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by wsha 9y ago
A few years ago I thought it would be nice to be able to compose an email in a new tab instead of a separate window. I found a Bugzilla entry proposing adding this to Thunderbird that had been open for several years and had had a couple com
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by wsha 9y ago
Or give the visas to the jobs with the highest 85,000 salaries instead of using a lottery.
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by wsha 10y ago
Syncanny development appears to be on indefinite hiatus, so it's not something I would want to trust my backups with.
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by wsha 10y ago
If you read the whole article, the author mixes in caveats throughout and says that it requires a special set of requirements for the usenet backup to be worthwhile. At some point, he addresses your point by saying that in some cases (possi
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by wsha 10y ago
This is the best feature of tmux. It's worth pointing out here though (in a post about making the terminal act like an IDE), that you can split the terminal into two panes so you can have an editor and a REPL open at the same time simi
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by wsha 10y ago
It's funny to see the AARP working together with EFF and Mozilla.
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by wsha 10y ago
I have followed the situation fairly closely, and I agree with your assessment. I haven't seen anything that makes me think either Pentadactyl or Vimperator will survive the deprecation of XUL. The most promising vim-like addon is VimF
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by wsha 10y ago
I am willsALMANJ. The Pentadactyl devs never responded to repeated attempts to engage them on the continued distribution of the addon. I could have posted it to addons.mozilla.org, but it didn't feel right to package their work unchang
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by wsha 10y ago
You can't categorically remap some key sequence to Escape in VimFx (not sure if you meant Vimperator where you can do this just like in vim). However, you can open the preference and add whatever alternative you want to all of the comm
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by wsha 10y ago
This is a nice feature. The downsides compared to Vimperator/Pentadactyl is that you can tab-complete the search term and you can't get search suggestions as you type (or at least I haven't gotten either of these things to wo
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by wsha 10y ago
I'm not sure what SPAs are or what Asana or Reviewable are, but I have happily used gmail with Pentadactyl by using passkeys. This is what I have in my passkeys setting for gmail: '^https?://(mail|groups)\.google\.com&#x
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by wsha 10y ago
On MacOS, you can use the vim mode of Karabiner. This lets you hit and hold "s" and "d" at the same time and then use h, j, k, and l as the arrow keys. Sadly I haven't found equivelents for Windows or Linux.
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by wsha 10y ago
I switched to VimFx recently for the same reason. Actually, the ":" shortcut for the GCLI command line is a VimFx shortcut, not a standard Firefox one. The GCLI can be customized. See for example: https://developer.mozi
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by wsha 10y ago
It seems like this post is choosing a convenient point in time start its argument from. The reason cheap airlines like Spirit came about was because there was a market for cheaper tickets with less amenities. The post says that the major ai
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by wsha 10y ago
It lacks many features of Pentadactyl but covers the basics -- clicking links and text boxes with the keyboard. I have found it possible to replicate some of the things I missed from Pentadactyl through built-in features of Firefox I didn&#
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by wsha 10y ago
I have been testing out VimFx as well (long time Pentadactyl user). I miss being able to do ":b" and quickly find open tabs, but the Firefox awesomebar has a similar functionality if you type "%". That's what I have
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by wsha 10y ago
Sadly it's not realistic. Even if someone were to put in the time to make it work, Vimperator would just break again within the next year when XUL addons are deprecated in favor of WebExtensions, and unfortunately WebExtensions do not
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by wsha 10y ago
Hmmm, after Australis changed the UI, e10s has begun to enlarge the memory footprint, XUL was ditched for Chrome extensions, and support for encrypted media extensions was added, I didn't think Firefox had much left that it could do to
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by wsha 10y ago
Yes, I work on a mixed team of physicists, engineers, and computer scientists, and the most frustrating part is trying to work with some of the physicists' code. For the most part it is fairly functional, but the problem is that it is
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by wsha 10y ago
The current system of journal publication has odd incentives -- paying to be published and doing peer review for free -- and should be revised in some way. Unfortunately though the journals provide the metric by which basically all research
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by wsha 10y ago
There are tutorials in the IBM Quantum Experience that go through the basics of manipulating qubits and putting opertions together into small quantum circuits.
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by wsha 10y ago
It's a little odd to me that this project is presented so explicitly as being linked to the IBM Quantum Experience because the IBM Quantum Experience has a built-in simulator already. Having something open-source is nice because then y
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by wsha 10y ago
There are some parallels between LibreOffice and Thunderbird that make The Documentation Foundation's adoption of Thunderbird attractive. 1. Both LibreOffice and Thunderbird are desktop implementations of applications for which most of
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by wsha 10y ago
VimFx (and Vimium for Chrome -- XUL deprecation and the loss of Pentadactyl migth be what finally pushes to switch from Firefox to Chromium) are nice addons but feature wise they do only a small subset of what Vimperator/Pentadactyl do
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by wsha 10y ago
Yes, this is why the issue has become urgent right now. Thunderbird barely has the resources to keep up with the underlying changes to Gecko with each release. It has nowhere near the resources needed to deal with the deprecation of XUL. I
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by wsha 10y ago
I like learning from other people sharing their config files, but my attitude towards oh-my-zsh is similar to that of the author's co-workers in that I don't want to install a bunch of customizations that I don't understand.
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by wsha 11y ago
It's mentioned in the article linked here.
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by wsha 11y ago
Well, to answer your question literally, some differences are - The Andrews suit was against the people responsible for the recording while the Gawker suit is against the people who posted the video - as a public figure Hulk Hogan has often
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by wsha 11y ago
Is anyone else surprised that the government wanted information about Ed_Snowden@lavabit.com rather than cincinnatus@lavabit.com? Maybe they wanted both and just redacted cincinnatus@lavabit.com properly. I thought that was the account he w
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by wsha 11y ago
Yes, the title of the blog post ("lipstick on a pig") implies that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is dressing up the Pi 3 as something it is not, but they have been pretty transparent about the fact that they chose this processor bec

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