Has it occurred to you that maybe they are [listening to their users]? Believe it or not, people have different opinions about what they want out of Firefox.
Mozilla's bugzilla installation has a feature where people can vote on bugs (i.e. express their interest in getting a bug fixed or feature implemented), and this feature of the bug tracker has been there for 15+ years.
I can't remember the last time a bug with lots of votes was resolved.
In fact, I can't remember the last time a bug that was filed by a non-developer got resolved.
(My memory might be playing tricks on me, but I remember there being much more votes on bugs. Thousands, at least. The current number one has 571 votes. Perhaps they did a user purge which wiped out votes? It would certainly explain why the list is dominated by WebExtensions bugs -- a recent feature.)
"to drop an exploit" means "to make an exploit public", so that the exploit is now worthless (dropped) because whatever it was exploiting will be fixed.
Look, if you have an "Intel Inside" sticker on your laptop, everybody with half a brain will know you are employed by an intelligence agency and you store espionage data on your hard drive.
The summer time switch happens so that there is clear effect for maybe two weeks (i.e. there is sunlight longer), and once those two weeks have passed, it doesn't matter since the sun is up for so long anyway.
The increase in sunlight is really rapid, summer time or no summer time.
Besides, if everyone with mod points browsed at -1 as recommended most abuses would be corrected for.
Yeah, that would be nice.
People sometimes (IMHO) abuse their mod points by modding an AC down to -1 despite no clear reason why the post should be -1.
-1 should be reserved for the GNAA spam and other disgusting things.
Just leave the things be at +0 even if you don't agree with them. Getting visibility as an AC is difficult thing: most people browse at +1 so the AC posts are hidden already. A negative score makes them even more hidden.
Didn't Word etc have the same bug, about five years ago?
DLL preloading attack was what it was called. You could drop a Word document into the same directory with a malicious DLL file, and if you double-clicked that document, Word would load the DLL instead of the system one.
If your program doesn't pass a fully qualified path to LoadLibrary/LoadLibraryEx... well, it uses the system path to search for it.
Very well. I see your point now, and I can see the extra detail in JPEG, but the artefacts (and sometimes, discolouration) disturb me so much that I honestly cannot judge it to be the better format.
(By 'blur' I did indeed mean a lack of detail. It was a poor word choice.)
Needless to say, the samples are all compressed heavily enough to make the comparison artificial -- no real world user, I hope, would use that high a compression -- and I would be interested in a comparison that uses a file size 2-4 times larger to make it more fair, perhaps.
Hi. I'm not a Rust supporter, I don't know anything about it except that it came from Mozilla, and I did not attack the person I was replying to.
It was merely a friendly suggestion, and I see two mods agreed with my message.
I do have an account, and this time I decided to post under it. I suppose I could have used it for my earlier post too, but I don't always bother to log in.
(And my skin is fairly thick, but I am not particularly fond of faecal references.)
I saw a comparison on stills between AV1 and JPEG [xiph.org], and in my opinion, JPEG is clearly superior.
Huh... Are you sure you're using it right? The jpeg for the first image shown, 'Crepuscular Rays', looks awful to me. Anything with sky in it looks awful. Like 'Air Force Academy Chapel'.
AV1's failure mode is blur, JPEG's is blocky. I'll always take the blurry image over those blocks. The chapel image is full of JPEG's mosquitoes too.
Look at 'Nestor' (the parrot). That's the blockiest parrot with distorted colours I've seen.
I'd be hard pressed to find a single image in that comparison that looks decent as JPEG. (Though admittedly, they have cranked the compression up to eleven.)
I'm curious. I see perlbrew recommended a lot. What does perlbrew achieve that a regular local Perl installation wouldn't? It's trivial to install a custom Perl version locally on *nix.
If you are using Perl on your front end, you will get dependency hell as your server updates things arbitrarily. Perl breaks super-frequently due to the move from manual updates to automatic updates of third party libraries/ports. Thus if you don't update Perl and everything that uses Perl at the same time, mass-breakage. Thus "Don't update Perl you moron"
I've been a Perl user for fifteen years, and I honestly don't get what you are trying to say here. Neither Perl nor its modules update automatically, and they never have.
Not to mention having to exactly preserve the white-space when copying any code around
The grey beards on Slashdot continually bring this up. I have this yet to be an actual problem, ever. Are you guys that inept at copy and pasting?
I don't like Python (or rather, I don't like its One True Language status), but I never use that argument against it. If I copy some code from the interwebs, it doesn't go through the clipboard. Instead, I use the keyboard and rewrite it to match my style.
And in the case I'm copypasting code from one function to another and I need to adjust its indents, there's always vi's < and > commands.
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Has it occurred to you that maybe they are [listening to their users]? Believe it or not, people have different opinions about what they want out of Firefox.
Mozilla's bugzilla installation has a feature where people can vote on bugs (i.e. express their interest in getting a bug fixed or feature implemented), and this feature of the bug tracker has been there for 15+ years.
I can't remember the last time a bug with lots of votes was resolved.
In fact, I can't remember the last time a bug that was filed by a non-developer got resolved.
Here is a list of currently open bugs with at least 100 votes.
(My memory might be playing tricks on me, but I remember there being much more votes on bugs. Thousands, at least. The current number one has 571 votes. Perhaps they did a user purge which wiped out votes? It would certainly explain why the list is dominated by WebExtensions bugs -- a recent feature.)
"to drop an exploit" means "to make an exploit public", so that the exploit is now worthless (dropped) because whatever it was exploiting will be fixed.
Black hat lingo I guess.
Here's an example: https://www.zdnet.com/article/...
Ex-NSA hacker drops macOS High Sierra zero-day hours before launch
The real problem is first-past-the-post plurality voting.
True. You should finally abolish that silliness and join the rest of us with sane electoral systems.
In any of the early primaries, Trump would have lost every single head-to-head matchup
Huh? What? It's the party that decides how they elect their candidates. It does not require a constitutional amendment to change, does it?
Look, if you have an "Intel Inside" sticker on your laptop, everybody with half a brain will know you are employed by an intelligence agency and you store espionage data on your hard drive.
What did you think the sticker was for?
I live at 60 degrees north.
The summer time switch happens so that there is clear effect for maybe two weeks (i.e. there is sunlight longer), and once those two weeks have passed, it doesn't matter since the sun is up for so long anyway.
The increase in sunlight is really rapid, summer time or no summer time.
The first AMD chip with SSE2 support was the Athlon 64 'Clawhammer', released in late 2003.
This is a rerun, actually.
With reruns, the former TV watchers will feel right at home on the Internet too.
I was under the impression that GVFS had been deprecated for many many years already too. We're talking about 2010 or so.
Oh wait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
GnomeVFS was the original project, and got replaced with GVFS, it seems.
I knew the answer but couldn't give it.
Of course you could!
Unless the question is locked or protected, anybody -- even unregistered users -- can post an answer.
What you couldn't do was post a comment to the question. But comments are not answers. You are not supposed to post answers as comments.
I'd prefer the compromise to be a 3:2 ratio. I'm just afraid the last laptop sold with that ratio was a Macintosh fifteen years ago.
4:3 is too high (for a laptop), 16:10 is passable, but 3:2 (15:10) would be about right.
'S' in Japanese means 'sadist'.
Like 'M' means 'masochist'.
So I presume it's a sadist mode or something.
Just my opinion. You don't have to call it retarded just because you disagree with it.
I like most ACs and would like them to be a bit more visible when worthwhile.
Besides, if everyone with mod points browsed at -1 as recommended most abuses would be corrected for.
Yeah, that would be nice.
People sometimes (IMHO) abuse their mod points by modding an AC down to -1 despite no clear reason why the post should be -1.
-1 should be reserved for the GNAA spam and other disgusting things.
Just leave the things be at +0 even if you don't agree with them. Getting visibility as an AC is difficult thing: most people browse at +1 so the AC posts are hidden already. A negative score makes them even more hidden.
Didn't Word etc have the same bug, about five years ago?
DLL preloading attack was what it was called. You could drop a Word document into the same directory with a malicious DLL file, and if you double-clicked that document, Word would load the DLL instead of the system one.
If your program doesn't pass a fully qualified path to LoadLibrary/LoadLibraryEx... well, it uses the system path to search for it.
Very well. I see your point now, and I can see the extra detail in JPEG, but the artefacts (and sometimes, discolouration) disturb me so much that I honestly cannot judge it to be the better format.
(By 'blur' I did indeed mean a lack of detail. It was a poor word choice.)
Needless to say, the samples are all compressed heavily enough to make the comparison artificial -- no real world user, I hope, would use that high a compression -- and I would be interested in a comparison that uses a file size 2-4 times larger to make it more fair, perhaps.
Hi. I'm not a Rust supporter, I don't know anything about it except that it came from Mozilla, and I did not attack the person I was replying to.
It was merely a friendly suggestion, and I see two mods agreed with my message.
I do have an account, and this time I decided to post under it. I suppose I could have used it for my earlier post too, but I don't always bother to log in.
(And my skin is fairly thick, but I am not particularly fond of faecal references.)
I saw a comparison on stills between AV1 and JPEG [xiph.org], and in my opinion, JPEG is clearly superior.
Huh... Are you sure you're using it right? The jpeg for the first image shown, 'Crepuscular Rays', looks awful to me. Anything with sky in it looks awful. Like 'Air Force Academy Chapel'.
AV1's failure mode is blur, JPEG's is blocky. I'll always take the blurry image over those blocks. The chapel image is full of JPEG's mosquitoes too.
Look at 'Nestor' (the parrot). That's the blockiest parrot with distorted colours I've seen.
I'd be hard pressed to find a single image in that comparison that looks decent as JPEG. (Though admittedly, they have cranked the compression up to eleven.)
That's Epic MegaGames.
You know, the ones that have been around since the 1990s. Jazz Jackrabbit, anyone? Unreal Tournament. Gears of War.
They release one free-to-play title and suddenly they're a "Free Game Company"?
I think you fucked up your use of the ternary operator in your OP.
If you're throwing away its result, you're doing it wrong.
You never need an assignment inside the ternary. It always belongs on the outside.
An MBTI or IQ test very accurately measures... your ability to take an MBTI or IQ test.
...I didn't know that an MBTI test required skill. What does being better at an MBTI test mean?
I thought it was just a way to pigeonhole your personality into sixteen categories...
(ISTP myself...)
Because not one, but two (!) Twitter users apologised.
If that's not news, I don't know what is.
I'm curious. I see perlbrew recommended a lot. What does perlbrew achieve that a regular local Perl installation wouldn't? It's trivial to install a custom Perl version locally on *nix.
If you are using Perl on your front end, you will get dependency hell as your server updates things arbitrarily. Perl breaks super-frequently due to the move from manual updates to automatic updates of third party libraries/ports. Thus if you don't update Perl and everything that uses Perl at the same time, mass-breakage. Thus "Don't update Perl you moron"
I've been a Perl user for fifteen years, and I honestly don't get what you are trying to say here. Neither Perl nor its modules update automatically, and they never have.
Not to mention having to exactly preserve the white-space when copying any code around
The grey beards on Slashdot continually bring this up. I have this yet to be an actual problem, ever. Are you guys that inept at copy and pasting?
I don't like Python (or rather, I don't like its One True Language status), but I never use that argument against it. If I copy some code from the interwebs, it doesn't go through the clipboard. Instead, I use the keyboard and rewrite it to match my style.
And in the case I'm copypasting code from one function to another and I need to adjust its indents, there's always vi's < and > commands.
You don't have to carry the alt.binaries.* groups, you know.
Almost no free servers do.