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541.
by roca 5y ago
I wonder how many of those MIQ bookings are citizens returning home from non-essential overseas trips. I think we should probably be making those trips a lot harder/more expensive and using those MIQ slots for more compassionate or bus
542.
by roca 5y ago
I have personally met one big-league tech executive who got a NZ company to declare him an "essential worker" and migrated his family to NZ this year using that. I'm sure there are others. I'm not sure if that would work
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by roca 5y ago
That's a good question. However, as a NZer, I think it's a pretty good deal for NZ to admit someone like Hölzle even if he only stays here for a year. For sure he will contribute to the economy by spending significant amounts (we
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by roca 5y ago
Rust can prevent use-after-free bugs and data races, which is very useful for the kernel.
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by roca 5y ago
Even at a pure non-profit there is a significant temptation for the staff to grant themselves benefits at the expense of the mission.
546.
by roca 5y ago
It's actually the other way around. The nonprofit owns the for-profit.
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by roca 5y ago
That might work well.
548.
by roca 5y ago
You can get rr in many ways: distro packages, Github release downloads, cloning the repo and building it yourself. It's difficult to track all that. Also it matters how much people use rr. If a lot of people download it, use it once
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by roca 5y ago
Lots of people do complain about Firefox telemetry.
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by roca 5y ago
So you keep track of critical CVEs for the entire stack of all software you use, and make quick and informed decisions about which components really do need to be updated immediately?
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by roca 5y ago
I wish we could add telemetry to the rr debugger without risking this sort of blowback. We have no idea how many people are using rr, and how much, so when we talk to hardware vendors and other groups we depend on, we have no leverage. This
552.
by roca 5y ago
People do complain about Firefox crash reporting, updates and telemetry. However, those have been in Firefox for years. What's happening here is change which always makes people extra-angry.
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by roca 5y ago
> Without the work to understand in detail how similar coronaviruses infect humans cells, there is no way Moderna and BioNTech could have turned around their mRNA vaccine candidates as fast as they did. Can you provide a reference for th
554.
by roca 5y ago
Personally I just have layers.acceleration.force-enabled: true and that's enough to get me fast 4K WebGL. WebRender and Wayland dmabuf seem to turn on automatically. Intel 915, Fedora 34, dual 4K monitors, distro Firefox 89.
555.
by roca 5y ago
Comparing across platforms is not a good idea. Different drivers, APIs and platform OS issues dramatically affect these results.
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by roca 5y ago
Using external components is pretty hard. The interfaces between them are pretty complicated and abstraction layers are expensive. There are also different policies in different browsers, e.g. Firefox is much more into using Rust than Chrom
557.
by roca 5y ago
I think the Chrome team has done a lot of good work here, but you're right about the graphs. What units does the "frustration" axis use, anyway?
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by roca 5y ago
They don't just want a different Web browser, they want a completely different Web that is much less useful. The difference is quite stark. You can build a different Web browser. You can't decree that henceforth all Web sites will
559.
by roca 5y ago
I respect you for generously steelmanning the OP's argument here but it is very clear the OP's intent is "just parse C header files and do it all automatically": > not only could you technically parse .h files and tur
560.
by roca 5y ago
I agree that static or dynamic analysis of the implementation or users of the API would let you do some interesting things here. But that is not easy and not the OP's point. The OP's point was that all you need to do is parse the
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by roca 5y ago
I don't know anything about Ada95's FFI but it can't magically answer the questions I posed. Either it requires extra information not in the prototypes, or it makes assumptions about the C code that won't always be true
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by roca 5y ago
The OP's point is very clearly "we could just parse C header files and do it all automatically", not "we could parse C header files and a bunch of extra handwritten metadata and then do the rest automatically". The
563.
by roca 5y ago
I only had to read the first few sentences of the first point to see that the author thinks problems are easy because they don't understand the difficulties. Parsing C function prototypes doesn't give you enough information to wri
564.
by roca 5y ago
No-one is going to hard-fork Chromium. The reason you adopt Chromium is because you don't want to pay to maintain your own browser engine.
565.
by roca 5y ago
Browser vendors can carry small patches against Chromium but significant changes are very costly to carry long-term as the code changes under you. Furthermore, Google controls how heavy that burden is for you. In practice browser vendors wh
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by roca 5y ago
I don't think you understand how Chromium works. Google makes all the important decisions. People have advocated for independent governance (e.g. some kind of Chromium Foundation) but Google isn't interested. E.g. Brave opposes Go
567.
by roca 5y ago
Using Gecko (or Webkit) would have added extra risk for Brave. When you're starting a company, especially a browser company that's going to take on Google at some level, you need to minimize all unnecessary risks. I don't bla
568.
by roca 5y ago
Thanks for the apology. I forgive the error.
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by roca 5y ago
Changing a variable and resuming execution isn't the hard part. The hard part is what happens when the resumed execution wants to, e.g., read from a socket. That socket doesn't exist in the replay. What would you do?
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by roca 5y ago
In reality, stock investments don't just get wiped out on the whim of the company.

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