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Something in Chrome's updater daemon interacts badly with something in macOS and can cause drastic CPU spikes and slowdown even when Chrome isn't running.
Vivaldi is unaffected, as it uses a different updater.

"Roman tomb in the northern Jordanian town of Beit Ras features a collection of striking, sequential paintings complete with speech-filled captions, forming what looks to many like an ancient, proto-comic strip."

"A historical record of foundational web development blog posts."

"“opinion” ranges from tastes or preferences, through views about questions that concern most people such as prudence or politics, to views grounded in technical expertise, such as legal or scientific opinions....The problem is that sometimes we implicitly seem to take opinions of the second and even the third sort to be unarguable in the way questions of taste are."

"Testing how well people understand a link's first 11 characters shows whether sites write for users, who typically scan rather than read lists of items."

"In this article we will cover a few of the problems users with cognitive disabilities may have that can affect their ability to use the Web, as well as the things that developers can do to alleviate these problems and things they should avoid."

"In the beginning, life was easy. We had a very limited set of top-level domains: .com, .edu, .gov, ..int, org, .mil, .net, .org, .edu. In addition, we had .arpa for infrastructure use and various two letter country level domains."

"The set of information we have as individuals is often limited and biased. And if you’ve made up your mind based on an incomplete set of evidence, it’s going to be harder to change your mind. This is why we have the enterprise of science"

"To do the work, some Roombas use a creepy little electronic eyeball to create detailed maps of your home. Doomba takes that map and makes it into a level of Hell."