Can someone explain how banning ad blockers from Firefox would bring in money for Mozilla? I can see how it would bring in money for other actors such as news outlets, YouTube, etc., but Mozilla doesn't have a big website where they are showing ads.
Also, having to retrain users to use a new shitty UI after they got used to the previous shitty UI is a major moat of many SaaS services. The user doesn't care about the web portal, they just want to get work done. Switching to a different web portal needs to be a big net positive because users will correctly complain that now they are unproductive for a while because the quirks and bugs of the previous SaaS don't match those of the new SaaS.
In a world where the interface is "you talk to the computer" you will be able to swap providers way more easily.
"Uncharitable interpretation" is putting it mildly. I don't know the context for the quote but imagine being the CEO. You might give one hour interview outlining the tradeoffs you need to do to keep things running, and a random blogger takes a 5 second clip, makes an absurd interpretation and ends up on hackernews.
And users would flee not just because they're seeing the ads but because Firefox is obviously the slowest browser again. Stripping the ads is a big performance boost, so right now Firefox feels snappier than Chrome on ad-laden pages.
> There's an elephant in the room: why is maintaining a web browser costing $400M/y?
Is that actually the case though? I find it hard to believe that Mozilla has anywhere close to 1500 senior developers working on just Firefox. My guess is that the bulk of that money is spent on unrelated adventures and overhead.
And the surveillance could be inversely correlated to profitability. If they pour billions into these chat bots and can't monetize them to the revolutionary oracles they touted, one minor consolation is to sell detailed profiles about the people using them. You could probably sort out the less intelligent people based on what they were asking.
In my experience Google's AI summaries are consistently accurate when retrieving technical information. In particular, documentation for long-lived, infrequently changing software packages tends to be accurate.
If you ask Google about news, world history, pop culture, current events, places of interest, etc., it will lie to you frequently and confidently. In these cases, the "low quality summary" is very often a completely idiotic and inane fabrication.
Looking at the automatic first email and the network tab, this appears to be just wrapping around guerrillamail which is a classic disposable email website, and polling their API (doesn't seem to use websockets). Can you clarify what relationship you have with guerrillamail, if any, and whether or not the encryption and zero persistence claims extend to guerrillamail's service?
Agree with OP that LLMs are a great tool for this use case. It's made possible because OP diligently created useful input data. Unfortunately OP's conclusion goes against the AI hype machine. If "consuming" is the "superpower" of AI, then the current level of investment/attention would not be justified.
Did you really forgot about Snowden's Apple slide? Also their phones are routinely mirrored at the border. Just to support the unconstitutional government agenda of policing thoughts and speech.
yes, you are sure right, I apply here my prejudices against any big institution to whom citizens delegate power: as any institution may start well, then there is a parabola that tend to lower effectiveness and efficiency... and so on.
A quick search returned me figures of costs compared to population 'served', in which the EU is relatively lean compared to other national bureaucracy (first of all its huge cost in France!), but these figures are not comparable due to huge differences in duties...
For example I would suggest as an indicator: the cost in investment in EU to create a job
but yes, no doubt I personally I think any money invested in huge institutions to which people delegate power is a waste not just in money but in people ability to live better: as I wrote the 'regulation' approach I don't like: of course I like when (for example in protecting privacy) EU is able to face big multinational corporations, but I would prefer much more investments in citizens awareness about ...privacy, for example, to stay on that subject.
I personally think EU approach is: people are stupid (and, even worse, are allowed to be stupid, or up to: people have the right to be stupid) and our duty is to protect them by regulations and laws! (and often this aim justify any mean)
I do not want to grow up in a family where my parents have this approach.
> I don't perceive that as an ordering issue. "Pure mathematics" has multiple division definitions, what we see here is the definition you use in class 1: integer division. The issue here is not associativity, it is that the inverse of an integer division is NOT integer multiplication, the inverse of division is the sum of multiplication and the modulo. Integer division is a information destroying operation.
Agree, I've gone too far with integer division. But a similar problem exists for floats as well. In abstract mathematics the order of some operations between real numbers doesn't matter, but since the CPU floats have limited size and accuracy, it does. This is why when you are calculating some decreasing convergent series, you should better to start from the smallest terms, because the accuracy would be lost during float normalization when adding a tiny term to an already large accumulated sum. A compiler is unlikely to do any optimization here and people should be aware of this. Compilers can't assume the intention in your code, so they make sure the program behavior isn't affected after the optimizations.
> Yes, this is because optimizing compilers are not optimizers in the mathematical sense, but heuristics and sets of folk wisdoms. This doesn't make them any less impressive.
I'm not implying that it's not impressive, but I'm implying that compilers still aren't magic wands, and you should still optimize the algorithms (to a reasonable degree). Just let the compiler do the microptimizations (all this register allocation golf, instruction reordering, caching, the discussed division trick, etc.). IMHO this suboptimal output in this particular case was somewhat expected because it's some "niche" case although it's obvious. I'm not blaming the compiler people. Yes someone could add that optimization rule for my case, but as I said, It's quite rare and it's probably not worth adding optimization rules for such case to make the optimizer more bloated and complicated.
> Also the other cores will do useful gameplay work so one CPU core for the GPU is ok.
In the before times, upgrading CPU meant eveything runs faster. Who didn't like that? Today, we need code that infinitely scales CPU cores for that to remain true. 16 thread CPUs have been around for a long time; I'd like my software to make the most of them.
When we have 480+Hz monitors, we will probably need more than 1 CPU core for GPU rendering to make the most of them.
This is just garbage in, garbage out. Would you better off if I gave you an incorrect source? What about three incorrect ones? And a search engine would also associate you with this term now. Nothing you describe here seems specific to AU.
A reliable, corporate-friendly, with advanced support model alternative of Exchange + AD is something that could sink a titan like Microsoft in 2 decades, at least its non-cloud business (but then for cloud alone they are just one of many, nothing special there).
Literally everybody is fu*king fed up with M$ arrogance. But you can't get rid of Active Directory and Exchange. Make comparable alternative (with say 80% of most used use cases, no need to die on some corner case hill) and many many corporations will come.
This won't come from some startup, it has to be a company like Mozilla.
I used it on an IBM Workpad Z50 (WinCE device, really quite cute) booted into NetBSD. It had a fairly slow MIPS processor and 16MB of RAM but with a 1GB IBM Microdrive (spinning rust in a CF card format) and a wifi card (Orinoco Gold, recovered from a scrap supermarket barcode scanner gun) it made an awesome portable setup.
I believe taviso still posts on here. Pretty sure we chatted on IRC at some point. Anyway, it was taviso who had the coolest configs and that's where I got all my inspiration from, using it.
You know what? I might just fire it up on something, I'm sure I've got a netbook around here somewhere.
