades against comic books (and broader efforts against such works as Lady Chatterley's Lover) were ongoing in the U.S. and the U.K. However, in regards to Japan, the results broke in the opposite direction. Unlike in the U.S., a translation of Lady Chatterley's Lover was found to be obscene, but manga escaped, seemingly, relatively unscathed, and so it continued to develop as a medium in general and thus, now, in various incarnations, caters to a multiplicity of audiences, men and women, children to elderly, students to business professionals to housewives.
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I think differently. For example, if Newton would have perished as a child due to an unfortunate accident, the physics he discovered would have been discovered by someone else. It was just a matter of time. But geopolitical events can turn out very differently due to random flukes, such as the outcome of a battle.
Did you do W A s d at the same time?
> It isn't like most folks can live off of a garden plot of a normal house

The trick is to grow for value and flavour, not staples/calories. Probably still a terrible $ yield.

Nonetheless, I think the 1 abused apple tree is going give me months of apples.
Purpose is so key! While I agree to the work life balance…. I have spent a good 6 years completely consumed 100% into work just coz I felt it was my calling! In the bargain lost out heavily in my personal life. But not sure if I regret that…. After that there was such a huge burnout, I’m still recuperating…. Is purpose overrated? Or does it put one off balance?
You're wrong that long covid evidence is anecdotal. It is a clinical diagnosis though (i.e. it's diagnosed based on symptoms).
I think you also severely underestimate the effect this had on people, and symptoms are not generally compatible with depression. Patients often show reduced lung capacity of 60%. The brain fog is also often much more severe than just not being able concentrate a bit, people can't do simple calculations, can't follow conversations, can't read more than a page in a book, immediately forget things they just talked about. Many people become completely unable to perform their usual tasks.
I don't know why you would expect a post with a title like this to touch on that, even though being wary of the BSL licence is fair.
Function calls now pass arguments in registers instead of via the stack gaining ~5% improved performance.
It’s not a queue but an append only log
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"who would prefer the Web existed in isolation of civilization"

Honestly the internet was a better place when THAT was the situation sorry if I sound like a deluded man but the internet being so close to the world, or at least as much as it is now, is part of the problem.

And even if I do not agree with this guy and his pretensions, at least we would have better ways to combat guys like him in the old internet, but company owners like him at the end of the day have much more power thanks to the internet being so prevalescent and hyperreal, as the same authorities and entities that protect unbalanced power holders, can arrest you and fight you because of things that happen on the internet.
Dinosaurs are only one of the many groups of reptiles that have ever existed. It is normal use in biology to classify species in the same group as the group of their ancestor species. So, whether you like it or not, humans are mammals and primates. There really are no sound biological reasons to exclude birds from belonging to the group of dinosaurs.
I'd like to hear responses from those who work at big companies like Facebook. The media painted a picture that the company is putting no efforts on "managing" political divid or fighting misinformation. As researcher/engineer, I can see that FB/Google spend a lot of money in research in this area (I worked in this area for some time), but I have no clue how does this translate in practice and deploy it in production?. It's a borderline also when someone works in a company where it does make efforts to fight a problem, but it is not succeeding at solving the issue, and work for a company that avoid solving the problem.
Might be helpful - https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/how-to-publish-for-webgl
It’s with you for eternity, just hidden from programs unworthy of its excellence. Immutable is forever :)
What does native tab search do exactly? Does it search the content of all tabs or does it allow to jump to a tab by typing part of the address or title?

Firefox can do the latter by using the % search shortcut in the address bar.
I thought that the 1.17 was going to be the generics release, I guess I was wrong. The 5% performance improvment is very nice, congratulations!
It was one of the parents comment, that every other country is doing that.

Ofc bs...
Another thing are all kinds of standard boards, and committees like IETF, W3C, IEEE becoming very secretive themselves.

A decade, or more ago IEEE had a rule that anything said in a standard board meeting cannot be be expected to not be public, or be subject to any disclosure limit post-factum.

In 2019, after years of relentless pressure from Google, Cisco, Amazon, the rule was effectively reversed, and now IEEE standard board meetings can be made super duper secret, so members can now conspire to break antitrust laws in every imaginable way in complete privacy, free of recordings, and stenography.
Probably a combination of those things + for many, poor lifestyle choices will be an issue
Today, I’ve changed my career drastically - moved frm industry to academia - taking one day at a time. And still unsure whr I’m headed. My earlier project-mgmt self would be agast to know the me today -
You bet - we sent an email out recently, but haven't run auto-update yet - but that's coming!
IMO, if you're going to charge everything back to the business units then you also need to provide some kind of consulting-style services, or best practices, or guidebooks, or something.

Otherwise you lose a lot of your economies of scale because each business unit is trying to figure out the best way to do things. Or you end up with shadow IT all over the place because the BUs come up with cheaper but unsanctioned/unsupported ways to do things.

You also need a way to objectively evaluate how IT is performing. If the business units are going to third parties because IT is unresponsive or overly "expensive" then the exec team needs a way to see that. When IT is responsible for the IT budget then they have incentive to minimize costs and it's easy to do budget reviews. When the business units have to pay that budget then IT acts as a monopoly with little incentive to improve service or reduce prices and it's much harder to find the shadow IT that's being implemented to get around bad internal IT.

There's no one perfect answer.
Sorry if I'm daft, could you/someone explain why one would want to use both at the same time for the same system?

One thing that makes sense: if you go down use polling so you can work at your own pace. But this isn't really at the same time. When/why does it make sense to do both simultaneously?
> Why do we tell academics they have to stay in one place forever once they get tenure?

We don't tell them that. Tenured academics do move between universities, and rarely if ever have to regain tenure -- because they negotiate with the new university to immediately be at the same status they had at the old university.

If West couldn't swing that, that's on him. West definitely seems to be more interested in playing the outspoken celebrity intellectual / activist than being a serious academic, and Harvard probably didn't want to risk a replay of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_West#Dispute_with_Lawre....
Ironicaly, the "reward" for beating the epidemic (if we ever manage to) will be a currently suspended pension reform.

So I suspect we'll get thz burnt tyres then (and I would not be surprised if "quasi mandatory" vacciation acts as a background reason for people anger - much like the yellow jacket movement was ostensibly about taxes on gas, and unofficially about speed limitation changes.)
> No one would dare dream put a history class taught by a white professor under the 'European American studies'

... that's because no one would dare dream to have a 'European American studies' program in the first place.
> should all be charged back to the departments

I had this fight with my last CEO. She put anything tech-related under my budget. Worked with accounting to show what the budget would look like if expenses were correctly attributed, and suddenly I wasn't spending so much money anymore.

Reason she didn't want to change it? So they didn't have to explain why expenses changed so much quarter-to-quarter during the next board meeting.
I don't know anything about Vantage. It sounds like people have had good luck with them.

However, what gets us our greatest savings on AWS are two things.

First, we have the luxury of being able to take advantage of Reserved instances. We have decided how much we are wiling to commit on EC2's, RDS, etc. and it saves us 10-30% depending on what we do.

Second, and this is perhaps the more interesting one. We started working with an "AWS Advanced Partner." Billing goes through them and that reduces our charges. In addition, they pitch projects of ours to AWS and if they are interesting enough to AWS, AWS reduces charges for periods of time on servers related to those developments.

While we use AWS, I think the game is the same with Google or Microsoft. So, if you are looking to save some money, you may look into companies who are Advanced AWS Partners, Premier Google Partners, or Silver Microsoft Partners. It's likely they can help you out.
I like the subtle Dr. Who references in UK mode.
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> let's just say that coincidentally I had a viral infection that has the exact same symptoms as COVID, has the same long term effects as are reported in many cases of COVID and which coincidentally happened to be timed to match the first wave of that particular pandemic

That happened to a lot of people. The first wave in March wasn't very big compared to later months.

You mentioned the flu season didn't happen in a different post, but that was much later, as was most masking.

> Which to me seems to be a far more outrageous claim than the one that I was simply one of many.

That's a terrible way to analyze this. You were "one of many" either way.

> but I've yet to hear of some surprise viral disease that ran in parallel to this, isn't COVID but matches the symptoms so well.

The symptoms aren't all that unique for a severe illness that messes up your lungs. There's no 'surprise' involved in other possible causes.
FYI:

> a meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

The concept of a meme is in no way limited to images.
You might want to check out https://hookdeck.com (I work on it). We built it precisely for this use case, you shouldn’t have to spend of bunch of time building webhook ingestion infrastructure.
> Lockdowns are a basic application of germ theory.

And eugenics is a basic application of evolutionary biology.
I just started re-reading the series. I had forgotten how difficult it would be to adapt! Each book is sometimes multiple novellas, and each novella is a completely different cast of characters. They could make it an anthology series, but given the cast billing they have, it doesn't seem like they're going that route. Totally curious how they tackle it, and also if they implement the grand narrative (tying in Asimov's other novels) as Asimov tried to do later in his career.
That's pretty much selinux. We don't have a nice ui for it, because what you described is actually pretty complicated to achieve. But it actually works. Today.
The type of democracy practised in Athens was pretty widespread amongst various city-states (including non Greek ones like Rome, which arguable had a form of "democracy" much closer to the modern one because in Athens most public officials were chosen by lot) it's just due to a variety of reasons very few written records from cities other than Athens survived.

Also you mixed up the battles, Greeks lost the battle of Thermopylae (the one in which the 300 Spartans fought) pretty decisively as a result the Persians invaded Attica and sacked and razed Athens to the ground (most of the population was evacuated to nearby islands). The decisive battle after which the Persian were mostly expelled from mainland Greece was Plataea (during which at least 70 thousand Greeks (including 10 000 hoplites from Sparta) faced a Persian army similar in size.

Besides Sparta itself was anything but a Democracy so I can't imagine they were fight to protect it. And the also defeated Athens and their allies in the Peloponnesian War a few decades later (in large part due to Persian financial support).

Also the two ancient Greek philosophers who had the most influence on the development of western political philosophy were of Plato & Aristotle (who both were very critical of democracy).