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Speeding Up the Rust Compiler(blog.mozilla.org)
351 points by staktrace 7y ago|129 comments
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Mozilla and the Contract for the Web(blog.mozilla.org)
2 points by staktrace 7y ago|0 comments
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by staktrace 7y ago
Another good reason to get an EV, don't have to visit gas pumps again! :)
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by staktrace 7y ago
Fair point. Another argument in favor of multiple one-ness is that of monocultures. In general things that become a monoculture are more vulnerable to sudden death. For long term survival diversity is good, and I imagine that planet-level c
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by staktrace 7y ago
I've often thought along these same lines (c.f. Asimov's Galaxia concept) but I think that this one-ness will inherently be limited by distance. Thoughts can be propagated across a planet pretty quickly but if we become a multi-pl
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by staktrace 7y ago
As an admin why would you not also run the beta version of the browser in a limited setting? That would have helped you find out about this issue sooner, since the experiment was enabled there for a while.
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by staktrace 7y ago
Step 1: publish the algorithm Step 2: listen to feedback
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Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs Gets the Go-Ahead from Waterfront Toronto(cbc.ca)
3 points by staktrace 7y ago|0 comments
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by staktrace 7y ago
Firefox currently can be built with tup, although it's still experimental and not used in production.
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by staktrace 7y ago
Maybe you should try submitting some content then, instead of just shooting down others.
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by staktrace 7y ago
The article indeed credits Scott Adams (the Dilbert author) with the term "skill stacking".
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by staktrace 7y ago
With your line of reasoning, would you prefer a world where all the munitions were held by megavillains, or a world where both megavillains and regular people had access to the munitions?
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by staktrace 7y ago
This is not a very productive discussion. I don't want to blow you off with a "trust the experts" kind of response, but that's basically what it boils down to. You are certainly entitled to second guess people whose live
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by staktrace 7y ago
Yes, this argument comes up once in a while, and is handled by people who know more about it than I do.
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by staktrace 7y ago
All users were given equal weight. From the dashboards at telemetry.mozilla.org you can't even tell which users are more socially influential. And to be precise, with many of the metrics that I've used, they tend to be per-pageloa
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by staktrace 7y ago
What it sends to Google isn't telemetry. Why do you make that claim?
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by staktrace 7y ago
FWIW, I work at Mozilla and I have used telemetry in the way it's meant to be used. I'm sure there are cases where it's misused the way you describe, but by no means are all the cases like that.
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by staktrace 7y ago
> it adds nothing to your subjective browsing experience It increases the chances that Firefox developers address performance and other problems that are affecting you. If you disable telemetry, your problems "don't count"
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by staktrace 7y ago
"Tenable for life" is not the same as "tenable for human life"
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by staktrace 7y ago
I agree that at the individual level the tools we currently have to make a meaningful difference are quite lacking. And yes, I too hope that future tech will help. For now at least we can pester business and government to give us better opt
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by staktrace 7y ago
Implicit in your statement is that "saving the environment" and "making money" are mutually exclusive. That may have been the case at some point in the past, but it is no longer true. We can definitely make money while d
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by staktrace 7y ago
While I agree with you, this article struck more of a chord with me, and I think it's because it specifically says "7 degrees by 2100". That feels hot enough and near enough that it's more of an emotional reaction, and a
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Earth warming more quickly than thought(m.phys.org)
17 points by staktrace 7y ago|19 comments
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by staktrace 7y ago
There are legitimate advantages to this business model, and even though I'm not a fan of it myself I can appreciate the value proposition. One way to look at it is a form of insurance - it distributes an irregular large payment into a
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by staktrace 7y ago
In Firefox you can ctrl+click or shift+click the scroll track to switch between incremental and absolute scroll behaviour. Maybe not all OSes though.
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Logarithmic backup(neil.fraser.name)
1 points by staktrace 8y ago|0 comments
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by staktrace 8y ago
At one point Mozilla was working on a flash reimplementation - http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/ - not sure of the current status but it's a good place to start looking.
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by staktrace 8y ago
That should say "... Graphics section of about:support"
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by staktrace 8y ago
Always remember the YEINU principle: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/01/02/yeinu-your-e...
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by staktrace 8y ago
Please don't encourage people to turn on WebRender without at least warning them that it is experimental, still under development, can cause your computer to blow up, etc. Also the environment variables you specified will force it on e

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