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Oh, thanks for the update. I assumed it'd be an incremental departure and that things couldn't have changed so much in 12 years (given the complexity of the browser engines). Now that I've read more about the fork, I learned
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Yes, I think it was. I think some people used it to create custom "chromes" for Gecko, hence the confusion. edit: Funny enough, the continuation project for Prism was named "Chromeless": https://github.com&#x2
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I remember the good old times when Mozilla had a project named Chrome (yes) to (if my memory serves me correct) make building apps with gecko easier. edit: Probably misremembering, now that I searched for it. Yes "chrome" was (and
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IMHO, 2.5 good engines are enough (webkit, blink, gecko - in the sense that webkit and blink are very similar). We just need more really good browsers which use gecko.
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Very interesting. For my use cases, Gemini's responses beat Sonnet 3.7's like 80% of the time (gut feeling, didn't collect actual data). It beats Sonnet 100% of the time when the context gets above 120k.
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Or it could be just microservices. One larger feature affecting 100 repositories.
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I couldn't grasp the substance of the article, it's written by an LLM perhaps? Also, the navigation hijacking didn't help either.
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What's written in the article would have been a good summary of my feelings when WhatsApp, an application I cannot switch away from because of the network effects, decided to add an AI icon and then integrated AI in its search.
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Next step is gemini hosting Personal Home Pages.
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Examples just from today: Window snapping (or whatever it's called on mac) stops working until restart, keyboard type detection gets broken because it thinks my mouse is a keyboard so suddenly " and > are replaced, title bar di
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by egeozcan 2y ago
Last week, I switched to a Mac for the first time in my life after using Windows and Linux for around 30 years. Naturally, I hate a lot of things due to old habits, and the shortcuts constantly confuse me. But what really surprises me is th
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Defending against missiles is much harder than defending against planes (be it normal ones or stealth ones). But you're not wrong, as they were supposed to be good at both, and they failed miserably against missiles.
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Iran has been investing in low-frequency radars that are better at detecting stealth aircraft. Aldo the areas around Tehran and key nuclear facilities (like Fordow or Natanz) have particularly dense air defense coverage. Iran also has a goo
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Random idea: Couldn't Babel translate async code to callbacks?
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I have something similar as a simple PHP script on a shared hosting service. I can't PHP well anymore so it's probably the worst and most insecure code I've produced by a big margin. Does it do the job? Yes.
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> Playing coy about how long it takes to build a deck based on a sketch and current availability, while making cute wordplay about how ‘the deck has to be built before one can know what deck there was to build to begin with’…? Whatever,
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I don't think you are contradicting me, but I'm not really sure.
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The only correct estimation is actually doing the work and looking at how long it took. The closest to that is half-assing the task at hand and multiplying the time it took by ten. For prototype to actual application, you multiply it by a h
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by egeozcan 2y ago
Cool, also yeah, what a coincidence! We had the same thing with books. My wife and I really suspected that he was somewhat reading until we figured out that he memorized the shapes of the sentences, so individual words or the same sentence
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by egeozcan 2y ago
Every time I'm busy with a topic, the next day it somehow ends up showing up on HN! I was creating a small drawing app for my 27-month-old son (mostly for me to draw tractors and excavators for him). At first, I only used icons, but th
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Same on Firefox Desktop. The business didn't lose a customer though as I suppose it's US only anyway?
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It's a one-time purchase of 40 bucks. 200 for priority support. It's not peanuts for many people but far from overpriced IMHO.
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Also company computer: Built-in file explorer sometimes takes 3 seconds to display a thumbnail for a 10KB png I saved to a folder from my editor. I just don't get it. We also have OneDrive. Don't shoot the messenger alright but it
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> where shared data across users can be treated as a queuing/async messaging problem Really asking: Why would you want that complexity when a single database that provides ACID with multiple users can provide that out of the box? Sq
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Yes, looks like that. He's doing fine today, thanks for asking.
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Three months after my son was born, I made the mistake of following the news about the 2023 Turkey-Syria earthquakes[0], especially in the Hatay region. I thought I was tough, as I had lived through the chaos and death of a disaster before,
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I honestly thought their website was triggering a popup ad every time you stopped moving your mouse, and I was ready to write a long rant that no one would ever read. But... they actually show ads in your car every time you stop!? This is s
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This is great, but maybe you can add a sandbox to that iframe you use for displaying? Nothing to do with security, just that people copy pasting snippets can actually lock the page up with broken scripts. I speak from experience :) https:&
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This is amazing! However, for the 99% of the non-developer people in my circle who started this journey, it goes on like this: Learn basics of HTML & CSS, start creating stuff on some free host, "oh my deity, this is too much to ha
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Affinity Photo is amazing. I'll never switch back to Photoshop, but I also wish it loaded a bit more quickly (solid 15 seconds on a pc with an SSD and a 3950x. not that PS was much better or anything, but one can wish).

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