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low_battery··on Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
I guess as long as it is not default behavior it will stay as a weakness then? I am not sure if it is worth to exchange it for memory or performance gain.

Also is using thread per tab approach more susceptible to memory leaks, resource sharing issues or OS scheduling shenanigans than process per tab approach? You close the tab, the process is dead and resources are mostly guaranteed to returned. My knowledge of modern browsers is limited, maybe this was considered an acceptable compromise though.

low_battery··on Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
If I wasn't clear as well, As far as I can see from the link you gave It still does not match the level of security Chrome offers, it is getting there, but not yet.
low_battery··on Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
Sorry I didn't mean Sandboxing used Rust, It was a separate thing (That Rust is less susceptible to such class of errors, so the more code written in Rust the better) Also didn't mean it has no sandboxing (I knew about efforts), my point was its security is not a match for Chrome yet, as seen from the amount and type of critical errors.

When it is there I would definitely use it along with Chrome.

low_battery··on Firefox Quantum Lands in Beta, Developer Edition
Unfortunately, as long as Firefox security infrastructure does not match Chrome, I can not use it. Note that errors like use-after-free and buffer overflows are marked as Critical (run arbitrary code on computer) for Firefox, but marked as High (execute code in the context of, or otherwise impersonate other origins.) for Chrome because of sandboxing.

Firefox: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities...

Chrome: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/search/label/Stable%20...

Hopefully with their sandboxing project done (Also with Rust) will make Firefox much better in the security department, but until then, no.

low_battery··on WeChat confirms it makes all private user data available to Chinese government
Oh they are totally not in the same league.
low_battery··on Repeating Radio Signals Coming from Distant Galaxy Detected
well, lets say fi < 1e-9 fl < 1e-12 and its a mostly a desert outside.
low_battery··on Repeating Radio Signals Coming from Distant Galaxy Detected
Still, a few amino acids are far far away from proteins, let alone all proteins that work together and makes a simple living cell. Or mechanisms like: https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/mitochondria-14053...

it might still be possible "given enough time".

low_battery··on Repeating Radio Signals Coming from Distant Galaxy Detected
The calculator link you gave is doing exactly the same thing, smallest percentage is 1%. It doesn't make sense.
low_battery··on How V8 handles JavaScript properties internally
So much energy is spent making a shitty language perform better. It is really sad.
low_battery··on How V8 handles JavaScript properties internally
No it wasn't a one man job.
low_battery··on China's Plan for World Domination in AI Isn't So Crazy
Ah China and AI.. Just remembered this nice piece of paper: Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.04135v2.pdf

At best they will become an Orwellian nightmare then they currently are, World domination? Please...

low_battery··on Intel CEO leaves American Manufacturing Council
What took him so long?
low_battery··on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review
I think on GCC or Clang Threadripper should be much better (see link on my other reply)

And also Arstechnica reported much better numbers, I think Anantech either had a bad config or there is a bug in the compiler they used.

https://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2017/08/amd-threadripper-r...

low_battery··on AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and 1920X Review
Actually its a problem with Visual studio, Ryzen utterly destroys comptetition when it comes to compilation. Unfortunately Anandtech does not test with GCC or Clang.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-kab...

low_battery··on Google employee fired over diversity row considers legal action
Are you in the industry and successful? Do you consider yourself as such; egoist, cold and full of testosterone.

I have seen a lot of successful people, very few fits the description.

low_battery··on RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
Sure it was a rose garden in 90s.

And no one wanted to bring sharia law in Turkey, I wonder if I was living in the same Turkey as you in 90s..

low_battery··on RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
I had a second look at the proposed changes, there are 2 important ones regarding judicial matters, the change for constitutional court is mainly removing 2 members selected from military judges. The change regarding high judicial court is more complex but i don't see an alarming difference between the new and existing, could you point to me?

http://anayasadegisikligi.barobirlik.org.tr/Anayasa_Degisikl...

low_battery··on RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
Ah really? how many refugees are the going to take?
low_battery··on RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
I was curious about this as well, and looked around a little. I am not sure where you got these numbers, but apparently technically this is not a deal breaker (And not against constitution at all):

(https://twitter.com/kenanipek53/status/853675735357247490)

I am sad that yes vote win, but continuously arguing for this kind of technicalities doesn't really change anything.

low_battery··on RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
Your analysis implies far right fractions had a big role in this referendum, which to be honest does not ring correct, on the contrary, even though leader of MHP asked to support yes vote, they overwhelmingly voted no, something effectively destroying his leader position, and perhaps his party.
low_battery··on RIP Turkey, 1921 – 2017
Checks and balances? 1982 constitution was a horrid piece of work and it took decades to patch it up to a miserable kinda working state.

Indeed it is a pity that this vote was not to completely destroy that junta crap and install a new modern constitution.

low_battery··on Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap
Which alphabet represents local accents and dialects fully?? Lets be realistic here.
low_battery··on Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap
Current Turkish alphabet is mostly enough to convey sounds of Turkic languages (with few exceptions like Ng sound), Azeri alphabet 3 more letters for non Turkic sounds, I am Sure Kazakh people will find a way, there are already working examples.
low_battery··on Kazakhstan spells out plans for alphabet swap
Oh please, lets not be that dramatic.
low_battery··on AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 Review
Linux kernel compile times:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-180...

low_battery··on The Tragedy of Newcomb Mott, Who Thought He Could Walk into Soviet Russia
Enough with this Whataboutism.
low_battery··on Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often
Basically DDG is at the mercy of their sources, they can proxy the results for now to the actual search engines, but what happens if lets say Bing and Yandex requires them to pass some extra stuff or cut the query hose otherwise? Will DDG use its own index? Please.. They have no resources to build an actual half decent search engine.
low_battery··on Let's start using DuckDuckGo more often
It is a meta search engine. Note that they never mention the share breakdown of these "sources". What percentage of queries DDG itself answer? Probably very few.
low_battery··on Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017
Why? Aluminum production needs a lot of electricity but if you recycle back, costs goes down, total aluminum energy cost of Apple is likely much lower than all those servers running throughout the year.
low_battery··on Google says it will run entirely on renewable energy in 2017
Edit: Correction by 3 orders of magnitude because of multiplication error :)

Then lets do a back of the envelope calculation for energy consumption for Apple's aluminum use.

Very roughly Apple sells ~25 million macs and ~200 million iphones per year. Again lets assume that it needs 2kg of aluminum for macbooks and 100g for phones (not all iphones are aluminum and this might be lower), that makes ~70 thousand metric tonnes of aluminum.

Modern smelters use 13KW/h to produce 1 kilogram of aluminum, but their production involves recycled aluminum (and possibly shavings from milling?) so number should be lower, lets say it is 10KWH per kilo.

This makes 70M*10KWh = 700GW/h year

Google's datacenter energy consumption, is difficult to guess, if there are 1 million servers, and assuming each server consumes 10KWH per day, then it makes ~3.5 TWH per year.

This is apples to oranges of course, aluminum vs server running energy costs, but still kinda implies that Google uses more energy, at least directly.

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