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Comment Street lamps don't fight crime (Score 1) 85

Clean water and environmental regulations that keep lead out of your paint fight crime. Free school lunches so kids don't grow up hungry fights crime.

But on the other hand it feels like Bright Street lamps make crime harder and America is a nation of 12-year-olds so we are very much feels over reals.

Comment Re:Crime (Score 1) 85

I was wondering why street lights don't have motion sensors. Maybe it's because the range of the sensors is too low. Typical PIR stuff won't work very well at that distance. Or maybe the lights going on and off all the time would be distracting or annoying for residents.

Comment Re:Where i live... (Score 3, Informative) 85

It was a decision that weighed up the pros and cons.

Pros:
- Broader spectrum light has better colour rendering, i.e. you can see things like road markings and hazards better with it. Sodium is very narrow spectrum.
- CCTV can see a lot better with broad spectrum.
- Whiter light appears brighter to humans even when the light output is lower than redder light.
- LEDs are more efficient at higher colour temperatures, although the difference is small now.

Cons:
- Can mess up the natural day/night cycle for living things, from insects to humans.
- Some people prefer orange.

If it is bothering you then contact your council. They can install a shield that stops it shining into your bedroom.

Comment Re:Reinstate Brendan Eich NOW!!! (Score 1, Interesting) 134

He hacked it together in a weekend with little thought. As is often the case, the worst option becomes the de-facto standard. See Markdown for another example.

I thought common Slashdot wisdom was to disable Javascript because only a madman runs unknown code downloaded from the internet on every website he visits.

Comment Re:They were underpowered and underfeatured (Score 1) 17

They were thinking that the web is their platform. The whole reason they created Chrome was because they wanted the web to be the platform, not the underlying OS. Chomebooks are mostly just a web browser.

Googlebooks are abandoning that to have proper apps. They seem to be hoping that it can become as much as a gaming platform as Android.

Comment Re:Reinstate Brendan Eich NOW!!! (Score 1) 134

Creating Javascript is not something to be proud of.

Either way, Firefox's decline has nothing to do with him. It's because Chrome is good. I know, Google steals all your data, but most people just want a browser that is fast and easy to use. If they care about privacy, there are numerous forks to choose from.

I use Firefox, but the compatibility issues and long standing bugs are frustrating. Most people would probably give up, and even I look at new Chrome based browsers to see if moving back is feasible now and then. I think the lack of uBlock on Chrome will probably keep me here, but I'm far from a typical user.

Comment Re: Rounded tabs? (Score 4, Informative) 134

Go to about:config and toggle browser.nova.enabled to false.

I read the Ars interview with one of the guys who worked on this, and he justified it by saying that for broad appeal they need to have a modern looking UI. That may be true, but only if they also have a strong base of speed and compatibility.

He mentioned that they are using AI to help develop things faster, which may be good if it helps catch back up for speed and compatibility. I think what they really need to do is straighten the codebase out and make it easier to build, so that other browsers can adopt it like they have adopted Chromium. I know there are forks, but they are little more than skins and default settings changes.

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