The issue could be related to Chrome itself and not twitter.com per se. Did you try restricting some other site on Chrome like reddit.com or facebook.com, and see if that works?
Yea, actually I tried and it worked on other pages. That's why I got pissed and suspicious at Twitter. I deleted and reinstalled Chrome and now it's working fine :shrug:
>> Which flavor of kool-aid do I need to drink before I see Musk as the great savior instead the person I see now?
The things he said about freedom of speech ("free speech absolutism", etc.) made a great impact on people. To be fair, there was also some merit in that narrative as censorship was indeed happening in Twitter 1.0.
It's quite easy for a commoner or pleb to think that Elon Musk is single handedly taking on the "mighty establishment" on behalf of the common people. The "Modern day Robin Hood" is a kool-aide stereotype which isn't easy to shake off and Elon seems to have been successful so far in that narrative pitch.
The fact that the person who tried to silence multiple employees and journalists convinced anyone that he is a "free speech absolutist" really baffles me. But then again the same people shouting for this brand of "free speech absolutism" had absolutely no problems with protestors (often violently) being escorted out of Trump rallies.
Unpopular opinion but I think whenever these 'hack' incidents happen, there should be a full disclosure and the company should be made to tell us what exactly was hacked right down to the nuts and blots, sql queries and server processes level.
There should be full transparency on this and all the open source eyeballs should be able to study and scrutinize this. If not, anyone will be able to get away with data theft tomorrow saying, "my server got hacked". What will cause them to not do it except some sense of personal ethics which is rapidly degrading these days?
That is not an unpopular opinion, people have been arguing on this forum for proper legislation around these types of security incidents and breaches for years.
Bridges tend to be owned by the government which in democratic counties gives an accounting to the public.
Private bridges, have owners who give an accounting to no one when they collapse. At best, if you have standing you can sue them and they will defend themselves by giving an accounting for why it’s not their fault or they did their best.
Those things need to be supervisioned.
FlyTAP has gotten their entire rewards DB (if not all their DB) hacked and if it were not for IHBP I would never know because the company never told me.
As far as I know FlyTAP never got a fine for ignoring its obligations.
GDPR is a good idea but there must be supervision for it being applied as defined.
That's what I'm thinking. In Economics terms, this weird situation is called "bilateral monopoly" where both the buyer and seller have a monopoly of sorts since they're like the only unicorns in town.
Well, a part of Mozilla (the foundation) keeps calling out Apple, Google and other big tech companies for their control, censorship and browser monopolies. However, another part (the corporation) keeps accepting regular pay checks from Google to fund themselves, can't really wrap my head around this "Mozilla Foundation vs Corporation" conundrum!
>> The trick to improving YouTube recommendations is to regularly prune uninteresting videos and channels. Eventually this should start surfacing videos you're more likely to find interesting.
Unfortunately, Capitalism doesn't work like that :-(. Back in the old days, Google searches used to be organic searches in the genuine sense, and that was the best Google we ever had. But today's Google is the Big Tech Capitalist and so will be their algorithms. The organic logic should follow your prunes and show you what you want but the capitalist logic will only show what they're paid to show to you! (i.e. propaganda, politically motivated content, inciting content, etc. etc.).
They have to be capitalist in order to be a profitable company. The problem has more to do with their size and monopoly status. They have the whole market and no credible pressure from consumers threatening to leave for other businesses and so they just do whatever they want which is chasing internal trends and politics.
Me on the other hand got interested in F#! How does it pay so much considering it's just another .NET (CLR) language at par with C#? Can I benefit by learning F# as a .NET developer?
I suspect that causality might run the other way. The sort of .NET developers that bothers to really learn F# tend to be among the very best .NET developers, and would probably be earning basically the same no matter what language they develop in.
Does anyone remembers the good old IRC chat? I think it was a mind-blowing and decentralized option (outside the influence of big tech) to have conversations and debates. Why and when did we bid adieu to IRC and started settling with things like Discord? (which is no doubt good by the looks of it, but still subject to big tech influence)
IRC didn't have integrated audio chats and media sharing. People want that in one place today. I don't like using discord to be honest. IRC had the same problem that content couldn't be crawled without logs, but the info here just as fleeting. I believe some content creators do not really make their lives easier when they decide to publish in discord channels. It might look like a lot of engagement compared to a forum or other online presence, but the discoverability is very bad and almost no content will leave the platform again.
Is it that good, nowadays? Long, long time ago in university (okay not that long, around 2006), I first discovered NetBeans as superior Eclipse replacement, but about a year later IntelliJ as superior NetBeans replacement. And this was already for relatively simple stuff.
Agree completely that it's mind-blowing, it's my go-to tool when I do need an IDE (though I get most of my work done on emacs).
However, at my age, another thing that's mind-blowing is that this is now considered efficient. My first experiences with this was with (IIRC) was its predecessor, Forte for Java, and while I loved it, I remember it being a huge resource-hog. It's unbelievable to me how much computing power has improved to the point that something like NetBeans can be considered efficient (I don't discount their efforts in making it more efficient, but I think the fact we have more brute-force capacity these days certainly helps a lot).
Well, it's efficient if you compare it with the even newer (and even less efficient) generation of IDEs based on browser technology. Haven't used NetBeans in a while, but JetBrains are doing their very best to hide Java from you - their products come with their own (probably customized) OpenJDK so you don't have to have Java installed etc.
Around 10 years ago, when I was getting started with Android development, there was a plugin for that. I did try it first, but ended up going the official way with Eclipse.
Except performance. Saying this as a daily intellij user. I still miss incremental compilation speeds for Java that were in the order of milliseconds rather than the 5-10 seconds (minimum, if you are lucky).
I love Kotlin but compiler speed is not one of its strengths. And with the round trip via Gradle, it just is guaranteed to take multiple seconds to process even a 1 character change in a unit test when you run one.
Eclipse used to be awesome for this with Java:
- error state of your project would update in real time while you were typing. Introduce a problem, the project goes red immidiately. Fix the problem, the red goes away immediately.
- Edit, run, type, edit run type, etc. without noticable delay. Intellij never had this.
The reason for this was a deeply integrated incremental compiler. It could even tolerate compilation errors and still allow you to run parts of your code. There are not many IDEs out there for any language that can do that. IBM did that 20 years ago with Eclipse and it's a feature I miss a lot.
Same here, much prefer Eclipse to IntelliJ. Super fast and provides instant feedback on everything you do with the incremental compilation. And the workspace is amazingly powerful as a concept.
I used to bash Eclipse (Netbeans fanboy :) ), then IntelliJ came into the picture without Javadoc completion out of the box (fixed nowdays), required explicit invocation of inspections, ten finger chords, no incremental compilation, no support for JNI development, indexing non stop,... and I re-learned how great Eclipse actually happens to be.
There's a secret to kotlin compiler speed, and that's learning scala first ;)
And yes, the eclipse way of live embedded compilation to a classloader nested in the IDE process was awesome in more than one way. Probably an inheritance from its Smalltalk roots?
Some time ago I heard of a website dedicated to hating eclipse ide, but google can't find it. By any chance do you know what it is? Sorry if this comment sounds like gaslighting, I'm just curious.
Mac. It's not an OS thing. And no, it's not a virus scanner or something silly like that. I've seen the behavior replicated on lots of machines; including laptops belonging to other people that claimed it was my setup that was the problem. You set it up right, you get about 2-3 orders of magnitude difference in performance between Intellij and Eclipse. It's just that people get used to it and actually seem to think five seconds is pretty fast. Trust me, I've heard all the excuses over the years. When you've seen 50ms, 5 seconds is an eternity.
Netbeans > Eclipse > IntelliJ when it comes to working on multiple projects. I still see colleagues who have a separate IntelliJ window open for each project they need to work with because IntelliJ makes it so damned convoluted.
> I still see colleagues who have a separate IntelliJ window open for each project they need to work with because IntelliJ makes it so damned convoluted.
I do this on purpose, because it's much easier than having all in a single window. IntelliJ always gives you the option to have them in a single window.
The single window option from IntelliJ is a hack of sorts, the last I checked they have some notion about importing a module vice a project. I'm not sure why on earth you would want separate windows though when, say, you're working on multiple Spring Boot projects and a couple of library jar projects that all interact with each other. Switching back and forth from window to window seems like self cutting.
