A parallel layout engine would be a hugely important change for the web. Would mean the possibility of changing or animating layout relevant properties (which is almost all of them) without recalculating the entire page. This is the most important limitation for web UIs.
What absolute nonsense, Servo was the most important thing Mozilla was doing. If Mozilla isn’t making the most promising and competitive investments in its browser (e.g. parallel layout) what is it for? The Quantum project, which is tied to Servo, is the only reason Firefox is still competitive.
It’s strange to me that more domain-specific search engines haven’t been created. There must be value in a programmer-specific search engine for instance. Or why aren’t there search engines that specialise in news, social media, Q&A websites or events, to give a few examples.
The infrastructure of the Big Brother surveillance machine is the same as the infrastructure of the target-ads-better machine, the only difference is who is in charge of it. And relying solely on our current mechanisms to prevent the system being co-opted is naive. Especially given it’s already public record that some of these mechanisms have already been co-opted.
Also, that is just talking about the worst outcome, there are plenty of horrible possible intermediate outcomes, with the data being sold without restriction or not properly protected.
We used to have a system where people ejected sewage into the street, too. It’s telling that you equate air pollution to sewage, and then imply that pumping it into the street constitutes proper disposal.
Come on, that subreddit was insane. We should attempt to understand and empathise with people we disagree with, but that doesn’t mean we abandon all intellectual standards. And frankly validating a space like that as a legitimate viewpoint for conservatism is an insult to conservatism and a kind of bigotry of low expectations.
Was Maemo open source, including the shell? I wonder whether anyone will try and revive it now we have mainline kernel Linux phones, like Librem and Pinephone.
There are services that operate on Android with open source implementations of the Google proprietary services which have been designed for lock-in. https://e.foundation packages up the work from Lineage and MicroG and sells phones with the software preinstalled.
They currently tend to mothball the small number of remaining coal plants in the summer, and use them in winter, but even that is being forced out of the market over time. Over the course of last year coal was only something like 3%.
Solar is currently close to being the cheapest way of generating a unit of electricity that has ever been existed. Very strange definition of vanity. Anywhere near the equator the technology is going to totally replace all other generation within 20-30 years.
I am aware of that, I just think it stands easily without that argument. It is totally amazing and a clear potential competitive advantage for the UK to have so many of its urban centres connected with such short travel times. London to Birmingham will take less time than getting from one side of central London to the other, that is amazing. It’s also going to suck a lot of companies that would otherwise need to be based in London to be close to clients and suppliers out to other cities.
The UK makes fun of basically all Western European countries, the problem is about half of the population think it’s a joke, and half think it’s insightful analysis.
It also runs with a third to a quarter of the relative subsidy compared to France and Germany, so maybe the UK is getting the better end of the bargain!
Also, these are only the train operating companies, the rail and infrastructure itself is owned by Network Rail, which is state owned (and by the UK, not France!)
HS2 only connects together the largest city, the second largest city, the third largest city, the fourth largest city, the fifth largest city, the seventh largest city and the ninth largest city in the UK together on a single branched train line which will allow travel between them within an hour and a half. Who cares about such economic frivolity!
I should probably say in the process of flipping rather than have flipped over that time period, it’s not going to be 100% or 80%, but the s-curve transition will be well underway, and car manufacturers will have their hands full developing the technology.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been more development of engines optimized as range extenders. That seemed like an obvious next step from the Prius, for example.
But I think the peak of that opportunity has passed. The market in Europe and China is going to flip to pure electric in 5-8 years, with the US 5 years later. The window for developing new models that fit into that transition is shrinking. There will be long term demand for range extended vehicles, still in 15 or 20 years, but it will be niche.
It’s because housing supply is limited and interest rates are low. People will bid against one another until the reach the limit of their ability to pay, and low interest rates mean the payments are low for large mortgages. To reduce prices you will either need to increase interest rates or increase the housing supply.
It was posted there while it was a draft on his blog, before it was actually finished. The links which were the purpose of the post hadn’t been setup yet.
> I presume nobody is randomly visiting pages on bill.harding.blog, so you aren't seeing this.