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I don't think users are as susceptible to scam as companies portray. I also think an hour of class at school will teach people enough. In fact, people grew up with Internet don't even seem to need that.

Nowadays it seems that there's dumbing down of everything. Don't let technology replace education and common sense.

I tried to use Firefox. But it's just harder to use:

(1) Cannot have multiple bookmarks open as tabs and stay in different location.

(2) History is not actually history. The entries update instead of stay as a record. I honestly cannot understand the decision to make it like this.

(3) A bug that lasted for years. I have thousands of bookmarks and I'm not sure if it's because of that, often when I add bookmarks in firefox, the dropdown menu would freeze. Tried Floorp, same issue. Don't know if they fixed it since I switched.

A few features of Brave that I find special and useful:

(1) Built-in shortcut manager. One useful shortcut I use a lot is opening a new tab right below the current tab (I set it to Ctrl+E).

(2) Containers, like in Firefox. I like to visit websites in temporary containers so that I can keep the history instead of not having it in private tabs.

(3) Brave's Android app blocks YouTube ads very reliably. Sometimes the Morphy app gets blocked by YouTube temporarily and Brave comes in handy. No need to login.

(4) Not a browser feature, but Brave search has improved a lot and often gives better results than google, especially in cases where google censors the results.

Can confirm that when using google not logged in. Now when sharing a link from google search, I won't get the actual link. This will certainly help google's tracking.

Google has gone so bad over the past few years. You only get like 8 results per page. I remember there was a time that I wonder how a site get reached if it ranked on the second page, when I can set the number of results to be 50. The censorship is also really bad, and google doesn't even tell you the results are censored, returning totally nonsense results while other search engines work normally.

I've been supporting Brave search which returns 20 results per page and has other features. It used to be not good a few years ago, but now the results are often better than google's.

I wish the browsers had a function of disabling all keyboard shortcuts of a website. I binded Ctrl+E to opening a new tab just beside the current tab (built-in hotkey in Brave). It's frustrating to see it changed to something like opening the emoji menu on Discord.

They can have a search button for that, not hijacking default browser functions. Often I want both kinds of search.

This website looks terrible on mobile. It shows a horizontal scroll bar any time I do a vertical scroll and there's no space for horizontal scroll in the first place. It has very large floating header and footer such that the actual content occupies little space. The footer is "ask AI" and I expected to be able to close it. When I select some text, the floating menu appears above the header and not at the place I long pressed.

While writing this comment, the website went to a screen saver state, displaying meaningless animations. I also want less white space but this website is not doing that. I honestly don't want to visit that website for a second time.

I really wish that we have an operating system that's not controlled by a U.S. person.

Yeah, I saw the author says it depends on the units. But like, why is this interesting? This is not physics, just some number coincidence in the metric unit system, and I'm sure one can find many more these kind of things by playing around with the constants. The fact the author calls this a "wonderful coincidence" is just... Like, a simple energy conservation or momentum conservation, taught in middle school, is infinitely worth being talked than this.

One philosophy in physics, is that the world and its rules are independent of human. We actively try to eliminate and downplay historical and human factors in the theory, and try to talk about just "the physics", because those factors often obscure the real physics (mechanism) and complicate the calculation. I mean people can find a historical thing interesting, but I guess I just feel disappointed that people find such a trivial thing so interesting, and maybe think that this is what physics is about, while physics is about anything but those pure coincidences.

There is nothing meaningful about this. I can change the unit system to make g any value I want (this is done all the time in research). I try really hard to ignore all the physics-related articles posted here but this one is too egregious. It's not the usual thing where the author know nothing about the nouns they are using (enter, quantum). In this case the concepts are fairly simple. The fact that units can be freely changed should be taught in middle school.

Somehow I found programmers have a much higher probability of talking about physics than people in other professions. And unfortunately in all cases I've seen, they have no idea what they are talking about. Unlike programming, physics is hard enough that it needs to be studied in classes.

The thing is, I do like to see details and I'm curious. That's why I check them in the first place. But we can't know beforehand whether it's useful or not.

This is true for both footnote and side note, but for footnotes I can give it a glance to see if I want to read it thoroughly after reading the whole page, whereas for side notes, they are so easy and tempting to be seen. I feel the point of notes is that they do not interrupt the main flow but side notes put them on almost equal footing in terms of attracting attention as the main content.

Besides, footnote/side notes should be kept minimal, otherwise the note becomes the main content. I find articles with side notes often overuse them. Yeah, if they are kept minimal I guess both approaches are fine.

I don't like side notes. It tries to separate the readers to two groups---one who wants more details and the other who doesn't, but the problem is that there's no such natural division.

When I read articles with side notes, I often find myself constantly checking the side notes and then regret doing it because the info is unnecessary. I prefer the author to carefully think through and choose what info to present instead of just dumping info to the side notes.

A bit off-topic, but the website has large white space on the right side on mobile.

They should have rules preventing this from happening in the very beginning of that organization. The turn of events shows that their form of governance is not effective.

I tested Chrome and Firefox about 1 week ago. On about 30 tabs, Firefox uses about 1G more RAM than Chrome. Their speed is difference is unnoticeable. I also tested Edge and Vivaldi for RAM usage. The result is Chrome < Edge < Firefox < Vivaldi.