I think a lot of that comes down to our ability to make personal comparisons. When you’re 10 years old, a year is 10% of your entire lived experience. When you’re 50 years old, a year is just 2% of your life. Life feels like it goes faster as we age, because we have so much more to compare it to as we grow older.

It’s a good quote, and it’s actually a little ironic because the line sort of proves itself, as it’s actually a myth that people ever believed the world was flat pre-Columbus. Scholars have known the Earth was round for literally thousands of years; Pythagoras wrote about the curvature of the earth as early as ~500 BC. The roundness of the Earth was never really contested until the last 50 years or so.

The myth stems from Washington Irving’s book “A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus”, in which he completely fabricates the idea that Columbus argued with scholars about the shape of the earth (as well as several other stories with zero historical data to back them up). Everybody at the time generally agreed, before Columbus ever set sail, that the Earth is round. That misconception about what the public believed is relatively new, as the book was only published in 1828.

Fact-checking was a much more arduous process back in the 1800s. Back then, you’d typically have to find a book to prove your point, so it’s really no surprise that people just accepted these printed words as the truth, but in this case the book is just full of straight-up lies. Lies that eventually made their way into almost every school’s history curriculum ever since. In fact, there are more flat-Earthers now than at any point in history, and we can probably directly blame Irving for that, for putting such a stupid idea into the public’s eye in the first place.

Interestingly, Columbus was actually WRONG about the shape of the earth. He didn’t believe the Earth was round at all. While most scholars accurately believed it to be spherical, Columbus thought the planet was pear-shaped. But “proving” that was never the point of his voyages, either way.

15 minutes ago, some of you reading this “knew” that people believed the world was flat 500 years ago.

And a +1 for egirls in general.

Valve’s argument isn’t in defense of free speech, it’s in defense of Gabe’s next yacht.

Well done, Henry.

It appears to have pulled the number from a PDF of a FOIA request that I made to the FTC back in 2016.

“Chatbot scrapes and recites public information. Over to Tom with sports.”

Don’t get me wrong, there’s a billion gallons of reasons to hate LLMs, but “doing the thing it’s supposed to be good at doing” isn’t one of them.

Obviously the chatbot should be regulated such that it wouldn’t be able to access that sort of information in the first place, or that it should be filtered from training material. But finding information that the author, himself, previously made public, isn’t really noteworthy. Especially if you consider that, until fairly recently, fucking Jeeves would’ve given you this phone number if you knew how to ask.

Just look at the hairless pits the character on his shirt has. Clearly this is a man of culture.

No, but it’s the best option for users who are unable/unwilling to switch browsers.

The Lite version still works fine.

If you can’t figure it out, then there’s a word that might apply to you. I’ll bet you can guess the word.

Get a bunch of other parents together and threaten to change schools. They need your money and your children’s enrollments a whole lot more than you need them.

Soy Chozo.

firefox is implementing the standard.

If that was the case, pages would work in Firefox as they do in other browsers.

Whatever the reason or whoever you want to blame, the bottom line is that Firefox does not meet the standards of modern browsers, period. You can blame Google if you want, but it doesn’t change the fact that Firefox doesn’t do what is expected of it. For better or for worse. It’s not a matter of “who is more evil?” because they’re all evil (including Mozilla), it’s a matter of “which of these products actually work?” And Firefox doesn’t work.

And I say this as somebody who used to be a diehard Firefox supporter. The Mozilla Foundation was the first charitable donation I made when I first started working and earning money. I liked the promise they showed, but they’ve become just like the rest.

For what it’s worth, the bug in this article is partially replicable in Chrome, and isn’t even unique to YouTube. Due to the way I keep my windows positioned, I sometimes get the mobile layout of a web page on my desktop because I opened it in a narrow window, and quite often those sites will go into the same flickering, rapid loop of layout adjustments the article describes. I ran into this quite often while I was applying for jobs last year.

Though I’ve not seen the extensive resource usage happening when Chrome does this. That part of it could very well be a side effect that’s compounded by the user agent shenanigans Google does with YouTube.

If all browsers implement the standard

That’s exactly the issue: Firefox isn’t implementing the same standards as other browsers.

Often times firefox is following the css specifications in how to process it and chrome isnt. Developers then do things, see it works in chrome and leave at that, not knowing what they did is wrong and broken.

What you’re saying is that Firefox isn’t doing what developers are expecting it to do; that just means that Firefox isn’t compatible with what developers are actually making. That’s hardly a strong defense for Firefox, as all that situation does is create a subsection of the internet that only works on Firefox.

There’s a difference between following the standards as-written, and the standards as-practiced. If 99% of developers are doing something one way, then that’s the way it’s done, regardless of what some consortium of developers at Mozilla thinks. Firefox saying “erm excuse me but ThE rUlEs say yadda yadda so I won’t render the page as you expected” while Chrome just says “fuck it, here’s your page”, is precisely why Chrome has the higher userbase and is the de facto standard; it does what the users and the developers both expect it to do, and doesn’t give any fuss about it. Not saying it should be this way, but it is.

Firefox’s random incompatibilities don’t actually make for a safer internet, as the average user is going to pursue the path of least resistance. So if their pages stop working in Firefox, they’re just gonna switch to Chrome, or worse.

Unpopular opinion: If it works in the engine that 70+% of devices are using, then it works. If it doesn’t work in your non-Chrome browser, then your browser is what’s broken.

For a company the size of GameStop, I feel that $1B isn’t as much as it sounds like.

Presenting ☝️ to the emergency room, where we are now.

What makes you think this is AI?