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by aednichols 3y ago
Yeah, the current yearly contract payment they get from Google seems to remove any sense of urgency or need to grow market share. I obviously don’t know the details but I haven’t heard of performance incentives or anything, because if Firef
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by aednichols 3y ago
DuckDuckGo has billboards. Mozilla has money. I think share growth is expressly a non-goal from Mozilla leadership, judging by some of the other comments.
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by aednichols 3y ago
Plenty of Firefox users do not actually care about free & open and they're the ones who we lost in the greatest numbers. Recognizing and addressing their needs is important.
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by aednichols 3y ago
There was a massive grassroots Firefox campaign in the aughts. It was very successful at growing share and I was proud to participate. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36760016
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by aednichols 3y ago
I was a diehard Firefox user in the aughts, running a bunch of extensions and recommending it to people. I switched to Chrome the first day it became available, because it was just so much faster. You don't need a monopoly or advertisi
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by aednichols 3y ago
Fiber is rarely the only service, because just about everywhere that gets fiber also has DOCSIS due to the prevalence of cable TV. So it might be because of competition more than anything.
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by aednichols 3y ago
It is not just an issue of deceptive marketing. If the FCC intervenes minimally and just mandates a data cap disclosure (that most won’t read), you will still be stuck with a cap.
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by aednichols 3y ago
How do I choose between Rocky and Almalinux? Or is it just not a big enough difference to worry about?
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by aednichols 3y ago
Well said. > If there was an annoying person then followed you around the mall, taking note of everything you bought so they could sell that list to the other stores in the mall for a profit, would you let them? I use a credit card inste
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by aednichols 3y ago
Look up the “I still don’t care about cookies” browser extension. I can definitely see why people want to have the choice, but I simply don’t care and don’t want to be interrupted.
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by aednichols 4y ago
All WD Red Plus and Red Pro drives are CMR, and span from 1 TB to 22 TB.
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by aednichols 4y ago
Might be part of the explanation but I'm surprised every time I see European anecdata online like: > The product wasn't what I wanted but I can't return it to the shop because it is not defective. Maybe the retail environm
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by aednichols 4y ago
Noticing defects while underway has been automated by trackside detectors for decades, ever since the removal of the caboose and associated crewman. In this case, we know the detector went off as designed, and what happened - or did not hap
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by aednichols 4y ago
I am amused by how much remixing of facts is happening. On Reddit, I learned that the railroad was negligent for not replacing the rails since the Civil War.
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by aednichols 4y ago
We do know that the crew was notified of the hot axle by an automatic defect detector. I don't think we know yet what their reaction was. If they didn't brake... then the brake technology had no effect. If they did brake, more sop
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by aednichols 4y ago
[Also at Broad] Must be a US resident except for exceptional cases (e.g. world-renowned scientist).
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by aednichols 4y ago
Hey, that's my project! (And geoffjentry is my former boss.) Nice to hear the praise, thank you. The project has changed a lot over time and inevitably left some disappointed people filing Github issues (CWL, non-cloud backends, etc).
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by aednichols 4y ago
1. I'm on the product engineering side rather than data, but from what I know, Scala is still heavily entrenched. New projects are all in Java; other languages are effectively disallowed. 2. I learned a fair amount in the 2017-2019 tim
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by aednichols 4y ago
Current DSPer since 2017 and broadly agree with OP.
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by aednichols 4y ago
Current Broad SWE with 5 years’ tenure. Feel free to ask any questions. I’m in the “bunch of software people together” department so it’s not as insular or PI driven as working in a lab. I still mostly like the role but it has become more g
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by aednichols 5y ago
Seeing the same problem with my M1 Air and Airport. It works from boot until the first time I put the computer to sleep. Please consider filing a bug report with Apple via Feedback Assistant referencing my feedback FB9723470. Maybe they can
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by aednichols 5y ago
Thanks for the shoutout. Cromwell/Terra developer here in an informal capacity, can answer Qs.
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by aednichols 7y ago
We built everything ourselves. The parser in particular was written in-house by a Person Who No Longer Works Here who was a parser enthusiast (Conway’s law). If we were starting from scratch today I would think we would use an off the shelf
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by aednichols 7y ago
I have no specific experience with compilers (I missed the chance to take the class in college due to scheduling conflicts). My current day job, at a research nonprofit, is working on a system whose behavior is driven by an external DSL. I