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War is legal execution.

Which is completely irrelevant to this discussion which was about what defines a government in the normal case. War is an extreme exception to the normal, peaceful operation of a government.

The only way I guess your view could be so skewed that you think war is normal is if you live in a country which has been participating in wars almost every single year since 1950, has a massively oversized military (around 4% of the world's population but has around 35% of the world's military spending (used to be around 40%)), and aggressively market itself as "the good guys" (more below) .

Many countries involved in WW2 teach a "war is bad, look at all the bad things that happened" philosophy to children born after WW2 (although Japan is shamefully largly avoiding admitting its own mistakes and take more a "war is bad, (only) look at what happened to us during the war" approach). In USA this is considered problematic since its oversized military is based on voluntary participation, and with an honest "war is bad" teaching that would severely negatively impact enrolment. So instead they take a "well, we do not have to be that honest about war is bad" approach and instead endorse military worshipping, completely ignoring president Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning that

... we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.

War is legal execution.

Which is completely irrelevant to this discussion which was about what defines a government in the normal case. War is an extreme exception to the normal, peaceful operation of a government.

The only way I guess your view could be so skewed that you think war is normal is if you live in a country which has been participating in wars almost every single year since 1950, has a massively oversized military (around 4% of the world's population but has around 35% of the world's military spending (used to be around 40%)), and aggressively market itself as "the good guys" (more below) .

Many countries involved in WW2 teach a "war is bad, look at all the bad things that happened" philosophy to children born after WW2 (although Japan is shamefully largly avoiding admitting its own mistakes and take more a "war is bad, (only) look at what happened to us during the war" approach). In USA this is considered problematic since its oversized military is based on voluntary participation, and with an honest "war is bad" teaching that would severely negatively impact enrolment. So instead they take a "well, we do not have to be that honest about war is bad" approach and instead endorse military worshipping, completely ignoring president Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning that

... we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.

What Jessica Price had to say on passing of TotalBiscuit (John Peter Bain): "The kindest thing I can say is: 'I'm glad he's no longer around to keep doing harm.' "

Jessica Price on Twitter
TotalBiscuit

The overall issue, in my opinion, is that Jessica Price should have been coached by managers and co-workers to be less self- and other-destructive. Her criticisms were too broad. I've known many 3-year-olds who had that shortcoming. One way of understanding her is to realize that she is unfinished with conflicts that occurred in her childhood.

This is, of course, not a fully-detailed analysis. It is just a short comment on Slashdot.

The underlying point seems to me to be valid: Personal conflicts require helpful action by management and by everyone who works with someone who is acting-out conflicts. That didn't happen, apparently.

Caring management brings enormous benefits. Companies that show sophisticated caring when employees make mistakes attract the best employees, for example.

You DO realize this is the SECOND time she has been fired for harassing customers, right?

The first time was from Paizo Publishing.

Lastly, Deroir isn't just any Guild Wars 2 streamer, he is an ArenaNet partner and even has an NPC named after him in the game.He is one of the largest Guild Wars 2 streamers around.

Furthermore, he even apologized BEFORE she was fired.

So much for an open discussion I guess. I meant no disrespect AT ALL. Never did. Never will. Neither did I imply I knew better. Nor has this ANYTHING to do with gender. Never did. Never will.
I will retract my comment, cause obviously I'm in the wrong forum for this kind of talk

Frankly, you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

> Or, she's a very pleasant person

False.

1. She was glad that Total Biscuit died. WTF!?

Price: The kindest thing I can say is "I'm glad he's no longer around to keep doing harm."

Skinner: Who passed?

Price: T*talB*scuit

Who the hell is glad someone died from cancer?!?!?!

2. She was fired from fired from Paizo Publishing for her LONG history of harassment.

3. This is the second time she has been fired from a job for harassment. Mike O'Brien, the president of ArenaNet, called called her bullshit out.

Recently two of our employees failed to uphold our standards of communicating with players. Their attacks on the community were unacceptable. As a result, theyâ(TM)re no longer with the company.

I want to be clear that the statements they made do not reflect the views of ArenaNet at all. As a company we always strive to have a collaborative relationship with the Guild Wars community. We value your input. We make this game for you.

Stupid Juvenile Whiners blame everyone else and never take responsibility.

/sarcasm But keep believing she is a "nice" person.

> Or, she's a very pleasant person

False.

1. She was glad that Total Biscuit died. WTF!?

Price: The kindest thing I can say is "I'm glad he's no longer around to keep doing harm."

Skinner: Who passed?

Price: T*talB*scuit

Who the hell is glad someone died from cancer?!?!?!

2. She was fired from fired from Paizo Publishing for her LONG history of harassment.

3. This is the second time she has been fired from a job for harassment. Mike O'Brien, the president of ArenaNet, called called her bullshit out.

Recently two of our employees failed to uphold our standards of communicating with players. Their attacks on the community were unacceptable. As a result, theyâ(TM)re no longer with the company.

I want to be clear that the statements they made do not reflect the views of ArenaNet at all. As a company we always strive to have a collaborative relationship with the Guild Wars community. We value your input. We make this game for you.

Stupid Juvenile Whiners blame everyone else and never take responsibility.

/sarcasm But keep believing she is a "nice" person.

Not sure on Fries besides some grapevine rumor type stuff that he's got a problem of not working when he's supposed to be working. You can find that on a couple of sites and in the reddit GW2 sub if you're interested, might be truth, might be shit like all grapevine stuff. this has some extra info on the current push by the media to push the narrative though. And that the reason he was canned was because he came running to her defense when she decided to sperg out and defended her for attacking fans. So they simply washed their hands of him as well because she and he, both used personal twitter accounts and took on the persona of PR for the company.

The companies I've worked for in the past have done similar things, and this is only in IT. Occasionally you get someone that tries to hold unofficial/defense position for the company, and instead of cutting their losses and whatnot, they double down on their attacks of customers. They don't last long once people above them hear it, and realize the person is damaging their brand.

June 25 2018: The Intercept draws attention to buildings they allege contain NSA splitter-taps taps on communications networks, and especial cooperation by AT&T.
June 28 2018: NSA jumps the shark releasing 'limited hang out' claiming they oopsied 685 million 'records' and are deleting them like good Boy Scouts.

The records are supposed to gather attention away from the buildings and the idea of full intercept of gathering of communications. It's a shell game, and you're supposed to think "they were naughty but are sorry and they took care of it." Watch now as the 685 million records eclipse the prior story and the news networks start talking about 'records' and not 'taps'. Mission accomplished.

Senators do this too. Ask them a question about buildings or taps, or the infrastructure for continuous warrantless surveillance, and they'll pretend you asked them about that handy voluntary call record sharing program. Press firmly and they'll do it again. Press harder and they move on to the next question.

More,
>Reddit post on 5EYES and NSA splitters
> Things have got to change, But first, you gotta get mad!
> NSA and the Desolation of Smaug
> I am Sam. Uncle Sam I am.
> I really hated Men In Black
> Am I the first to suggest... BLACKMAIL??
> Sherlock Holmes: training wheels for NSA surveillance
> Stick a fork in the Republic, it's done. HR4681/309 (failed submission)
> The backbone, then (1980s) and now
> Whatever happened to the 'old' NSA? Directive 18?
> Last Wish: The Pact (dystopian fiction)

(if you have a Reddit account and you've disabled 'new' Reddit you'll have to open a private window for these links)

PEAK SCREEN . At my aspect, ~6+ articles per screen. 583 words on screen. Scroll to bottom then click, ensuring you can backtrack a page at a time. Small static memory footprint.

SUCK SCREEN ~2.5 articles per screen. 203 words on screen. Browser crashin' JS stuttering Infinite scroll thumb-stroking smartphone masturbation.

Screens are doing just fine. Designers are deep-throating smartphones.

(if you have a Reddit account and you've disabled 'new' Reddit you'll have to open a private window for these links)

PEAK SCREEN . At my aspect, ~6+ articles per screen. 583 words on screen. Scroll to bottom then click, ensuring you can backtrack a page at a time. Small static memory footprint.

SUCK SCREEN ~2.5 articles per screen. 203 words on screen. Browser crashin' JS stuttering Infinite scroll thumb-stroking smartphone masturbation.

Screens are doing just fine. Designers are deep-throating smartphones.

Apparently Comcast backbone providers suffered at least two fiber cuts, specifically Level3 and Zayo.

There's an interesting thread on Reddit with ongoing detail:

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysad...

Callback to a recent posting on 5EYES that references this topic. I'm lukewarm about this 'exposé', they're presenting a number of buildings that are communications exchanges and dubbing them NSA buildings. Weatherproof climate controlled spaces are not spooky. This is ripe for debunking as anyone counters with their primary uses, and this issue is too critical to have agitated people harassing anyone who enters and exits the buildings as spooks. We now have two full generations of young who were not exposed to telecommunications lore. The latest generation, scarcely even landlines.

The dangerous technology is scattered throughout as splitter cabinets and the occasional server room. And 'dark' fiber of course, to carry the booty to Utah.

Other writing you might not enjoy,
> Things have got to change, But first, you gotta get mad!
> NSA and the Desolation of Smaug
> I am Sam. Uncle Sam I am.
> I really hated Men In Black
> Am I the first to suggest... BLACKMAIL??
> Sherlock Holmes: training wheels for NSA surveillance
> Stick a fork in the Republic, it's done. HR4681/309 (failed submission)
> The backbone, then (1980s) and now
> Whatever happened to the 'old' NSA? Directive 18?
> Last Wish: The Pact (dystopian fiction)

My girlfriend has a knack for creative phrases. Today's gem was "he's a hard egg to crack". Another recurring utterance is "pigeon toed" instead of "pigeonholed"

You obviously don't know anything about In-N-Out Burger, not their food ingredients nor their pay scale. You might consider not commenting on things you're completely clueless about.

Looks like limited distribution, this was posted recently to Reddit.com
In-N-Out and Shake Shack locations mapped (Yellow)
https://www.reddit.com/r/datai...

Not one even close to me.

and a lifetime of no more than 150k miles.. maybe 200k miles.

...seriously?

For AMD's SMT implementation, it's around 30% in heavy workloads. Hell, a Cinebench test by a Czech web site reported a 40% speed boost in Cinebench R15 for an 1800X. On Reddit, a 45% difference was reported for a 1600X.

Nobody likes you, Chris.

"I never got this kind of shit on Reddit."

Then fuck off right back to Reddit. Why you insist on posting on a website you claim no one heard about is mystifying. Then again, everything you do is puzzling. Your eBooks no one reads, your certifications you never get, your videos no one watches.

https://www.reddit.com/search?...

There is no such user as "The Fat Bastard" on Reddit. So who never got this kind of shit on Reddit? Which mysterious and totally unknown person could it be? Could it be George Lucas? Could it be a Snuffleupagus?

Or maybe it was a pig.

Or maybe you're Christopher Dale Reimer?

https://www.reddit.com/r/TrumpCriticizesTrump/

That is not how I read GP's comment at all. As I see it they are making clear, strong claims about particle physics and string theory.

that's why i provided references, plus1entropy. i missed the ones about string theory, here are some:

https://www.neogaf.com/threads...
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~...

which leads to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Physi...

and that last one is particularly poignant, as it's by someone for whom the work that they set out to do just.. wasn't fun. they had a goal, but they'd forgotten the journey.

the other one quotes the observer.

here's another one: https://backreaction.blogspot.... which points out that the "bang-per-buck" is firmly on the "please for god's sake pull the plug" side.

i'm struggling to find the original article, but i believe this last post comes fairly close. basically i'm pointing out that it's not *my* idea(s). i didn't reference *any* of *my* work. these are *other people's* opinions - ones that are becoming increasingly common, that's all.

And stopped making lye difficult to purchase in any quantity, we could replace cement/concrete with geopolymer recipes such as:Anemone55's[1] geopolymer recipe using lye, type-f flyash (a waste product from coal fired powerplants), waterglass, and aggregate/sand. One of the benefits of the formula being that it uses existing materials that are byproducts of other industrial production without requiring as large of amounts of energy to break the limestone back down.

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Float...

Others have supplied more uplifting endings to this strip:

https://i.imgur.com/VZvj5S7.jp...
https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/...

And my favourite:

https://imgur.com/VbKV9DF

Its explains why Ive seen some sellers offering their stuff for free on http://reddit.com/ and http://www.opusdeals.com/ etc

It's worth checking out the recycle bin

Thanks for your thread. One AC child post mentions the term "scambating" and my ddg searches were immediately useful. A result was titled "419 Eater - The largest scambaiting community on the planet!"

I've got mixed feelings about realizing there are online communities doing this! If only we did something more to educate instead of fighting what isn't our war...

Anyway, I would worry their potential for exposure to retaliation after each volunteer eventually starts appearing in logs repeatedly. I know nothing about Doxing or the volunteer scambaiters' armor / proxies. Maybe the IP addresses and telco details can give away the well-meaning folks to scammer-initiated swatting if the scammers pool a few of their own resources for black ops teams or something --it is more profitable for them to organize versus the anti-scam volunteers and the might even burn a little of their non-zero ill-earned profits to outsource their hero hunts...)

Another led to a subreddit with this couple-day old post
https://www.reddit.com/r/scamb...
it says there is preliminary (unofficial) signs that VMware can be detected and glitched, but I would take these anonymous reports with a grain of salt till I learn more. I've heard of host VM exploits but not of who might use them outside of a security research lab till now

They already do that.

Foolish of me, I got too excited. I read that you cant extract DNA from from fossil fuel for example. https://www.reddit.com/r/asksc...

It looks like they don't have the instrumentation to detect complex organic molecules - What kind of instruments would we need to detect this?What are the limits of detection, and what can you put on a rover? Would nMRI work? FTIR..? I'd love to read from the perspective of an analytical chemist.

" . When the samples reached 500 to 820C, the rover’s instruments detected a range of so-called aromatic, aliphatic and thiophenic vapours. The science team believes these are breakdown products of even larger organic molecules, similar to those found in coal"

The latest in the Clinton PEDO RING!

Interesting. I was burned in a weird way by SourceForge's descent into evil. A friend who was managing my BTC for me (long story) was a victim of the PyWallet trojan and lost ~40BTC in April 2016. :-( I tried to get her to use the GitHub posted version of PyWallet, but she wasn't (at the time) familiar with how to download stuff from GitHub. :-(

I actually really despise Git as a tool. One really spectacular feature would be if all repositories that were either git or Mercurial could be transparently accessed by either. I have some significant commits in Mercurial, though I haven't worked on it in a very long time. I might be able to help. :-)

most people have a hard time taking people who eat their own toejam in public seriously.

If that's the worst you've got, that's nothing in comparison to many famous eccentrics and their eccentricities.

https://old.reddit.com/r/stall...

References: Twitter, Twitter, Trello, Reddit, Discord Feedback

Already been done. https://www.reddit.com/r/netha...

You gave a 4 year old reddit link that says America is #19 for scientific papers per population. Or even further behind in GDP / paper at #31

Here is national spending on R&D
How about nobel prize winners? Yeah, America wins.
How about scientific papers by nations? Now, the ONE thing that you got somewhat right is that 20% of America's tech is 'foreign-born'.That does not mean that they are all H1B or just student visa. Ppl like Elon musk who is foreign-born, but not American citizen, counts on that.
But to make wild claims that America has totally lost it with science is a joke. Hell, even the bulk of the papers coming from China/CHinese are considered HORRIBLE. The high quality remains with western science.
Oh, BTW, there are areas that America does not dominate. If you want leadership in Chemistry, that would be Germany. Even to this day, American BSChem require us to learn German to be able to read the tech.
Beyond that, America still remains tops.

China is also very well known for lying about things and faking stats to appear better than everyone else

China is not alone.

All Asians are liars.

For example:
https://www.reddit.com/r/malay...

All economic data from Malaysia turned out to be fake.

- Everything even remotely container-related (Cgroups & Co) is missing. No LXC/Docker*/systemd-nspawn/etc. for you.
- Filesystems are limited to either mount an NTFS directory as a data dir, or a special NTFS directory with some metadata as a POSIX-compliant root. You can't get any other typical Linux filesystems, even the popular one, so forget about modern facilities like free snapshotting, and most of the weird stuff is either poorly supported (different visibility of mounts) or missing (layers).

And these are the first two out of the top of my head.

(We could add : no DRM gfx stack, you're limited to X forwarding over SSH, so no wayland compositing either)

(Also, in the perspective of what Microsoft wanted to achieve before pivoting to WSL: it still can't run the Android user-space successfully.
So, still no app ecosystem on Windows 10 phone that isn't a joke. But at least they got WSL to run on ARM too).

Basically, all you get is enough API to work with cli tools and daemons.

But hey, at least WSL doesn't work with systemd so at least this will keep the Devuan whiners crowd happy~~~

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* : apparently, the latest linux docker on the latest WSL insider built could successfully run hello-world. By basically skipping and/or ignoring most of the missing stuff. It's basically a glorified chroot. You're still better off installing the windows version of docker and use WSL to control it with the CLI (and the long term path would probably be having the Windows docker able to start a separate WSL context for each container).

I'm a lot like you: (al)pine when logged in locally, Thunderbird on MS Windows, and Mail.app on MacOS. These are in reverse order of my use frequency, actually.

One problem I have (and I don't think I'm alone) is that work mail is via Exchange only. I use this to allow Thunderbird to interoperate, and its.. OK. Not perfect, but better than having to use Outlook, which to me seems to have odd quirks and does not play well with my IMAP server.

Last year I experimented with Spark email on MacOS. It was great! Had lots of nice features I could see myself getting very used to. Then, I found out that they have a serious privacy issue built right in and I immediately dropped it. This was a pretty depressing moment. Makes you appreciate open source.

To see how bad things are on Wikipedia, look into Gamergate.

Everipedia on Gamergate
InfoGalactic on Gamergate
KnowYourMeme on Gamergate
Wikipedia on Gamergate

It's not even discussing the same thing. For the rebuttal, see Gamergate on Wikipedia

Also, things like this keep happening:

IP editor outlines Darkfrog case, blocked for "trolling"
Editor Banned From Wikipedia and Labeled a "Nazi" for "Kek" Username
The Frank Gaffney Edit War

Wikipedia is clearly controlled by someone with an agenda.

To see how bad things are on Wikipedia, look into Gamergate.

Everipedia on Gamergate
InfoGalactic on Gamergate
KnowYourMeme on Gamergate
Wikipedia on Gamergate

It's not even discussing the same thing. For the rebuttal, see Gamergate on Wikipedia

Also, things like this keep happening:

IP editor outlines Darkfrog case, blocked for "trolling"
Editor Banned From Wikipedia and Labeled a "Nazi" for "Kek" Username
The Frank Gaffney Edit War

Wikipedia is clearly controlled by someone with an agenda.

To see how bad things are on Wikipedia, look into Gamergate.

Everipedia on Gamergate
InfoGalactic on Gamergate
KnowYourMeme on Gamergate
Wikipedia on Gamergate

It's not even discussing the same thing. For the rebuttal, see Gamergate on Wikipedia

Also, things like this keep happening:

IP editor outlines Darkfrog case, blocked for "trolling"
Editor Banned From Wikipedia and Labeled a "Nazi" for "Kek" Username
The Frank Gaffney Edit War

Wikipedia is clearly controlled by someone with an agenda.

Democrats other name is shilltown. They didn't buy facebook ads, but they spent millions on a large social media campaign. And they continue to do so. So much so that reddit has become unusable for enlightened political discussion because you're likely arguing with a paid shill.

It's pretty damn sanctimonious complaining about the Russian ads when they probably flooded the internet 10 times over trying to shove Hillary into office.

All you suckers said he was a fool. But I knew papa had made a good investment 40 years ago!
https://www.reddit.com/r/vinta...

My thoughts on it exactly. It's like ItsLenny, but smarter at taking up time.

For a while we've seen attempts like this in the open source world.

Want to muscle your way into an OSS project, despite lacking the talent or skill (or willingness) to contribute anything other than drama, identity politics, and an insatiable urge control others (or remove them if they don't fall in line)? Force a Code of Conduct (which is often explicitly racist and/or sexist, dismissive of merit, and vague enough to be selectively enforced) down its throat! It even works on the largest, most influential projects, and lets you dictate developers' behavior on unrelated corners of the web!

http://archive.is/4vV8z

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://todogroup.org/opencodeo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://contributor-covenant.or...

http://developers.slashdot.org...
https://www.reddit.com/r/freeb...

For a while we've seen attempts like this in the open source world.

Want to muscle your way into an OSS project, despite lacking the talent or skill (or willingness) to contribute anything other than drama, identity politics, and an insatiable urge control others (or remove them if they don't fall in line)? Force a Code of Conduct (which is often explicitly racist and/or sexist, dismissive of merit, and vague enough to be selectively enforced) down its throat! It even works on the largest, most influential projects, and lets you dictate developers' behavior on unrelated corners of the web!

http://archive.is/4vV8z

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://todogroup.org/opencodeo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://contributor-covenant.or...

http://developers.slashdot.org...
https://www.reddit.com/r/freeb...

For a while we've seen attempts like this in the open source world.

Want to muscle your way into an OSS project, despite lacking the talent or skill (or willingness) to contribute anything other than drama, identity politics, and an insatiable urge control others (or remove them if they don't fall in line)? Force a Code of Conduct (which is often explicitly racist and/or sexist, dismissive of merit, and vague enough to be selectively enforced) down its throat! It even works on the largest, most influential projects, and lets you dictate developers' behavior on unrelated corners of the web!

http://archive.is/4vV8z

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://todogroup.org/opencodeo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://contributor-covenant.or...

http://developers.slashdot.org...
https://www.reddit.com/r/freeb...

For a while we've seen attempts like this in the open source world.

Want to muscle your way into an OSS project, despite lacking the talent or skill (or willingness) to contribute anything other than drama, identity politics, and an insatiable urge control others (or remove them if they don't fall in line)? Force a Code of Conduct (which is often explicitly racist and/or sexist, dismissive of merit, and vague enough to be selectively enforced) down its throat! It even works on the largest, most influential projects, and lets you dictate developers' behavior on unrelated corners of the web!

http://archive.is/4vV8z

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://todogroup.org/opencodeo...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotak...
http://contributor-covenant.or...

http://developers.slashdot.org...
https://www.reddit.com/r/freeb...

I don't think these researchers dug deep enough into the history of this. For those who are interested, here is the reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/15mwai/the_longest_straight_line_you_can_sail_almost/

Here's another reddit thread that he cross-posted to from five years ago; it seems that the researchers didn't dig deep enough:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15mxxp/til_you_can_sail_almost_20000_miles_in_a_straight/

Apparently he learnt it from a Wikipedia article, where it is also reported (without citation) that the longest distance only on land is 13,573 km (8,434 mi).

The edit was added with this revision by Wikipedia user Muh1974 (who doesn't have a Wikipedia user page). The Talk page around that time has unreferenced "I remember reading somewhere" speculation about the longest great circle. My guess is that Muh1974 checked (somehow) that this path was valid, and had a distance at least comparable to the other ones mentioned in the wikipedia article, but that's where the trail goes cold for me.

I don't think these researchers dug deep enough into the history of this. For those who are interested, here is the reddit post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/15mwai/the_longest_straight_line_you_can_sail_almost/

Here's another reddit thread that he cross-posted to from five years ago; it seems that the researchers didn't dig deep enough:

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15mxxp/til_you_can_sail_almost_20000_miles_in_a_straight/

Apparently he learnt it from a Wikipedia article, where it is also reported (without citation) that the longest distance only on land is 13,573 km (8,434 mi).

The edit was added with this revision by Wikipedia user Muh1974 (who doesn't have a Wikipedia user page). The Talk page around that time has unreferenced "I remember reading somewhere" speculation about the longest great circle. My guess is that Muh1974 checked (somehow) that this path was valid, and had a distance at least comparable to the other ones mentioned in the wikipedia article, but that's where the trail goes cold for me.

I'm an extreme browser, nothing short of EXTREME - but damnit why can't they make these things more robust?

I have 32GB of high clocked DDR4, I've got an unoverclocked, 4ghz, 6 core, 2017 intel processor. My machine is a couple of grades off the best 'normal' desktop PC you can buy.

Chrome will still stutter playing back video. I thought flash was the enemy? Why is chrome 'doing stuff' with it's other tabs in the background, impacting my video playback?
I like the idea of multi-tasking, tabs doing some kind of loading / refreshing / whatever I've asked them to do, in the background, within reason. They should get 1 core for all the background tabs at no more than 50% of processing time or something.

Is it Windows? Is this a design thing? I'm very old. I recall people saying "linux doesn't have this" or "Amiga doesn't have that" or "Apple doesn't have this" in regards to how multi-tasking is handled, maybe it's interrupts, handles? Memory allocation? I don't know, I'm a half nerd but for goodness sakes, 6 cores, 32GB of memory, can my primary video playback tab, take ALL the resources it needs on earth, to damn well ensure, smooth video?

I'm not even watching 4k, it's 1080p youtube and it's 100% not a bandwidth issue.

Do I run a lot of plugins? heck yes I do. Should they be able to interrupt a video playing back? No.

I see many others posting about this, it's a common thing - video pauses / stutters *audio continues to play* it's like it can't keep up with the video processing aspect./
How long has this gone on? Funny you should ask, I've been seeing this for several years. Furthermore, I've seen the same thing on Firefox (yeah, I'm that guy, the one who used to whine about poor firefox performance)

I don't understand why it's like this, I just don't. Yeah I'm an edge case (I only have about 120 tabs open today, across 2 windows) but man can't the primary tab or video tab get priority?

Here's some code I'd implement, if I had a clue (I don't, sadly)
#1 - primary tab gets a lot of processing power / memory.
#2 - last used tab gets a mild amount of processing power / memory.
#3 - tabs, to the left and right, of the current tab you're on, get a mild amount of processing power / memory (to ensure, if you want to switch to them it's virtually instant, when you hit CTRL-TAB)

I know it's all fine and dandy to sit on my high horse and complain, without coding skills. However surely this irks others? Surely what I ask is possible? Does what I ask simply not occur on different operating systems? Why can I not have a damn, damn good browsing experience. It's what I do with literally 80% of my PC using time.

(FWIW, both 'new' Firefox and Chrome are VASTLY better than Firefox before the change about 8 - 12 months back, that was, without a doubt a ghastly experience)

https://www.reddit.com/r/techs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Googl...

https://www.reddit.com/r/firef...

https://www.reddit.com/r/techs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrom...

https://www.reddit.com/r/24hou...

Sigh?

I'm an extreme browser, nothing short of EXTREME - but damnit why can't they make these things more robust?

I have 32GB of high clocked DDR4, I've got an unoverclocked, 4ghz, 6 core, 2017 intel processor. My machine is a couple of grades off the best 'normal' desktop PC you can buy.

Chrome will still stutter playing back video. I thought flash was the enemy? Why is chrome 'doing stuff' with it's other tabs in the background, impacting my video playback?
I like the idea of multi-tasking, tabs doing some kind of loading / refreshing / whatever I've asked them to do, in the background, within reason. They should get 1 core for all the background tabs at no more than 50% of processing time or something.

Is it Windows? Is this a design thing? I'm very old. I recall people saying "linux doesn't have this" or "Amiga doesn't have that" or "Apple doesn't have this" in regards to how multi-tasking is handled, maybe it's interrupts, handles? Memory allocation? I don't know, I'm a half nerd but for goodness sakes, 6 cores, 32GB of memory, can my primary video playback tab, take ALL the resources it needs on earth, to damn well ensure, smooth video?

I'm not even watching 4k, it's 1080p youtube and it's 100% not a bandwidth issue.

Do I run a lot of plugins? heck yes I do. Should they be able to interrupt a video playing back? No.

I see many others posting about this, it's a common thing - video pauses / stutters *audio continues to play* it's like it can't keep up with the video processing aspect./
How long has this gone on? Funny you should ask, I've been seeing this for several years. Furthermore, I've seen the same thing on Firefox (yeah, I'm that guy, the one who used to whine about poor firefox performance)

I don't understand why it's like this, I just don't. Yeah I'm an edge case (I only have about 120 tabs open today, across 2 windows) but man can't the primary tab or video tab get priority?

Here's some code I'd implement, if I had a clue (I don't, sadly)
#1 - primary tab gets a lot of processing power / memory.
#2 - last used tab gets a mild amount of processing power / memory.
#3 - tabs, to the left and right, of the current tab you're on, get a mild amount of processing power / memory (to ensure, if you want to switch to them it's virtually instant, when you hit CTRL-TAB)

I know it's all fine and dandy to sit on my high horse and complain, without coding skills. However surely this irks others? Surely what I ask is possible? Does what I ask simply not occur on different operating systems? Why can I not have a damn, damn good browsing experience. It's what I do with literally 80% of my PC using time.

(FWIW, both 'new' Firefox and Chrome are VASTLY better than Firefox before the change about 8 - 12 months back, that was, without a doubt a ghastly experience)

https://www.reddit.com/r/techs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Googl...

https://www.reddit.com/r/firef...

https://www.reddit.com/r/techs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrom...

https://www.reddit.com/r/24hou...

Sigh?

I'm an extreme browser, nothing short of EXTREME - but damnit why can't they make these things more robust?

I have 32GB of high clocked DDR4, I've got an unoverclocked, 4ghz, 6 core, 2017 intel processor. My machine is a couple of grades off the best 'normal' desktop PC you can buy.

Chrome will still stutter playing back video. I thought flash was the enemy? Why is chrome 'doing stuff' with it's other tabs in the background, impacting my video playback?
I like the idea of multi-tasking, tabs doing some kind of loading / refreshing / whatever I've asked them to do, in the background, within reason. They should get 1 core for all the background tabs at no more than 50% of processing time or something.

Is it Windows? Is this a design thing? I'm very old. I recall people saying "linux doesn't have this" or "Amiga doesn't have that" or "Apple doesn't have this" in regards to how multi-tasking is handled, maybe it's interrupts, handles? Memory allocation? I don't know, I'm a half nerd but for goodness sakes, 6 cores, 32GB of memory, can my primary video playback tab, take ALL the resources it needs on earth, to damn well ensure, smooth video?

I'm not even watching 4k, it's 1080p youtube and it's 100% not a bandwidth issue.

Do I run a lot of plugins? heck yes I do. Should they be able to interrupt a video playing back? No.

I see many others posting about this, it's a common thing - video pauses / stutters *audio continues to play* it's like it can't keep up with the video processing aspect./
How long has this gone on? Funny you should ask, I've been seeing this for several years. Furthermore, I've seen the same thing on Firefox (yeah, I'm that guy, the one who used to whine about poor firefox performance)

I don't understand why it's like this, I just don't. Yeah I'm an edge case (I only have about 120 tabs open today, across 2 windows) but man can't the primary tab or video tab get priority?

Here's some code I'd implement, if I had a clue (I don't, sadly)
#1 - primary tab gets a lot of processing power / memory.
#2 - last used tab gets a mild amount of processing power / memory.
#3 - tabs, to the left and right, of the current tab you're on, get a mild amount of processing power / memory (to ensure, if you want to switch to them it's virtually instant, when you hit CTRL-TAB)

I know it's all fine and dandy to sit on my high horse and complain, without coding skills. However surely this irks others? Surely what I ask is possible? Does what I ask simply not occur on different operating systems? Why can I not have a damn, damn good browsing experience. It's what I do with literally 80% of my PC using time.

(FWIW, both 'new' Firefox and Chrome are VASTLY better than Firefox before the change about 8 - 12 months back, that was, without a doubt a ghastly experience)

https://www.reddit.com/r/techs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Googl...

https://www.reddit.com/r/firef...

https://www.reddit.com/r/techs...

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrom...

https://www.reddit.com/r/24hou...

Sigh?