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Comment Consider that the drug companies are ramping up (Score 1) 236

Mylan and Novartis are greatly ramping their production of hydrochloroquine (trade name Plaquenil) without considering the small scale hoarding. Big pharma thinks there's something to this, why wouldn't physicians?

That also means that this is a short term supply chain issue and not a longer term shortage for people having trouble finding their meds. Those kinds of shortages have been more common in recent years as numerous drugs have had short term recalls.

https://www.novartis.com/news/...
https://www.prnewswire.com/new...

Comment Been there first hand (Score 1) 72

Years ago I was on Apple's seeding program. teh 2 issues that stand out to me of that huge amount of wasted time was when a buggy video driver made it out the door after i had reported it every build and the update had to be pulled to put the old driver back in. I also had to make an actual *VIDEO* showing undocumented internet proxy behavior when using java after being told over and over 'it totally works!' Oh the video was *after* submitting a wireshark log that they were unable to understand.

Comment WebExtention killed Chatzilla (Score 1) 112

Well as one of the killers of chatzilla was the lack of a file access method in the conversion to webextentions. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246236)

chroot and jails (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-build.html) arent a new concept.I don't know what kinda overhead is involved in having each extension or page have a root based on its own namespace, but it doesn't seem impossible. However I do see a couple of things to abuse, filling up the file system with junk accidentally or on purpose, and does the browser dispose of the jailed files on quit, tab closure, some other criteria?

Perhaps another alternative would be a filestore file, like a VM file. The app doesn't actually write to the file system it only commits to its own blob. I also wonder if this could be sufficiently done via the already built in DB engine, which IIRC FF uses SQLite.

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