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Comment Re:Didn't they try this with Microsoft (Score 1) 144

The general Internet-using public didn't give two shits about web standards. What they cared about was that Chrome was fast and responsive and had tabs, while IE was stuck with an overbuilt rendering engine that moved like mud.

Very much this. Early Chrome wasn't without it's flaws, but it WORKED and it was fast. I'm fuzzy on the details and can't be arsed to look up the timeline, but IIRC IE7 was being pushed out and the flaming heap that was IE8 was being forced upon us enterprise Windows users. Both browsers had matured to the Hot Garbage phase of early 2000's software.

Despite the whining of the rest of my IT department, who would only support IE, I switched to Chrome about a week after public release and haven't looked back. It's both better and worse than it used to be, but Chrome is still my daily driver browser. I've tried most of the alternatives, but I keep coming back to Chrome.

Submission + - Ukraine fires UK-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russia (aljazeera.com) 1

easyTree writes: Ukraine fires UK-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russia

Russia’s foreign intelligence chief says attempts by NATO countries to help Ukraine will not go unpunished.

Ukraine has fired long-range British Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory for the first time, a day after launching United States-made long-range missiles into the country, British media outlets report.

Russian war correspondent accounts on Telegram posted footage on Wednesday they said included the sound of the missiles striking in the Kursk region, which lies on Ukraine’s border. At least 14 huge explosions can be heard, most of them preceded by the sharp whistle of what sounds like an incoming missile. The footage, shot in a residential area, showed black smoke rising in the distance.

People in Kursk also reportedly found fragments from the missiles in the region.

A spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his office would not be commenting on reports or operational matters.

Britain had previously said Ukraine could use Storm Shadow cruise missiles within Ukrainian territory, but

London has been pressing Washington for permission to allow their use to strike targets inside Russia for several months.

On Tuesday, Ukraine used US-made long-range weapons to strike targets in Russia. US President Joe Biden’s administration has allowed Kyiv to use these missiles in and around the Kursk region only.

Afterwards, Russian President Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold for a nuclear strike in response to a broader range of conventional attacks. Washington said afterwards it had not seen any reason to adjust its nuclear posture while China called for restraint. See article for more...

Comment Re:No, we need solar (Score 3, Informative) 139

Austin is a bright baby blue smear in the otherwise predominately red state of Texas. Having worked with Austin Energy, and knowing who has been elected to their city council, it surprises me not one bit that even residential modifications require multiple layers of governmental approval.

Of course, this is the same city who is a full week into a massive outage due to NIMBY homeowners fighting the utility's vegetation management efforts for years, and the 20-month backlog of tree trimming that AE's VP of Field Ops says is going to take three years to catch up with.

Comment We've been here before... (Score 5, Interesting) 53

That means it's catching cases where the doctor already thinks there's an issue

Compare with the Machine Learning exercise back in '17 I think that was attempting to identify cancers from photos, only to have their "AI" learn that photos with rulers in them were more likely to have cancers identified later (because they only used a ruler for lesions that were concerning to begin with before taking the photo.):

Comment Cherry picking data, or ignoring such cherries? (Score 2) 256

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.inverse.com%2Fscienc...

In a new study, scientists find another reason why air pollution is bad for the brain — this time zeroing in on the effect it has on men’s brain health. The study examines the negative effect of fine particulate matter, also known as PM 2.5 pollution. You might know it as black carbon or “soot.”

Comment Re:Where's Greenpeace, Greta, et al? (Score 5, Informative) 161

The real question is how much pollution this release will cause.

As far as radiation is concerned, about half the worldwide daily consumption of bananas. Or a coal-fired power plant run for 6 hours:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.expunct.com%2Fenviro...

Comment Artfully omitted from the summary... (Score 1) 139

A four-day week in the public sector would create up to half a million new jobs...

So, the private sector cannot do this, but the public sector (paid from taxes raised from the private sector) could.

What we in the UK need and want are less public sector tax-sponging employees, and more private sector tax-producing employees.

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