bxparks

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by bxparks 5mo ago
I was mostly objecting to the "perfectly" part. And I couldn't resist making a Princess Bride reference for amusement.
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by bxparks 5mo ago
From the link: "Note: The inbuilt WiFi chip is not natively supported by FreeBSD, so you will need to (temporarily) use a USB WiFi or Ethernet dongle, or (as I will explain) copy some files from a different system to the Macbook. You c
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by bxparks 6mo ago
It is significant if you remain healthy and employed with income. But it is basically nothing if you get laid off at age 56, and you can't find another job due to age discrimination, your COBRA runs out after 18 months, but you are not
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by bxparks 6mo ago
I felt this pain yesterday. I use Open Core Legacy Patcher (OCLP) to run modern macOS on old Intel macs. The first time the computer boots after an upgrade (e.g. Sequoia 15.7.3 to 15.7.4), it is slow as a dog. Because the macOS upgrade clob
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by bxparks 7mo ago
Yup. The MBA11 is probably my favorite laptop of all time. It's my daily driver. I have 4 of those now, running MacOS and Linux Mint. I was really hoping for the Neo to be more like the MBA11.
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by bxparks 7mo ago
The solution to turn off "load images" in the web email clients. One side effect is that Capital One thinks that it has the wrong email address for me: "You haven’t opened an email from us lately, so we’re checking in
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by bxparks 8mo ago
How does nixos solve Firefox configuration on MacOS and Windows? :-) I use all 3 OSes daily.
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by bxparks 8mo ago
I guess personal preference? Image preview is slightly slower and has noticeable latency, compared to the text popup that is almost instantaneous. And it is more visually distracting. I hate UI features that interfere with my workflow. I ha
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by bxparks 8mo ago
Did not know about 'user.js', thanks! I guess creating a document that lists all my overrides was the first step. Now I have to figure out how to create a user.js that works on Linux, Macos, Windows, and maybe Android?
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by bxparks 8mo ago
No kidding. I had to create a Google Doc document to remember all the little things that I have to clobber in Firefox to make it behave reasonably. Here is an excerpt of how I clobber the defaults: - Enable pixel-perfect smooth scrollin
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by bxparks 8mo ago
I don't know what to tell you. I'm older than you. I've seen it happen 20-30 times in my life. I've seen batteries leak in flashlights, clock radios (the backup battery), wall clocks, calculators, cameras, remote control
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by bxparks 8mo ago
Great in theory. In practice, the Duracell alkaline battery will leak caustic fluids inside the remote control and destroy it, and you will have to mortgage your house to buy a replacement on eBay, if it's even available. (I pick on Du
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by bxparks 8mo ago
Yeah, most of the devices using 9V are smoke/CO detectors which only accept alkalines. I don't use the few remaining 9V devices enough to justify buying a new charger.
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by bxparks 8mo ago
Three things prevent me from eliminating all alkalines: * smoke and CO detectors with low-battery voltage sensors calibrated to alkaline * some older electronics (e.g. multimeters) using 9V batteries * my non-contact voltage tester refuses
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by bxparks 8mo ago
Any chance you can prevent the left hand navigation floating widget of 10 bubbles (no idea what it's called) from rendering on top of the actual content? It obscures the text that I want to read, very irritating. [Edit: I see, it wor
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by bxparks 8mo ago
Haha, so a trackpoint is the best thing ever, better than any trackpad, if you are stuck in the year 1992.
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by bxparks 8mo ago
Pinch zooming is not the same as keyboard zooming though. With pinch zooming, the entire webpage is magnified, including images. With keyboard zooming, the images become smaller (to my great annoyance) while the rest of the web page becom
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by bxparks 8mo ago
How can that work? Middle click is the "paste" function in X11. If I'm in a terminal emulator, how can I two-finger scroll over the output history buffer? What if I am hovering over an edit box of a form on a web page. Doesn&
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by bxparks 8mo ago
What is the trackpoint equivalent of the two-finger scroll? I cannot imagine browsing the web without the two-finger scroll. Or pinch-zooming, how do you do that with a trackpoint?
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by bxparks 8mo ago
Did not know that, thanks for the info. But Apple lost me as a customer 10 years ago with their hostile actions. Even if they added back USB-A, I wouldn't go back.
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by bxparks 8mo ago
Not all reverted. Still waiting for my USB-A ports and the SD card reader, on laptops described as "Pro". It's as if Apple forgot that "Pro" is a shorthand for "professional" instead of a meaningless marke
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by bxparks 9mo ago
Same. I buy Motorola phones because they have 3.5mm headphone jacks, real SIM cards, and microSD cards.
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by bxparks 9mo ago
I agree that the article is a bit unfocused about the supporting material. But the primary topic is clear: it's about the memory consumption of the Go map implementation. This is an article written by a real human person, who's go
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by bxparks 9mo ago
Off topic: Something on that web page causes Firefox on my MBA2020 to use 133% of CPU, 30% of GPU Helper, the fan goes to full speed, and scrolling is slow and janky. I can barely read the article. When I go to Reader mode, the CPU goes dow
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by bxparks 9mo ago
Sounds awful. Luckily we still have other options. I hope I never have to use GNOME again.
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by bxparks 9mo ago
If you want a pristine desktop, don't put icons there. If I want to put icons on my desktop, it's none of your f'ing business.
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by bxparks 9mo ago
I'm not familiar with the Gnome terminologies. Is Overview the one where they removed all the desktop icons, breaking 40 years of GUI conventions going back to the 1970s? (It's impossible to do a search on a product called "O
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by bxparks 9mo ago
Thanks for the reference to in-place merge sort. GitHub is having a lot problems right now, I cannot see your code. I will look at it when I get a chance. I think I ignored Heap sort because it uses O(N) extra RAM, which is precious on a re
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by bxparks 9mo ago
Different strokes for different folks I guess. Selection sort was the first sorting algorithm that I ever created: Find the smallest element for slot #1. Find the next smallest for slot #2. And so on. I've recreated it from scratch man
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by bxparks 9mo ago
Shell sort is sooo much faster than Bubble sort for tiny microcontrollers, for only a little bit more flash memory, like 40-100 bytes. If that's too much, then Insertion sort is 6X faster than Bubble sort, for only 10-20 bytes of extra

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