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by bzbarsky 8y ago
"poverty" in this case is not "below the US poverty line". "poverty", when used in this context, means failure to satisfy the physiological layer of Maslow's hierarchy of needs: starvation, lack of decent
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> What is an actual phenomenon that is well modeled by a poisson process? Radioactive decay. Collisions of fluid molecules. Unstimulated (i.e. not in a laser) photon emission due to electron transitions in an atom. Lots of pretty memo
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
If you send XHTML with the XHTML MIME type, the tags are case-sensitive. If you send it as "text/html"... well, then presumably you're relying on XHTML 1.0 Appendix C and letting browsers parse your XHTML as HTML. And
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
For what it's worth, I don't understand why you're being downvoted... :( I just upvoted you. I agree that the optimal solution would be for local governments to not rely on Google like this. What's not clear to me is
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> There's freedom not to use Google services. Using Google services is now required by many public schools in the US. That's where all the homework is posted, for example. Now in the US there's freedom to not attend publ
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Firefox crash reports include the contents of registers and a few instructions around the instruction pointer. If the crash is in compiled code, not JIT code, you also know where in the binary you were and can get symbols from a symbol ser
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
It's rare in young healthy-acting people. For example, http://www.sca-aware.org/sca-news/aha-releases-2015-heart-an... says that the incidence is 0.24 per 100k annually for high school athletes in Minnesota. Extr
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
You computer? Not sure. Computers in general? A noticeable fraction of Firefox crash reports are due to single-bit memory flips.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Based on a quick look through https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1319203 it looks like the entry stub is generated by the JIT itself. So no, the entry stub is not written in C++. It gets output by the JIT as p
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Russian doesn't borrow heavily? There's a ton of borrowing from French in Russian.... I hadn't appreciated quite how much until I started learning French.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I suggest reading https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/09/07/an-exorbitant-burden/ for a counterargument. The harm is not just export competitiveness; it's also other countries being able to export their
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Actually, CORS protects both. If CORS aimed to only protect users, there would be no need for a preflight at all. The only reason preflights exist is to protect services from receiving requests they might really not expect (e.g. malformed
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
In fairness, what we have right now is 48-bit addressing, not 64-bit. I've already run into cases of programs figuring that a "64-bit" address space is basically infinite and running out of address space by trying to have ten
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The reason NaN-boxing is popular for JS is that the only numeric type in JS (per spec, though JITs can sometimes improve on this) is 64-bit IEEE float, and it sure is nice if your value format can represent those directly without requiring
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Though note that at least according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie#Nobel_Prizes it took Pierre Curie objecting Marie being excluded from the nomination to get the Nobel committee of the time to acknowledg
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> or the patient would be responsible for the amount over the coverage Medicare's current terms don't allow that. If you accept Medicare and charge more than 15% over the Medicare price, you stop being eligible for reimburseme
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The article was making it sound like later is better. Maybe because that way you can drop the kids off on the way to work and then have more work time in the afternoon while they're still in school? But I suspect it's more likel
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Where do you live that they don't? ;) My high school (in Maryland) started at 7:25. The middle school in my town in Massachussetts now starts at 7:40.
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> If they can't cope now, how will they cope then? Elementary school students (especially in the early grades; it's less of a problem for the 10-11 year olds) typically need someone to help them get out the door in the morning
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Google does a lot of UA sniffing, and serves different sites to different browsers. The sites served to non-Chrome receive less QA resources, as far as I can tell, and are often buggy in various ways. Simply spoofing the Chrome UA in Firef
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
llvm is not an order of magnitude better than gcc as a compiler.
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Explore the immersive web with Firefox Reality(blog.mozilla.org)
15 points by bzbarsky 8y ago|1 comments
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WebRender on in Firefox Nightly for Windows 10 Nvidia(groups.google.com)
2 points by bzbarsky 8y ago|0 comments
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
In a DOM tree, any live node in the tree needs to keep the entire tree alive. Which means you either need some sort of garbage collection setup, or reference counting (with cycle collection), or some sort of indirection where you really hol
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The problem is that in practice things that implement RFC3986 do random things with stuff that is invalid instead of rejecting it, in an attempt to comply with Postel's law. So, again in practice, the security consequence of implementi
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
mozjs was a pretty old codebase with some design decisions that made sense in the mid-90s but don't make sense now baked into the API. The API needed to change to support things like a generational garbage collector. The set of needed
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I'm curious: what does about:memory have to say about the breakdown of that 2.3GB?
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The site bug wasn't "sites looping through non-existent lists if and only if they need to interact with a plugin". It was sites trying to detect whether Flash is installed by looping over the list, deciding it's not ins
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Right, but so are parental income and parental achievement. And last I checked, there is a strong correlation between maternal educational achievement and child educational achievement even after controlling for various things including wea
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Cloudflare is going to have a huge list of internal stuff used by Firefox Nightly users By Firefox Nightly users who agree to be in the study, yes?

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