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> However natural ice cream can be, it's still a buttload of fats and sugars My default base for homemade ice cream is a custard with 50g sugar for 6 egg yolks and 500g of milk/cre…

It's not that writing _is_ thinking, but (effective) writing _requires_ thinking. It forces you to take a collection of lose and incoherent thoughts and reify them into an argument…

We can't draw conclusions from that study because it's been retracted on the basis that data has been faked. On the other hand there are other similar studies that reach similar co…

> 1. Why focus on Swifts as opposed to any other species in decline? They state that they are "iconic", so maybe that's the answer? Are they more "iconic" than any other specifies …

(I work on Firefox Web Compatibility) If you have specific sites that aren't working, please let us know and we can investigate and try to fix them. The usual reporting channels ar…

I think if prediction 1 is true (that it becomes cheap to clone existing software in a way that doesn't violate copyright law), the response will not be purely technical (moving to…

Power in general. Your time-average power budget for things that run on phones is about 0.5W (batteries are about 10Wh and should last at least a day). That's about three orders of…

China has now had flat CO2 emissions for two years, and experienced a decline in overall CO2 emissions during 2025[1]. Part of this is that they're deploying way more renewables th…

To be clear: I don't think it will happen. But the point of comparison is something like the HTML specification. That's supposed to be a document that is detailed enough about how …

> it's foolish to fight the future And yet, the premise of the question assumes that it's possible in this case. Historically having produced a piece of software to accomplish some…

> But at a national level the data is compelling. I'm convinced by the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Which data do you find compelling? For people who don't know the Environmental K…

> I said nothing about a monotonic relationship. You made a scale-free claim about increasing greenness with increasing CO2 concentration. That implies a monotonic relationship. > …

> you can't easily separate out CO2 concentration from the other impacts of increased CO2 >> I never said you could? I took the fact that you explicitly mentioned "high-CO2 environ…

> The world will be greener in a high-CO2 environment. There’s no legitimate argument over that fact. However it's important to remember that world isn't a high school physics expe…

Notice that it says "almost all programs" and not "almost all _C_ programs". I think if you understand the meaning of "crash" to include any kind of unhandled state that causes the…

As someone who's been quite heavily involved with web-platform-tests, I'd caution against any use of the test pass rate as a metric for anything. That's not to belittle the conside…

In addition, the colleges have a lot of data about the people they interview and how well they do during the degree programme. My understanding (based on a discussion with one Natu…

It's true, see https://www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-why-expensive-gas-not-... From that article: > The UK’s electricity market operates using a system known as “marginal pricing”.…

Yes! It's a rare example of an app that instead of trying to capture your attention into a virtual environment, helps you to direct it outwards into the real world. The sound id in…

Gecko and Firefox have been using Bugzilla for more than 25 years at this point. There's a lot of internal workflows, tooling and processes that are really dependent on the specifi…

This is all true, but as the sibling says, not really related to the change discussed here. Firefox does indeed have a large CI system and ends up running thousands of jobs on each…

Again, I can only comment from the perspective of a user; I haven't worked on the VCS infrastructure. The obvious generic challenges are availability and security: Firefox has cont…

(I work at Mozilla, but not on the VCS tooling, or this transition) To give a bit of additional context here, since the link doesn't have any: The Firefox code has indeed recently …

Note that biofuels aren't especially environmentally friendly, even just considering carbon emissions. See e.g. [1], which makes the most optimistic possible assumption by ignoring…

I think there is a lot of truth in this, but presented in a way that misses some nuance. It's true that if your goal is to regenerate native forest, which it generally[+] should be…