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by bhauer 7y ago
This is "mobile-first" mentality in a malignant retroactive form, where it is taking away functionality and behavior that is already established in the desktop environment to better match user expectations set in the mobile space.
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Real-world HTTP performance benchmarking, lessons learned [video](youtube.com)
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by bhauer 7y ago
RIP to the actor my family called "Brother Rutger."
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by bhauer 7y ago
I feel the author was struggling to find a suitable anecdote to open the story. And this one seems a bit far-fetched, perhaps even exaggerated by Mr. Kelly as a means of illustrating the hassle of curtailing the surveillance apparatus of G
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TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Round 18(techempower.com)
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by bhauer 7y ago
Same. I am really picky about performance, and I've never seen anything but instantaneous response from collapsing comments. I just tried it right now on a few example threads from the home page and confirmed that it's instantan
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by bhauer 7y ago
And, since it's a Mozilla product, you can self-host it: https://github.com/mozilla/send
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by bhauer 7y ago
Sorry, this is probably a bit simplistic, but I am curious: How likely is this to affect embedded devices? E.g., hardware firewalls, routers, IoT devices that all use a Linux kernel?
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by bhauer 7y ago
I am as free market as they come. I don't consider Google a monopoly. I figure many "free market people" define a monopoly pretty strictly. They're not forcing me to use their browser, search engine, maps, email, or ma
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by bhauer 7y ago
The investment in speed and other user benefits was a loss-leader for the goal of increased control. The speed and other benefits were indeed a net positive for users (and motivated Mozilla to focus on performance in Firefox) but they were
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by bhauer 7y ago
I think that's right, and it's compounded by the additional problems California creates such as occupational licensing hurdles. From the article: > She worked as a therapist in other states, but a move to California required
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by bhauer 7y ago
Or a Surface Pro / Surface Go.
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by bhauer 7y ago
What? > We know our smartphones, Nests and Alexas collect data, and we’ve come to accept an implicit contract: We trade personal information for convenience. With cars, we have no such expectation ... What carmakers are doing with the c
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by bhauer 7y ago
I put one together for TFB [1] a little while ago and used the prefers-color-scheme media feature in anticipation of it being supported more broadly. I'm super happy to see that added to Firefox. [1] https://www.techempower
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by bhauer 7y ago
Sounds fun, though I would recommend my old friend's FreeZe Dried Terminal as the terminal program on the ST side.
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by bhauer 7y ago
I'm also interested in why existing adds-ons are failing to run due to this problem. (There was a similar question in another thread about the issue here at HN.) I understand why an add-on update or new installation would be prevent
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by bhauer 7y ago
At least with the web UI, you can mute the auto-playing video and subsequent auto-playing videos will remain muted.
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by bhauer 7y ago
I am looking forward to the Librem 5. I am concerned about the philosophy of "avoiding preferences" since deep control and customization of phone and application behavior is one of the draws of something like the Librem 5. I woul
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by bhauer 7y ago
The Axios Harris poll [1] as a general matter is pretty interesting. I am surprised at Amazon's position among the tech firms. [1] https://theharrispoll.com/axios-harrispoll-100/#2019-ranking...
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by bhauer 7y ago
Ha! Like I said, "minor." And actually, more seriously, the reputation push-back on Facebook is finally reaching levels where laypeople are picking up on it. There's still a huge amount of ground to cover, but laypeople are
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by bhauer 7y ago
It's not as difficult as you've been lead to believe. But if you have no experience with administering servers, the initial learning curve could be significant. The upsides, sharing many of the common features of all self-hosting
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by bhauer 7y ago
> If it is a poor service, you can (and should) fault people for using it. Agreed. There should be some give and take, some minor reputation at stake. It's healthy to have some people applying back-pressure against popularity.
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by bhauer 7y ago
We are a relatively small company and we operate our own mail server, mostly out of a shared belief in data privacy among myself and our staff. We self-host most of our tooling (mail, internal chat, Gitlab, CI/CD, and so on). It turn
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by bhauer 7y ago
It really depends on your interpretation of the following clip [1]. He says "feature complete" by later this year, but then says "feature complete... to the degree that the person in the car does not need to pay attention&qu
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by bhauer 7y ago
Wait, you can play M.U.L.E. with paddles? I've never seen that. It's usually four joysticks.
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by bhauer 8y ago
M.U.L.E. might be the most well-conceived and well-executed game for replay-ability and enduring enjoyment given the hardware limitations of the 8-bit era. It had/has the advantage of allowing up to 4 human players to participate, whi
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by bhauer 8y ago
I want a phone-sized Windows 10 ARM device that runs desktop-class software such as this version of Firefox when docked (and adapts to mobile capabilities when undocked, as a responsive web-app does). Although not Windows, Purism seems the
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by bhauer 8y ago
Very interesting! We have wanted to do a similar conversion from the results data in our TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks [1] to energy efficiency. I've wanted to go as far as converting watt-hours to some average carbon emission rate
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by bhauer 8y ago
Some friends and I used to have gatherings to set up MIDI-rings and play MIDI-Maze for hours. I'm having difficulty remembering, but I think we sometimes had as many as eight players. The more players, the more likely the dreaded &qu
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by bhauer 8y ago
Agreed. I feel the key word in dealing with exceptions is "exception," meaning something uncommon, which is a foreign concept in some codebases, where exceptions are used as routine flow-control. Throwing an exception in Java is

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