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I switched to Brave from Chromium + UBO. Despite seeing some ads, it's still comfier to use vanilla Brave than Chromium + UBO.


If you want your Chrome to be as fast as possible, you would get rid of all extensions you have. It doesn't matter even if it's an adblock atp.

Hence calling it a feature, not a bug is rather misleading. Since you went and installed plugins understanding that it might and it will affect your workflow.


> It doesn't matter even if it's an adblock atp

Pre-manifest V3, when OnBeforeRequest actually blocked requests before they were downloaded, browsing typical sites with it enabled was objectively faster than with it off. Any overhead was pretty quickly recovered in not downloading the ads.

Many benchmarks proved that. Here's one: https://whatsoftware.com/10-ad-blocking-extensions-tested-fo...

So, unless you're browsing exclusively all ad-free sites, it very much DOES matter, or used to.


Usually, ad blockers will dramatically improve a websites performance


I see that author used these Combinator Birds or Birbs [1].

[1] https://www.angelfire.com/tx4/cus/combinator/birds.html


Which goes back to Raymond Smullyan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Mock_a_Mockingbird


It's interesting. I assumed at least their power consumption should have been much better/lower than an avg orthodox desktop setup of current days.


It's not unreasonably high for a TDP, and the idle consumption of ARM is de-facto lower than power an x86 package.

That being said, it's pretty obvious that Apple's mobile-style solution isn't really working out on the desktop side of things. The new iMac feels starkly pedestrian compared to the old ones, and the Mac Mini/Studio are both neat but not unprecedented. The M2 Ultra represents a lot of engineering effort going into flipping that status quo, but its still slipping behind by a considerable margin. Don't forget that a second "Ultra" style SOC with 4x M1 Maxes was supposedly cancelled for drawing too much power and being too hot. It's just not effective or efficient to force that much silicon that close together.


I finally found out about tab folders in chromium-like browsers. Bookmarks are also fine, yet I always thought they're clumsy.

I assume it works for me. Maybe someone still has a better solution.


you can't just simply state that he's healthy without actually seeing his lifespan


You can be healthy now and developer cancer next year. They're looking at whether this child shows signs of illness, and he doesn't. That's the same definition of healthy that we use for everyone else.


You claim to be healthy, yet you have not died yet. Curious.


where did they claim to be healthy?


You cant but you can place a very high probability on it.

With genetic diseases often the difference between healthy and not is a single enzyme is missing.

If you can prove the enzyme level is restored and all the downstream effects match healthy individuals, youve basically restored them to what healthy people are.

Durability of the change is the big issue. Some gene therapies wane over time.

And of course if damage had occurred before the gene therapy, that may never go away.


You could have read the article to the third word at least, to learn that the child is a girl.


my bad, I didn't read the article, just followed the title


The headline claims the child is healthy, but the article itself says

> Roughly six months out from treatment, "Teddi is a happy and healthy toddler showing no signs of the devastating disease she was born with," the NHS statement reads.

and later

> In clinical trials, Libmeldy offered clear benefits to infantile and juvenile patients who hadn't yet developed MLD symptoms; these patients were able to break down sulfatides at normal rates and showed typical patterns of motor development, for example. The benefit of the therapy seemed to last several years, but at this point, "it is not yet clear whether it will persist life-long, and extended follow-up is needed," the EMA noted.

Which is much more nuanced.


Your assertion is that we have no way of assessing someone's health until they have died?


My assertion is that the every change we do towards things like that might involve million results and since it's not a simple logical statement it's rather hard to verify/validate the outcome in a short term due to the nature of dynamic/complex systems.


jobsearch.dev has quite nice advices you have to follow.

Besides that remember always to build your own narrative.


It really doesn't matter, or in general you can never be sure that any app that stores any data won't ever meet requests of any officials or any people with guns.

Especially the case of Telegram was quite simple, since SEC filed a complaint we could clearly see who are the main investors. It's not necessarily about the country or investors either.

You can choose only the place where things are stored and expect the company to act according to local laws (for e.g. Protonmail doing its proton things in Swiss judiciary).

And, I guess, a thing we have to teach people is something vague and unclear like post-privacy scene, like how one has to operate knowing that pigeon mails can always be spoofed, no matter how encrypted the conversation is.


Wait, what java runtime has to do with spotify?


“Joe Rogan Experience”


Is Tidal's UI lightweight(like it's not Electron)? What about the songs? Are you satisfied with the songs library?

I'm thinking about switching since native spotify app's playing gif (or icon) spikes my CPU usage for some very strange reason.


I used Tidal for a while; it's mostly the same as Spotify in terms of UX. They also use Electron. The song library is similar.

Back in the day I use Rdio, which had a pretty good UI; unfortunately they shut down.


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