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With Firefox 93, I was restarting the browser 3 or 4 times a day because it kept crashing while playing videos. It would start with videos loading but not playing, and then moments later the whole browser would lock up and leave no choice but to kill it and restart. So far Firefox 94 seems to have that issue resolved, but that experience with 93 was very nearly enough to make me quit.

(I should probably mention, another long-running complaint I have with Firefox is the community's habit of gaslighting anybody who talks about Firefox's problems with the usual "I never experience that so your experiences are invalid" So please spare me this time.)

I think military dishes aren't necessarily pointed at friendly satellites. They might be eavesdropping on foreign satellites and the domes might serve to conceal which from prying eyes. I suspect large dishes may have utility in such a role, since they might be listening to low power side-band emissions from those satellites (e.g. Van Eck phreaking.)

Either way though, I don't think radomes are meant to conceal the position of the satellites themselves.

> Which sounds great in practice, but do you know why the military uses those giant golf ball radomes? Its to hide where a satellite is pointing and thus where a satellite is in space. [1]

I'm unconvinced of that. Classified satellites are routinely tracked and sometimes even photographed by amateur astronomers; surely the peer competitors of governments can do better. I suspect these domes are primarily intended to conceal which satellite is being talked to.

Of course. Bias and prejudice is always a real concern. In situations where the teacher gets it wrong and punishes the bullied kid, the kid learns an unfortunate but useful lesson; that some agents of the system cannot be relied on.

But the zero tolerance response to this circumstance ensures the bullied student is prejudiced against, judging him guilty before considering the facts of the individual circumstance. What does that teach the kid? That the system itself cannot be relied on.

I think what he experienced is another manifestation of the same phenomena as zero-tolerance policies in schools; institutions ask their enforcers to suspend common sense and strictly enforce the letter of the law/guideline/etc, even in situations where any reasonable person would decide it made no sense. They do this because such common sense and gut feelings is how bias and prejudice might creep into their oh-so-perfect system.

It used to be that if a teacher saw a kid get bullied and then punch his bully back, the teacher was empowered to evaluate the situation using their best judgement, and punish the bully while congratulating the bullied kid who stuck up for himself. The system sees a problem with that; the teacher's perception of the incident might have bias and prejudice. The system's solution is to have zero tolerance for any violence and punish both students equally. The system's solution to the possibility of prejudice against one student is to ensure prejudice against both students.

> Does banning used books actually stop any of the communication between gang members?

Definitely not, it's impossible to stop unless maybe you go full supermax and utterly isolate every prisoner from every other. And even then, they might still tap out messages to each other through the walls. You'd need very thick walls to prevent that I think.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_code#History

Saying that a particular painting is good does not imply that everything that person has painted is good.

Saying that a particular painting is bad does not imply that everything that person has painted is bad.

I use uMatrix to block 3rd party image requests by default, so gifs would have the same "problem". Of course it's not actually a problem at all, if the user chooses to block 3rd party images or video, that is their prerogative.

Massive gifs of screen recordings embedded in github readme pages is really obnoxious. Gif is a terrible format for these, the files are frequently several megabytes where a modern video format might have it crisp and legible under 100KB.

> Most linux distros do not support it by default.

Sure, but the number of end users who don't install nonfree codecs on their own must be numbered in the dozens.

Yes. The performance of playing gifs is awful. Even better if gif autoplaying could be gated by the dimension of the gif. Under 100x100? That's fine, autoplay it. But some nutjob's 1000x1000 gif? Please spare me.

I practice general search engine avoidance; I don't use a general search engine (google, bing, duck, yandex, etc) if I believe a more specialized search engine will give me what I am looking for. In this circumstance, it's easy to figure out what sort of trial Rittenhouse got by searching for Rittenhouse on Wikipedia directly. With my search keyword for Wikipedia, I can search "wiki rittenhouse" and it takes me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rittenhouse which in turn leads me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_unrest_shooting

That page clearly states "Under Wisconsin state law, Rittenhouse was charged as an adult with the following crimes: ..."

There are different levels of sleaze; I use firefox not chrome so don't try to put words into my mouth. While firefox may be a better choice than the other two, that's not saying much and Mozilla is very sleazy. If you don't see that, maybe you're acclimatized to it.

In my experience, it works pretty well nonfiction that has a narrative structure, like histories, but doesn't work as well for more technical books, like those about programming languages.

> And your mind actually starts filling in the emotional blanks.

I've listened to numerous books (mostly but not exclusively fiction) using TTS and I'd like to confirm this experience. It's kind of remarkable, once I became accustomed to the sound of the TTS program the weirdness just sort of evaporated and I was left with an experience that feels very similar to reading visually.

Brave shills cryptoshit at me, and Mozilla shills VPNs at me. Chrome is from an ad company. All three set off my sleaze alarm. What a sad state of affairs.

> If I pushed a pop-up notice out company wide with a message my employer didn't approve of, I'd definitely be expecting to be going out the door rather than doing the litigation process.

If it were relating to anything other than labor organization, it would be a no brainer. But there are special legal protections for labor organization, so I not sure it's clear cut in this particular circumstance.

Encouraging your employees to be political activists at work, regardless of affiliation, seems firmly in 'stupid games; stupid prizes' territory. I don't think that applies just to progressive activism.

Were any of those other corporate mottos in the code of conducts they made employees sign?

Determining what is evil is not the exclusive privilege of religion.

Google was pretty good at making people think Google was different.

> it wasn’t derided as some ambiguous concept prior to this lawsuit.

It was routinely criticized for exactly that by many google critics online.

> I have also been in over 20 accidents in my 25 years of driving, the vast majority of those having been rear-ended and none were my fault.

That's way too many to take your word for it. Where there's smoke, there's fire. Well, maybe not... but you sure as shit should suspect a fire.

> Atheists have a moral code.

[Most?] atheists have moral codes. Yours is not necessarily mine. Sorry to be pedantic, but implications of atheist unity really bug me.

Might Google settle anyway, just to avoid arguing in court, in front of the public, that "don't be evil" never meant anything in the first place?

I'd think painting over old leaded paint with modern lead free paint should help alleviate that concern. Unless you're sanding the old paint before applying a new coat.

What about non-volcanic pozzolans like fly ash? From what I understand, fly ash is sometimes substituted for some portion of the portland cement that might otherwise have been used, because works similar to volcanic ash to make the concrete stronger.

Absence of rebar is a huge difference. From what I understand it's the primary reason most modern concrete structures are expected to last only on the order of decades to a century or two. Some modern structures have been built without much if any rebar, for instance the Hoover Dam, and I've heard that might last thousands of years.

I live in Seattle. It's 12C in my apartment right now, I have the windows open and I'm certainly not wearing any gloves. Hell, I'm not even wearing any socks. I'm wearing long pants and a thickish shirt with long sleeves, and I feel totally toasty.

Dress appropriately for the season and you'll be just fine. If you wear warm clothes that cover your arms, your hands will be warmer too. Poor bloodflow to your hands is a consequence of your core loosing too much heat; your body compensates for that by reducing bloodflow to the extremities. Warm clothing makes gloves utterly unnecessary at 10C.