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How many Chrome users use it because they care about supporting Google

I want to use Firefox on my phone, but it's UI is just so confusing - specifically the tab switching flow. When you try to switch tabs, the whole screen is replaced, the typically white background is replaced with a dark background, and the tabs are shown as tiny rectangles. And a very fast animation which makes my head spin. Why don't they just copy the tab switching from mobile Chrome?

They also have a new version of mobile Firefox, which will replace the current one at some point in the future. It's called Firefox Preview. I tried it, tab switching is acceptable, but now they moved the URL bar to the bottom of the screen. Why????? So I've uninstalled it and I'm back to Chrome.

Nobody is going to switch from Chrome to Firefox if the UI is radically different.

Microsoft has a zillion native SDK developers. Recently they replaced their native Visual Studio installer with an Electron based one.

That should tell you something.

I've been programming for close to 30 years, starting on a Z80 BASIC with 48 KB of RAM (I'm from a poor country, this is what we had in 1990).

I'm using a lot of Electron apps today. Including VS Code. Because it's so much more productive than anything else I've used before.

I bet you have a very powerful computer. Because you value your time.

> Not sure how this correlates to a "lack of vision from DSLR companies"

Where there is a will, there is a way. Just turn the camera into an android phone.

https://www.thephoblographer.com/2019/03/10/the-new-yongnuo-...

By catering to influencers in SOME models, they would be in a much better financial shape to continue R&D for the pros.

> for an almost non-existent user base

> the kind of person who spends >$1000 on a bulky and complex camera

I'm talking about opening up a new market - instagrammers, who already spend money on ring lights, tripods for their phones, but who don't want to learn all the intricacies of using a DSLR camera + adapters + laptop.

The DSLR camera makers focus on a constant/shrinking market of pros, while totally ignoring a booming Instagram market.

The lack of vision at DSLR companies is mind boggling.

Why can't I do light editing and post to Instagram directly from the camera? Why can't download the photos directly to a phone? Why can't I charge from a micro-USB/USB-C cable?

I get it that pros don't need these features, but how hard are they to implement? The camera is already $1000+ dollars, how much more could adding a touch screen, a SIM card and a beefier CPU cost, when you have $100 phones with these features?

A lot of influencers would buy these cameras if they had a simple auto-mode (which disables most buttons and hides advanced menus) and upload to instagram feature. The workflow for using a DSLR to post to instagram is terrible, SD-cards, WiFi adapters, laptops, ... Not to mention that you need a lot of technical knowledge to hook everything up. No wonder few bother with the pain.

It's ridiculous that the most expensive cameras in the world can't connect to the number one place in the world where pictures are posted.

Whats wrong with a pseudo-random number generator? You start the universe with 1 million random bits and then just iterate your function on them. How would we detect repetition at the 2^1 mil level? Maybe the universe would repeat itself after a while, but how would we know?

Superdeterminism also plays nicely with the simulation hypothesis. You seed the virtual machine with some randomness and the physical laws and then you run the simulation.

So true. Just like high definition video or images.

This bill should also ban: large hero images, serving more than 500 KB of JavaScript, making more than 50 HTTP calls when loading a page, causing the fans to spin up when loading the page, unnecessarily using web fonts.

Banning these things would make the web so much better.

Another interesting take in NY Times:

> Yet where progressives argue for openness and inclusion as a cudgel against President Trump, they abandon it on Nob Hill and in Beverly Hills. This explains the opposition to SB 50, which aimed to address the housing shortage in a very straightforward way: by building more housing.

> What Republicans want to do with I.C.E. and border walls, wealthy progressive Democrats are doing with zoning and Nimbyism. Preserving “local character,” maintaining “local control,” keeping housing scarce and inaccessible — the goals of both sides are really the same: to keep people out.

> “We’re saying we welcome immigration, we welcome refugees, we welcome outsiders — but you’ve got to have a $2 million entrance fee to live here, otherwise you can use this part of a sidewalk for a tent,” said Brian Hanlon, president of the pro-density group California Yimby. “That to me is not being very welcoming. It’s not being very neighborly.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/california-housin...

The fact that inside the USA, northern states have on average a higher IQ than southern ones, is that a racist fact too related to European heritage?

> A paper recently published in the journal Psychological Reports concludes that of the 48 contiguous United States, those with cooler average temperatures tend to have populations with higher IQs.

https://psmag.com/education/a-compensation-for-cold-weather-...

Those MENSA members were truly fashion trend setters, as expected. The rest of world only now realizes how cool white socks with birkenstocks really are:

https://hypebae.com/2018/11/how-to-wear-birkenstock-sandals-...

Exactly. For example recently Taleb made a lot of fun of these linear fits, which are pretty ridiculous even for a non-statistician like me:

https://twitter.com/aedmans/status/1147494932183179264

I can't recommend any, but that it's why I mentioned doing a bunch of them and not just one.

Both Singapore and Hong Kong are basically cities. That's like talking about the IQ of London/New York. They also have extensive air-conditioning.

You can find free online tests. They should take at least 30 min. Do 3-4 different ones to confirm you get about the same score (less than 5 points difference).

If you live in a big city, you can probably find a place to do it for less than $100.

There does seem to be a mild correlation with outside temperature. Could some places just be "too hot to think"?

While the project sounds interesting, there are no screenshots at all, either as a gallery or topically when describing various functionality.