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I am trying to find out whether FF is truly worse at handling lots of tabs, or Chrome users just leave much fewer tabs open and use fewer extensions than the average FF user.

RegDwight

My wife uses FF, and she hates bookmarks, her concept of a bookmark is a tab. So she has like 20 tabs open all the time, and it literally takes minutes for the browser to fire up, and most importantly, just as much to completely die after being closed.

Kosmonaut

8:08 PM

Firefox does seem to go slower for me as well.

Cerberus

@Reg: Okay but that is rather strange. Normally FF can take 20 tabs easily, and minutes is longer than I ever see.

Martha

The most tabs I ever have open is maybe a dozen, and Firefox can take forever to open or close.

Cerberus

Really? Whenever I try FF with a dozen tabs and a few extensions, it is as fast as vanilla Chrome.

I have never tried extensions or many tabs on Chrome.

RegDwight

I use FF at work, and I have to re-start it every few hours or so, because it literally grinds to a halt, usually with just a few tabs open.

Cerberus

Really?

Weird, I have never seen that, except on older PCs...

RegDwight

8:11 PM

Yes. And I have a fast PC, believe me.

Cerberus

Analysing this problem seems to be rather problematic.

Hey, hey, don't worry, I believe you!

Kosmonaut

@RegDwight WE GET IT, YOU HAVE A FAST COMPUTER

Cerberus

YEAH

But how fast?

Kosmonaut

fast.

Cerberus

Fast, or REALLY fast?

How many REALLYs?

3? 4? 4.5?

RegDwight

8:13 PM

Can you reword the joke somewhat? I still don't get it.

Kosmonaut

10 bushels of fastitude.

RegDwight

Thank you.

Cerberus

Fastitude... that sounds like fasting.

Not my idea of fun.

Kosmonaut

fastitude (n.) — The attitude required to successfully carry out a fasting regimen.

RegDwight

@Kosmonaut We actually measure the performance in how little ass it sucks to analyze flight control software and work with control flow graphs with 40,000+ subgraphs.

Martha

8:14 PM

I've actually switched my online radio listening to Chrome, because Firefox would leak memory like crazy when streaming anything.

Robusto

@RegDwight — Wow, you're like all feisty today.

Kosmonaut

@RegDwight Exactly. That's 10 bushels worth.

See how much easier this is than the metric system?

Cerberus

You have a point...

RegDwight

@Kosmonaut Little ass is not metric. And 10 bushels worth corresponds to how little ass, exactly? Could you be less precise with your imperial-march nonsense?

Cerberus

@Martha: for me, FF is always leaking memory unless I'm not doing anything on it. I will test how it fares when I'm streaming music but not browsing at all.

March?

Oh.

RegDwight

8:18 PM

Yes, a popular month by John Williams.

Cerberus

Eh.

(Fact: last year a girl was born here called Eh.)

RegDwight

@Robusto I'm not feisty. I went all in and won, so where's my monies?

@Cerberus Fact: some people call their children Rocket or Sputnik.

Cerberus

Afk.

Kosmonaut

8:42 PM

Aflak.

?

That was weird.

RegDwight

What drugs are you having with your bagles now?

Kosmonaut

I wrote a message and it appeared in your dialog box.

Then I refreshed and it was fixed.

RegDwight

Okay, lemme repeat: what drugs, exactly?

Kosmonaut

I like to have lox with my bagels. It is basically the best thing ever.

When done properly.

RegDwight

Thank you. Duly notying.

Kosmonaut

8:45 PM

RegDwight

That is so not original.

Kosmonaut

31 mins ago, by Robusto

@RegDwight — Wow, you're like all feisty today.

RegDwight

Mar 20 at 13:44, by Billare

Heh. Wikipedia has a whole blurb about the inaccuracies in Cromwell.

I can quote unrelated stuff, too.

But I see that them loxen are strong drug.

Kosmonaut

If I knew that I would definitely be having a lox bagel on Friday, I would be thinking about it all week.

When I order, sometimes they say, "do you want the lox cream cheese, or the lox slices?"

I am like, SLICES, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

RegDwight

WTH is lox cream cheese? It don't come in tubes, mehopes?

Kosmonaut

8:53 PM

It is cream cheese with little bits of lox in it.

I have never had it.

RegDwight

Now that is just wasting perfectly fine lox.

Kosmonaut

I know!

RegDwight

Like having tasty grape juice and letting it spoil.

Kosmonaut

Agreed.

Cerberus

So what is the difference between lox and smoked salmon in America?

We have smoked salmon and Gravad Lax in Holland, but the latter isn't lox.

F'x

9:08 PM

the difference is: if offered to drink lox, decline

Cerberus

And why is this guy called Rimmer?

F'x

(at least for me, lox is liquid oxygen)

Cerberus

Hah so I read.

I suppose it is an acquired taste.

drachenstern

@RegDwight did anyone ever refer you two to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters ?

Box-drawing characters

Box drawing characters, also known as line drawing characters, or pseudographics, are widely used in text user interfaces to draw various frames and boxes. In graphical user interfaces these characters are much less useful, because it is much simpler to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs; besides, box drawing characters work only with fixed-width (monospaced) fonts. They are still useful, however, for plaintext comments on websites. Used along with box drawing characters are block elements, shade characters and terminal graphic characters; these can be used for filli...

Cerberus

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Q: "Would" with a present meaning—is this correct?

A great example I can think of: "Please, leave! I would be alone!" With would meaning something like, "I want to be alone." Is this correct, or not? EDIT: To further clarify, I am not aiming for would like to. My original question/sentence is not a typo.

RegDwight

9:10 PM

@drachenstern I know Unicode by heart, like, all of it in its entirety, but a) where's the fun in that? and b) you still have to use multiple lines, and that's the real challenge.

drachenstern

┢

doesn't require line breaks

nor does L or |

true, there are some of the zig zags that would give you a hard time, but ...

RegDwight

@drachenstern Yes, but I was aiming at drawing an actual Tetris tile, as in four squares.

drachenstern

@RegDwight that sounds so much like work tho doesn't it?

RegDwight

I'm looking in my book, it says "fun".

drachenstern

lmao

F'x

9:14 PM

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drachenstern

@Fx NICE

You were practicing for just that occasion weren't you?

RegDwight

@Fx That's not Tetris, d'oh.

F'x

@drachenstern you're everywhere!

RegDwight

Mar 17 at 18:26, by RegDwight

drachenstern

@Fx I keep hearing that ... that and "you're right drachenstern" a lot ...

RegDwight

9:16 PM

You are wrong, drachenstern. A lot.

drachenstern

@RegDwight I know, but they don't believe me :\

RegDwight

D'oh! That's because you're wrong!

drachenstern

something about proof and definiability and ... y aknow

F'x

@drachenstern the key point is to heighten expectations

RegDwight

Feb 16 at 16:05, by RegDwight

Liar paradox

In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox or liar's paradox (pseudomenon in Ancient Greek), is the statement "This sentence is false." Trying to assign to this statement a classical binary truth value leads to a contradiction (see Paradox). If "This sentence is false" is true, then it is false, which would in turn mean that it is actually true, but this would mean that it is false, and so on ad infinitum. Similarly, if "This sentence is false" is false, then it is true, which would in turn mean that it is actually false, but this would mean that it is true, and so on ad infinitum. His...

drachenstern

9:18 PM

@RegDwight which seems to come up more and more frequently in pop-culture. Reckon they're (the masses that is) finally starting to learn?

Or is it just clever marketing

RegDwight

Or recency illusion on your part.

I look around, I don't see anybody finally starting to learn.

drachenstern

That's very true, but given that I hadn't considered the first premise until I read that post, I would say I haven't had time to digest the thought enough to decide on the second premise

@RegDwight "pants on the ground, pants on the ground ..." something like that?

RegDwight

See, that's why you're so wrong so often.

drachenstern

@RegDwight inventing premises and verbalizing them and then not having a solid opinion on followup premises immediately?

F'x

amazon.com/Lady-Tiger-Other-Logic-Puzzles/dp/048647027X/…

drachenstern

9:19 PM

@Fx oooh nice

F'x

was translated into French as "The book that will make you mad"

RegDwight

Ooh, a book by M. Night Shyamalan! No wait...

F'x

and another one was translated as "Now I'm mad"

RegDwight

One day they will translate my diary as "I've been mad all along".

F'x

was overly fond of it as a teenager

drachenstern

9:22 PM

There was a children's encyclopedia set that we had when I was growing up, of roughly 15 volumes in nature, and the last in the series was a book replete with puzzles and logic games. The name of the set escapes me, but I'm almost certain it was affiliated with World Book. Regardless, they had colorful covers and spines, and the puzzle book was one of my favorite books.

RegDwight

I would recommend a ton of books, too. Alas, them ain't in English.

koob.ru/makoveckiy/smotri_v_koren

F'x

You want to alert the webmaster of that page that some of his characters are all broken and messed up

the horizontal bar of the H is askew: и

some letters look fine, though: C, M, O, T and a few others

drachenstern

lol

RegDwight

@Fx Wow, funny and original! You almost beat @Kosmonaut's Apple picture!

Cerberus

Hey.

RegDwight

9:31 PM

Helloes.

Cerberus

Some of us aren't all sticky with internet memes.

RegDwight

That's exciting news.

Cerberus

I doubt it.

You knew that.

RegDwight

I knew everything. But then I forgot it.

Cerberus

Besides, I don't see you clapping your hands and jumping.

Yes, forgetting. Such a terrible disease.

RegDwight

9:33 PM

Feb 23 at 13:32, by RegDwight

Cerberus

When do you think will be be able to implant memory chips?

You look lovely.

RegDwight

@Cerberus We can implant them any time you want.

Cerberus

Oh they also need to be connected to my brain. I want to be able to put photos on it, and other data. And it needs to have a decent index.

An internet connection would also be appreciated.

Kosmonaut

@RegDwight Gee, I've never seen THAT gif before.

Cerberus

And laser beams.

F'x

9:34 PM

wait, I have a funnier one

Cerberus

See? I have never seen it.

F'x

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will load in a minute, keep waiting

Cerberus

F'x, you link is slooooww to load...

Oh.

Sure it's not as though I had anything else to do.

Kosmonaut

Watching intently... I don't want to miss the moment it finishes loading.

RegDwight

@Kosmonaut You should read the transcript more often. I posted it quite a while ago.

Cerberus

9:36 PM

Will it blow up?

It might blow down.

Hmm... cryptic...

run for your life!

What the...

You people are crazy.

RegDwight

9:36 PM

Huh?

Don't see any particular craziness right now.

Cerberus

You know who you are.

Kosmonaut

Of course I know who I am.

Cerberus

Why does everything always have to happen right now?

Thank you Kosmonaut.

RegDwight

I never know who I am. Especially on Thursdays.

Cerberus

*when

Kosmonaut

9:38 PM

37% of the time it works every time.

F'x

@Kosmonaut I suspect that's part of the 48% fake statistics that people come up with

RegDwight

I wonder why Cerberus keeps censoring his whens and beings.

Cerberus

Incidentally, it is funny that your link can also dictate the colour of the waiting indicator. I could have sworn the normal indicator isn't the same colour.

Kosmonaut

When they aren't making statistics they are using ad hominem attacks because they're stupid.

Cerberus

Censoring stuff is fun?

F'x

9:39 PM

@Cerberus that's just me being special

RegDwight

@Fx Double-check your figures, buddy.

Feb 10 at 19:21, by RegDwight

79% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Cerberus

@F'x: I know you are... different.

F'x

@RegDwight well, after you alerted the world of the fact, the number went down suddenly

Cerberus

You know what I think? The percentage for that meme should be fixed once and for all. Seriously, that would make it even better.

F'x

a statistical bubble, so to say

RegDwight

9:40 PM

@Kosmonaut You are stupid, but what am I?

Cerberus

Don't make me scroll up...

RegDwight

@Fx Yeah, everybody always messes with poor me. Sniff.

Kosmonaut

►

RegDwight

Is that pe wee herman?

F'x

@RegDwight “pauvre, pauvre petit chat malade”

untranslatable, unfortunately

RegDwight

9:43 PM

Je suis pas malade ni un chat.

F'x

@RegDwight it would be "Je ne suis pas" (gotta love French negative)

and it's a kid's game reference

RegDwight

Not in colloquial French.

Cerberus

Right!

Kosmonaut

@RegDwight is right on that one

Cerberus

They even say chuis, I believe?

F'x

9:44 PM

"ni" is not colloquial in that use, so it doesn't work

chui pas malade, et chui pas un chat!

You do have a point.

Haha. F'x wins.

Ha

For now.

well, I might have a slight advantage there

Cerberus

9:45 PM

Reg will be back.

RegDwight

A very slight.

F'x

I'd sure be hammered in RegDwight-speak

Cerberus

You can take him.

RegDwight

Reg Strikes Back

Reg Strikes Back is the twenty-first studio album by British singer/songwriter Elton John, released in 1988. It was his self-proclaimed comeback album, and his own way of fighting back against bad press. The "Reg" in Reg Strikes Back refers to Elton John's birth name, Reginald Kenneth Dwight. This is the last album that bassist Dee Murray would appear on. He died in 1992. The tracks "I Don't Wanna Go On With You Like That" and "A Word In Spanish" peaked at #2 and #19 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Elton brought back producer Chris Thomas. This is the first studio album to be reco...

Kosmonaut

ha

drachenstern

9:46 PM

What would you lot have done had this system and set of sites never been put together?

Cerberus

The people-dropping-out-of-chat animation keeps amusing me.

What the...

RegDwight

@Kosmonaut That's where Heavy Traffic is from.

Cerberus

Reg falsified a Wikipedia article to look cool. Come on.

F'x

for the cat reference, see youtube.com/watch?v=9bgWqwkNkIA

RegDwight

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Q: 'Heavy Traffic' or 'Lot of Traffic'?

Is it appropriate to say 'Heavy Traffic'? I am referring to traffic as in roads and vehicles in this context. Is using 'lot of traffic' more appropriate?