I've been a Firefox user forever (I used Chrome for a while, but switched back to Firefox many years ago), and I am still continually baffled that anyone "in the know" uses Chrome. But they do. And I doubt this change will cause any kind of Chrome exodus, if nothing else Google has done up to this point has triggered that.
I started using Chrome in 2011. Went back to Firefox in 2014 once Chrome became a massive RAM glutton. I keep telling others to move to Firefox, but they won't because "Everyone develops for Chrome so I just test in Chrome," or "But I don't feel like moving all my passwords and bookmarks." This, despite me proving time and again how much better Firefox has been for a decade now.
It really struck a bad chord for me. Rather than update your permissions model or consider how best to implement, being a browser that simply won't do WebUSB or WebMIDI or half the sensor APIs is an awful thing to me. I know a lot of people don't feel like those add value to them personally, but as someone who likes and believes in the web, the hard-line we're-against-it bandwagon-joining stance was disgusting to see, from a company I had until then trusted & thought was able to navigate complex situations.
Firefox has most of these implemented now. Which is great. As a Linux user, I used to never be able to update most of my consumer devices. But because of WebUSB, a good number now have web updaters, and I also am not scared these companies are installing a bunch of spyware/adware just to update the appliance firmware.
WebUSB and WebBluetooth really are amazing, and are one of the few reasons I occasionally fire up Chrome.
I don't get the objection either: Unlike for e.g. notification access (which is frequently abused and which Firefox does implement!), I can't imagine websites demanding USB access in exchange for, I don't know – discount codes?
I remember reading Ender's Game and being blown away by it when I was younger. Years later I picked up a new edition of it in a bookstore and read the back cover. The spoiler is right there. IMO that ruins the entire book if you know. I still can't believe the publishing house did that.
Things like that is why I too always tried to avoid reading back covers or jackets. Way too often they reveal crucial parts about the story. Spoiling Ender's Game makes reading the book 90% pointless.
I also avoid film trailers like the plague, except for pure zero-content entertainment and visuals-only stuff like Marvel movies (to the extent I even bother with them anymore). Every other type of trailer I block or avoid watching.
One problem I remember having with British TV series, in particular Doctor Who, is that they would spoil the next episode by showing a trailer of it in the previous one. In the end it made me stop watching it altogether.
For books of (to me) unknown authors I'll read the first couple of pages, that'll quickly reveal if they're of the "show" or "tell" type of authors, and other things about their writing style. Other than that I'll try to skim the headline of the summary but avoiding reading more than the bare minimum to get an idea about what it's about but nothing more. Sometimes I read books completely without any idea about what's it going to be about.
Ender's Game was the first twist that really "got" me as a kid. Ignited my love of scifi for sure.
I went to Amazon to read the description just now, and it doesn't really give anything away that isn't in the opening chapters, which hopefully means they changed the cover from what you saw.
The exodus of technical staff when she came aboard was astonishing. There was something definitely wrong with Yahoo back then .... wait, there's STILL something really wrong with them.
Is Yahoo still Yahoo? Didn't Yahoo! have like a bunch of stocks in Alibaba, worth more than their actual business? So they sold the online "stuff" to Verizon and Yahoo Inc. became Altaba.
Through it's history Yahoo! had the opportunity to buy a lot of successful companies, but they lacked the foresight to do so and trusted too much in their existing business. For a brief period they did manage to attract really talented people though.
Douglas Crockford used to work there and several other JS programmers that were doing really interesting work. In a span of about 3 months they all left. I remember thinking WTH is going on there that they all bailed that quick?
What this misses is that to keep the high going remove all breath holding. It just becomes continuous circular breathing — no holds, no pauses. This has been popularized by a lot of different people: Dan Brule, Leonard Orr, Binnie Dansby, Judith Kravitz. It comes under various names like: rebirthing, transformational breath and holotropic breathwork.
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