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by jgraham 8d ago
Server side image maps predate javascript. They were in early versions of Mosaic. Client side image maps and the script element were (AFAICT) both introduced in Netscape 2. Even when scripting was introduced, you didn't necessarily hav
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by jgraham 24d ago
This seems like a much more interesting question to me. Telling other people's children what to do is easy and basically doesn't have any downside to being wrong. With your own children things are a bit different. So: what are peo
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by jgraham 1mo ago
I also went to a couple of his (fantastic) undergraduate courses, and have a huge amount of respect for him. That said, I think it's worth mentioning that Climate Change Without the Hot Air has aged pretty badly, and I'd be reluct
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by jgraham 1mo ago
> However natural ice cream can be, it's still a buttload of fats and sugars My default base for homemade ice cream is a custard with 50g sugar for 6 egg yolks and 500g of milk/cream. I'm not claiming it's a health fo
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by jgraham 2mo ago
It's not that writing _is_ thinking, but (effective) writing _requires_ thinking. It forces you to take a collection of lose and incoherent thoughts and reify them into an argument that can hold its own weight.
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by jgraham 3mo ago
We can't draw conclusions from that study because it's been retracted on the basis that data has been faked. On the other hand there are other similar studies that reach similar conclusions, and specifically try to control for aer
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by jgraham 4mo ago
> 1. Why focus on Swifts as opposed to any other species in decline? They state that they are "iconic", so maybe that's the answer? Are they more "iconic" than any other specifies in Scotland? They are a red-list
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by jgraham 5mo ago
(I work on Firefox Web Compatibility) If you have specific sites that aren't working, please let us know and we can investigate and try to fix them. The usual reporting channels are using https://webcompat.com or the "
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by jgraham 5mo ago
I think if prediction 1 is true (that it becomes cheap to clone existing software in a way that doesn't violate copyright law), the response will not be purely technical (moving to thin clients, or otherwise trying to technically restr
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by jgraham 6mo ago
Power in general. Your time-average power budget for things that run on phones is about 0.5W (batteries are about 10Wh and should last at least a day). That's about three orders of magnitude lower than a the GPUs running in datacenters
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by jgraham 6mo ago
China has now had flat CO2 emissions for two years, and experienced a decline in overall CO2 emissions during 2025[1]. Part of this is that they're deploying way more renewables than basically any other large economy [2]. They've
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by jgraham 7mo ago
To be clear: I don't think it will happen. But the point of comparison is something like the HTML specification. That's supposed to be a document that is detailed enough about how to create an implementation that multiple differen
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by jgraham 7mo ago
> it's foolish to fight the future And yet, the premise of the question assumes that it's possible in this case. Historically having produced a piece of software to accomplish some non-trivial task implied weeks, months, or mor
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by jgraham 8mo ago
> But at a national level the data is compelling. I'm convinced by the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Which data do you find compelling? For people who don't know the Environmental Kuznets Curve is basically the hypothesis that a
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by jgraham 8mo ago
> I said nothing about a monotonic relationship. You made a scale-free claim about increasing greenness with increasing CO2 concentration. That implies a monotonic relationship. > The only debate is over what might happen in the futur
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by jgraham 8mo ago
> you can't easily separate out CO2 concentration from the other impacts of increased CO2 >> I never said you could? I took the fact that you explicitly mentioned "high-CO2 environment" and claimed there was no room
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by jgraham 8mo ago
> The world will be greener in a high-CO2 environment. There’s no legitimate argument over that fact. However it's important to remember that world isn't a high school physics experiment, and you can't easily separate out
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by jgraham 10mo ago
Notice that it says "almost all programs" and not "almost all _C_ programs". I think if you understand the meaning of "crash" to include any kind of unhandled state that causes the program to terminate executio
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by jgraham 1y ago
As someone who's been quite heavily involved with web-platform-tests, I'd caution against any use of the test pass rate as a metric for anything. That's not to belittle the considerable achievements of Ladybird; their progres
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by jgraham 1y ago
In addition, the colleges have a lot of data about the people they interview and how well they do during the degree programme. My understanding (based on a discussion with one Natural Sciences admissions tutor at one Cambridge college nearl
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by jgraham 1y ago
It's true, see https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-expensive-gas-not-... From that article: > The UK’s electricity market operates using a system known as “marginal pricing”. This means that all of the power p
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by jgraham 1y ago
Yes! It's a rare example of an app that instead of trying to capture your attention into a virtual environment, helps you to direct it outwards into the real world. The sound id in particular is just an amazing way to really extend wha
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by jgraham 1y ago
Gecko and Firefox have been using Bugzilla for more than 25 years at this point. There's a lot of internal workflows, tooling and processes that are really dependent on the specific functionality in Bugzilla. I think it would be an ext
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by jgraham 1y ago
This is all true, but as the sibling says, not really related to the change discussed here. Firefox does indeed have a large CI system and ends up running thousands of jobs on each push to main (formerly mozilla-central), covering builds, l
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by jgraham 1y ago
Again, I can only comment from the perspective of a user; I haven't worked on the VCS infrastructure. The obvious generic challenges are availability and security: Firefox has contributors around the globe and if the VCS server goes do
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by jgraham 1y ago
(I work at Mozilla, but not on the VCS tooling, or this transition) To give a bit of additional context here, since the link doesn't have any: The Firefox code has indeed recently moved from having its canonical home on mercurial at hg
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by jgraham 2y ago
Note that biofuels aren't especially environmentally friendly, even just considering carbon emissions. See e.g. [1], which makes the most optimistic possible assumption by ignoring land use changes and still concludes "the reducti
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by jgraham 2y ago
I think there is a lot of truth in this, but presented in a way that misses some nuance. It's true that if your goal is to regenerate native forest, which it generally[+] should be where that's an option, then it's indeed tru
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New research is changing our understanding of global poverty(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
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by jgraham 2y ago
Well the truth is it's both. We had to change Firefox so it could be automated with WebDriver BiDi. The Puppeteer team had to change Puppeteer in order to implement a WebDriver BiDi backend, and to enable specific support for downloadi

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