I've noticed this recently too...the lagging after scrolling.
Once you get to some point on the page, it even starts jumping back and forth between images as they load.
That doesn't even bring up the fact that I cannot select a volume for some videos while watching from my PC. It's either muted or fully on. Not only should there be a volume - but the volume you previously selected should be automatically selected when you start the next video (reddit, youtube do this).
I think that's because they're not really equivalent. At least for me, a hole the size of 2 washing machines is something that will look close to two washing machines put together. That limits the shape it can have. On the other hand, 92 cubic centimeters doesn't. It could be a 1cm x 1cm x 92cm hole, which wouldn't be possible with 2 washing machines.
If we assume that the two washing machines are side to side, and that the average washing machine is 60cm x 60cm x 85 cm (height), that would be a hole 1.20m width x 60 cm depth x 85 cm height. The washing machine example is still easier to visualize, but it's also better than "a 612 000 cubic centimeters hole".
How do you accurately visualize whether "hole in the road" means you saying "what was that?" And driving on without slowing. Or whether the hole will require a crane to get your car to a place where it can be towed if you, possibly inadvertently, attempt to drive over it?
Aside from side by side vs stackable, every washing machine I've ever encountered is roughly the same shape. Some edges are rounder and the door might be on the front or the top but the shape is the same.
Yes, all the time when I lived in Atlanta. They frequently do road construction where they dig up rectangular underground vaults, then cover them up with giant “temporary” steel plates for years at a time. When the steel plates get dislodged, which they always do because they are not supposed to be permanent repairs, it leaves a gaping rectangular hole. I would estimate that the remaining hole is around the 4-washing machine size. When I was working on my MS at Ga Tech, a friend drove over one at speed, the car made it past but it sheared the oil pan right off the engine. Any Atlanta resident can validate that this is not BS. https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/why-at...
> hole in the road that is about 92 cubic centimeters
92 cubic centimeters is a pretty small hole...
a hole in the road 1.5mx80cmx60cm is pretty easy to understand or imagine, when you know metric system and absolutely trivial to convert: ~0.70 cubic meters or ~700 liters or ~700.000 cubic centimeters
Washing machines comes of all sizes.
Is it like the slim one I have at home to save space or like the ones I find in laundromats?
Metric units have standards.
I don't know how many people would understand "a hole in the road the size of 137 trays of home made tiramisù"
TBF here too when the media want to make analogies, they are pretty terrible: "an asteroid the size of 8 soccer fields" means nothing to me, ~800 meters makes much more sense.
A big bottle of soda is 1000 or 2000 cubic centimeters. A can of soda is 200 or 300 cubic centimeters. A glass of water has 200 or 300 cubic centimeters. 92 cubic centimeters is half a glass of water.
This is actually spot on. I've known programming languages for over 25 years.
I always wanted to be a software developer. I ended up being a network engineer (and pretty darn good at it too).
About three years ago, I switched to a developer role at my work, and then a lead developer not too long after that. I didn't land my dream job because my coding was so good. It was because of my underlying understanding of what we actually do and how the network stuff actually works, coupled with the minimal fact that I also know how to code that was ultimately responsible.
Under what circumstances did they "explicitly sign-off" on the data sharing, I wonder? There are a lot of times during a hospital visit, when one could be less-than-observant of exactly what he/she is signing.
This was for a project paternship with a university and hospital to improve patient outcomes with some new exploratory tech approaches. A short document that followed some standard study participation format was generated using easily understandable language in about 1-2 pages IIRC (large fonts so it was easily readable by patients with poor eye-sight). Everything done, including the document, went through an external IRB process for human subject data and was approved. Everyone involved had to go through human subject training and what not.
Physician would mention the study to patients that would likely be good subjects for the work about the work, its goals, if they'd be interested in participating. Forms were then provided to patients involved to sign (explicitly) about their agreement to participate in the effort and how their data would be used, protected, etc. The process also required physician sign-off to confirm they read the document to the patient verbally, determined they were competent, cognizant, not under any sort of duress/intoxication, etc. The patient also needed to verbally acknowledge they agreed. Oh, and there was a clause they could retroactively pull out of the work, including their data at any point of they felt uncomfortable or changed their minds.
The patients and their data weren't the product, tech developed that would assist patients was the product of the data.
For patients who agreed, some would also be permitted to see some of the products of the work related to their data. Im forgetting a lot of the data collection process because it was very rigorous and several years ago now, but everything above bar, no dark patterny ah-ha-gotcha! line buried in a 300 page liability sign off they had to agree to for some necessary life saving treatment or anything of that nature.
I even got to meet some of the people we helped which was a bit rewarding to see people's lives improve a bit with technology. The specific patient mentioned and their neurosurgeon even let me sit in on their brain surgery tumor removal (patient's suggestion), which was a very unique experience. So yea, they knew what was going on.
With that said, not all data usage was as transparent and ethical as what I worked with, and I saw a lot of mistakes there that make me cringe thinking what a less ethical business with no transparency might do, given the opportunity.
Every doctor's visit I've had in recent memory had a data sharing agreement I had to sign (or at least, that was presented to me) if I hadn't been there before.
If the pandemic started right now, I’d get a Herman Miller on day one and be done with it. I feel we’re too close to the end now though. I’ve been through three chairs since we started working from home last March.
If they're censoring it, they're censoring it from their own people as well. My childhood best friend lives in Shanghai and is reporting that things are pretty much back to normal there. Businesses are open again, people are in the streets like normal, etc. This was his report from this morning after we inquired for more information last night.
He says they are not completely relaxed in public, but getting there. They still observe social distancing. But from his understanding, infection rates are way down all around China.
These are the kinds of reports we need to hear about, not the "some of the (almost always unnamed) experts say that <insert baseless alarmist prediction>" type.
So yeah we need reports from the ground, if anybody reading this is in China please chime in and give us a quick rundown of the situation over there. Thanks
>>People back home have asked me for updates from 'ahead of the curve' in China so here is today's: China has added USA to the list of mandatory quarantines. My friend just arrived yesterday to Shanghai from the Bay Area and was taken from the airport to a testing facility and was then put under a 14-day quarantine at his apartment in Shanghai (even though he tested negative). Meanwhile, those of us out of quarantine are free to move around the city with our green cards. And many are indeed choosing to do so while still observing social distancing. Infection rates are way down all across China.
He goes on to say the following in two of his responses below...
In regards to how long
>>China was worst around early February. So I'd guess at least a month to get over the hump.
In regards to a 2nd outbreak coming
>>Have not heard that at all. I wouldn't say it's 'relaxed' more like 'beginning to relax a bit'
My parents are in China (Shandong province) and they are free to travel across cities. Restrictions (aka lockdowns) are lifted and cities are getting busy again. Generally, back to normal, aside from school closures.
Most recent news from this morning: Schools are opening across the country in stages from April. This is strong signal. I don't think "coverup" and "school opening" can do together because viruses won't listen to either CCP or Trump.
As a Chinese with so many friends in China, I would say that articles from WSJ/NYT about China may not reflect the reality. They are telling the truth, but there are many truths and reporters just want to pick whatever they want. E.g., there are sad stories for sure, but there are also plenty of moving good stories. In this mixed-up world I found it very difficult to find real "objective" reports, aside from your own eyes...
Yes absolutely this the reason why I refrain from basing my opinions solely on the reports coming from western outlets, they've been notoriously known for practicing "lying by omission" essentially stating true facts while completely disregarding other important factors and details that would otherwise go against whatever narrative they are trying to push on their readership.
Thanks for the uplifting report and take care out there mate.
It's not an overreaction. It's literally a targeted ad showing up in your day to day work space. It's invasive. I switched to mac a long time ago, but I still have a Windows device because some things are just painful (or impossible) to use on a mac.
The difference between using an application that prompts "make this default?" and a specifically targeted ad showing up on your start menu is that the user used the application that threw the prompt...That might actually be helpful.
The fact is, if Microsoft wants me to switch to Edge, they need to tell me the benefits. A chart will do fine comparing it to other common options. I don't need a targeted ad that proves they know and keep track of what browser I'm actually using. That's literally ridiculous.
Apple does the same sort of thing these days, Music.app on my phone keeps showing me a full screen ad for Apple Music around a month, dismissed it about 5 times now.
It seems a bit absurd that this is still a reason to say 'fuck ubuntu' when they listened to user feedback and reversed that feature. I can't think of any other similar missteps in recent years.
> I can't think of any other similar missteps in recent years.
I stopped using Ubuntu a while ago due to a large number of individually minor "missteps", so I don't have any equally blatant/memorable (or particularly recent) examples, but there were enough of them to be a constant hazard of updating anything.
(For similarly large, there's systemd and wayland, but neither those are specific to Ubuntu.)
Also, someone (for analogy) dumping toxic waste into a drinking water supply, and then listening to feedback and ceasing to dump toxic waste into the water supply, still seems like a damn good reason to say "fuck those guys in particular" to me, and that's what shipping malware in a software update amounts to.
Still – it’s a misleading title (border-line click bait). Anti-Firefox ad implies that they say something negative about Firefox, which clearly isn't the case.
"Still using Firefox?" Seems to me implies that it's old and antiquated and only used by people who don't know any better. Of course the opposite is true.
To build on your point: Yes, and this is precisely how Microsoft intended. It’s a disingenuous question. The OS knows you’re still using Firefox, because that’s what prompted the ad to begin with.
sure, but those types of ads aren't really for people like you. they are for the vast majority of Windows users who aren't in control of their machine but are instead being controlled by it. many don't even realize they can get rid of those ads, or they give in and just start using Edge..
My observation has been is that most users who use Firefox aren't the kind to be controlled by their PC. Someone who can use Firefox (specially because of privacy concerns and have installed extensions) should easily be able to switch off this ad. If anything I found it bold and kinda funny of Microsoft to do that. I myself am a Brave user, btw.
Well maybe instead of articles complaining about ads we educate the users on how to turn ads off and how to install ad-blockers.
But that's not what this article is about, it's a Microsoft hit-piece. That's all journalism is nowadays, mercenaries for hire.
And final point, if the ad isn't for me or anyone else here for that matter, why are we seeing an article about it? And why did noone else here mention you can turn it off?
Microsoft is not the harbinger of ads and they never will be, Google was and is. If you want to war ads, take it up against Google, their browser, their OS, and their search engine.
Ironically MS put an adblocker in Chromium by default.
It's anticompetitive as fuck but people stopped caring about that it seems.
Also why it's against firefox and not let's say chrome.
Inb4 Google does this too on their products.
Yeah and it's less fucked but absolutely fucked just the same.
So as somewhat of an outsider to the 'web game' as far as most people here (at HN) are concerned, but a relatively aware patron of web browsing software, I'll add my thoughts on the 'web browser' game...
I feel like most people's browser of choice is chosen for reasons specific to their needs. For example: I think that Firefox gives me a bit of additional privacy. I think that Safari gives me that additional privacy as well. Some people may feel like Chrome just works. Some people just use what came with their OS.
When I do front end work, I tend to always test it in Chrome first. Their devtools make that part of my job (quickly finding issues with the frontend) a lot easier. Once it works in Chrome, I'm sure that the code is working, and any problems I encounter will just require browser-specific tweaks.
Anyway, long story short...I think that Microsoft really needs to pick something that Edge is best at if they want people to have a reason to use it (PS loading a highly browser-optimized page some number of milliseconds faster than the competition just doesn't do it for me, personally). Their niche has always just kind of been "well it's what comes with the OS" - and that's a fine way to get a userbase for sure. I'm not faulting them - but if that's their intended userbase, then I feel like they're putting a lot of effort into this whole browser game.
I guess at the end of the day, I don't trust IE or Edge or Chrome for my every day use. Whether that's poorly placed mistrust or not, I'm uncertain. But in either event, that's how I feel.
"The thing" for Edge is likely going to be the integration with rest of Microsoft ecosystem. Management tools, security tools, authentication etc. Of course these things matter mainly for organizations, who are otherwise running Microsoft stuff.
They are basically paying you a tiny bit to use Edge and Bing with their rewards program. You get points, which can be converted to Microsoft Gift Cards and some other stuff.
Microsoft with New Edge seems to be trying to hit the same or a very similar "think that it gives additional privacy" spot as Safari. By being Chromium-based and Chrome-like it maybe is the "new" cross-platform Safari now that Apple retrenched and decided to stop bothering with making Safari cross-platform.
That doesn't even bring up the fact that I cannot select a volume for some videos while watching from my PC. It's either muted or fully on. Not only should there be a volume - but the volume you previously selected should be automatically selected when you start the next video (reddit, youtube do this).