jonchang

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by jonchang 10y ago
I can think of 3 possible explanations for this "temporary issue" (that Google should have seen coming literal years ago): 1. Google is swinging its market share around in the desktop browser market to further squeeze Firefox, a
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by jonchang 10y ago
Decentraleyes for Firefox helps with this issue, it's a script cache for CDN assets like jQuery: https://github.com/Synzvato/decentraleyes/wiki/Simple-Introd...
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by jonchang 10y ago
Don't backpedal, you literally said they were happy to implement DRM! To address your point, if Firefox had a 90% market share on both desktop and mobile the other vendors would have had a much more difficult time doing an end around o
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by jonchang 10y ago
> They even happily implemented DRM when everyone else was doing it. This is a totally disingenuous interpretation of EME. I think you mean when Google, despite their ~open source bona fides~ with Chromium, collaborated with Microsoft an
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by jonchang 10y ago
> Why should I use Firefox, or any other browser, from a standard consumer prospective? Because your techie friends tell you to. This moved people off of IE6 to Firefox and this is what initially got people to move to Chrome from Firefo
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by jonchang 10y ago
Not sure this is necessarily the case - Google cross-promoted Chrome extremely heavily across all its web properties, ran massive ad campaigns, and contractually obligated Android vendors to preinstall and use Chrome as the default on their
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by jonchang 10y ago
Peer review does not happen in a vacuum. If you do not review my manuscript, who will review your manuscript when you submit it? Scientists are generally encouraged to complete a review for every review they receive. Reviewers are generally
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by jonchang 10y ago
I do not think you know how the scientific peer review process works. The manuscript will generally get sent to the editor of the journal through their submission system, with the corresponding electronic trail. Most manuscripts are also wr
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by jonchang 10y ago
It may be instructive to read the Editor in Chief's piece as well as the Retraction Watch commentary. Of interest is that the plagiarized piece fabricated wholesale a study population, making the published results incorrect and possibl
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by jonchang 10y ago
During the scientific peer review process reviewers are generally agree to keep the process confidential and are usually bound by codes of professional ethics, e.g., http://publicationethics.org/files/Peer%20review%20gu
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by jonchang 10y ago
This seems straightforward, but, > That people get proper credit is less important in scientific research than elsewhere, not more. It's obviously bad incentives, but with science it's most important that the information is acc
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by jonchang 10y ago
I use Decentraleyes to help with the CDN issue. It's not much but every little bit helps I think. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/decentraleyes
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> Did they name it after how they discovered it died? Ha. Actually, yes! From the original manuscript: Tongtian, Chinese Pinyin, refers to Tongtianyan of Ganzhou, the first grotto south of the Yangtze River. Tongtian also means the road
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by jonchang 10y ago
Absolutely-it's important to consider the selective environment that a trait evolved in and evaluate all possible tradeoffs. You can see this in certain fishes where pharyngeal jaws permit eating hard prey (new food source!) but also i
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by jonchang 10y ago
While we're clarifying nomenclature, I'd like to point out that "primitive" is to be avoided, as it may imply that a trait is simpler, inferior, or less adaptive, perpetuating the "ladder of progress" misconcep
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by jonchang 10y ago
Homebrew does, in fact, always use its own strong additional checksum (sha256) in the individual Formulae for all downloaded resources.
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by jonchang 10y ago
Ha ha, oh wow: "We found that SPD has engaged in a pattern or practice of excessive force that violates the Constitution and federal law. Our investigation further raised serious concerns that some SPD policies and practices, particula
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by jonchang 10y ago
The comparison of photosynthesis vs energy generated by solar panels isn't very good, because it neglects the whole biology of the organism, which is optimized for things other than maximum photosynthetic output. For example, leaves ar
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by jonchang 10y ago
But these features don't send your browsing history anywhere. The Firefox safe browsing service downloads a list of bad URLs in form of hashed prefixes from the Google service. Then every page you visit is compared against the download
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by jonchang 10y ago
It does something similar to c2w if your cursor is at the beginning of a word. But if your cursor is already in the middle of a word c2aw may be faster / more intuitive than doing bc2w. "a" can mean "append" but in
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by jonchang 10y ago
In Firefox the requests made to Google's safe browsing are sent using a completely separate cookie jar that is isolated from the rest of the browser, so that even if Google is tracking the requests to its safe browsing service it would
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by jonchang 10y ago
"Exaptation" has slowly been replacing the older term "pre-adaptation", which biologists avoid using because of its teleological implications.
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by jonchang 10y ago
Using R is basically a requirement for my work (biology) unless I felt like reimplementing all the packages I depend on, which I don't want to do since I want to graduate sometime this decade. The multicore strategy calls mcparallel un
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by jonchang 10y ago
It's been over a year since I dug into this problem but I believe that the ports issue is inherent to all R parallel code, at least on Linux. Peeking at the futures code multisession is build on the "clustering" type of paral
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These are not issues with the futures package. These are issues with the way parallelism is implemented in R.
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So I've actually tried to use the futures package. While it's very clean for certain types of tasks, there are a few problems that I think are inherent to the way R deals with its parallel packages (which the futures package is bu
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by jonchang 10y ago
This is a common pattern that has a name and Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
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HTTP/HTTPS not working inside your VM? Wait for it(rachelbythebay.com)
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by jonchang 11y ago
Hi there, I didn't see this comment until just now. Unfortunately you don't have contact information in your profile so hopefully you see this message. If you are not a practicing scientist, contacting the NSF will work best if yo
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by jonchang 11y ago
Unfortunately, the NSF announced today that it was suspending support to natural history collections like the Field Museum. Hopefully they'll reverse course but in general museums are on the decline and it's possible that our abil

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