I know this is unfair to firefox, majority of enterprise software now (including and starting with Microsoft teams) outright say do not support firefox or have ‘limited’ support whatever that means.
For anyone working remotely like me, teams is a crucial piece of software (however bad it is). So as much as I like Firefox and legends that started it and religiously developed it over the years, bottom line, I can’t use it now.
Some maybe majority of blame falls on Mozilla, they let it stagnate and focus on cosmetic changes in last few years instead of focusing on improving core technology.
> majority of enterprise software now (including and starting with Microsoft teams) outright say do not support firefox
Teams has explicitly supported Firefox for a while now https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-clien... but the problem is "there's always another site that doesn't work right". Firefox usage share got too low, so places just check Chrom* and Safari work with the new feature and ship (sometimes not even the latter, if they don't care about mobile as much).
> there's always another site that doesn't work right
I keep hearing it, but personally I’ve only come across one recently (a site was running some tracking bullshit that broke on FF). And there’s one feature broken on LinkedIn.
Take that you know of 2 from recent memory and imagine someone unlucky enough to be in the top 10% of most broken sites experience by chance for the last 3 months. Those are the ones that comment/leave about it, but it's a game of attrition over a long enough time.
Webcompat used to be a lot more active (not sure if it's one of the things Mozilla has stopped actively engaging or not) but it was always a few big sites followed by an endless stream of "I'd never use that site, but that's precisely the kind of thing an average user wouldn't want to be troubleshooting" stuff. E.g. I remember seeing https://webcompat.com/issues/136422 and thinking "yeah, the hospitals I used to work at stopped testing in Firefox too - and the sites are already frustrating when they work as expected".
I know of 2 from the past few years. I mean yeah, this is n=1, others use other sites which do break etc. It’s a sad state of things, but also most of the web does work the same. It’s certainly not an acceptable tradeoff for everyone, but for me it’s been totally fine.
Feels like we need something like early versions of Edge, where it was using Chromium but could be told to open individual tabs (or configured to always open links to certain origins) in an IE webview.
Except, instead of Chromium, Firefox, and instead of IE, Chromium.
I assume you mean early edge2. The first release of edge (project spartan) used a custom rendering engine and javascript runtime. The chrome-based version released five years later.
It might have died with e10s but there was a firefox extension that let you embed IE in a tab on demand or for certain sites.
Many vendors look at the userAgent. I’d be surprised if Microsoft Teams org doesn't have some soft incentives pushing Edge and if not edge Chromium-based browsers.
Then again, there are definitely some Firefox behaviors that differ from the WebKit-derived engines (webkit, blink, etc); for a few years Notion editor had very different UX in Firefox for this reason. They eventually fixed it though! Firefox's profiler is also excellent, I always analyze my Chrome profiles in https://profiler.firefox.com/ when I'm optimizing CPU use.
Something I learned over the years, claims of ancient grandeur about some esoteric ritual or mythology doesn’t make it automatically great.
As general idea of rituals go, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that (any) ritual gives cravings of certainty of that rigid states of mind and that delicious centrality to our passing being here on earth (as opposed to cold indifferent randomness of life),
It’s more fulfilling ritual wise and to fill your ancient wisdom shaped hole, if you make a habit to read Shakespeare or Montaigne or someone you know and understand (as you can retroactively read, question and speak to the author in your head)
I’m having a bit of bad trip for sometime now, having realized ancient Indian mythologies are just (different versions of) Ancient Greek Homeric myths. That made me question assumptions of grandeur we make about “ancient” texts without giving it much thought.
P.S : To my fellow western geeks, Marcus Aurelius and Greek and western canon is the way if you’re searching for ancient wisdom, largely speaking eastern philosophy is not that thought provoking as “content writers” or Steve Jobs make it to be (evidently), it’s just that esoteric or exotic to you!
I don’t want this to come out insensitive or from under the rock, but why is taking a drug a novel & cool idea (all of a sudden/recently) as opposed to good old fashioned working out and not eating more than what you need? okay, this drug is all kinds of great and it’s the next best thing since green grapes, still not eating more and workout is better than taking drugs that effect your brain right? Are doctors required to explain this before prescribing this in US?
In 2021 I lost a good chunk of weight the old fashioned way. From 250ish to 215. I did it with "good old fashioned working out and not eating more". It was a miserable, white-knuckle experience. I was eating healthy food, enough calories (moderate but sane deficit), but the only thing I thought about at all moments was getting to the next meal. What snack is low enough calories to have to make it. It was miserable. As soon as I let up a bit, everything unraveled and I found myself back in the 250s by the start of this year.
Now I'm on Tirzepatide (Zepbound), and I'm back to 235ish, and trending lower. I still work on eating healthy, but now I'm not just HUNGRY at all moments. My life continues, and I only have to make individual healthy choices at meal times, and grocery times, rather than a constant struggle at all waking moments. It's seriously a big difference.
> I still work on eating healthy, but now I'm not just HUNGRY at all moments.
I think this is something a lot of people pushing back against the GLP-1 agonists don't realize because they don't experience it: back before I started Mounjaro (another GLP-1 agonist) I was constantly hungry if I hadn't eaten a meal in the last 45 minutes. Absolutely zero hyperbole there - I once went to an all you can eat buffet, ate until I was over full, came home, and within about an hour and a half of that I was snacking on something because I was hungry. Not peckish. Not "feeling like a snack". Hungry to the point where that feeling intruded on my every thought until it was sated.
After starting Mounjaro that's GONE. Gone gone. I now have to set an alarm to remember to eat. It's absolutely phenomenal and likely the reason why I'll live past my forties instead of being stuck in that same cycle and dying of the effects of obesity.
> Absolutely zero hyperbole there - I once went to an all you can eat buffet, ate until I was over full, came home, and within about an hour and a half of that I was snacking on something because I was hungry.
I don't have any eating issues but that reminds me of the first time I went on a 7-day cruise.
There's nothing to do on the ship, and the food is free and pretty tasty, so... I basically ended up at the buffet eating and drinking all day long. Sausage and egg biscuits, banana bread, pot roast, steak, pasta, fried rice, cinnamon buns, they had everything. I was stomach-busting full, every minute of every day. I'd gorge myself on a huge plate of Indian food from the buffet, and then a few hours later head to another deck for a lobster dinner. Not to mention, drinking coffee, beer, and wine the entire time.
It was kind of insane. And what was crazier was after a few days of this routine I got used to it, and even looked forward to eating more food the next day. It was sort of like directly embracing one of the seven deadly sins to the maximum extent possible. I'm not sure what that experience means other than it seems like the the human body can comfortably arrange itself into a habitual downward cycle fairly rapidly.
It's because we're evolved for boom-bust cycles. Give it another 500,000 or so years and humans might evolve to cope with food always being available at all times.
Not only that, but type 2 diabetes makes you paradoxically more hungry - your body thinks it is starving because it cannot get sugar into its cells so it makes you MORE hungry which causes you to get heavier which often causes the diabetes to get worse which makes you MORE hungry which means you eat and get heavier and......
As someone who's never struggled with weight, it's been eye opening to hear how food focused a lot of peoples thoughts are. It was like on the same level as finding out some people can't visualize things in their minds.
Saying that the cure for obesity is to eat less is like saying that the cure for heroin addiction is to stop using heroin. It's both clearly true, and also useless.
And yet most obese people are no more addicted to food than you are addicted to oxygen...
It's so bizarre how many people will pretzel their way into moralistic non sense to find a solution to what is clearly a medical problem.
Obesity as far as we understanding it now is an hunger regulation problem. For unknown reason a lot of people still feel the need to eat even when their body is clearly in calory surplus.
No amount of of impulse control or moderation can make you override billions of years of evolution and not eat when you are starving... if we could... society would be a very different place
> For unknown reason a lot of people still feel the need to eat even when their body is clearly in calory surplus.
Boredom, stress, unhappy life, happy life, laziness - it could be anything. You know what it couldn’t be? Exercise. I’m yet to see a person working out hard and eating at the same time.
> I’m yet to see a person working out hard and eating at the same time.
No, but plenty of people have their hunger stimulated by exercise and eat too much after.
You simply can't fix being overweight or obese with exercise alone in the vast majority of people. Even if you don't believe in the constrained total energy model that a good chunk of metabolic research PhDs think is at least somewhat true and instead believe solely in the additive model, exercise stimulates hunger and it's far easier to eat 1000 calories than burn 1000 calories.
You have to do both and exercise doesn't automatically make the other easy.
My theory is that consuming sugar makes you more hungry. You can eat until you're full, but if you eat desert or a sugary snack a little later, it makes you feel less full and you can eat more. As if your brain notices the sugar source and switches into "full loading mode" and craves more of this historically rare resource.
> And yet most obese people are no more addicted to food than you are addicted to oxygen...
Most obese people seem to be addicted to sugary food, soft drings, desert and all that, which then triggers more eating.
In addition, it might be a gut bacteria thing. If your gut is used to processing lots of sugar, you crave it even more and fighting your gut microbiome requires way too much impulse control and moderation.
The solution might be to recognize this mechanism, remove all sugar from the diet and find a way to control impulses for a few weeks until the gut bacteria changed.
Drinking water and chewing sugar-free gum helps me to remove food cravings temporarily with no downsides. But... I have a normal weight.
I think insulin resistance from excess calorie and carbohydrate consumption has a lot to do with it. One of the symptoms of hyperglycemia is increased hunger, since glucose is staying in your blood stream instead of getting into your cells. 1/3 Americans have prediabetes, and more than that are probably developing insulin resistance.
Ok, in the US start talking about food addiction seriously and see what happens.
Do you remember how long it took to get tobacco mostly banned in the US? Do you remember how much the tobacco industry played the skeptic and introduced bunk science into the mix?
Well Coca Cola, Pepsico, Nestle, and all the other junk food companies have been on this game for years now. Want to change school curriculum?, well your political opponent has $100,000-$1,000,000 more than you from the make people fat industry. Meanwhile there are a crazy number of attack ads against you for being a crazy commie that wants to control peoples lives, you socialist bastard, you're against freedom.
Well, of course if you’ve been jacking heroin for 30 years and all your veins are destroyed beyond repair it’s useless. It’ll take as much, or even more, to return back to normal.
Heroin changes brain chemically, it's (more) serious addiction than obesity, again being a little insensitive to obese people, but they're bad in comparison. And there are degrees of truthfulness & wrongness right!
About the point you're making, two generations before you and me, people where fit, more attentive & generally healthy (outside vaccines that prevent diseases now & positive effects due to advancements in medicine), what changed?
Not as platitude, but go from first principles, the choices you make everyday effects your mind (& the time you spend on particular activities), and if they aren't life affirming (for lack of better words), in due time you limit your options (ie less choices from your mind, bad food or less bad food or multiple bad ways to spend your time?), till you proclaim from high top mountains 'oh god, I'm helpless without acceptance from some higher power!'
This isn't to say, I'll be as preachy and asshole(ish) to a friend or someone I care about in similar need, I'll probably say 'seek medical help etc' like you. But thinking things through & arriving at truth is important, don't you think?
This is different to mental strength or controlling yourself etc, it's more about self reflection & freedom through discipline, respecting your life, decisions & thoughts more than your impulsive emotions in an ever distracting world, that kind of thing..
I don't think I'll change your mind or this will come across in good faith, that's okay, I'm in a reflective mood, and it's awfully chilly outside :-)
>About the point you're making, two generations before you and me, people where fit, more attentive & generally healthy
Everything.
Two generations ago you didn't eat out 4+ times per week. Portion sizes at restaurants were 50%+ smaller. Food sciences were not as optimized at making junk food as they are today. In general we were poorer and bought less junk food. We were more apt to work jobs that didn't involve sitting in one place for long periods of time.
>I don't think I'll change your mind or this will come across in good faith
I believe it's what you think, but when 74% of the population doesn't subscribe your philosophy then you're tilting at windmills. Yea, maybe someday people will catch on to that and all will be good, but that's not the way the entire world is going. We need solutions we can enact now to solve problems we have now.
> About the point you're making, 2 generations before you and me, people where fit, more attentive & generally healthy (outside vaccines that prevent diseases now & positive effects due to advancements in medicine), what changed?
Air pollution, water quality, pestecide, food/produce quality, plastic particule everywhere...
I find this perspective so bizarre.
Whats the most probable in 2 generation of exponentially increasing and barely regulated technological changes : culture has change so dramatically as to change human nature and makes us all lazy... or... something in the environment/food chain is having phisiolical/biological effects...
People living in country side & eating from organic farming, they're doing alright (similar to our closest ancestors), but that's beside the point
Cultural change over 2/3 even 10 generations will not significantly alter your biology. Pollution & disintegration in modern world you're referring to, they do have negative effects on our health, but it's not the whole story and they possibly cannot have effects on your decisions about what you eat and how you spend your time right?
I'm particularly referring to obesity caused by over eating, bad life style etc (not the other rare serious persistent irreversible kind that happens as side effect of more serious ailments or genetics)
I can't quite understand if you are agreeing or disagreeing with me...
You seem to be restating my point as if you are contradicting my statements.
> People living in country side & eating from organic farming, they're doing alright (similar to our closest ancestors), but that's beside the point
Maybe ( I would love to see some sources for this assertion). But even if I give that to you, you basically saying that modern environment are somewhat obisidigenic... which is what I was saying.
> Cultural change over 2/3 even 10 generations will not significantly alter your biology.
Okay... same., still just restating what i have said.
> they possibly cannot have effects on your decisions about what you eat and how you spend your time right?
They can and they do... let me introduce you to lead in paint and in the environment...
> particularly referring to obesity caused by over eating
All obesity is cause by over eating (all most by definition) the point here is that over eating is not cause by lack of will power or poor decision making
I don't think I've ever seen someone seriously put forth the argument "all you need is Ozempic".
For context: I am an overweight type 2 diabetic. I lost about 70 lbs before my doctor started me on Mounjaro (another GLP-1 agonist). My diet and exercise routine were far from perfect, and it took me about a year to lose that weight. My doctor started me on Mounjaro, both for type 2 diabetes and weight loss. I have lost 20 lbs in about a month on it, which means I will lose three times the weight if that pace keeps up (very unlikely). When my doctor and I discussed starting Mounjaro (which the doctor suggested, not me) he made it very, VERY clear that diet and exercise were important things to work on as the weight came off.
The key there is that the pace of weight loss will not keep up as the body's caloric needs reduce due to that weight loss. So naturally a GLP-1 user will plateau if they do not adjust their diet (and potentially exercise routine, though diet is much more important) as the weight comes off. You know what really makes it easier to have the energy to a healthy meal, to work out, and to take care of yourself? Losing weight! You know what helps form those healthy habits in people who did not form them during childhood? Reduced cravings for calorie dense food! Both of those things are where Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs shine. It gives the person on them the space to make those changes without cravings, without feeling hungry, and at a faster pace than they could do naturally.
So yes, in the short term, these drugs are a great catalyst for change, but I don't see many medical professionals saying "oh just stick someone on Ozempic for life and that's that!" because for the vast majority of people who would use those drugs for weight loss cannot achieve their goals with just the drug alone.
Because not everyone has willpower and discipline. People who do have those strengths often think it is just as simple as saying, "Just take care of yourself", but it is not that easy for many people. High blood sugar also increases cravings, which makes it even harder, bringing on a downward spiral.
This drug can help break out of that spiral and fix the craving/willpower problems.
I don't think it's just people who have willpower and discipline, it seems to me that for most people it doesn't take as much willpower and discipline to stay at a reasonable weight. These arguments make it sound as if everyone who is at a reasonable weight is there through large amounts of willpower and discipline, but most people I know don't need to exercise X times per week and constantly watch what they eat to keep that weight.
It's much easier when you can trust your body feedback and rely on your regular hunger signals, but for most people who benefit from Ozempic for weight loss if they just trust their bodies they will get fat.
Yea, when you look historically, starvation and food shortages were the norm. If you were a person that could pack on the pounds during the bountiful times, you could survive the lean times. Suddenly we live in the times of never ending plenty and we're told "what's wrong with you".
what you say is mostly true, but I will point out that it does not break any spiral. It’s frequently reported that as soon as you stop taking Ozempic, the weight comes back immediately. so unless one resolves the underlying problem, you will be on this drug for life.
That's not unique to Ozempic and (while I know you didn't make this specific argument, but others in this subthread have) is a piss poor reason to tell someone they shouldn't give it a try.
i don’t disagree. Just pointing out that (obviously) this should be a last resort drug. AFTER someone has tried lifestyle interventions for a few years IMO.
The problem is when someone does NOT put in the effort to talk to their doctor, meet with a dietician, learn about healthy eating, and put in an honest effort to improve their life before just popping a pill.
That said, i think it’s great that’s it’s helping people who otherwise would just be obese and have many other health issues due to that. It’s a big risk factor.
This isn't the revelation you think it is. Chronic medical conditions require lifetime treatment. That isn't news to anyone.
It's funny how obesity is the only chronic medical condition that garners a huge volume of your particular kind of comment.
Would you be mentioning this for someone prescribed a diabetic, blood pressure or cholesterol medication? Statistically, likely not. So maybe take a step back, and examine why are you so averse to other people losing weight with medication.
i actually would, if they were caused by bad lifestyle habits or similar issues. I am a firm believer that medication should be used AFTER a serious attempt has been made to address the underlying issue, if possible.
if you are type 2 diabetic, that means you’ve probably been eating poorly for a long time. The happy path here is that one goes to a checkup and learns they are pre-diabetic, and their PCP refers them to a dietician. The patient hopefully learns how to make healthy food choices for themselves. All of this so they don’t develop type 2 diabetes. Maybe even temporarily prescribe a low metformin dose while they figure out the lifestyle changes needed.
If they struggle and lifestyle interventions fail, then of course, they should be prescribed insulin so they don’t have further devastating complications as they get older.
The same can be said for ozempic. What kind of lunatic would suggest starting ozempic without FIRST giving honest education and lifestyle adjustments a try? That should be step 1. And i’m talking proper education from a licensed dietician, not silly blogs or advice people see on tiktok these days. If step 1 fails, proceed to medication.
That’s my perspective at least. Big pharma isn’t your friend. It’s a backup plan and a necessary evil in most cases (with obvious exceptions like vaccines, antibiotics, etc)
> What kind of lunatic would suggest starting ozempic without FIRST giving honest education and lifestyle adjustments a try?
What kind of lunatic would suggest an approach that evidence does not support as being effective? Lifestyle modification, at the population level, just doesn't work. GLP-1 agonists do.
I see the point in this, but do you think it’s marketed as such and perhaps better question, used for exactly that and not more by vulnerable patients etc? (not well informed about long term side effects, some might even be unknown, if I might add)
I take my vaccines and generally gravitate to sanity over conspiracy stuff (that is to say, If I sound like that, i’m not)
A society where over half the population is suffering from the same problem is one that needs systemic change. It doesn't make sense to blame the individual when it's a problem affecting everyone.
Every country skinnier than the US is getting faster. Europe is on a linear trajectory upward that hasn't changed since at least 1975. Even the Japanese are getting fatter every year.
Why doesn't everyone play piano? Why isn't every person a super athlete? Why doesn't everyone meditate 40 minutes a day? Why doesn't everyone study super hard in school and become an engineer or doctor or lawyer?
The hard truth: Not everyone is capable of those things. Period.
40% of the US population is considered obese. That is a HUGE number. At a certain point, you can no longer blame individuals. There is something wrong, and we identify it as an environmental problem.
So if we have a drug that will make a huge amount of people healthy, what is the downside? And for the record: Ozempic affects appetite so they eat better, that is part of the drug.
> Why doesn't everyone play piano? Why isn't every person a super athlete? Why doesn't everyone meditate 40 minutes a day? Why doesn't everyone study super hard in school and become an engineer or doctor or lawyer?
The hard truth: Not everyone is capable of those things. Period.
We’re not talking about world class athlete. There a mile difference between world class athletes and not obese.
Willpower and discipline don’t seem to be what keeps other countries skinnier than the US (and most of them are also getting fatter…) so I don’t know why we expect that to get the US out of this mess.
Evidence: people from skinnier countries move here and consistently get fatter. It’s a societal/environmental problem, if we’re talking about “what would a policy fix look like?” and not “what can I personally try to do to save myself despite being up against a societal/environmental problem?”
Telling people they are morally bankrupt sinners (slothful and gluttonous) and heaping guilt and shame on their shoulders has unsurprisingly failed to stop the issue.
Why do you think that telling people to “just stop being fat” will suddenly start working?
Most people don't work out enough, or don't eat well enough. If we had some kind of intervention that would easily cause people to work out, we would use that intervention. If we had some kind of intervention that would easily cause people to eat well, we would use that intervention. The reason working out and good diet are good is because of good health outcomes. If we have some kind of intervention that skips straight to the good health outcomes, we would use that intervention. It seems like Ozempic is _that_ intervention, so we will use it. I will likely choose Ozempic for myself once it is available to me.
Treat human beings or any organisms as biological machines. Here, many chemicals (hormones, for instance) regulate many processes in such machines. Whatever one has eaten so far, genetic history, environment, etc have changed hormones to a level where the model of dieting and working out doesn't work any longer. So, semaglutide and tirzepatide work on such regulatory hormones (GLP-1, GIP). In other words, what this research tells us that humans are not controlled by their personal will.
drug companies have spent millions on destigmatizing pharmaceuticals. its a superpower, apparently. a large swath of this userbase convinced themselves they have adhd and need medication for it. changing tabs on your chrome browser or not being able to do "deep work" = i have an uncurable disease and i require legal meth, for life. you can see how this translates to ozempic.
silicon valley/tech culture has prioritized get rich schemes, cure alls like adhd meds, you don't have to eat just drink soylent for every meal, etc. ozempic falls in line nicely there, and i think among this community and others in this vein, you'll see alot of support for it. its sad, because tech/programmers/IT people use to be very contrarian and open minded. you get in trouble for saying things like "personality responsibility", "discipline', "self-control".
> Are doctors required to explain this before prescribing this in US?
doctors famously aren't trained on nutrition or fitness. ironically the prestige is being a specialist, not well rounded. strange.
Completely missing the point of GLP-1 agonists. The point is that it breaks the cycle by giving you the willpower to eat less. It doesn't magically make the calories you eat not contribute to your weight, it just makes it easier to eat less and still feel full. It also counteracts insulin resistance, which is another problem inherent to obesity.
It's just human nature. This is the health equivalent of trying to turn lead into gold. It's my unproven opinion that the negative effects of these treatments are understated and this will be a passing fad.
I want everyone who says this to submit a picture. Just wearing gym shorts, so we can get a good look. I assume nobody making this a moral issue will have so much as love handles. Because if they do, why aren't they working out harder and eating a bit less?
I've met plenty of skinny fat people who think they're healthy.
I see every comment is some version of “everything is caused by elon doing or not doing something”, and I wonder if people care this much about other car manufacturers and their decision makers. This is just a curious thought-out-loud, I have no stake in political dumpster fires
That being said, being far out as politically as I am (for my own peace), I think it’s elon’s own doing, offering manufacturing support updates online and his car manufacturing company’s customer complaints being too online and journalists with unusually strong political beliefs covering it with new and ‘hot’ headlines day to day (like it’s news!)
I wonder if someone have data of customer complaints from german and chinese car manufacturers (EV or otherwise) and why we don’t see that a lot in news (or at all, are they perpetual frictionless motion machines?!)
It’s also funny people have to bring up Elon’s politics and use it as a cover to justify their own arguments of his illegitimacy and inability to lead a company he built (for most part), have these people ever looked at political affiliations of all industrialists or top executives of major companies? they generally tend to skew more conservative naturally (at least elon craps on people of all political directions he find funny at any given moment)
For anyone working remotely like me, teams is a crucial piece of software (however bad it is). So as much as I like Firefox and legends that started it and religiously developed it over the years, bottom line, I can’t use it now.
Some maybe majority of blame falls on Mozilla, they let it stagnate and focus on cosmetic changes in last few years instead of focusing on improving core technology.