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by bzbarsky 8y ago
You can log all property accesses on an object, e.g. for testing purposes. For example, see https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/da499aac682d0bbda5... (or at https://github.com/w3c/web-p
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> On the other every model of iPad/iPhone on the same OS version should have the same fingerprint Not quite. For example, they might be on different networks, have different zoom levels set, etc. > Doesn't Safari do this al
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
I have too, and I can too. Though one of those was a bank that turned out to be a showstopper; I have to flip the pref, then flip it back every time I interact with them. Not some thing I can ask "normal" users to do. It also tu
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> when js only use 1. That's not true with web workers. And "How many workers should I spin up?" is a common question people actually using them want to answer... I'm highly sympathetic to reducing fingerprinting att
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> that's not working in latest Chrome Oh, I was talking about Firefox. Chrome's tab management is ... much worse. I also typo'd. "* foo" searches bookmarks with "foo" in them. "% foo" searc
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> I find myself tabbing through half of a dozen tabs to get where I'm going Why are you tabbing at all? If you type "* foo" in the url bar (without hitting enter), you will get a list of tabs whose url or title includes &
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> who pays for maintenance? In the failure case, no one. That is, government funds get assigned to building new roads in preference to maintaining existing ones.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Why do you think a small business can weather a downturn better than a big one? That's not the argument. The argument is that more smaller businesses might reduce existential risk for the town even if the risk of individual busin
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Divorce rate is 53% in the US It depends on what you measure and how you measure it. Which exact measurement are you doing? For example, based on table 5 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/article&#x2F
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
For its target audience (browsers and web pages) it does.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Safari's third-party cookie blocking is not the same as Firefox's, last I checked. Firefox just blocks them. Safari blocks them unless you visited that site in a first-party context. Shipping the thing Firefox implements breaks
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
You can read the JS code. If it's trying to be sneaky, you _cannot_ understand it, in general. If you think you can, that is false confidence that is best gotten rid of.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
The only reason there is a URL standard in the WHATWG is that the IETF URL RFC didn't define error handling and this led to interop problems. So there was a need for a URL standard that _would_ define error handling. The IETF refused
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Scalability to large numbers of files and large numbers of changesets. For the large number of files one https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc... is one source. There's some earlier di
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> What are you saying is missing in the Git experience? A `git blame` that doesn't take forever to run. Especially in the face of file moves and renames.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Amusingly enough, git's scaleability is also not that great (e.g. worse than mercurial last I checked). The network effects are there, though.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Even, in Tunisia, to quote Wikipedia: "In 1948 the Jewish population was an estimated 105,000, but by 2013 only about 900 remained"... That said, the 2014 Tunisian constitution and its protections for freedom of religion was a hug
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Even if you go with a diaper service instead of washing them yourself, cloth can be cheaper than disposable. It depends on your local rates and the number of diapers you need per week; typically the more you need the cheaper a diaper servi
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Just for context: 1) Site isolation is not enabled in Chrome yet. 2) As far as I can tell, there are no plans to enable it in Chrome on Android even when it's enabled on desktop. Yes, this would mean SharedArrayBuffer on desktop but
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
TDP typically scales as somewhere between the cube and fourth power of the clock speed if you're pushing the envelope (in the sense of running at frequencies where further frequency increase also needs a voltage increase). So having 1
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
That's fair. Though I wonder how many people buy computers on ebay as opposed to dell.com or amazon.com or an actual brick-and-mortar store. That said, I suspect most people over the age of 35 or so can't read text at "norma
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Do you buy your laptop for screen real estate or for "small and not too heavy"? Because the latter is what most people buy for, as far as I can tell.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Presumably illegal in the sense of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_transmission_of_HIV (and note that in some jurisdictions "exposure", not just "transmission" is criminalized, per that wikip
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
The correct number for "defense" is 16-20% or so depending on how you count veterans' benefits. But again, it's worth asking yourself how much of that your neighbor is effectively allocating to "defense" and h
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Since you asked: No.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
The site of one of the banks I use relies on third-party cookies, because it outsources parts of the site functionality. Sites that put a checkout flow hosted on a different hostname in a subframe break. Some forms of "sign in with X&q
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
> Each Uint8Array comes with 200 bytes of overhead In V8. I believe the overhead is a lot lower in SpiderMonkey. I can't speak for other implementations.
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
I know it was meant to be a joke, about "foreign aid", but if you haven't seen https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/3/13/17096732/v... you should. Turns out voters aren'
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
The Apollo program cost, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_program , $25 billion in 1973 dollars, over 11 years. According to https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm tha
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by bzbarsky 9y ago
Yep. The most fun is when the spec has built-in security bugs. Especially when it only manifests in the interaction with a different spec.

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