I think the point GP is making is that hybrid Teams are worst off. And that was my experience also pre pandemic. Actually the people who always were remote felt a huge improvement, because suddenly all had the same 'distance' and needed to put in the same effort to stay connected.
What exactly did they do that is most accurately described as listen to their users? Maybe I don't know everything that happened. But from my understand they made the best browser they could given the resources and succeeded massively, because the competition was so much worse at the time.
Also, they still make a competetive browser, as I laid out. Just the fact that some of the competition has improved massively (but by no means all of it) doesn't change that.
Firefox was quality wise on a higher level than IE 4, and it didn't loose any of that. IE got better over the years, made a massive step forward with Edge and now again with Chromium based Edge. And finally MS is approaching Firefox in terms of quality. What kind of funding does MS have, compared to Firefox? And still they are outsourcing the hardest part of browser development, while Mozilla is still doing it on their own, as a much smaller company. Chrome gained on Firefox, not because FF got worse. It did, because it is a real competitor, made by a company with an unfair competetive advantage (an even larger competetive advantage than MS has).
What about Opera? Did FF decline quality wise against that? Or Safari? No, of course not. FF didn't decline, it now has a real formidable competitor.
Yes. It's a shame that the firefox user base is so easy to outrage. Same with the more recent change ragrding tabs. I am using firefox for a very long time now, and I just don't see that firefox is massively going downhill so far, like many people seem to suggest. Of course I am bummed out that certain features could not be retained (such as installable PWAs on desktop). But these are just the realities of the fact that it is hard to compete with google.
I hope that in 200 years we are well past the notion that government can't regulate these kinds of things. If not, we might not even be around that long as a civilization.
I would say, no need to plan out a career. But don't be surprised if you end up where you are currently heading. There might be unconscious things affecting your day-to-day choices affecting your career.
For long years I didn't really try to loose weight, because I thought it would require me to work out, which I didn't want to do. I know enough people with joint problems very likely relating to the amount of work out they did/do, even though they never were overweight. Two years back I decided to go against convential wisdom and attempt weight loss without any work out at all. With tremendous success. I understand that working out helps general health, but so does weight loss. So I refuse to feel bad.
The German greens, now freshly back in government, have greatly accelerated worldwide deployment of renewables when they were in government last time. Without them it would have easily taken a decade longer for prices to plummet to the current levels. Renewables wouldn't be the cheapest form of energy. Let's see what they can do this time around. When the economics favor renewables, then its a no brainer. This makes new nuclear projects even more questionable. Note that the promises are there since at least 60 years. Lack of investment wasn't a problem. Recently a swiss energy company said they don't want to build new nuclear. Why should they, it doesn't make money unless the government is willing to provide the profits, which is only the case in some countries.
Unicode 13 uses 143859 code points. 21 bits can encode more than 10x of that. And there are not that many languages left to add. We are already debating elvish. I am not sure what would warrant extending the coding scheme if we are already on the level of fictional languages today. Also note that many things like flags or emoji skin colors, etc. are now done via grapheme clusters, which conserves code points.
The current scheme is extensible to 7x6=42 bits (which will probably never be needed). The advantage of the current scheme is that when you read the first byte you know how long the code point is in memory and you have less branching dependencies, i.e. better performance.
EDIT: another huge advantage is that lexicographical comparison/sorting is trivial (usually the ascii version of the code can be reused without modification).
I wonder what it would take to bring Linux to this state, where while running a program, you can decide to look at the source code, check in the debugger what is going on, apply a change and run the program as if you used the precompiled version of it with very little effort. So you could make changes to programs with similar manual effort as if you changed a config file. And when updating the programs, the package manager would check for your manual changes, if they can be applied without merge conflicts. Upstreaming the changes would also be a simple standardized command. But you wouldn't have to, just to be able to run the changed software without friction.
I find it pretty funny that you would attribute something to the nature of a people after getting a well reasoned explanation of why people act that way and what the effect is, without even going into the argument.
I think a country at least gets to decide what it calls itself in english. For example in official documents that they translate to english. Or what they teach in schools as the 'correct spelling'. Now if the rest of the world follows that is another question. Languages don't have owners.
I think the problem is that economics needs to take human behavior into account, which it tries to do via game theory, which in turn relies on rational actors. I don't think individual human behavior is predictable like that. You could argue that we don't need to model individuals, only large groups of people. But the problem is that often the behavior of some individuals has a huge effect on large groups.
Contrast that to physics, where we have been very successful with predicting the behavior of masses both on small and on large scale, with relatively few exceptions.
You could do this with the factory pattern, applied to a template type. Though, if you would do this for the whole range of say, an int, you would probably blow up the compiler. How is that done in languages that do support this? Or does it require shipping the compiler, so that you can run the compiler at runtime?
I also thought that. But on second thought I agree with her analysis. The reason that y and y' are different is the same that x and x' are different. It is a problem of lacking resolution, so it will always underestimate more on the higher value, at least if you do enough simulations to get enough samples.
One thing always bothered me: how can something be cheap (after initial investments) and create lots of jobs in the long run at the same time? I mean what is the money for fossil energy spent on, if not either raw materials or people part of the supply chain?
I used to live next to a DVD rental place that was 1€ per day. Often I would return the movie the same night. I used to watch 1-2 movies per month. Nowadays I have Netflix for what, 12€ a month? I still watch maybe one movie a month. So I guess I pay ~10x for not having to step outside?
I lament that it seems to start out with a 80-90% free disk and ends with a 60-70% full disk and reads mostly blocks that are free. And when it's done it just restarts with a fragmented disk...
I think besides learning how to balance and steer a bike, kids have to learn propelling the bike using pedals. A bike is different from most other pedalled vehicles that kids usually use (with the exception of pedal karts) due to the gear ratio and the fact that stopping the pedals doesn't stop the bike. This requires learning to use the brakes as well.
I don't think this is true. The virus can survive in some for a long time. Same as with the flu. I think the endemic phase is absolutely inevitable. The only question is how long does it take, and how many people will be killed in the process. Both can only be reduced with vaxxination.