The article implies that the Mira Murati and the rest of the C suite were the ones responsible for getting people to sign the letter threatening to quit unless the board resigned. And there seems to be some direct involvement from Microsoft (even before they announced they would hire employees who quit).
This sounds a lot different from the narrative that it was a grass roots show of support for Sam Altman.
If the CEO, the rest of the execs, and the investors in the for-profit were pushing employees to sign, doing so wasn’t a sign of loyalty to Altman at all.
I was surprised recently to learn about the back/forward cache (bfcache) [1], a common browser optimization that sort of does what you're describing but stores a more complete snapshot of the page, including the JS heap. I'm not sure if it's used in this new FF feature (the article doesn't give details about the mechanism of unloading).
However the bfcache unsurprisingly causes edge cases in JS-heavy pages/SPAs, and a prevailing solution [2] is for the page to force a reload when it is restored from this cache rather than explicitly handling those edge cases, nullifying the optimization.
The desktop is broken because the big players abandoned it. The idea itself is perfectly serviceable, extendable, and usable. It mates well with a CLI. It was nearly (and neatly) solved back in the late 80s / early 90s with System 6 (with plenty of good work done on Systems 7–9; Windows 3.1 was at least consistent, and the fine work done on NeXTSTEP was simply ignored), and ever since then has been left to rot.
The fact that the Finder actually did what it was supposed to, including remembering folder / file locations and states, but no longer does (this has been conspicuously left out in every OS X+ release), is good evidence that Apple (and MS, given the state of W10), simply doesn't care. People use the web, people use Spotlight, and they go on without too much complaint, mainly because they don't know that it could be any better.
Even simple window management is a disaster — there are W10 systems we use at work for presentations, and it's a crapshoot as to whether a window will expand to fill the screen, allow me to drag it, or do something unexpected when the top bar is used to drag the window to another location. Mac windows no longer expand to fit content. It isn't that the desktop concept has failed — it's been left to die, when it could be the rock-solid basis for any modern interface. This is not progress.
Such pesticides and other toxic chemicals not only cause cancer, but they also explain the increasing infertility in the West as explainable by germline damage in both men and women. This should worry you a lot. Please refer to:
[1] Assessment of Glyphosate Induced Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance of Pathologies and Sperm Epimutations: Generational Toxicology. (2019)
> The transgenerational pathologies observed include prostate disease, obesity, kidney disease, ovarian disease, and parturition (birth) abnormalities. Epigenetic analysis of the F1, F2 and F3 generation sperm identified differential DNA methylation regions (DMRs). A number of DMR associated genes were identified and previously shown to be involved in pathologies. Therefore, we propose glyphosate can induce the transgenerational inheritance of disease and germline (e.g. sperm) epimutations. Observations suggest the generational toxicology of glyphosate needs to be considered in the disease etiology of future generations.
[2] Environmental toxicant induced epigenetic transgenerational inheritance of ovarian pathology and granulosa cell epigenome and transcriptome alterations: ancestral origins of polycystic ovarian syndrome and primary ovarian insuffiency. (2018)
This sounds a lot different from the narrative that it was a grass roots show of support for Sam Altman.
If the CEO, the rest of the execs, and the investors in the for-profit were pushing employees to sign, doing so wasn’t a sign of loyalty to Altman at all.