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This is correct (I worked on chrome in 2008) it's important to remember that chrome's renderer was webkit, an existing c++ stack. Chrome's stability innovation was to run different…

And to connect it back to the original post: the moments that make me cringe the most in Grand Designs are the ones where the owner decides, as a cost-cutting measure, to manage th…

> leafing through the book with gloves Rare books are typically handled with bare hands rather than gloves. Gloves increase the risk of damage. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/a…

My interpretation: the paper describes a system that works for a starting concentration of 200 parts per billion, or higher. This is unrealistic because, in real world contaminatio…

I've read the book twice, decades apart, and it gave me great joy each times in very different ways. I can see how this text causes some to experience the opposite of joy. Both exp…

Chrome browser extensions aren't really compiled, though I suppose they can be obfuscated. If you install this extension you ought to be able to find it in your Chrome profile dire…

Both the KitchenAid and the Hobart use a planetary action which is not the best for kneading bread. A better idea is to find a small spiral mixer where the bowl rotates and the mix…

Site Isolation launched in Chrome in 2018, but the work started in earnest in 2012 -- see the below check-in. The idea in Chrome dated to before the Chrome 1.0 launch; it was the s…

It's not a whole new level. An aspect of Quadro differentiation has, since ages ago, been based on selectively disabling features that the consumer gpus silicon was capable of. It'…

As someone who walked away from programming two years ago, reading this stirred something in my heart that I honestly haven't felt since quitting. I've been frankly surprised that …

Fairly certain this feature is more then ten years old.

Here you go: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents

When I was a kid, my next door neighbor was an ultra-marathoner and the fittest person I'd ever met. He died suddenly one day of a heart attack while out on a run.

Read it as "both decelerate more slowly and rotate more slowly" and it's an accurate description of what happens when you sweep in front of a curling stone.

Can confirm. The whole group working on that effort has been laid off.

Fwiw: this has always been the case, since Chrome 1.0.

In chromium, the glyph attack defense works by normalizing to a "confusability skeleton" -- the ICU library actually does the normalization. Even within latin-1 this does some mang…

For myself, I switched everything over to Google WiFi's, precisely because they auto-update, and having worked previously on a security-focused team at Google, I trust them to have…

Did you read the article? She hasn't worked at Instagram since 2014.

Moreover, github.io is in the public suffix list, so it is effectively a TLD (foo.github.io is a different site from bar.github.io; they can't become same origin by means of docume…

Oh my.

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This probably doesn't help OP but might help a reader who's facing the same logjam and qualifies: see if your employer (or a family member's) offers a benefit through https://www.l…

In chrome, what's blocked is page-initiated top-level navigations to data URLs (because of spoofing concerns). You can load them in iframes, and you can still do a browser-initiate…