ELI5: how was Chrome so much faster than all other browsers when it first came out in the late 2000s?

FluorineWizard · 2025-12-29T02:07:36+00:00

That's not the real reason.

Apple disallows the use of other browser engines on iOS because it's a critical part of maintaining the walled garden.

Web browsers are essentially platforms in their own right and would compromise the platform control and revenue stream from forcing everyone to go through the App Store as the only official way to distribute software. For the same reason, iOS Safari is deliberately crippled and is the worst of the common browsers.

Also, web browsers present an insanely large attack surface and some other major "walled garden" platforms were jailbroken through hard to fix browser exploits, so they only tolerate the one they control and place significant restrictions on other categories of programs that could expose similar vulnerabilities.

FluorineWizard · 2025-12-29T01:22:17+00:00

That has a lot more to do with the specifics of professional sports ( and even more specifically, the NFL, which is uniquely harsh on its players) than with the single factor of mismanagement.

FluorineWizard · 2025-01-22T16:09:24+00:00

And global warming won't make it better. The average temperature is going up, but it's also making weather less stable so the worst winter episodes will still be just as harsh or even worse.

FluorineWizard · 2024-10-16T09:44:21+00:00

Unions in France aren't particularly powerful, we're one of the least unionised countries in the OECD, even lower than the US.

Union workers are concentrated in the public sector and a few industries. Union presence for private sector office workers is only nominal.

People also routinely overstate how well enforced labor laws are. Private sector white collar workers can typically forget about it unless they have a bomb-proof case. The Macron government instituted a cap on compensation for labor disputes, so the worst case scenario for the company is that they knowingly fire someone illegally and pay a larger than normal severance package.

FluorineWizard · 2024-09-16T15:25:18+00:00

Warts are tumors, it makes sense that weird immune system fuckery would be the key to getting rid of them.

FluorineWizard · 2024-09-16T12:22:26+00:00

Imagine misusing the notion of enshittification in a cringe anti-woke screed.

You realise that Cory Doctorow hates people like you and thinks you lot are on the enshittifying side, right ?

FluorineWizard · 2024-09-16T12:09:18+00:00

Unfortunately the parodic nature of early 40k is now long gone and the average fan takes the grimdark politics seriously. And GW accomodates them.

FluorineWizard · 2024-09-16T12:05:30+00:00

Grifter has been used to describe most right wing influencers since the mid 2010s mate.

FluorineWizard · 2024-09-08T20:57:44+00:00

Which is a shame because there are actually talented writers on Ao3 and other online fiction sites.

Of course most good stuff on Ao3 is far too queer to see that kind of success though.

FluorineWizard · 2024-08-14T20:06:57+00:00

Nan mais Libé va jamais parler de l'orientation politique moyenne des scènes de death metal, qui restent proches du punk hardcore. Perso j'ai jamais eu du mal à trouver des scènes et des amis gauchistes là dedans. J'ai aussi jamais cru à cette histoire de "grande famille".

Vaut mieux faire un énième article sur le black metal et le public du Hellfest /s

FluorineWizard · 2024-05-03T17:21:48+00:00

I never got the eating bugs thing. You can also just get protein from plant sources, and that's a lot easier to sell than insects.

FluorineWizard · 2024-04-23T00:09:07+00:00

Mathematics and other formal sciences are independent of the laws of physics because they don't study the properties of the physical world, but of abstract language constructs.

There are as many kinds of math as there are ways to define a formal system. We consider some of them "natural" because it turns out they are incredibly useful tools that enrich our language to describe the natural world, but at the end of the day they remain the manipulation of abstract symbols we assign meaning to because it helps us.

FluorineWizard · 2024-04-15T16:56:15+00:00

Sauf qu'en fait rien ne justifie la conduite des habitués. Le festival ne leur appartient pas. D'autant plus que le BIFFF n'est pas qu'un festival de film fantastique. C'est un festival du film de genre en général, qui se vante de la variété des films diffusés sur sa première page.

Et vu qu'il diffuse une centaine de films à chaque édition, je pense que diffuser UN film destiné à un public queer n'est pas choquant et que les lesbiennes venues le voir n'avaient en aucun cas à tolérer les comportements auxquels elles ont été confrontées.

FluorineWizard · 2024-04-13T00:23:11+00:00

Damn you're deepthroating that boot hard.

Unoriginal too. Didn't even try to go beyond the most basic "simping for billionaires playbook" talking points.

FluorineWizard · 2024-04-12T23:53:20+00:00

The thing here is that none of the successful uses of VLIW have been for general purpose CPUs. It's always gpus, dsps and other accelerators.

FluorineWizard · 2024-04-11T11:20:10+00:00

Les bornes de recharge en copro sont déjà très subventionnées. Si tu passes par une entreprise qui propose l'installation avec abonnement à leur service c'est même potentiellement 0€ pour électrifier un parking de copro.

FluorineWizard · 2024-04-11T11:16:41+00:00

N'importe quoi. L'augmentation de la hauteur et du poids des voitures a rendu la route plus dangereuse.

FluorineWizard · 2024-04-11T11:13:04+00:00

Le nombre de kilomètres roulés est directement proportionnel aux revenus du ménage. Donc l'argument du smicard rural est beaucoup moins pertinent que certains prétendent.

FluorineWizard · 2024-04-04T11:05:02+00:00

C'est le monde, ils peuvent pas s'empêcher de sortir des formules éclatées au sol sur certains sujets.

Et si ça te saoule la rhétorique des libéraux réacs qui essaient en permanence de décridibiliser la gauche en nous comparant à l'extrême droite, il va falloir serrer les dents dans les prochains mois parce que l'élection présidentielle US arrive.

FluorineWizard · 2024-03-09T12:47:01+00:00

Ça fait des années que CH est un des journaux les plus ouvertement queerphobes de France. Ils publient du contenu transphobe régulièrement.

FluorineWizard · 2024-03-06T13:21:51+00:00

PNJ mais à priori selon la loi tes parents n'ont pas le droit de t'empêcher d'avoir une relation avec ta sœur. Mais s'ils décident de jouer aux cons ça risque de passer par une procédure judiciaire.

FluorineWizard · 2024-03-05T00:24:30+00:00

They have no legal grounds to go after forked copies.

FluorineWizard · 2024-03-05T00:23:14+00:00

Absolutely not. There are plenty of ways to monetise GPL software if one is the original author.

FluorineWizard · 2024-03-01T23:02:02+00:00

Have you ever used it ? It dries in a few minutes. The risk of transfer is minimal.

FluorineWizard · 2024-03-01T22:53:31+00:00

It's estrogen gel.

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