a lot of those useful features were culled to make way for the multi-process stuff that's required for them to compete with Chrome on performance. Not actual performance (FF is close enough in that it doesn't matter) but perceived. FF's single threaded model means small responsiveness delays in the UI.
Plugins make that worse by occasionally holding up the UI to do their stuff. It's all very minimal, but if you install 2, 3, 5+ plugins it quickly gets to be a problem.
Chrome handles this by preempting your plugin all the time. That means your plugin's written from the ground up to deal with that and it makes plugin development a real pain. FF is doing that now and just about anything more complicated than a theme is gonna need full re-writes to work. I've been putting off that re-write because work life kinda kicked me in the rear for a while but eventually I'll need to do it.
Trump campaigned on a populist agenda too and backtracked on all of it. If be more impressed is he came out for something that's really on the table like Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill (HR 676)
""The bill asks the federal government to set aside $20 million in funding for organizations to use to look at the types of benefits programs individual workers could take with them from job to job."
look at the types of benefits programs? For fucks sake, can we please just have Medicare for All already and a proper safety net? We don't need exploratory committees. We already know what works and what doesn't.
we keep electing these yahoos but I know the answer: our entire political system was designed so they could get elected. People said the Electoral college was suppose to stop a demagogue like Trump but it's not. It's suppose to enable him. Sure, he talked scary populist rhetoric but when push came to shove he fell in line like anyone paying attention knew he would. Our entire system was designed by wealthy landowners in the 1800s to prevent democracy from taking away all the land they'd claimed for themselves.
Nobody likes partisan politics. But I think we're past that at this stage. The Republican party isn't even giving their constituents lip service any more. They're openly hostile at the Town Halls (if they're willing to have one at all). It's just crazy.
but to be fair Clinton moved the party hard right so he could form an alliance of social liberals and economic Right wingers (I refuse to call them "conservative", there's nothing conservative about the radical changes they propose).
they have to. Because it's taken as a truism in business that companies must do everything in their power up to the limits of legality to advance the shareholder's interests. As long as that belief is allowed to exist you'll get stuff like this. And I don't see it going away naturally. Short of the Federal Government stepping in and regulating that's just the way things will be. That's because any company that doesn't 'be evil' will get out competed by another that is. There are a few exceptions (Costco & QT come to mind) but they're not really 'public'. Both companies are majority owned by individuals and both have shareholders circling the current owners like buzzards waiting for them to die of old age and pass the company onto somebody less moral.
so I'm gonna say this: Why is it whenever something awful comes up it's always the Republicans front and center. Yeah, yeah, there's some blue dog Dems that'll vote for it, but none of them woulda had the gall (and the balls) to actually put a bill on the floor.
What I'm saying is this: both sides aren't the same. One is objectively worse. And every year we fail to call them on it they get a little bit worse as they realize they can get away with everything while people shout: "But both sides are bad!".
for money. Programming's one of them. The days when tech was dominated by people who wanted to be there are long gone. Outsourcing and Visa abuse mean employers can be choosy and demand a college degree for, well, everything. That same outsourcing drove mechanical engineers and other college grads into code monkeying positions the/. crowd used to get. I'm seeing more and more folks with no interest in code but a keen interested in a paycheck.
by mega corps. That's what "Small enough to drown in a bathtub" means. It's why it took our Federal Government stepping in to make the Civil Rights movement happen.
we subsidize the growing of unprofitable crops to ensure diversity. We subsidize specific behavior too (like crop rotation). Our food supply is heavily controlled by our government and largely for the better.
for something this critical. That's the part that shouldn't be left to the free market. We do the same with our food supply through subsidies. When stuff matters we don't leave it to the free market. If we did we'd still have dust bowls and food shortages.
we're getting squeezed out of traditional tech roles by H1-Bs. Most of us are clever enough so we move on to other roles. Same thing happened to engineers when all the factories went overseas.
to drown in a bathtub comes to mind. My experience is that nobody's really opposed to the government telling people what to do; just so long as they already wanted to do it.
Me? I see strong governments as inevitable; so instead of hunkering down and trying to make it go away I'm with Bernie et al and want to make it do good. It's like fire or, hell, nuclear power. Once it's out there you can't put the cat back in the bag. Better to just take control of it.
I always found their stuff cheaply made but expensive to buy. But a couple times I've seen something for a really good price and been tempted. Thanks Netgear, for ensuring I'm never tempted to buy anything again.
this kind of propaganda's been around since Hilter & Co. And they didn't invent it because they were geniuses, it was just because that was right around the time mass media of the kind we have today came into existence.
The Mega Corps own all of big media. There's a few little guys running off Youtube but they can be shut down anytime Google (another Mega Corp) wants.
This is perfectly sane because there's a massive amount of evidence of Russia running propaganda farms pushing specific messages over the internet. Our intelligence community has come right out and said they're doing this. None of this is unsubstantiated. Spend 20 minutes on google and you can prove that to yourself. There are tons of meticulously sourced articles about it.
Also, you're straw manning. We're not discussing vote rigging or coercion, we're discussing propaganda campaigns.
they were a dictatorship that borrowed socialist rhetoric to excuse their excesses. I know, I know, No True Scottsman and all that rot. But did you stop to think that people can, in fact, misrepresent their intentions? Here's another crazy thought: They can outright lie.
This is ridiculously well documented by our Intelligence Community. Yes. Yes they are. What the hell is wrong with our media that they can't just report facts anymore without questioning them. If I got shot and read about it in the paper the headline would probably be "Are balls of lead waging a war on rsilvergun?".
Look, I get it. Nobody likes to have a ruling class. But you've got one. You always will. That's because people pass money, property and other advantages to their children and those things build up over time. Then those children form groups, organizations and societies to protect and expand that wealth. It's always been this way and it will continue for the foreseeable future. These days the way it works is they form mega corps and sit on each other's board of directors.
Now, you've got two options. First, pretend the ruling class doesn't exist and ignore their influence. Second, form a large organization comprised of members of the working class who can counteract that influence by shear weight of numbers. We call that organization Government and we call the system that manages it Democracy. When it actively looks out for the interests of the working class we call it Democratic Socialism.
Think of it this way: Government is like a box of loaded rifles sitting out in the open. If you pretend the box isn't there somebody's gonna come along and pick up those rifles (e.g. your ruling class). The only real option is to pick one up yourself. But now you've got a different problem, everybody's armed to the teeth. So you've got to start making rules to keep them from shooting & looting. What I'm saying is, Government is a tool. It's a tool so useful that if you don't use it somebody else will. You're letting somebody else use that tool right now, and they're running roughshod over you with it.Please stop it. The rest of use don't have enough rifles to stand up without you.
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a lot of those useful features were culled to make way for the multi-process stuff that's required for them to compete with Chrome on performance. Not actual performance (FF is close enough in that it doesn't matter) but perceived. FF's single threaded model means small responsiveness delays in the UI.
Plugins make that worse by occasionally holding up the UI to do their stuff. It's all very minimal, but if you install 2, 3, 5+ plugins it quickly gets to be a problem.
Chrome handles this by preempting your plugin all the time. That means your plugin's written from the ground up to deal with that and it makes plugin development a real pain. FF is doing that now and just about anything more complicated than a theme is gonna need full re-writes to work. I've been putting off that re-write because work life kinda kicked me in the rear for a while but eventually I'll need to do it.
Trump campaigned on a populist agenda too and backtracked on all of it. If be more impressed is he came out for something that's really on the table like Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All bill (HR 676)
""The bill asks the federal government to set aside $20 million in funding for organizations to use to look at the types of benefits programs individual workers could take with them from job to job."
look at the types of benefits programs? For fucks sake, can we please just have Medicare for All already and a proper safety net? We don't need exploratory committees. We already know what works and what doesn't.
it was just training and companies were expected to do it.
we keep electing these yahoos but I know the answer: our entire political system was designed so they could get elected. People said the Electoral college was suppose to stop a demagogue like Trump but it's not. It's suppose to enable him. Sure, he talked scary populist rhetoric but when push came to shove he fell in line like anyone paying attention knew he would. Our entire system was designed by wealthy landowners in the 1800s to prevent democracy from taking away all the land they'd claimed for themselves.
within 3 sentences I'll read "will not replace humans" or some variations thereof. Does anyone really believe that?
Nobody likes partisan politics. But I think we're past that at this stage. The Republican party isn't even giving their constituents lip service any more. They're openly hostile at the Town Halls (if they're willing to have one at all). It's just crazy.
It did not end well. Blood, ketchup everywhere...
but to be fair Clinton moved the party hard right so he could form an alliance of social liberals and economic Right wingers (I refuse to call them "conservative", there's nothing conservative about the radical changes they propose).
they have to. Because it's taken as a truism in business that companies must do everything in their power up to the limits of legality to advance the shareholder's interests. As long as that belief is allowed to exist you'll get stuff like this. And I don't see it going away naturally. Short of the Federal Government stepping in and regulating that's just the way things will be. That's because any company that doesn't 'be evil' will get out competed by another that is. There are a few exceptions (Costco & QT come to mind) but they're not really 'public'. Both companies are majority owned by individuals and both have shareholders circling the current owners like buzzards waiting for them to die of old age and pass the company onto somebody less moral.
so I'm gonna say this: Why is it whenever something awful comes up it's always the Republicans front and center. Yeah, yeah, there's some blue dog Dems that'll vote for it, but none of them woulda had the gall (and the balls) to actually put a bill on the floor.
What I'm saying is this: both sides aren't the same. One is objectively worse. And every year we fail to call them on it they get a little bit worse as they realize they can get away with everything while people shout: "But both sides are bad!".
for money. Programming's one of them. The days when tech was dominated by people who wanted to be there are long gone. Outsourcing and Visa abuse mean employers can be choosy and demand a college degree for, well, everything. That same outsourcing drove mechanical engineers and other college grads into code monkeying positions the /. crowd used to get. I'm seeing more and more folks with no interest in code but a keen interested in a paycheck.
to understand there's a difference between socialism and fascism. There might be hope for you yet kiddo.
by mega corps. That's what "Small enough to drown in a bathtub" means. It's why it took our Federal Government stepping in to make the Civil Rights movement happen.
we subsidize the growing of unprofitable crops to ensure diversity. We subsidize specific behavior too (like crop rotation). Our food supply is heavily controlled by our government and largely for the better.
for something this critical. That's the part that shouldn't be left to the free market. We do the same with our food supply through subsidies. When stuff matters we don't leave it to the free market. If we did we'd still have dust bowls and food shortages.
we're getting squeezed out of traditional tech roles by H1-Bs. Most of us are clever enough so we move on to other roles. Same thing happened to engineers when all the factories went overseas.
to drown in a bathtub comes to mind. My experience is that nobody's really opposed to the government telling people what to do; just so long as they already wanted to do it.
Me? I see strong governments as inevitable; so instead of hunkering down and trying to make it go away I'm with Bernie et al and want to make it do good. It's like fire or, hell, nuclear power. Once it's out there you can't put the cat back in the bag. Better to just take control of it.
I always found their stuff cheaply made but expensive to buy. But a couple times I've seen something for a really good price and been tempted. Thanks Netgear, for ensuring I'm never tempted to buy anything again.
Just look at Google. Terrifying, just terrifying.
this kind of propaganda's been around since Hilter & Co. And they didn't invent it because they were geniuses, it was just because that was right around the time mass media of the kind we have today came into existence.
The Mega Corps own all of big media. There's a few little guys running off Youtube but they can be shut down anytime Google (another Mega Corp) wants.
This is perfectly sane because there's a massive amount of evidence of Russia running propaganda farms pushing specific messages over the internet. Our intelligence community has come right out and said they're doing this. None of this is unsubstantiated. Spend 20 minutes on google and you can prove that to yourself. There are tons of meticulously sourced articles about it.
Also, you're straw manning. We're not discussing vote rigging or coercion, we're discussing propaganda campaigns.
they were a dictatorship that borrowed socialist rhetoric to excuse their excesses. I know, I know, No True Scottsman and all that rot. But did you stop to think that people can, in fact, misrepresent their intentions? Here's another crazy thought: They can outright lie.
This is ridiculously well documented by our Intelligence Community. Yes. Yes they are. What the hell is wrong with our media that they can't just report facts anymore without questioning them. If I got shot and read about it in the paper the headline would probably be "Are balls of lead waging a war on rsilvergun?".
and it's ridiculously counter intuitive.
Look, I get it. Nobody likes to have a ruling class. But you've got one. You always will. That's because people pass money, property and other advantages to their children and those things build up over time. Then those children form groups, organizations and societies to protect and expand that wealth. It's always been this way and it will continue for the foreseeable future. These days the way it works is they form mega corps and sit on each other's board of directors.
Now, you've got two options. First, pretend the ruling class doesn't exist and ignore their influence. Second, form a large organization comprised of members of the working class who can counteract that influence by shear weight of numbers. We call that organization Government and we call the system that manages it Democracy. When it actively looks out for the interests of the working class we call it Democratic Socialism.
Think of it this way: Government is like a box of loaded rifles sitting out in the open. If you pretend the box isn't there somebody's gonna come along and pick up those rifles (e.g. your ruling class). The only real option is to pick one up yourself. But now you've got a different problem, everybody's armed to the teeth. So you've got to start making rules to keep them from shooting & looting. What I'm saying is, Government is a tool. It's a tool so useful that if you don't use it somebody else will. You're letting somebody else use that tool right now, and they're running roughshod over you with it.Please stop it. The rest of use don't have enough rifles to stand up without you.