I can back up their first point a tiny bit with regards to canvas. The primary product of our company is heavily canvas-based so I’ve always noticed that canvas on Firefox on macs is slower than on Chrome but it used to be in the 2-3x range and nowadays is more in the 1.5x range. They’ve made great improvements and I’ve never noted anything close to 5-10x slowdowns.

On Windows Firefox and Chrome canvas has performed equally well at least for the past ten years. Got no data for linux tho.

Right and also in this world there are no building codes or building inspections.

I'm curious how the CCTV would have prevented the bike theft?

Yeah, I can tell you that the only thing CCTV does is making the thief wear hoodies. And you get some clips of them carrying expensive bikes around the corner out of CCTV range to their parked transporter.

Even without hoodie… who was it? Some dude.

True. I don't know from where people get the idea that the police would bother with an investigation for your (personally important) case if you had full-on surveilance.

You may have your laptop snatched, go to the police station and show them the exact location of the thieves using e.g. find my Mac. The will do nothing, even if it's in the building across the street.

Now, showing them some blurry (at best) faces in CCTV footage and ask them to investigate? Good luck.

Do you apologize to table corners when you bump into them?

Likening machine intelligence to inert hunks of matter is not a very persuasive counterargument.

What if it's the same hunk of matter? If you run a language model locally, do you apologize to it for using a portion of its brain to draw your screen?

Do you think it’s risible to avoid pulling the wings off flies?

I am not comparing flies to tables.

Better Ruby core than Ruby Central but still leaves me wondering what the hell happened and slightly sours me on the whole ecosystem.

I spend most of my time writing go (among other languages).

Candidly its decentralized nature when it comes to "packages" is one of its strengths. It does have downsides, and yes GitHub could be at issue at some point.

After this, after NPM compromises (left pad and more recently the supply chain attacks) why we arent seeing more community driven changes around decentralization and venturing is beyond me.

I don't think anything about the NPM supply chain attacks has to do with it being centralised. If anything, it made it easier to heal as NPM could centrally remove the bad packages.

This is the way tho this can lead to fun moments like I was just setting up a new cluster and couldn't figure out why I was having problems pulling images when the other clusters were pulling just fine.

Took me a while to think of checking the docker hub status page.

The left-leaning ones usually don't call for the eradication of certain peoples.

Neither side can claim not to be violent. Obviously.

If we're talking about the US, that's a straw man. There was a study that made objectively clear that the right is several times more actively violent than the left.

"Both sides" is a euphemistic fig leaf of an argument at best.

If you actually look at the data, that "study" assigned a lot of really unclear or marginal cases to "right wing". They also didn't count a lot of obvious left wing political violence as "left wing".

I would have suspected as much a priori, but I'd appreciate some detail here.

To be fair, neither do the right-leaning ones; the ones that do have fallen completely on their side. It's just that societal discourse has been purposefully skewed so that the mean lean is 60 degrees to the right, making it very easy for weak individuals to fall over.

We also know the Sun is going to swallow the Earth and eventually burn up. That doesn't mean we stop building with what we have now.

Those to two very differently sized eventually's.

> and the stuff we make is genuine

hmmm

With all the maintenance and other hassles? No thanks.