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A close friend who is a professional has been losing customers because he was too careful and wanted only the most reliable thing for every customer. Customers drifted away, and business dwindled. Our guess is that word-of-mouth publicity stopped because "he takes too much time to get anything done". Things have started improving ever since he pulled back his quality slightly, thinking that if say a "small N" out of 100 customers are dissatisfied, at least the remaining will retain business.

Is that what is ailing Firefox? I mean is Firefox losing because it tries to be safest and the best for every user, while Chrome just carries on with basic safety and nothing more?

[EDIT: Clarified the question.]

Cue the "We are Bob" series, aka Bobiverse, by Dennis E. Taylor!

IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149

IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549

> I could have 20 holding pens in the house and they'd still lose their stuff, since the idea that you have to exert even a minor amount of effort <now> by putting stuff in its place to save yourself much more searching effort <later>, is either lost on them, or they just greatly value the present over the future.

That doesn't give enough credit to the original idea. I know it's an exaggeration, but 20 holding pens will totally defeat the purpose. The idea is to have one place in every room where you can put anything. This saves the mental effort of trying to recall what is the place for thing-at-point. There is a place, for all of them, don't think about it. Just dwim it into the holding pen.

I came here to say the same thing. It's something I have been actively working on lately. It's quite an effort to pay attention to the small things, something as simple as making sure I put the mouse into my backpack along with my laptop. But the pay off is enormous ... I get a really strong sense of relief when I do find things more often where they are supposed to be.

"You chose this. Keep your head down and work at it. It will all work out in the end."

It's probably the remote computer that's running Windows and currently affected by Crowdstrike.

You maybe depressed, maybe not, I don't know enough about all that. But meeting a therapist is a big yes. Don't shy away from it. Go consult one.

Having said that, don't punish yourself so much. Most people feel what you are feeling, most of the time. You just went through a big change in your life, and now you are wondering why it didn't help. Maybe you are blaming yourself for making all these changes. But guess what, you were focused enough to get it done, and maybe it didn't pan out. It's too early to say whether it did or not.

It's actually okay for things to not work out the way you want. The real problem is to consciously or unconsciously expect results for everything you do. And then finding fault in yourself when results don't show up. Don't punish yourself by doing that. Let things be for some time. Take pleasure in small everyday things, like making a breakfast that you enjoy. Look forward to things. Don't try to find things to look forward to, instead just look forward to routine things that are part of your life anyway.

In other words, relax. And consult a therapist.

Completely off-topic. The article is paywalled, and for once I decided to go down the subscription rabbit hole. I am viewing this in Firefox on Windows. But every "subscribe" button on the WSJ page points to an Apple store page for the "app". WTF?!

... that might explain Oumuamua!

I did mean the same thing, although I ended up using really loose informal English. Should our intervals be tighter on the new finding?

Which way would you update our confidence? A: We were so wrong earlier, but now we "know better", due to better measurements, better models and more evidence, so our confidence is higher. B: We have been so wrong in the past, so our confidence is lower.

To me the second option is akin to despair.

I think the GP meant dropping the key wrapped in paper without the parachute. That's what makes it faster and easier to target. Which also answers your question about surprising someone driving a car, since the key won't drift with the wind anymore.

A wonder how different people will interpret "a couple of factoids" then!

Although in general I also count the difference in months on my fingers, this particular example from March to September just automatically pops a "six" because they are both ends of financial quarters. "Three months after Feb?" I need to count. "Three months after March? That's the next quarter, so June."

How do I manage my account once created? I don't see any link to change my password, etc.

No they are not. The GtkMenuBar widget got dropped because a replacement already exists. Another comment below provided the reference:

https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/migrating-3to4.html#gtkmenu-gtkmen...

I wish the GP would clarify this particular confusion in their comment! The way it stands, the comment makes these projects sound outright whimsical, which is clearly not true.

> for example, the printing functionality that was moved from libgnomeprint (or whatever it was called) into GTK3 is staying (which makes sense), but menu bars (which have been in GTK since the beginning) are going away because GNOME doesn't use them anymore.

You make it sound like menu bars are removed from GTK4. But I read the article multiple times to find where it says so. From what I understood, menu bars will stay in GTK4 but will not be represented in libadwaita because GNOME doesn't need them.

I read it as "fubs were small partitions, but now with the latch boundaries dissolved between fubs, the partitions are bigger (containing flops from many fubs)".

If I am not mistaken, the first sentence mentions what the GP commenter has, while the second sentence talks about what's mentioned in the article. You seem to be conflating the two.

EDIT: s/argument/article/

The pessimist in me thinks that the people going to Mars will end up bringing with them the same prejudices and the same ineffective laws anyway. It would be great if they could really "start over", as in build society from scratch, make it much more fluid the way David Graeber claimed it was way back in human history.

> The article is not about GNOME. It is about GNOME 3.

The article title literally mentions "GNOME and GNOME 3".

It looks like a deliberate decision to not explain the term until the very end ... a tongue-in-cheek demonstration of the problem being described. They eventually give the expansion towards the very end, but that too is obfuscated by putting it as an HTML abbr tag.

It's hard for me to say this without wondering if I am being rude, but did you mean to say "dig down"? At least to me, "to dig in" means to prepare for a long-drawn confrontation (like an argument or a battle). Maybe I am wrong, but my brain just wouldn't let me go on to the next comment without pointing it out.

Maybe it's just me, but if I knew the dentist will be away tomorrow, there's no way I am going to get my wisdom tooth removed today.

This! A lot of young people pirate media to save money. But then when they grow up and start working, they /still/ keep pirating because now they are used to getting their hands on quality media that they like, rather than consuming whatever "curated content" the algorithm deems fit to make available. Usually these people are also subscribed to regular services, but still find it a far better experience to pirate stuff.

EDIT: Fixed typo "grow up".

FWIW, I read the corrected comment and still read it as "text-to-speech". Then I saw the replies and scrolled up, and realized that my brain had read it wrong!

I know of a highly experienced person who once opened an email attachment, edited it, and then claimed "I saved my copy in Yahoo!". No amount of asking would make him that he ignored the dialog box that asked him to save a copy.

Not the protocol itself. Your ID is an arbitrary alphanumeric string that you register with a provider. But most people just use their phone number.

Similar experience with my kids: 10 and 14 years old. They are comfortable with their smart phones and laptops, they spend hours watching mindless youtube videos. They are good at shopping on Amazon or ordering food, for the whole family. But they are turning out fine. They have ample friends in real life, good at studies and sports. They understand the difference between need and want. They put things in the shopping cart and wait to have a dialog with us about buying them. Of course, all credit cards are protected by OTPs, so they can't even purchase anything by mistake. Most importantly, they are comfortable chatting with their friends on Whatsapp and find it easy to keep up with school life. They also play Minecraft online with their friends.

And yes, +1000 for a larger vocabulary!