chrismonsanto

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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
At least for me (Linux, Wayland) it is literally unusable, due to this bug[1] and related issues in the comments. I finally stopped putting up with it and switched to Chrome this year, after being a loyal user since the browser was called F
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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
TypeScript the language works well for me. All I really want is a more robust incremental mode, especially with respect to renaming or deleting files. I've been bitten enough by this that I blast the cache directory in my pre-push hook
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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
systemd is a significant improvement over script-based inits (and upstart, which I always found buggy). Nobody sings its praises because they don't have to: it "won" a long time ago.
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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
> The only feature that people want and need from browsers ... is enhanced privacy and cast-iron control over what a browser is doing. ... client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to unders
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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
Again, you're implicitly assuming the representation has to be a string of digits. I'm not sure that I can convince you, or even what to convince you of, as you aren't accepting the premises of the argument. The numbers +&#x2
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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
Graham's number can be computed in a few lines of code using Knuth's up-arrow notation.
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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
>your stance Just to be clear, I'm not the person you were originally replying to. You can describe what you're talking about by writing a program--whether or not it terminates in our lifetime does not change that it is in fact
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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
Your insistence here & in the other sub-thread that these numbers are represented as a string of digits suggests that you don't understand the argument being made. If you don't insist on this, then let me give a quick countere
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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
Working directory can be changed on a per-thread basis on Mac with pthread_chdir_np, and on Linux you can create a thread with the clone syscall and without the CLONE_FS flag to avoid sharing working directory with the rest of the process.
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by chrismonsanto 4y ago
This limitation only applies to the file name, as you can chdir to the directory before bind/connect. Unfortunate but not a deal breaker
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by chrismonsanto 5y ago
> Computers don't excite me Honestly kind of a depressing thing to read on "Hacker News", not that I disagree that UI consistency is good
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by chrismonsanto 6y ago
I'm an old Ubuntu user and I love Unity. It's pretty, space efficient, & keyboard friendly. I'm sad to see it was discontinued and don't know what I'm going to eventually switch to.
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by chrismonsanto 6y ago
I think few people are interested in responses other than "we will stop doing that"
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by chrismonsanto 7y ago
Reading and writing memory are excluded from the guarantee, aside from the LR/SC instructions that bookend a transaction. Inside the transaction you're basically limited to register-register ALU and aborting branches.
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by chrismonsanto 7y ago
> in practice FWIW RISC-V guarantees forward progress for reasonable uses: > We mandate that LR/SC sequences of bounded length (16 consecutive static instructions) will eventually succeed, provided they contain only base ISA inst
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by chrismonsanto 7y ago
They aren't just changing the default, they are dropping it entirely. The GNOME port is noticeably different. Apparently some other company is going to continue work on the original Unity and I hope that works out. To give another exam
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by chrismonsanto 7y ago
I do and have no plans to switch from it. The constant UI flux is the worst part about using Linux.
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by chrismonsanto 7y ago
When I last used it (early 2000s) it had built-in FTP support
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by chrismonsanto 9y ago
> Out of curiosity, what LastPass features are you missing in 1Password[0] or Dashlane[1]? Linux support
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
There's no need to switch editors for that. The language servers can be used by any editor that supports the language server protocol. As far as I know nobody has written a plugin for Vim yet, but here's a discussion issue on the
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
> Download and run I generally have a shell open, so it is easier for me to copy/paste into that session than open a file dialog, save a temporary file, (potentially) switch to a different directory, run the script, and delete it. &
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
Because it's easier for their use case to copy and paste (1 step) than do however many steps you want them to do. If you want to run something offline or run it on multiple machines there is generally a different method available for y
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
> there's no good reason to suggest an install method like this It is useful for bootstrapping a package manager. Haskell's Stack uses this, Rust uses this, Nix uses this, etc
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
> If you attempt to read the script in your browser first, and everything's great, then go pipe to bash, the server can send alternate content based on your user agent. If you can't trust the site to give you a safe installer t
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
"objectionable speech" is a pretty melodramatic way of saying "parody videos of a consumer product", on par with "taxation is violence and theft"
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
it's a joke...
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
> As a scientist, pdf.js is simply not capable enough for any serious work with pdf. As a counterpoint, I regularly read (CS) research papers in pdf.js and have never had any trouble. One of the reasons I stuck with Firefox is the superi
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
"Actually, more static analysis makes things less secure" That is a preposterous argument.
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
> Why doesn't the same principle apply to food? It does, as well as access to water and shelter. Did you think universal health care was the "final boss"?
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by chrismonsanto 10y ago
I don't care either way as long as there are people I care about socializing with on the service.

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