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The two-value syntax of the CSS Display property(hacks.mozilla.org)
4 points by bzbarsky 7y ago|0 comments
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Firefox has an entire team dedicated to developer tools, fwiw. I'm not sure whether your suggestion was "one or two more, in addition to the 7 or 8 already working on it", or "one or two more, instead of the 0 working o
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
All traffic laws are state-by-state (or even more local) in the US, in general. In practice, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on_red#North_America everywhere in the US has had right turn on red unless ot
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The intermediary language is not English, but due to the way the training set is constructed (pairs of texts in various languages, with the vast majority of pairs having English as one of the languages, is my understanding) it can be very h
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> Before Mozilla's drama with DoH, which app(s) did that? Chrome, for one?
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The selection processes for the real Nobels differ significantly in their organization, for what it's worth, though it's mostly Peace vs all the others... In particular, for the Peace prize the Norwegian Parliament appoints a 5-p
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Nothing, since they are disconnected, so there's a voltage across the gap but not enough to spark. And you don't care precisely what the voltage is, because there's nothing happening with it. But if you don't disconnect
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
There is no legislation against it where I am (Massachusetts), and there is still very limited demand for it because of the pricing. > Most anybody would spend $500 extra on a 30k system for guaranteed power during blackouts. To be clear
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I know a number of college professors. Of the ones who have had to use Blackboard (always imposed from above; they are not being given a choice about adopting it), I have yet to meet one who likes it. They definitely do not perceive its U
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Solar is different from a generator, in that a generator is already producing AC, and as long as it produces a reasonable frequency and waveform you're good. Solar produces DC, which you then need to convert to AC, and the inverters t
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
They're in bankruptcy proceedings, no? Hiring more staff in that situation might be difficult. This is really a situation where bad incentives were created (because as far as I can tell the California state government is pretty bad at
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I'm by no means an expert, but my understanding is that China's debt problem is not external debt, but internal debt. To put what the more negative takes are saying in US-related terms it's as if the mortgage-lending practic
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> It is absurd that a judge would knowingly make a judgement that a higher court will overturn. If the judge makes the ruling based on previous rulings made by the higher court, while knowing that the higher court is likely to now overtu
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Async-Await Hits Beta(blog.rust-lang.org)
3 points by bzbarsky 7y ago|0 comments
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
To be fair, that's a problem with GOTO as well (which JS doesn't have, yes); you don't have to go all the way to COMEFROM to get that.... That said, with JS you can't know the overall control flow even one you have the A
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I'm not sure I quite see the analogy to COMEFROM. The "problem" with COMEFROM is that at the "target" location (the one control comes from) there is no in-source indication of the control flow transfer. So what loo
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> You can also earn money just by inheriting a large pile and hiring someone who manages it. Just to be clear, in this situation what is going on is that you are holding the right to call on some resources (i.e. money) but are not exerci
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
They could, and they do. That said, they don't have infinite time, and if, as in this case, the upstream fix would: (1) be pretty involved and (2) be very likely to get regressed because upstream doesn't have the capability to run
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
This presupposes that all money, and in general all resources, including labor, belongs to the state (or society) except that which is explicitly allowed to people. While that is a coherent point of view, it has some really unpalatable impl
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> Get energy companies to invest in not-coal and not-natural gas, sure You mean like Exxon Mobil is doing (see https://seekingalpha.com/article/4126346-exxon-mobils-renewa... )? Or like Chevron is doing? Or BP? Al
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
There is a Coriolis force here too; it's just much smaller than the centrifugal force. Consider a plane flying at ground level along the equator at groundspeed velocity v in the direction of the Earth's rotation. In the Earth&#x2
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Not sure whether that was meant as a joke or not, but the difference is which term is real and which is imaginary, not the order of the terms...
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
I can't speak to JSC, but at least SpiderMonkey has had memory optimizations that are equivalent to the ones described here (e.g. discarding cold-function bytecode) for a while... I agree that it would be interesting to have more comp
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Do you ever use wifi in a coffeeshop or hotel? Because if you do, at that point they are your "ISP" for purposes of this discussion. Do you still trust them more than Cloudflare? (For a desktop machine, obviously this is not an i
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
The Helios probes reached those speeds by starting out much slower than that and then falling toward the sun, speeding up in the process. To actually hitch a ride with another object you have to match their velocity _and_ their location at
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
They can, but of course the mapping is not always 1-1.
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
Zooming that graph out to start in 1980 shows that there is a trend there that did not start in 2009 but closer to 2000. Also, that specific graph is of limited utility because it is the over-16 labor force participation rate, not the prime
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> Every single Uber driver I've ever asked does it as a full-time job There's an interesting statistical effect here. Let's say there are 50 Uber drivers. 10 of them are doing it full-time; the others are doing it 5 hours
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by bzbarsky 7y ago
> Anyone can resolve the same hostnames that you are resolving Yes, but your ISP (including "that coffee shop whose wifi you're using" in ISP here) can't necessarily tell which hostnames you are resolving, if you use
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Caniuse and MDN compatibility data collaboration(hacks.mozilla.org)
14 points by bzbarsky 7y ago|0 comments

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