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The difference in the amount of attention invested in spec support in Chrome and Safari can be explained by the difference in business models between Google and Apple.

For Google, the browser is closely associated with their revenue streams. If you profit by showing ads across web properties, you’d naturally prefer to have more control over how those properties are viewed.

The motivation can be benevolent in some aspects (to show more ads, we want people to want to browse the Web more—so we want to support fancier tech enabling fancier websites to be developed more easily) and less so in others (we want to control the viewing mechanism to ensure people keep seeing ads; we want to become the de-facto standard of browsing so that we don’t have to worry some newcomer eating at our revenue stream; the more complex the spec, the bigger our moat).

To Apple, the browser means relatively little on desktop; on the more sandboxed mobile OS it matters more due to being responsible for a lot of the attack surface.
All you need to hear from this article is that no one outside of the company can independently audit the software

Any such solution should be dead in the water as a source of meaningful forensic evidence, period
I figure contactless got a big unexpected boost from COVID. Suddenly not having to touch anything at all to check out because very appealing.

It was "around" for ten years previously, not making many inroads. Suddenly it's everywhere.
How Technology Accelerated Singapore’s Covid-19 Vaccination Rollout
I have a controversial question for you...
let's say I order a map of India from India, would you give me a map with all the sections of the country intact (Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh) or would you give us a china approved section of India without Kashmir or bits of the east (like how google serves its maps)?

How do you manage to withhold or incorporate sketchy borders with geopolitical issues, or do you refrain from serving such locations altogether to avoid any backlash?
Cool. Thank you!

How long it’s been there under my nose without me realising it? :-D
Issues like gerontocracy will be completely irrelevant when we're spanning the solar system, and especially when we're sending colony ships to star systems light years away.
> I don't understand why executives of American companies don't see the manufacturing/production side of their companies as anything more than a cost center.

This is interesting to me, because I think of it as the stereotypical (if not always accurate) description of American business. The common criticism of American companies is that they outsource productive capacity, go "asset-lean", lever up on their intellectual property, over-financialise etc etc. I've generally thought of the preference for investing in "manufacturing/production" to be a populist sentiment, and out of favour in the boardroom.

There are certainly plenty of examples of both types, but in the semiconductor space the trend is clear -- manufacturing has been outsourced from the US, and the old big chip brands mostly stopped making their own chips.

And until recently I've been mostly sympathetic to (what I think is) your view, which I've also ascribed to the stereotype of "corporate America" -- that companies should put their capital to its most productive work, and that mostly that means "intellectual property and innovation" or some similar vague notion. Ricardian comparative advantage and all that.

One thing that's given me pause has been arguments like this: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/. Very roughly, that production involves a necessary kind of innovation, and that intellectual property advantages can be less durable than process advantages.
Something about the story seems off. Can't put my finger on what it is.
Watching and reading about the teams arriving in Christchurch, New Zealand after the earthquake that happened there was really impressive and inspiring.

Countries that seemed far away and uninvolved had teams touching down at staggered intervals and brought resources and skill that really helped.

International search and rescue seems to be a little world of its own that operates away from the noise and bickering of ‘normal’ international relations.
Nope the boom is not over. There's just too much money being pumped into the economy and that money will end up in hard assets, housing is one to benefit. It might have slowed but it will continue. A year from now houses will be more expensive. At a rate higher than inflation.
You cannot find any useful information about Japan in English. For some reason orientalism makes people abandon all common sense.
how successful was the meditation - were you able to maintain focus on an object of attention? If your mind wandered repeatedly then the meditation won't be very effective. Each time you wander you ramp up the neural activation. Get into a place where you can concentrate on your object without any intrusive thoughts for long periods of time and meditation will calm your mind pronto.
Europe imposes a 10% tariff on imported cars.
> I also noticed that with win10 when apps crash it sends the data to Microsoft—as though they can fix 3rd party apps for us

I don't develop software for any Microsoft platforms, but on the platform I develop for it's actually common for the vendor to break something in their API, so that crashes in 3rd party apps are actually due to a regression in the platform frameworks. Analyzing third-party crash reports could guide them in catching those cases.
(When you have to attack something as tone-deaf, it's useful to ask whether their comment was mistaken. In this case, I don't think your reply offers a counterargument.)
>this is dangerously delusional.

LOL

Says the person suggesting that web devs on HN can't Google Scholar and critical think their way to an overridingly authoritative understanding of medical science (which is nothing compared to being a Node ninja)
Yeah, I'm sure there are some that would think ad blocking as immoral as you're "trying o get something for free" blah blah

As puritan as it feels, a large part of the population likes it that way and want it even more strict.
A lot that big can accommodate 20+ units? No.

I’ve seen duplexes on lots that size but you’re looking at a 4 story building (2 floors + 2 floors). And even then it’s tight.
yeah there’s shame in that, following web standards is a bare minimum good behavior
if you grow up with old unreliable cars, you dont want to repeat that experience.
Ah. Good point. The cheques/checks!
> A piece of paper can easily be found by someone. Much easier than hacking a password manager.

A piece of paper in a locked drawer is potentially accessible to a person breaking into it. It is probably an unsophisticated burglar looking for money. They are probably located in the vicinity of your neighbourhood and have rocked up to your home, and will not evade capture for long. They will likely leave DNA. If they decide to swipe your notebook, it will be immediately apparent you have been compromised, as your drawer is open and your notebook open or missing. Your notebook may be looked at momentarily, perhaps passed to one or two people, more likely, it will be thrown into a gutter as soon as the burglar realises it has no money in it, or just left untouched.

A password in a locked password manager is potentially accessible to a person breaking into it. It is probably a sophisticated cyberattacker looking for credentials. They are probably located overseas and have remotely connected to your home network, and will evade capture. They will leave no trace. If they decide to compromise your vault, it may not be immediately apparent you have been compromised, as your password manager is still there. Your vault will be scrutinised intensely, and your credentials will be sold to many others on a darknet forum.

I know which I'd rather.
Unfortunately, I'll indeed slide with FF and Chroke here, because we attempted a plaintext h2 (that was 2015, where HTTPS awareness are becoming mainstream) and unless you bothered to put it into another port it just unpredictably stops due to proxies mangling it.

In an internal study (in an enterprise level) and assuming this is HTTP/1.1, that some proxies will either cache only brotli and made it inaccesible to gzip-only clients (even when you bothered with Vary, because they're plain broken in that regard) or just barf with it and time-out not only that particular request but crash a proxy.

The problem for large-scale deployment is that there are transparent proxies in Timbuktu (literally) since data is not cheap there, they need to use HTTP proxies to compress that, not to mention dial-up users in the US! (Good luck, Verizon!)
> it wasn't because of gain of function research.

May be. But they were doing GoF (even going by your statement above), which was the question being asked.
I assume PTO is personal time off? In Australia its called AL, or Annual Leave.

The problem is that people will have a huge party weekend then be hungover on Monday, or want to spend Friday getting the party started. And they decide this at the last minute, so they take a sickie instead of planning in advance. Often you cannot take AL ~1-2 weeks, you need to plan it out in advance.
I work in Blender quite frequently, I'd imagine this is the case. Many off-the-shelf assets behave this way.
God, I hate this paranoid liberal crap that's spreading the tech world like pandemic... we should have a vaccine against this people and thoughts...
I do think that the EV city car is an area where some European car manufacturers have an advantage.
A shared workstation should still be using separate user accounts, or an "anonymous" account that is completely reset (files, cache, browser history, etc.) between logins if there is some reason user accounts aren't possible.
It's not full electric. It's a hybrid.
It looks like a paid content for advertising.
I find it surprising that there are corporations that are using shared workstations in that way. My company has shared workstations, but you need to log in with your own account, as has been the case for every one of my previous employers.

Modern operating systems and browsers seem like they’d have all kinds of pain points if they’re used by multiple users.
> Roman engineers built bridges that are still standing today

Roman engineers didn't understand the principles of civil engineering; I'm sure they built a lot of stuff that fell down (survivorship bias). So they started massively over-engineering their structures ("moar rocks!")
Don’t they already get like 25 days off in Australia?
I found this insightful. However, it does seem a lot of the discussion is around the concept of causation by absence. I don't think it directly impacts the point but there is a good paper by Helen BeeBee [1] on the topic for those interested.

She discusses some views on how to reason about common sense statements like "Smith's failure to water her office plants caused their death". The salient views covered are:

1. causation by absence is impossible (making the plants statement false)

2. causation by absence is possible and attributing an absence to a cause is sound when the absence is "abnormal". This could be because Smith normally waters the plants, it was Smith's job to water the plants, or Smith made a promise to water the plants.

3. causation by absence is not possible, but it is valid to offer "causal explanations". This is the suggested approach in the paper. A causal explanation provides information about the causal history of an event, but doesn't need to specify a specific node in the causal graph. C causes E is a causal statement. E because C is a "causal explanation". E because C doesn't necessarily imply C causes E. So adopting this approach, The plants died because Smith failed to water them is a true statement that provides some additional explanatory information, Smith failing to water the plants caused their death is not.

I think these distinctions may have some minor implications on how you perceive blame.

[1] https://philpapers.org/archive/BEECAN.pdf
OS updates happen more often, but Safari’s browser engine (WebKit) gets updated with bug fixes and new features exactly twice per year (in March and September), AFAIK.
>We chose the name Viz mainly because it was short and easy to draw...

Is it really just a coincidence that viz comica is Latin for 'sense of humour'?

And, at the risk of sounding like a 'Graun reading pseud', I've long thought that, underneath the sniggering schoolboy toilet humour, Viz is a great social commenter and barometer of the zeitgeist. So I was glad to read that Auberon Waugh quote, expressing similar sentiments.
https://electrek.co/2019/11/19/ford-mustang-mach-e-immediate...
I think the case was fairly straightforward as it was more about established business law than technology.

The internet was already getting rather important by 1997, but true that it was a couple years away from the general public’s consciousness.
There are several ways to get fired, in my book this qualifies as one of them. In addition to that he had his funding slashed by various governments, in addition to having received these 'hints',
That's a shame. I don't think anyone should be forced to endure screaming and berating.
I don't see how those allegations are related to voice/face-to-face interviews or what's tone-deaf about the parent comment.

I'm very skeptical that someone who's likely to sexually harass people will be any more likely to exhibit those signs in a voice or in-person conversation than in a written conversation. Someone trying to hide it will probably successfully hide it across all three forms of communication.
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I use AdBlock Pro (it's free) and it works very well.
> ”Not to mention lack of charging infrastructure plans to rival Tesla's.”

Automaker-owned charging networks like Ionity and Electrify America certainly have plans to rival Tesla’s. Just they’re not there yet.

Tesla announced recently that they will open their Supercharger network up to all vehicles:

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

Of course, the devil is in the details, like price. What premium will non-Tesla vehicles pay to charge at a supercharger?
>There is no real evidence that SARS-CoV-2 originated from a lab leak. Rand Paul is being intentionally distracting to push a false narrative.

Despite that, I think lying before public should he held accountable. Particularly when the person in question is responsible for life and health for the people all over the world. (Yes, all over the world, because there are a lot of places who blindly follow US in these matters)
Anyone who is acting to infringe upon real justice is most apt to either be a sociopath who only cares about keeping score or a lot more likely a moral person but not ethical person who regards their job as getting criminals.

If they truly believe you are guilty then convicting a larger portion of guilty people even via impure means is a net good for society and incidentally for their career.
Safari is perfectly fine. Chrome being a dominant web browser engine is the new issue at hand. Firefox and safari are seemingly second class at best now. It doesn’t help that google themselves only seem to test with chrome. Meets on Linux is broken in Firefox with the latest update as per usual with google.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-ends-ban-on-posts-asse...

You’ve got a very short memory.

Facebook was banning accounts that even brought it up.
> scrap of paper with the name of a victim's rabbi...

I can definitely see this as plausible.
"shared origin with Chrome"

You mean Chrome was a fork from Webkit when Google decided they could no longer play nice with Apple...
But think of the effort to design all that state-of-the-art abuse infrastructure.
Unfortunately it’s all in credits for Amazon Fresh.
Can you fart without polluting everybody's air? If so I'm sure I can light a cigarette. But to paraphrase Kansas... everyone's a fart in the wind
And what could that agenda possibly be? That they really like encryption and think everyone should use it? They haven't exactly been shy about telling people that.

Or is Moonchild suggesting that Cloudflare is specifically trying to damage Pale Moon by not supporting its unique feature of Brotli over HTTP? That seems unlikely, insofar as it would require them to have an opinion one way or the other about a browser that nobody uses.
This sounds analogous to phrenology. The tone of someone's voice when they answer a question about web application architecture will convey information about the likelihood that they may sexually harass people?

I don't think it'd make sense to ask a question like "how do you feel about sexual harassment in the workplace?", but if hypothetically such a question were asked, I also doubt even in that case that tone of voice would uncover a sexual harasser in a way that writing wouldn't.

Voice tone does provide a lot of information, but I don't see how it's related to these points.
Absolutely incredible. At first, I was skeptical and even wondering why an IDF group was there, but now I'm in absolute awe of the abilities of disciplined, well trained groups.

> This is it. There will be no more than 98 or 99. Not a single one more.

Precision of a surgeon or sniper with first principles first. Initially, it would seem like a waste to do this work, but it clearly helped.
>Israeli team has fewer members so they learn to be 'small and swift'

It is amazing to see how they work to save those people, at the same time terrifying to think how they got those experience with all those never ending wars throughout their lifetime.

Salut to the team for helping those in grief.

Also from wikipedia:
>Distinct from possible construction defects, an analysis of European Remote-Sensing Satellite data by Florida International University indicates that the building had been sinking during the 1990s at a significant rate of about two millimeters (0.079 in) per year. While 97 percent of Miami Beach had been stable, 1,555 of 18,949 points in Miami Beach had been sinking, at a rate of less than one millimeter (0.039 in) per year.

This is actually terrifying to hear
It may seem simple, but list an email address on the website and invite people to use it. Whether or not you have a DIY free trial or signup, you’ll want to make it easy for interested parties to contact you with questions before starting to use your project.
Is it because deep down the work anxiety is still there? or scientifically we have a notion of "thinking motor"

I think it has to do with how much of your self worth and identity is tied to work. The more you are able to say ‘I’m just an average person’, the more you are able to avoid ego traps.

Work is not something you can solve outside since that is the root cause of the issue. You have to solve it at work. Learning to say no, accepting being lazy sometimes, accepting being good and bad, and so on. Solve these things at work (goto sleep if you are tired, be comfortable sucking from time to time - delay delivery of work, etc). Be comfortable with letting the job go if it comes to it (yourself leaving or them letting you go).

If you solve it at the source, then it will not spill over for the most part.

Now, with all that said, I concede that such a strategy is difficult to implement (especially if your identity is already deeply tangled into your career). You may need to untangle (refactor) first and foremost.

Do not underestimate the healing power of just sleeping something off.

It’s a process, good luck.
This is very true:

> Letting nearly all members of a population simultaneously take the very same risk during a short timeframe is a recipe for disaster.

… but given that COVID is a risk, as GP was saying, then a world without vaccines is indeed a recipe for disaster.

I want to stress how little sense your post makes if you consider that COVID is, in fact, a much bigger risk than taking the vaccine (and it UNARGUABLY IS -- COVID is known to be a risk, and is known to cause illness and death to several magnitudes more than even the less severe side effects we're getting from vaccines). Your last paragraph for example argues against itself: If you're not taking the vaccine, you're forcing a (much larger) risk onto others because you want to avoid taking a (much smaller) risk yourself.

COVID is a bigger risk. Period. Not just "to the elderly", but to you, too. The potential issues with COVID vaccines, even if they've been around less long than most other ones, cannot come close to the risks of COVID, no matter how fit, young and healthy you are.

Hundreds of millions have been infected with COVID. Billions have taken the vaccine. The former has resulted in a worldwide shitshow. The latter has allowed us to start reopening things.

You say "but there's a risk!" like it's some kind of gotcha. There's a risk to every single thing you do in life. A lot of it is negligible. Some of it, less so, but "worth taking" for the upshot. For example, driving is a non-negligible risk, but (much as I dislike cars) the upshot makes it worth taking. Getting vaccinated is a negligible risk, and its upshot is significant, for you AND EVERYONE ELSE too.
In a sane world, it would take less time to recharge an EV, not more. Good industrial and government leadership, working together, would have given us a swappable battery standard by now.
It’s valid for his interpretation of his experiences.

Companies varied tremendously. I don’t share many of his opinions and experiences, and I’ve been coding his entire career.

I LOVE pair programming, for example, on the rare event that I can convince someone to do it. And “waterfall” did happen, but was mostly Fortune 500 and government contracts, and those of us not in that situation laughed at it. And I see benefits of test driven development, even if I write most of my tests after the fact.

The number of meetings, in my experience, was more a function of the size of the company and the team, than the era. I suspect some of the change he blames on millennials is just Microsoft getting more bureaucratic and bloated over the years.

One thing that I haven’t seen anyone commenting on is the huge shift in how software is delivered. If you take a year or two to plan for a physical release of a product, there is a lot more pressure to get things perfect the first time. If you can patch something today and go live, it’s not the same as have to send physical updates to a million customers. QA was definitely important, and, I would say, more important than today. Developers as testers is great, but by no means enough. I think testing has been shifted to users somewhat.

I do think that there was more of an understanding that uninterrupted time was very important. IBM did a lot of studies on what produced productive programmers and uninterrupted time was a huge factor. But software development has changed hugely over the years. I’ve been building a project that is similar to something I built only 15 years ago, and it’s amazing to me how much easier it is. I’m spending way more time gluing components together, with the help of stack overflow, and less time on hard problems. This may have changed what the optimal strategy is. I certainly try hard to be a good programmer in today’s environment, and not waste time complaining that things were better when we carved software into stone tablets.

So, I’m not going to say he’s wrong, but a lot of that was not my experience.
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I think you are delusional. Me writing in a blog post that I like Clojure and I recommend you trying it is very far removed from "prescribing ClojureScript as a omnisolution" especially as I specifically mention that all I write also applies in regular JS and React.js. If a friend recommends you try out a beer he/she likes, are they also prescribing that beer as an omnisolution? Because that's what you're saying. Ridiculous. Go yell at someone else for writing a blog post in a programming language you don't understand. There's a lot of blog posts to yell at out there. And I'm sure they didn't consult children before writing them as well! The tragedy!
D’oh! My bad!