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by om2 3y ago
This is a fair point, though it is possible for app-level things that the browsers do to regress performance from the baseline pure engine level. In this case, I think the 3 score must be either very old/low-end Android hardware or a m
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by om2 3y ago
Another related announcement, with a bit more detail on specifics of the benchmark changes (and some history of Speedometer): https://webkit.org/blog/15131/speedometer-3-0-the-best-way-y...
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by om2 3y ago
Speedometer measures web app responsiveness. Roughly, it simulates a series of user operations on web apps built with various frameworks (as well as vanilla JS), and measures the time it takes to complete them and paint the results to the s
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by om2 3y ago
What Safari version are you using? For me, with 17.4, Safari is ahead of Chrome and Firefox, though it is close if you use dev channel.
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by om2 3y ago
That’s not accurate. Firefox and all third party WebKit apps get the same JOT as Safari.
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by om2 3y ago
They don’t. If you read this post carefully, it just claims to be able to tell Intel Macs from ARM Macs. It can also distinguish from older Safari versions that don’t have the fingerprinting protection.
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by om2 3y ago
Safari has supported OPFS for some time. But Interop isn’t mainly a “please implement this” list, it’s a list of priority areas for browsers to become consistent with each other and with standards. If you think there’s a problematic lack of
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by om2 3y ago
People who were wrong and change their minds should be punished less, not more, than those who persist in being wrong. The rest of the board is holding firm and preventing the problem from being resolved, so they are more culpable than Ilya
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by om2 4y ago
I don't think LLMs are AGI and I'm not sure if it's an architecture that leads to AGI. But "performing exactly how they were designed to" seems wrong in at least two ways: (1) their creators have done tons of RLHF t
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by om2 4y ago
So you think AI will both be overwhelmingly powerful, but also very easy to control reliably? It seems the scenario where C applies implies both of those things, because China only gets an insurmountable advantage if they can build powerful
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by om2 4y ago
The iPhone was one of the _first_ devices to drop support for Flash, not one of the last (well, “dropped” in the sense that it literally never had Flash). Arguably the first mainstream device to have full powered browsing and no Flash, sinc
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WebKit Features in Safari 16.4(webkit.org)
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by om2 4y ago
Why would customers being made whole (at the cost of wiping out all equity and possibly at some cost to other banks) affect the incentives of banks in this kind of situation? What would banks do differently if account holders could lose eve
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by om2 4y ago
An assessment on banks costs shareholders of the bank, not accountholders. (Maybe it indirectly costs accountholders if banks lower interest rates on customer deposits, but these rates are generally not affected by a small short term shock)
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by om2 4y ago
Going by this thread, more people seem grateful than upset about this UX.
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by om2 4y ago
Good news! You'll only get notifications if you save a web app to your homscreen and then explicitly give it permission. And then you can choose to limit it to only badging, as with native iOS apps. Or you can use focus modes to manage
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by om2 4y ago
You framed it as disagreement but you said is 100% consistent with the parent comment (read it more carefully).
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by om2 4y ago
His complaint about JavaScript doesn’t really make sense on several levels. (1) Things websites do that he doesn’t like aren’t all done by JavaScript. Some of the most insidious tracking on the web is done with script-free methods like trac
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by om2 4y ago
Russia doesn’t own the pipeline. And they used the damage to Nordstream 1 as an excuse to demand that Germany accept supply through Nordstream 2. Russia had in any case turned off all supply via NS1 to Germany. So no real harm to Russia and
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by om2 4y ago
It’s end to end encrypted. Apple doesn’t have access.
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by om2 4y ago
We have a number of technical protections to limit abuse potential and will be monitoring the situation. Websites like Twitter, Facebook, Protonmail, Slack, etc seem like they could benefit from push notifications for the same reason their
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by om2 4y ago
100vh is a good default for unaware websites, because otherwise you get unexpected layout jump. The other units are good tools for aware developers who intentionally want to match largest, smallest, or dynamic height. Seems like best of bot
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by om2 4y ago
> So what’s behind this even erosion of Android’s command of the OS Market? StockApps.com’s finance expert Edith Reads ... She attributes Android losing its ground to increased competition within the space ... ” Android’s loss of market
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by om2 5y ago
Navigation Preload is a different feature that is specific to Service Workers. `<link rel=preload>` has been supported in Safari for a while, since 11.x.
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by om2 5y ago
I’m not sure how you came to your conclusion but it doesn’t seem justified by the info in this bug. It reflects Web Push being done in WebKit by Apple engineers (who use and pay attention to bugs.webkit.org). Apple doesn’t usually comment o
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by om2 5y ago
WebGL 2 in Safari does run on Metal. WebGL 1 also runs on Metal. Apple contributors added support to ANGLE to use a Metal back end and it’s enabled by default in the latest Safari.
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by om2 5y ago
HN’s lack of inline links is one of its worst features, and comments with large numbers of links are unbearable. Fortunately, longform HN comments are rare. Gemini also sounds more limited than even HN comments, because here you can put a U
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by om2 5y ago
Other way around. Separate tab bar is now the default, combo bar is an option.
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by om2 5y ago
This program exists to get that level of access: https://developer.apple.com/programs/security-research-devic...
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by om2 5y ago
If medical research is rigorous then rigor isn’t worth much. It’s one of the fields most affected by the replication crisis, along with social science. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

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