jabirali

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by jabirali 6y ago
> Avoiding Facebook and Google is trivial Avoiding Google is definitely not trivial. I know here in Norway, lots of public schools are giving teachers and pupils Chromebooks, and insisting that homework is done in Google Docs. How would
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by jabirali 6y ago
Thanks for the tip! I currently don't have many tabs open, but was surprised to see every one of my work Office365 tabs (mail, calendar, etc.) at 100+ MB each...
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by jabirali 6y ago
We have very different experiences in that case. Once I go past ~100 open tabs on Firefox, on a 16GB RAM Linux laptop, my whole system freezes. I experienced these issues as late as in June, so it doesn't appear to have been recently f
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by jabirali 6y ago
> Your own situation wouldn't be different if you had alternatives to Apple's store. I respectfully disagree with this statement. I think an analogous situation would be the launch of Disney+: it used to be possible to watch Di
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by jabirali 6y ago
Terms of service are written to be understandable by lawyers, not average end-users. At this point, understanding every terms of service, privacy policy, etc. presented by every piece of software, website, etc. encountered by an average use
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by jabirali 6y ago
> The big problem is that almost all of the shell's are stuck in the previous century, except PowerShell. Another exception is Nushell, which seems to be partly inspired by PowerShell, and has some very appealing ideas. However, giv
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by jabirali 6y ago
It doesn't have to be though, there's just a high correlation between hard-to-automate apps and non-command-line apps. You can e.g. make a GUI app where every button or keybinding is bound to a named function (GUI Emacs comes to m
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by jabirali 6y ago
Yes. GNOME has its bundled screenshot tool, and Zoom supports screen recording on GNOME/Wayland. Sway has grim + slurp for screenshots, and wf-recorder or wlrobs for screen recording. However, one difference between X11 and Wayland, is
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by jabirali 6y ago
Not all scientific code is amenable to unit testing. From my own experience from a PhD in condensed matter physics, the main issue was that how important equations and quantities “should” behave by themselves was often unknown or undocument
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by jabirali 6y ago
In some simulations, each rerun produces different results as you’re simulating random events (like lightning formation) or using a non-deterministic algorithm (like Monte Carlo sampling). Just “saving the random seed” might not be sufficie
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by jabirali 6y ago
Fair enough :). For the record, Pandoc MarkDown supports all of these via its extended MarkDown syntax. For the first you can write [desc](src){.test} to get a class=test attribute on the link, for example. For the second, you can write ![d
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by jabirali 6y ago
> Remember this: Markdown is all about HTML. Markdown has serious limitations and is very poorly designed in places, but it works well enough despite being so bad specifically because underneath it’s all HTML, so you can fall down to tha
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by jabirali 6y ago
It may be a reference to Wayland having better security than X, since any X apps can key log, screen capture, etc. each other while this is limited in Wayland.
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by jabirali 6y ago
I agree in general that too many things pop up because people want change without good reason. But Wayland is a highly needed replacement, not just in my opinion, but according to the X.org developers themselves. See e.g. this [1] talk by
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by jabirali 6y ago
I remember finding this video enlightening, a talk on the subject by someone who has worked on both X and Wayland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44
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by jabirali 6y ago
> I run xmonad as well, which doesn't work with wayland. There is Waymonad, but not sure how mature it is: https://github.com/waymonad/waymonad
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by jabirali 6y ago
You could raise the same question about many historic ligatures, like abbreviating "et" to "&" in Latin?
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by jabirali 6y ago
At least on Linux, Tk apps still tend to look like remnants from before Windows 95. (Which personally is the main reason I avoid Tk apps whenever possible, including Tkinter apps.)
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by jabirali 6y ago
I've known about `moreutils` for years, but the only two I ended up actively using myself are `vidir` and `vipe`. Outside of `moreutils`, one of the utilities I always install on all my machines is `atool`, which is just so much nicer
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by jabirali 6y ago
My impression was that running 10 Electron apps would be like having 10 separate installations of Chromium running at the same time (with no shared memory). But running 10 WebView apps would be like having one browser with 10 tabs open, but
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by jabirali 6y ago
I'm no fan of coal, but to be fair "integrated gasification combined cycle" plants [1] are way cleaner than conventional coal plants without violating laws of thermodynamics. You can drastically reduce emissions of e.g. heav
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by jabirali 6y ago
> You can properly dispose or recycle anything non-radioactive with enough energy, heat and oxygen. With "enough energy" you could recycle anything. In theory you could for instance vaporize any waste mixture (including radioac
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by jabirali 6y ago
> Instead you should ask if your users [...] would be sufficiently put off to look for alternatives. This is probably sound business advice, but it's also a bit sad to shift the goal from trying to create "great software"
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by jabirali 6y ago
When I used Emacs, Eshell was perhaps my favorite feature. I loved how modern it felt in many ways; why shouldn’t you be able to just `cd` into a remote location (TRAMP+SSH under the hood), or invoke Elisp commands like Magit straight from
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by jabirali 6y ago
Do you mean that you want `cmd2 <(cmd1)` as a synonym for `cmd1 | cmd2`? In that case, I’m happy it doesn’t; it drastically lowers readability compared to left-to-right command pipelines, and I don’t see what value it adds.
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by jabirali 6y ago
> They should create legislation to control access to all app stores to prevent this rent seeking Thinking a bit wider, the same legislation should affect e.g. how Amazon can treat people who sell on their platform. They are all monopso
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by jabirali 6y ago
> If you treat shell as a DSL for files and streams, nothing can beat it. Shell is amazing. On the other hand, wouldn’t you just define anything that beats it also a shell? In my opinion, Fish beats Bash and Zsh in this area, and I would
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by jabirali 6y ago
Firstly, your quote is about iOS not macOS as far as I can tell, so the competitor here would be Android not OpenBSD. Secondly, I interpreted your comment as “that list is long enough to make one want to switch to Linux”. I then stand by my
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by jabirali 6y ago
I ended up with the same muscle memory. That’s why I eventually just switched to StartPage.com instead, which is basically a Google proxy.
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by jabirali 6y ago
I went basically the same route; got rid of my Google account (GMail, Android, etc.) and switched to an iPhone. The only things left where I indirectly use Google (see below) are precisely Google search and YouTube like you. > Then there

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