Peaker

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541.
by Peaker 13y ago
Transportation was also a solved problem, before the car.
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by Peaker 13y ago
Which extension are you using? I use Mate and found a Gnome extension that was known to be unreliable and indeed did not work... I agree the restart is a minor issue, as is the menu bar showing by default, as is the bookmarks bar being alwa
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by Peaker 13y ago
How do you get rid of Firefox's windows decorations in Linux? All I could find was for Windows, except one gnome-based extension which is known not to work reliably. Also, checking for updates when I start my browser is the worst possi
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by Peaker 13y ago
Correct, however: 1) Chrome's behavior where you get bookmarks bar in new tabs is far more useful. 2) Even without the bookmarks' bar, I have 4 bars (window decorations, menu bar, tab bar, URL bar), whereas Chrome has 2 (tab bar +
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by Peaker 13y ago
I couldn't find any customization that removed window decorations in Linux. I found ones for Windows only. Also, I got the (subjective) feeling that Firefox was becoming sluggish as I had 6-7 addons. I might be wrong, but that would m
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by Peaker 13y ago
But that means my bookmarks disappear completely, whereas in Chrome they are displayed in new tabs, which is far more useful behavior.
547.
by Peaker 13y ago
The customizations that allow disappearing the window decorations work only on Windows, as far as I could find. Also, Firefox requires losing the bookmarks tab completely, whereas Chrome has a saner default of having it appear in new/e
548.
by Peaker 13y ago
Last I tried Firefox, pretty recently, it still needed to address some serious issues, when compared to Chrome: * Unresponsiveness due to one tab thrashing * Bad use of screen-space (bookmarks always visible, cannot disappear titlebar like
549.
by Peaker 13y ago
You're whooshing. You don't want to use "long long" because that's not necessarily 64-bits. You want to use int64_t which guarantees it is 64-bits. And then, the correct format specifier for that is PRIi64, and not
550.
by Peaker 13y ago
So we should use unportable format strings or cast all the values to long long? Is that better? I personally find inttypes format strings readable.
551.
by Peaker 13y ago
int64_t is a much nicer type than "long long". "int" makes some sense. Word-size of the machine. "short", "long", "long long" are all non-sensical. You use them when you want to trade size a
552.
by Peaker 13y ago
If they just added a macro to inttypes.h, you could use that for the format specifier. If you want to print a uint32_t, you just use PRIu32.
553.
by Peaker 13y ago
It's superficially ugly. It's deeply ugly to have to maintain "%llu", "%lu", and various other format strings for a single (uint64_t) or indeed (time_t). It's also ugly to up-cast everything to the la
554.
by Peaker 13y ago
For format strings, why not do the inttypes.h thing, and define a macro for the format specifier of (time_t)? "%" PRI_TIME_T
555.
by Peaker 13y ago
The new ARM processor is said to be more power hungry than an extra 1GB of RAM.
556.
by Peaker 13y ago
Memory mapped files have a problem (that may be less relevant for iOS) with error reporting. Explicit APIs can have explicit error codes. Memory accesses don't have much opportunity to report errors, so have to resort to awful signals
557.
by Peaker 13y ago
I hope you, as an investor in this company, are also held (at least financially) liable for this scam. Unfortunately, you're likely to greatly benefit from scamming so many people.
558.
by Peaker 13y ago
Using gtalk for SMS was so much more convenient, because you could just press the contact icon, and get gtalk as an option. They've removed this integration in Android, and now you have to go re-find that contact in a separate hangouts
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by Peaker 13y ago
Lisp isn't really the only attempt to work with the lambda calculus. Look at Haskell, Agda, and others, which are based on an a slightly extended form of LC. I doubt anyone would claim that these extensions are "hairy".
560.
by Peaker 13y ago
The Lambda Calculus is so tiny how can you view it as anything but trivial? Just 3 syntactic forms building up an expression tree: Expr = Lam Name Expr | Var Name | Apply Expr Expr And one reduction rule: reduce (Apply (Lam name
561.
by Peaker 13y ago
> It appears that in the presence of mutable state, a lot of the advantages of monads become moot. In the simpler cases where use of monads can be replaced by simple mutable state -- you still lose out on the explicit types of the mutati
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by Peaker 13y ago
A less computer literate friend called me and asked if I can help restore his file. He regularly backed up his work file by dragging it into a USB stick, until one time he dragged the wrong way! He lost his recent work which was a big deal
563.
by Peaker 13y ago
Well, part of being smart is genetic. For example, a cat or gorilla's genetic makeup do not allow them to work hard and become as smart as most humans.
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by Peaker 13y ago
If they can make it look like a stream of zeros, they can make it look like a random stream which is actually a pseudo-random stream as well. Also, they might leave some randomness in, but it can be a small enough amount of entropy that i
565.
by Peaker 13y ago
Most phones let you pull the battery out, still. Even when they don't, it's probably easy enough to disconnect the battery on your own.
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by Peaker 13y ago
Not sure if this is the position you're asking about, but my position is that surveillance of foreigners is far less of a problem than of citizens in any state. Surveillance of local citizens can be abused to destroy democracy, wherea
567.
by Peaker 13y ago
I agree, but they are pretty bad. My point was specifically about underplaying their illegal and immoral practices as "building useful software" which is not conductive to useful discussion. Which ones do you believe aren't t
568.
by Peaker 13y ago
Some worse things: Microsoft's OEM deals to throw out Netscape. Bundling IE with their monopolistic OS to kill Netscape Disallowing OEMs to sell computers with any OS but Windows (or demanding 3x the price for Windows licenses). Killin
569.
by Peaker 13y ago
No, I don't think what MS did is worse. But "writing useful software" was not the reason they were hated. That's the strawman, and it detracts from your argument.
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by Peaker 13y ago
Your point would come across better if you had mentioned monopolizing markets illegally and other MS actions rather than the silly straw man there.

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