Anecdote: Firefox (124) has become unusable for me on Arch Linux. Highly resource intensive applications (particularly including video streaming, even worse with camera / webrtc) consume way more CPU resources to the point of my laptop lagging out.

I don't remember the exact versions, but I upgraded to 124 earlier this month. Brave works great for video streaming, but breaks applications I use. Firefox development (125) also breaks some applications I use, and has the same performance issues as regular firefox.

The fan on my laptop has been broken for most of this year (replaced due to first fan making noise, but havent had time to figure out why the replacement stopped working). I have been running with all high performance CPU features disabled in the BIOS for years with the purpose of not using the fan anyways, and it has been working great with 1 or 2 intensive applications max running in firefox (and as much other low intensity stuff that basically doesn't consume much resource such as another browser - chromium, vscode, my development environment including a vm).

I don't currently really have any conclusive idea about what's going on. I will have to start using my desktop, fixing issues with my laptop, and do some more testing out of my workloads. Overall I'm just getting the feeling that something is horribly wrong with Firefox.

If you encounter it again, consider creating a performance snapshot with profiler and submitting a bug to the FF tracker: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org

Sounds like a hardware decoding issue to me

Save it as an html file. Use html script tag to wrap your javascript.

So one would also have to learn some html markup and have a browser (which is probably a given, I know), and then have to understand at least a little of how the program outputs to the DOM, and how (or if) the output of the JS interacts with the HTML that's already there.

I'm not saying any of this is a bad thing, it's just the way things are, but to an absolutely beginner it can feel insurmountable. I've seen the despair on beginners' faces when they've been shown yet another thing that has to be done, and which they don't understand. Then another, then another.

So. Many. Tiny. Steps.

For that, my advice is to use something integrated like Pharo or Basic256.

See, and now our beginner has to learn what "Pharo" is, or "Basic256", and how to use them.

It just feels like the rabbit hole has no bottom.

Seriously - what is "Pharo"? What is "Basic256"? What do they do for me? How do I install them? How do I run/use/access them?

It just feels endless.

So. Many. Tiny. Steps.

Some searching tells me that these are completely different alternatives to using Javascript. Now it's unclear why our beginner would want to use these - what advantages do they have over Javascript? Or Python? How will they get to a point of being able to contribute to Open Source, or to having an app or website others can use? What's the path?

In a private communication someone has accused me of being deliberately obstructive here, but I'm just trying to raise awareness of the height of the barrier to getting started, and how little real help there is out there. We, as a community, should do better at helping people get started in programming, people of all ages and levels of life experience.

You're negative. Are you depressed?

Not at all - I'm trying to point out that all the suggestions that technical people toss out, thinking they're helping, have a huge amount of technical tinkering underneath that most technical people just don't see. Then when I point it out people think I'm being obstructive, or in your case, that I'm just being negative because, you know, the only possible reason is because I must be depressed.

I'm not, I'm trying as hard as I can to be genuinely constructive. What people are currently doing superficially appears to be useful, but it's not, and I'm trying to raise awareness of what people need to do to be genuinely helpful.

What I really think about people willing to do programming is that most of them won't become programmers. People who are interested by programming just program. I could say that for carpentry too.

But I think we should do more programmable tools (like excel) to help people to deal with complexity.

Yes this. Ctrl/super+shift+f is the hotkey as it is usually, which defaults to the folder the file is in. You can right click a folder in the file tree on the left to search within that folder, or modify the folder you're searching in. Another useful trick is to add a ", *.<filetype>" after the directory you're searching to limit the files.

The best part of searching in Sublime is the speed and the formatting of the results. It opens a "Find Results" tab just like another file, and it accumulates all you're searches there. Very fast and easy to browse.

I use Sublime for notes too, not because I think it's a really good way for taking notes, but more along the lines of the legal pad note takers: I just needed to jot stuff down quickly and didn't want to hassle with anything. I already edit code in sublime, so it's comfortable for me to always have it open.

I always have a window with just my notes folder open, and I make a new file for each day I take notes, named after the day. I do waste some time flipping through files, but there aren't that many to go through, and the search is there to deep dive into the entire history.

Sublime has always been quick to restore anything I haven't saved. On Windows it has a session file in AppData/Roaming or something. I did get bit by running out of hard drive space during Windows updates, and the session file ended up empty. Lost everything in it (unsaved files, open windows/files, searches).

I have found that Sublime is pretty slow with opening files on network drives. I still use notepad++, partially for that reason. I've also had a better time dealing with whitespace characters there, so I use it for random of commands and I/O I'm working with.

You can also search the "search results tab" using single file search. Sublime is such a great tool.

> I use Sublime for notes too... I always have a window with just my notes folder open, and I make a new file for each day I take notes, named after the day.

Nice, we've converged on the same solution. I do daily plain text note files, and organize them into weekly folders. I sometimes create multiple per day if I'm working on more than one thing, or I want to dive deeper on one aspect.

For example: "4-12.txt" (the general one for the day), "4-12 Foo Schema.txt", "4-12 Baz Feature List.txt"

Sometimes I'll use markdown files instead of plain text if I want better readability. I'll switch from Sublime Text to the Typora markdown viewer/editor for those files. Typora is a pretty impressive tool as well. The nice thing about markdown that these files are still readable in Sublime, so I can switch between the two tools easily.

In response to other children of this post: perhaps you can give more evidence as to how this solution would end up like the harsh imprisonment by oppressive regimes? Why do you instantly shoot down one of the only creative solutions in this entire discussion, other than trying to raise more money to throw at it (which clearly has not even begun to solve these problems).

This solution is basically just advocating putting all the homeless in one place without discussing how to actually fix anything once they are there (will there be houses and jobs for them?), which makes it sound like it will just be one big government mandated slum

Once they are there, the problem goes away.

Like, the issue of homelessness is really about how their presence impacts the rest of us.

Most of the illumination when I drive comes from my headlights. All of it that I need, no matter how dark or "shadowy" it is (give me a break).

+1 to this anecdata. Lack of use of soap and deodorant along with regular showering is fine, and less consumery. I still use deodorant when I’m planning to be in a potentially hot, stuffy place with other people (e.g. car trips), and just take a shower after exercise.

I’d even go further to say I’m convinced that use of soaps and deodorant cause us to generate odor in an even worse way. This would make sense if you want to keep selling a product. We should research this!

And regarding the stainless steel stick, I just stroke my pit hairs with my fingers.

I haven’t seen ads on Instagram stories, just intermingled in the feed. They are spookily relevant and noticeable.

Snapchat ads come at the end of 1 person’s story, or between random people if you have multiple peoples’ stories queued. I never do the latter because it’s a dark pattern to make you wait for the ad to finish before the next story, so I always watch 1 person, and swipe out if there’s an ad. In general, it seems like Snapchat ads are higher production quality and less relevant.

I care about the comments. I use http://hckrnews.com/

A lot go to SF bay area. I met a large group of them in 2007 when I was doing my coop. My school, University of the Pacific, also had a mandatory coop program, although they started to make it optional sometime after 2009.