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by dblohm7 7y ago
This was discussed by my political science prof when I took such a course, so I am willing to vouch for you on this. :-)
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> The new CEO has a degree in accounting. I bet he’ll do great. And, if Wikipedia is to be believed, once worked for GE!
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Your post accurately describes how I felt from grades 4 through 12. The only thing that got me through it was knowing that the better I did, the farther away I could get from it. Even then, I spent my final year gaming the system to earn th
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> circumventing the system DNS will cause problems for anyone who has explicitly configured DNS, such as corporate networks, schools, households that use DNS for security/adblocking/parental controls, etc. This is configurable
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> “Mr. Pierson did the right thing by elevating his concerns.” I doubt that Boeing would have been so gracious to Pierson if they had not already been waist-deep in shit.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
When I was a kid, it was all about catching the truck running a compaction cycle. As children of a mechanical engineer, my sister and I both found it fascinating.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
That's true, but AV tends to use the same sketchy and unreliable techniques to hook itself in that malware uses. Having benevolent intent doesn't make the software less buggy or less harmful. (I used to lead Mozilla's efforts
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> But to say that medication has no effect on its own is misleading. That's not what I was saying.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> things like websocket inspection aren't even in mainline FF yet Releasing with Firefox 71. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefoxs-new-websocket-ins...
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> In other words, you would need to use the drugs in combination with therapy to obtain good results. That's essentially the case with any depression medication.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Personally, I’m pleased by both!
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by dblohm7 7y ago
There is a subreddit devoted to these kinds of topics: https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromDebugging/
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by dblohm7 7y ago
That would be pretty easy to fix, TBH. Tup's author works for Mozilla, and Mozilla has the expertise to add that functionality. As always, it's a matter of will and resourcing.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Even though there are still bits of XUL in Firefox, the XUL tech itself has not been maintained along with the rest of Gecko. It was probably not in much of a better state in Firefox 56 than it was back when you were working with it.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
If you're into winter sports, check out the video of the local snowboarder that was linked from the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlc2G8Zsay4
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> which removes a bunch of things from Gecko. Not exactly; GeckoView is a clean interface for embedding Gecko in Android applications.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Yes, distributes packages work differently.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
That’s already been happening for quite some time now.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Go ahead and vote if you wish, but please do not add “me too” comments to our bug tracker.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Not uncommon in Canadian companies. cough Bombardier cough
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by dblohm7 7y ago
The low-level tools team consistently reports bugs against the upstream projects. I have no doubt that they did so during the course of this project.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Commercial displays.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Are his broken glasses just a prop at this point? Dude, you can buy new frames in Russia!
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Waterloo student housing has always been a mess. It doesn't help that the entire city has always been in denial of the fact that it is a university town. When I lived there between 2000-2005, the city has pretty lousy regulations regar
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by dblohm7 7y ago
The good news is that this is just the initial CoreAnimation work. Further improvements are in store.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
Not that the donations are not going to a good cause (they are [1]), but donations do not go to funding Firefox development. [1] https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/initiatives/
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by dblohm7 7y ago
> Are many users on HDDs these days? Yes, there are. They are not a niche cohort. EDIT: In fact, we have many more users with magnetic HDDs than who use userChrome.css. That tells you everything you need to know about this decision right
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by dblohm7 7y ago
My understanding is that Chrome is the outlier when it comes to font rendering.
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by dblohm7 7y ago
The C stubs for NT system calls are not included as part of libc. They are implemented in ntdll.dll, which is implicitly mapped into every process (except for the new picoprocesses as used by WSL).
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by dblohm7 7y ago
The story for extensions in Fenix has not been finalized yet.

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