For five years, FF has not been able to keep pace with Chrome for those of us who develop on the web.
If pages you develop are slow loading, perhaps you should revisit your design. What exactly are you doing that FF is unable to keep pace with? There is no reason a normal web page should load slowly
on any browser, Chrome or FF.
It's designers like you who make pages so full of unnecessary bloat that it's making browsing the web more and more annoying, regardless of browser, while loading 10MB from two dozen different ad servers just to display a few lines of actual content.
All I care about is that unlike Helvetica, the new font distinguishes I and l. So if it does become the new Helvetica, I will no longer have to copy/paste into an editor with a different font when they can't be figured out by context.
If the design is sound (meaning has accounted for worst-case tolerances) then proper testing will detect most problems, regardless of how "cheap" the component manufacturer is. (A handful of problems are problematic regardless of testing, such as capacitor and battery failures over a period of time due to poor manufacturing quality.)
The real problem IMO is design shortcuts made for a variety of reasons, ranging from designer incompetence to cost, combined with inadequate testing. For example, a digital circuit designer may not have adequate knowledge of "analog" design issues such as proper grounding techniques. As someone who used to be involved in automated testing, I've seen many designs that work with typical component values but not worst-case. More than once I've been instructed to tweak tests to achieve an acceptably low failure rate, with the manufacturer hoping that the end user wouldn't typically experience the failure mode (due to say temperature and power supply voltage fluctuations).
The treehouse my son and his friends built 15 years ago turned into a twisted mass of splintered wood. (We took it down last year as requested by our insurance co.)
The apartment complex I live in has boxes for package deliveries. They drop the key in your mail box. Not available to Amazon, though.
If these are physical keys, then unless they change the box locks frequently, a malicious neighbor could duplicate the key when he has a delivery and over time accumulate the complete set of keys.
I also had many, many cavities as a kid. We lived in a poor rural area, and every trip to the dentist was hell with old-fashioned drills driven by a system of cords and pulleys. In my 20s, new cavities stopped - I can only recall one cavity early in college. I did have some gum problems in my 30s, but better flossing (up and down on the side of each tooth, not just a quick in and out) has it under control. I don't recall how my diet changed, if it did at all.
Here's an advertising idea: instead of paying for a click on the
ad, pay only when the click results in a sale. (Surely modern tracking
technology can figure out whether that happened.) Then you'll have a
100% accurate measure of effectiveness. If Google won't agree to it
(and of course they won't),
start a competing company that will.
Of course successful clicks will have a significantly higher price, but you
pay only when the product is sold. Just like a salesman who is
paid a commission only when a sale is made.
The problem is that they are not considered as warnings or reminders by most southerners. The confederate flag-wavers even have ceremonies honoring their Civil War "heroes". I don't think that a bunch of swastika flag-wavers in Germany praising Nazi heroes would be tolerated.
That is a good idea, though. I would consider "Never again" signs a reasonable compromise. But somehow I think they would be considered almost sacrilegious by a lot of southerners and repeatedly torn down. Hatred and illogic plagues these people, who seem to need to feel superior to blacks to compensate for their own lack of education and other shortcomings.
I find it odd about the tearing down of Civil War monuments. These people don't want to forget the Civil War. If they did then the race based politics starts to disappear. What is really happening is the Democrats wanting to rewrite history by taking down the statues of prominent Democrat leaders. They want people to forget the rascist past of the Democrat Party.
The Civil War monuments were mostly erected a half-century or more after the Civil War, about the time that Jim Crow laws were enacted in the South. Conclude from that what you wish, but why are they celebrating the traitorous, ugly, losing side in the Civil War and not the winning side? After almost every other war, it is the winning side that is honored.
The argument that taking them down would erase history is absurd. Why are there no monuments in the South celebrating the Union side? That is the history we should be remembering. I see the Confederate monuments as symbols of the slavery they wish they could still have. I've wondered that since I was a kid raised in North Carolina (and no one had a good answer), long before the current media focus on them. I can see how blacks could find these monuments unsettling.
Would you support replacing the Confederate monuments with ones that celebrate the winning side and the end of slavery? If not, why not?
Then you have to un-mute it when you do want the sound. Plus, that doesn't disable autoplay - the video will still run. Whenever you do want to watch something, you have to pause it, "rewind" it, open the OS control, turn off the OS mute, play, when finished open the OS control again if it closed, and turn on the OS mute again. Instead of just clicking play whenever you want to watch something, like YouTube used to be in the old days before Google bought it.
The Ugly: Government agencies now have a valid excuse to obtain funding for exponentially increasing the number of exit nodes under their control.
I'm not very familiar with Tor, but I thought exit nodes were to access normal web sites via Tor. Isn't it the case that a.onion address doesn't need an exit node? How will the government's controlling more exit nodes help?
If I don't know the material, lectures have been a terrible way for me to learn it. For some reason, I can't learn from them while trying to listen and take notes at the same time. In a long hierarchy of unfamiliar definitions I can get overwhelmed and completely lost.
But when I learn the material beforehand from the book, lectures have been an excellent way for me to reinforce what I learned, both because it is (for me) reviewing what I more or less know, and its different modality of audio seem to help me to remember things better.
People learn differently, of course. But for me, that worked well as a recipe for success in school: don't go to a lecture without looking at (and even learning) the material before hand.
For really difficult material, I've even gone to the extreme of copying my lecture notes neatly, filling in the gaps while imagining that I'm writing it so someone else could understand, That forces me to make sure I understand.
Between city, state and federal taxes I pay about 47 cents per dollar earned. That isn't good or advantageous. It's fucking crushing. I could hire 12 more people with even a 10% tax reduction.
Let's see: 10% of 47 cents is 4.7 cents per dollar reduction. If we assume each employee costs $50K with benefits (probably low balling it), 12 employees would be $600K, which is 4.7% of your net income before taxes. That means your income before taxes is about $13 million and after taxes $6.8 million. So why can't you hire the 12 more now, especially if each employee produces more than they are paid, making you even richer? Are you having trouble making ends meet on $6.8 million a year?
You are going to hell if you have sex with your wife. According to the Catholics, the singular purpose of sex is procreation. Any other reason is a sin. You may as well turn gay.
Catholics also believe in miracles. So if the goal is procreation, he should have sex with his wife constantly, just in case a miracle should occur.
Most computers in 1970 only handled 32 to 96 (no lowercase nor the exotic graphics characters {, |, }, ~ ). The IBM EBCDIC punch cards and mainframe machines were also only uppercase back then, although the set of graphics characters was slight different from the ASCII ones. Same with teletype machines, line printers, and video monitors. I would guess it was around mid to late 70s when lowercase became widely available. I think some experimental mainframe systems like Multics had lowercase typewriter terminals in the late 60s, and I guess Unix did too, although there were methods to use it with an uppercase-only terminal. The uppercase legacy lives on some systems that to this day send you invoices with everything in uppercase.
"Can we please stop with this notion that "net neutrality" as exists in law is not the same as "net neutrality""
How so?
For one thing, will "net neutrality" mean they will stop blocking incoming port 80 (web server) to my home network, unless
I buy the expensive "business class" service?
even some people will hate a particular type of transistor. so you will end up with nothing.
Back in the day, I used to hate PNP transistors. Everything was backwards and counter-intuitive, even the power supply was negative. A classic example of user-unfriendly design.
I concede that companies should not profit from products that might kill people. That is all that I concede.
So you'd be OK with a company if it sells such products at cost or at a loss (say while they are
still working out the software bugs that might kill people)? What does profit have to do with it?
Because when you mix 2 things at temperature T, it doesn't make a thing at temperature 2T. Don't mistake temperature for energy.
It depends on what kind of "mixing" you allow. You could have an array of 1000K lamps shining on solar panels, then combine the solar panel outputs to drive a small 2000K lamp. Certainly there would be a lot of energy loss in this system, but the temperature would increase to 2T.
So without specifying the constraints on the collection system, you can't say that a 2T increase isn't possible. The solar cell method has only passive components, so passive alone is not sufficient to forbid a 2T increase.
Me too. I think the big difference is the lack of feedback in math. If I work for hours or days to construct a proof, I don't really know if it is valid or not, and maybe it was all a waste of time because I made an error in the first few steps. With programming, I can test incrementally, fix errors as I go, and I can see the end result is valid because the program works. The feeling of accomplishment is much better.
If you use automated proof verifiers, like HOL, Metamath, Mizar, etc., the experience is the exact opposite from what you suggest. When a proof is automatically verified, you KNOW the math is 100% correct, even if you spent days working out the proof. That provides a tremendous sense of accomplishment. When writing a computer program of any complexity, while it can be satisfying to see it run, you will never know (barring formal verification) that there aren't still hidden bugs not yet uncovered.
I would much rather see $50 billion spent on a speculative quantum computer than on a wall with Mexico. Even if it doesn't work or is "less powerful than a Fitbit," there will be lessons learned pointing to ways to making it work, and probably far more important, there will be spin-off technology that could dramatically improve our lives in ways not yet known. With a $50 billion Wall, not so much.
I would be willing to add an AdBlock exception for Forbes if they guaranteed malware-free ads. By guarantee I mean they would compensate me monetarily for my lost time restoring my system, at say $100 per hour. Short of that, no Forbes for me!
It makes the difference between " start quote " and " end quote ".
In almost all cases, notwithstanding your intentional violation of traditional typographical rules above, a start quote has a space before it and not after, whereas an end quote has no space before it. So in ordinary text, curly quotes rarely convey additional information.
It results in unreadable mess like "Can't open file "'"'"$filename"'"' just because "Can't open file "$filename"" is ambiguous.
The topic is ordinary text, not computer language methods of escaping quotes within quotes.
If I was subject to epileptic seizures by animated GIFs, I'd certainly turn off GIF animations. (I have them turned off in my browser because I find them annoying.) Why didn't this guy do that? Seriously, there are so many animated GIFs these days that surely quite a few would have just the right frequency to trigger seizures in a susceptible person.
If you are allergic to peanuts, you don't take peanut factory tours. If GIF animations cause you to have seizures, you turn them off. If you don't know how to do it, just google "how to turn off animated gifs to prevent seizures". Is this really not common knowledge in the epileptic community?
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If pages you develop are slow loading, perhaps you should revisit your design. What exactly are you doing that FF is unable to keep pace with? There is no reason a normal web page should load slowly on any browser, Chrome or FF.
It's designers like you who make pages so full of unnecessary bloat that it's making browsing the web more and more annoying, regardless of browser, while loading 10MB from two dozen different ad servers just to display a few lines of actual content.
All I care about is that unlike Helvetica, the new font distinguishes I and l. So if it does become the new Helvetica, I will no longer have to copy/paste into an editor with a different font when they can't be figured out by context.
I am curious: what is the issue with FB over Tor? (I don't have a Facebook account so I can't try it.)
If the design is sound (meaning has accounted for worst-case tolerances) then proper testing will detect most problems, regardless of how "cheap" the component manufacturer is. (A handful of problems are problematic regardless of testing, such as capacitor and battery failures over a period of time due to poor manufacturing quality.)
The real problem IMO is design shortcuts made for a variety of reasons, ranging from designer incompetence to cost, combined with inadequate testing. For example, a digital circuit designer may not have adequate knowledge of "analog" design issues such as proper grounding techniques. As someone who used to be involved in automated testing, I've seen many designs that work with typical component values but not worst-case. More than once I've been instructed to tweak tests to achieve an acceptably low failure rate, with the manufacturer hoping that the end user wouldn't typically experience the failure mode (due to say temperature and power supply voltage fluctuations).
The treehouse my son and his friends built 15 years ago turned into a twisted mass of splintered wood. (We took it down last year as requested by our insurance co.)
If these are physical keys, then unless they change the box locks frequently, a malicious neighbor could duplicate the key when he has a delivery and over time accumulate the complete set of keys.
I also had many, many cavities as a kid. We lived in a poor rural area, and every trip to the dentist was hell with old-fashioned drills driven by a system of cords and pulleys. In my 20s, new cavities stopped - I can only recall one cavity early in college. I did have some gum problems in my 30s, but better flossing (up and down on the side of each tooth, not just a quick in and out) has it under control. I don't recall how my diet changed, if it did at all.
Here's an advertising idea: instead of paying for a click on the ad, pay only when the click results in a sale. (Surely modern tracking technology can figure out whether that happened.) Then you'll have a 100% accurate measure of effectiveness. If Google won't agree to it (and of course they won't), start a competing company that will.
Of course successful clicks will have a significantly higher price, but you pay only when the product is sold. Just like a salesman who is paid a commission only when a sale is made.
The problem is that they are not considered as warnings or reminders by most southerners. The confederate flag-wavers even have ceremonies honoring their Civil War "heroes". I don't think that a bunch of swastika flag-wavers in Germany praising Nazi heroes would be tolerated.
That is a good idea, though. I would consider "Never again" signs a reasonable compromise. But somehow I think they would be considered almost sacrilegious by a lot of southerners and repeatedly torn down. Hatred and illogic plagues these people, who seem to need to feel superior to blacks to compensate for their own lack of education and other shortcomings.
The Civil War monuments were mostly erected a half-century or more after the Civil War, about the time that Jim Crow laws were enacted in the South. Conclude from that what you wish, but why are they celebrating the traitorous, ugly, losing side in the Civil War and not the winning side? After almost every other war, it is the winning side that is honored.
The argument that taking them down would erase history is absurd. Why are there no monuments in the South celebrating the Union side? That is the history we should be remembering. I see the Confederate monuments as symbols of the slavery they wish they could still have. I've wondered that since I was a kid raised in North Carolina (and no one had a good answer), long before the current media focus on them. I can see how blacks could find these monuments unsettling.
Would you support replacing the Confederate monuments with ones that celebrate the winning side and the end of slavery? If not, why not?
Then you have to un-mute it when you do want the sound. Plus, that doesn't disable autoplay - the video will still run. Whenever you do want to watch something, you have to pause it, "rewind" it, open the OS control, turn off the OS mute, play, when finished open the OS control again if it closed, and turn on the OS mute again. Instead of just clicking play whenever you want to watch something, like YouTube used to be in the old days before Google bought it.
I'm not very familiar with Tor, but I thought exit nodes were to access normal web sites via Tor. Isn't it the case that a .onion address doesn't need an exit node? How will the government's controlling more exit nodes help?
If I don't know the material, lectures have been a terrible way for me to learn it. For some reason, I can't learn from them while trying to listen and take notes at the same time. In a long hierarchy of unfamiliar definitions I can get overwhelmed and completely lost.
But when I learn the material beforehand from the book, lectures have been an excellent way for me to reinforce what I learned, both because it is (for me) reviewing what I more or less know, and its different modality of audio seem to help me to remember things better.
People learn differently, of course. But for me, that worked well as a recipe for success in school: don't go to a lecture without looking at (and even learning) the material before hand.
For really difficult material, I've even gone to the extreme of copying my lecture notes neatly, filling in the gaps while imagining that I'm writing it so someone else could understand, That forces me to make sure I understand.
Let's see: 10% of 47 cents is 4.7 cents per dollar reduction. If we assume each employee costs $50K with benefits (probably low balling it), 12 employees would be $600K, which is 4.7% of your net income before taxes. That means your income before taxes is about $13 million and after taxes $6.8 million. So why can't you hire the 12 more now, especially if each employee produces more than they are paid, making you even richer? Are you having trouble making ends meet on $6.8 million a year?
Catholics also believe in miracles. So if the goal is procreation, he should have sex with his wife constantly, just in case a miracle should occur.
Most computers in 1970 only handled 32 to 96 (no lowercase nor the exotic graphics characters {, |, }, ~ ). The IBM EBCDIC punch cards and mainframe machines were also only uppercase back then, although the set of graphics characters was slight different from the ASCII ones. Same with teletype machines, line printers, and video monitors. I would guess it was around mid to late 70s when lowercase became widely available. I think some experimental mainframe systems like Multics had lowercase typewriter terminals in the late 60s, and I guess Unix did too, although there were methods to use it with an uppercase-only terminal. The uppercase legacy lives on some systems that to this day send you invoices with everything in uppercase.
For one thing, will "net neutrality" mean they will stop blocking incoming port 80 (web server) to my home network, unless I buy the expensive "business class" service?
Back in the day, I used to hate PNP transistors. Everything was backwards and counter-intuitive, even the power supply was negative. A classic example of user-unfriendly design.
So you'd be OK with a company if it sells such products at cost or at a loss (say while they are still working out the software bugs that might kill people)? What does profit have to do with it?
It depends on what kind of "mixing" you allow. You could have an array of 1000K lamps shining on solar panels, then combine the solar panel outputs to drive a small 2000K lamp. Certainly there would be a lot of energy loss in this system, but the temperature would increase to 2T.
So without specifying the constraints on the collection system, you can't say that a 2T increase isn't possible. The solar cell method has only passive components, so passive alone is not sufficient to forbid a 2T increase.
If you use automated proof verifiers, like HOL, Metamath, Mizar, etc., the experience is the exact opposite from what you suggest. When a proof is automatically verified, you KNOW the math is 100% correct, even if you spent days working out the proof. That provides a tremendous sense of accomplishment. When writing a computer program of any complexity, while it can be satisfying to see it run, you will never know (barring formal verification) that there aren't still hidden bugs not yet uncovered.
I would much rather see $50 billion spent on a speculative quantum computer than on a wall with Mexico. Even if it doesn't work or is "less powerful than a Fitbit," there will be lessons learned pointing to ways to making it work, and probably far more important, there will be spin-off technology that could dramatically improve our lives in ways not yet known. With a $50 billion Wall, not so much.
I would be willing to add an AdBlock exception for Forbes if they guaranteed malware-free ads. By guarantee I mean they would compensate me monetarily for my lost time restoring my system, at say $100 per hour. Short of that, no Forbes for me!
In almost all cases, notwithstanding your intentional violation of traditional typographical rules above, a start quote has a space before it and not after, whereas an end quote has no space before it. So in ordinary text, curly quotes rarely convey additional information.
The topic is ordinary text, not computer language methods of escaping quotes within quotes.
If I was subject to epileptic seizures by animated GIFs, I'd certainly turn off GIF animations. (I have them turned off in my browser because I find them annoying.) Why didn't this guy do that? Seriously, there are so many animated GIFs these days that surely quite a few would have just the right frequency to trigger seizures in a susceptible person.
If you are allergic to peanuts, you don't take peanut factory tours. If GIF animations cause you to have seizures, you turn them off. If you don't know how to do it, just google "how to turn off animated gifs to prevent seizures". Is this really not common knowledge in the epileptic community?