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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Context matters. Per the other comments up-thread, the letter was a response to a request for help in advertising a specific book (Finnegan's Wake) that Joyce made of Wells. Not writing the letter and just not responding to the reque
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Good points. I had read the thread start as having the defense lawyers only present the parts of the video that support their case, not the full video, which as I understand it would not be OK. But yes, I don't know that anything pre
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
Also not a lawyer, but as I understand it, both the defense and the prosecution tell each other and the judge what evidence they plan to bring; unlike crime shows, you generally don't spring surprises in court. In this case the defens
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by bzbarsky 6y ago
What is the issue with Firefox's WebRTC support, apart from matching the standard and not the early non-standard thing that Chrome shipped and is now trying to unship?
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
And I'm aware of a bunch of companies that are explicitly not drawing on their available revolvers because the banks involved are not necessarily in a position to provide that liquidity right now... This is the issue with a systemic p
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Almost no one keeps 12 months of cash reserves. Apple, with is famous cash hoard, is around that mark.... I can't think of other large companies offhand that are.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> I have to fully quit the browser and restart it. You can use about:profiles and click the "Launch profile in new browser" button for the relevant profile. The UI is not amazing, and I would not recommend it to a non-techie g
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Thank you, that does sound like a reasonable setup!
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
To answer that first question: In August 2019, there were 500 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute according to < https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/> . It's probably more
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I think we might in fact have a different definition of "quickly", yes. I think we may also have different definitions of "entire product is hosed". If gmail is significantly worse to use (not "doesn't load&q
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Sure, I didn't say web apps are not frequently released. I just said that the claim that bug reports "always got fixed quickly" is false...
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
"Objective and Key Result". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKR
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> They always got fixed quickly when reported. Having been involved in a number of these reports, this is flat-out false. Basic "fix your CSS to not rely on this Chrome bug; here's the exact diff you want to make it work both
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
This is why people are also working on shipping ESNI, which will stop sending the DNS name in plaintext in the cert.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
No, I commented why the counterargument given is not actually a counterargument against the thing it claims to be arguing about.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I _really_ like the "martial statues" image there, along with the implication that the statues don't convey information about educational attainment... :)
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The argument as I've seen it presented was that a large part of the army was already moved up close to the border and in attack positions, and not set up for defensive operations. Which is why, the argument goes, there were so many so
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
FF is considering implementing something in this space, yes. Note that there are at least two proposals for how this could work: one that is already deployed via a polyfill on various sites and the Google one. They have various functional
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The reason to sell war bonds in a fiat money world, at a base level, is that you want to devote some resources to the war effort, and therefore those resources are not available to produce consumer goods. Now there are two options. Either
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
It's possible. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22356697
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
There's the "dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled" preference, which you can set to false in about:config. I don't know whether that's planned to stick around or whether it was added when the clipboard event support wa
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Web pages are in fact that bad. Testing just now: * https://www.cnn.com/ is 1.3MB of data. * https://www.nytimes.com . is 5MB of data. * https://www.reddit.com/ is 6MB of data. * https:/&#
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Ugh, I keep forgetting that HN's URL delimiter handling is completely broken.... Unfortunately I can't edit my comment at this point, but the link should have been https://19thlevel.blogspot.com/2012/08/
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I'd love to know more about the setup here. I am aware of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1595046 which is for cases when someone rejects a Promise with a non-Error (and non-DOMException, I suspect) objec
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The initial English translations of Verne _were_ considerably bowdlerized, sometimes with large chunks cut out or summarized in the interests of making them more "kids books" than adult ones. There are some modern translations tha
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Clearly not, if people are willing to hand out the same thing on paper. But they're not, for various reasons..
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> 12:10 AM Saturday in your device's time zone. Oh, I see. That explains things, thanks! And yes, time zones are not just one kind of bonkers; they're all sorts of bonkers. :)
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Trying to match up that claim with the claim of https://james.darpinian.com/satellites/?special=starlink that satellites should be visible at 12:10am this Saturday over Boston. 12:10am is nowhere close to dusk in Bost
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
It's not if society is generally structured around that, sure. But if the only way to find out what your homework is is a website, and that homework is posted as a multimegabyte PDF (this is how it's working for my kids, not a hyp
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Without diving into the substance of Damore's views, note the "off-the-clock" caveat.

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