At one particular point it was, if I recall correctly, though Chrome also (mis)implements some standards its own way, so Google might also use that as a form of attack against anyone who implements them properly, much like Microsoft did in the bad old IE6 days…

It’s all a silly arms race, though, with Google coming up with new ways to enshittify the web for anyone not using Chrome or using ad blockers and Mozilla and ad blocker (and alternative YouTube frontend) developers trying to figure out what they broke this time and how to fix it, so what worked yesterday might not work today and work again tomorrow.

It’s all a profoundly stupid waste of everyone’s time and resources (all for a few more ad views) which will hopefully end up with Google losing their monopoly position on the web like the Internet Explorer bullshit did for Microsoft, but will keep being a major hassle for everyone until it does.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/youtube-responds-to-delayed-loading-in-rival-browser-complaints, for instance.

Or https://www.zdnet.com/article/former-mozilla-exec-google-has-sabotaged-firefox-for-years/, for an older one.

As for how to fix it, Mozilla tend to do a pretty good job of eventually working around Google’s bullshit, so keeping the browser updated is a good first step.

Since Google tends to roll this stuff out regionally and doing A/B testing, though, the best way is to identify what specific handicap they’re hassling you with (which specific features don’t work or don’t work right, when they work properly on chrome), and look for an updated add on or userscript to fix that particular issue.

Or you can just look for a generic YouTube or Google Docs “enhancer” add on and hope it fixes the issue without making the whole user experience too different from what you’re used to.

Mainly that Google intentionally makes its sites (like YouTube or Google Docs) slower and less useable when they detect you’re using Firefox, and/or ad blockers (which you need Firefox to use, so same difference).

It’s mostly fixable with add-ons and userscripts (and eventually, one hopes, with an antitrust lawsuit), but it’s still a hassle.

A screenplay is part of (the process of making) a film. It’s not an independent work.

I mean we do, but like one would look at a particularly bloated and grotesque tumour. 🤷‍♂️

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
‘Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!’ cries she
With silent lips. 'Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Windows 2000 wasn’t bad.

The only heptapod killed in the film was killed by Americans…

The original short story is called Story of your life, as from the point of view of Banks narrating it to her daughter.

No love story, no daughter, no Story of your life.

I suppose you could still have a story about aliens, and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, and bootstrap paradoxes, but you wouldn’t have this story, and probably wouldn’t have the same emotional impact.

It’d be like taking the war out of Slaughterhouse-Five, if we’re staying with the aliens and alien-related psychic time travel theme. Or the air out of a balloon.

genuinely one of my favourite original sci-fi movies I’ve watched in the last decade

🙄

Ted Chiang’s Story of Your Life won a Nebula for best novella and a Theodore Sturgeon award, and was nominated for a Hugo for best novella.

Yeah, it’s pretty good.

Half a million is within reach for people who didn’t start out dirt poor, got an education, and a professional gig.

No, it’s not.

To have that kind of money you have to have been born with it, be corrupt, have won a lottery¹, and / or have been born back when the world wasn’t yet as FUBARed as it is now.

1.— By winning a lottery I don’t necessarily mean a literal one. I mean that out of the million people with your exact same abilities, opportunities, and circumstances you’re the one lucky bastard who made it out without being chewed up and spat out by the world.

The NT kernel is built on top of a hardware abstraction layer, which should make it easier to port it to different architectures.

We have to look at the positive side: from now on, every day will be the best¹ day of the rest of our lives!

1.— Least worst, truthfully, but it works out the same, more or less.

Thank you for the clear, concise, and colourful explanation.

You are both a scholar and a poet.

ACA still B, though, even if in this particular case the victim was a terrorist.

Fascists should be getting shot because they’re fascists, not because cops are violent incompetent bastards who indiscriminately murder people without consequence.

An axis, if you will.

Yeah, that too.

Sure, but one doesn’t exclude the other. Trump’s got both.

I mean, the dementia and the neurosyphilis and the chronic drug damage don’t help, of course, but Trump has been mentally challenged all his life.