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Microsoft's Edge and Bing: A Remarkable Turnaround Story(liatbenzur.com)
1 points by cpeterso 3y ago|0 comments
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by cpeterso 3y ago
What would be the most practical range for a hypothetical 1-bit floating point type (float1_t)? Zero and one? Zero and infinity? NaN and infinity?
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Firefox Android 120 (release date November 21) will remove the limited list of extensions, allowing extension developers to mark any of their extensions on addons.mozilla.org as Android compatible. Then someone can test whether Firefox desk
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I also listen to pink noise or rain sounds on headphones throughout my work day. I worry about the side effects of listening to random noise for so long, but I continue (not loudly) because it effectively masks my tinnitus (and helps with m
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Why would RISC-V servers not want to support compressed instructions? I imagine compressed instructions would improve code memory locality, perhaps at the cost of some instruction decode overhead. On the flip side, Minimax is a RISC-V desig
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by cpeterso 3y ago
All the code you need to build Firefox for Linux, macOS, or Windows is in one Mercurial repo: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/ The repo is also mirrored on GitHub for convenience, though PRs are not accepted thr
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Issues for unsupported platforms would be closed (RESOLVED WONTFIX) but they wouldn’t be deleted. Bugzilla’s default search songs only return open bugs. Here’s a search for all bugs with OS = “BeOS”. Maybe one of them is your bug? https:&#
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by cpeterso 3y ago
This was a bug in the Gecko engine, which was used in Netscape 6 and the Mozilla Suite (Navigator and Communicator) before Firefox was created (in response to Mozilla Suite bloat). Gecko still uses the same Bugzilla bug tracker.
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Projects Innovating Around RISC-V(thechipletter.substack.com)
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Demo-driven development (2021)(rubick.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
If you read more than that post’s title, you will see that it’s calling for alternatives to deplatforming.
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Apple mulled replacing Google with DuckDuckGo as search engine in private mode(fortune.com)
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Lessons from Bootstrapped Companies Founded by Software Engineers(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
The short film on Wernquist's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiPmgW21rwY
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Accordion Editing and Apple Picking: Early Generative-AI User Behaviors(nngroup.com)
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Demo-Driven Development (2021)(rubick.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
> Assuming any image or audio stream is available on the internet (not true but very close), you can have a super large compression by replacing the media by their url. That reminds me of the "Dropship" utility: to save server
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I shared your problem report with a Firefox engineer. (I'm a TPM on the Firefox Android team.) If you email me your Firefox's about:support information (cpeterson at mozilla dot com), I will pass it along to the engineer. Had yo
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I'm surprise Apple doesn't, even unofficially, upstream fixes to Homebrew before a new macOS version is released. Why let Homebrew break for so many macOS users on day 0? I know Apple is secretive about unreleased products, but th
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by cpeterso 3y ago
FWIW, I think I just experienced a similar problem when updating Firefox Nightly from 119 to 120 (on macOS): I see light mode instead of my non-default theme, even though about:addons shows it is still selected. Update: I hit bug https:&#x
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Sounds like you were just updated from Firefox ESR 102 to 115. However, Firefox’s default theme hasn’t changed. It should still be “System theme - auto”, which selects a light or dark Firefox theme based on your OS’s dark mode setting.
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SafeStop: A New App Seeks to Transform Traffic Stops(forbes.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Suggested alternative names: “rooms” or “rumor”.
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Neuralink’s First-in-Human Clinical Trial Is Open for Recruitment(neuralink.com)
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A Blindingly Obvious Solution to the Fake News Dilemma (2021)(stevemcc.medium.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
A screenshot of (an ominous excerpt from) the basement message is in the article’s “iOS 17” section: “Hey Mom, I figured out what all that noise coming from the basement is.”
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Interesting that their “money” type doesn’t allow fractional cents or track the currency. And the only collection type is a fixed-sized list. I can imagine a lot of other useful base types that would be useful for laws about the real world,
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AI chatbots were tasked to run a tech company(businessinsider.com)
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Communicative Agents for Software Development [PDF](arxiv.org)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Unity plan pricing and packaging updates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37481344

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