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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Note that there is a difference between "publish all posts" and "deliver direct messages", and Twitter is blocking the latter as well, as far as I can tell.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
YouTube uses things like DASH, where they download pieces of the video from the server a bit at a time and feed into the browser's video pipeline. There's no single link to the entire video, necessarily; you have to piece togethe
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Sure, I use Firefox for Android as well. The "no one" was for ease of illustration; the general point is that Firefox market share on mobile is different from desktop and that this affects per-view share more than per-user share.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
> If there’s a standard, Chrome follows it. That happens to not be true all the time. Some examples off the top of my head: * https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=102719... points to vari
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
My understanding, and I could be totally wrong on this, is that at the time such an Android spin would not have been able to use things like Google's app store, and possibly things like Maps and whatnot, due to not having Google's
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Yes, this has been a long-running problem, and was the impetus for Mozilla's attempt at FirefoxOS/boot-to-Gecko. The current mobile situation is: * iPhone: can't run Firefox there at all, really. There's Firefox for iOS
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Note that StatCounter measures "page views", not "users". They're proportional if all users use the web an equal amount, but that last bit is just not true.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
> 4.1 billion internet users, firefox has 4% market share Note that the denominator for market share as measured by StatCounter is "page views", not "browser users". So for example, say you have 4.1 billion users, who
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Even now there are hardware architectures with non-8-bit bytes, typically DSPs.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
You missed: 3. Cases where Google doesn't follow standards. There are plenty. People are just coding to Chrome instead of standards, just like they coded to IE instead of standards. > This was not the case for IE6. It sure was. Fo
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Yes, exactly.
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Oh, there were market pressures, of a sort. The top writers and poets doing the translation were doing that because they were unable to get their own work published, due to not being considered ideologically aligned enough with the governm
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
She definitely drinks it in the Russian translations I have read....
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Hey, I have a fairly old Airport Express; the box says 2004. The physical "factory reset" button doesn't seem to work anymore, but it's in a ready-to-be-configured default state (I got it there by connecting it to a net
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
As far as I can tell, the 2013 law doesn't actually define "telematics" or "telematics data". This intiative does define the latter to be data that the car collects and phones home, and which the car itself may not
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
I'm not a fan of the smartphone app requirement (as opposed to, say, a web app requirement), not least because it presupposes ownership of a smartphone. But I _think_ the intent is for "normal people" to be able to know at l
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Well, I do hope the proposal to buy a Macbook so you can charge your phone was tongue-in-cheek. Because that's a pretty daft solution compared to buying https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHJA3AM/A/
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
The Macbook charger has a brick with a female USB-C end, and a male-to-male USB-C cable. Which you can unplug from the brick and plug in the USB-C-to-lightning cable, in theory. Now if you need to charge both, and you have the one-port Mac
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
I would be interested in how your perception of the author changes, or not, based on https://rootsofprogress.org/side-effects-of-technology
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
You're talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Other people are talking about the wider Israeli-Arab conflict, which has been closer to a cold war in the last couple of decades (modulo various training/funding for proxy o
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
I suspect the crux of the disagreement is whether the conflict is "Israel/Palestine", as you label it, or "Israel/Arab", as I suspect crusso labels it. The UAE/Bahrain peace deals are a big step for the l
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Do you know how the payment amount is determined? I don't, but other such things are often structured as revenue share agreements, in which case it would not be exactly "ads in a different product segment", but rather "a
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Google pays other companies (e.g. Apple) for the same thing: search engine placement. Obviously Apple has a business model outside of that deal, but do you feel that the payment to Apple is also a "subsidy"?
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
> Mozilla should have gotten a smaller amount last time due to falling behind in marketshare That assumes that the amount of money in the market stayed the same. But it didn't: the number of users of the internet grew. So it'
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
The article talks about that: the barriers currently go up when the water level is expected to be 130cm or more (above some mean level, I guess). St. Mark's floods at 90cm according to the article. When there was a 132cm tide, the bar
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
This is talked about in the article too: You do not have genes from all your ancestors, because any given person only contributes half their genes to their children. So you have to go much further back to find a point when someone's g
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
> none of his articles have citations They don't have page-level citations, but do note which books any given post is based on. The author is documenting their attempts to learn about the world. That means that yes, they don't
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
> but you ignored my point that the burn-chunks-of-random-stuff-for-heat setup is exactly what industry does I guess I don't see the relevance of that point to the article's point. They are just completely different topics. &g
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Global capital is the tail that wags the U.S. economic dog(carnegieendowment.org)
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Manslaughter can absolutely be intentional; hence "voluntary manslaughter". It generally needs to be unpremeditated and without active malicious intent, but can be self-defence, "in the heat of passion", etc that cause

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