Taywee

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by Taywee 5y ago
I think it really depends what the alternative is. If it's that vs living in the wilderness in a small family and no other support against the elements or vicious predators, that's not such as easy decision. Cows don't have
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by Taywee 5y ago
I've always thought it could be pretty cool to leverage that for transparent filesystem compression. For context, filesystem compression usually compresses blocks of data individually (for instance, every 64K block of a file will be in
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by Taywee 5y ago
With that complex example, I can get a B&W 4-color dithered png down to 91K and an 8-color down to 131K. The Color Simple one goes down to 142K with a 16-color dithered palette. I'm confused why you'd even compare the dithere
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by Taywee 5y ago
> I wish I could say I've learned my lesson, but I'll probably continue to make enjoyable mistakes like this for the rest of my life. There's really no better way to learn, in my experience.
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by Taywee 5y ago
Sounds like a pretty straightforward question to me. There's no reason to be defensive about flaws in a math book scan, even if it's largely a cool thing.
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by Taywee 5y ago
Why are you immediately assuming racism?
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by Taywee 5y ago
Didn't that only happen in testing? Isn't that the point of a testing release?
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by Taywee 5y ago
> arbitrary change like deciding that 'which' is deprecated now. I kind of hate that this is going to live on as some example when the actual event was somebody proposing it, it failing in some builds on testing, and then a vot
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by Taywee 5y ago
More of a "saved you a click" than a TL;DR. Most people on HN probably don't care to read about GitHub changing CEOs.
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by Taywee 5y ago
Fewer people probably would have read it if the title said what it actually was.
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by Taywee 5y ago
My first thought was "GitHub has some underappreciated feature or functionality that saved somebody's ass at their job, and this is their write-up".
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by Taywee 5y ago
I agree. I clicked on this expecting something more interesting than some corporate executive's resignation letter.
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by Taywee 5y ago
Pollution (most electricity production is still coal-based), raising electricity prices for everybody else, contributing to an ongoing energy crisis (electricity is going to start being rationed in Kazakhstan). Electricity is a finite resou
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by Taywee 5y ago
Yeah, "cost" is one of the fundamental terms of economics. So is "externality".
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by Taywee 5y ago
There was a proposal, disagreement, and a vote, which ruled in keeping the "which" command where it is for at least the next major version. "which" is in no danger of disappearing at the moment. The discussion went appr
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by Taywee 5y ago
That's not key-logging. That's search suggestions. If you find the privacy implications of search suggestions damning, you've always been able to turn them off. I don't like that level of telemetry, and I also dislike
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by Taywee 5y ago
Others may disagree on philosophical grounds, but I don't think it's inherently bad to have only one implementation of the core web browser technologies. That's similar to what we have with Linux, where the kernel has one ca
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by Taywee 5y ago
Assuming everybody who disagrees with you is some sort of Mozilla inside agent is really getting off on a bad foot, and sabotages any hope of productive discussion before it even starts. Don't assume bad faith in everybody who doesn&
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by Taywee 5y ago
> I don't know about this version but at least one could uninstall the maintenance service. You'd obviously be able to uninstall this, too. If your OS allows third-party programs to install services that can not be disabled o
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by Taywee 5y ago
There is no key-logging, but there is some keystroke leaking in particular circumstances (specifically, typing in the unified address bar, by default, leaks the first word by pinging DNS repeatedly when you don't have spaces). Unfortun
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by Taywee 5y ago
> however, if you prefer a bit of notice, you’ll still have full control over the quit/close modal behavior. All warnings can be managed within Firefox Settings. No worries!
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by Taywee 5y ago
When you do that, open your browser, and either hit the hamburger menu on the right and go to History or Alt and go to History, and then click "Restore Previous Session". It's not perfect (sites lose unsaved state usually), b
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by Taywee 5y ago
I really would like you to explain all of those, especially the first and the last. In what way is it less secure or private than the alternatives?
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by Taywee 5y ago
In my particular situation, there has never been a "bad incident". When approached by strangers, she pancakes to the pavement and is visibly fearful and anxious. She'll even stray away when people she doesn't know are
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by Taywee 5y ago
Yes, you're right, given the context. I hadn't properly followed the chain of comments, and every one of those statements is unreasonable. I just hear a lot of dog people who subscribe to the belief of "no bad dogs, only bad
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by Taywee 5y ago
That's reductive. Dogs have a surprising degree of individuality, intelligence, and personality. There are dogs with anxiety disorders, psychological disorders, attention disorders, and other issues that aren't necessarily the bla
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by Taywee 5y ago
I'm in a similar boat as you. I switched from X11 to Wayland (also Sway) and from PulseAudio+Jack2 to Pipewire a couple weeks ago. I am in the extra difficult boat of doing it on a high DPI display (I assume you aren't, or you w
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by Taywee 5y ago
> Now I'm wondering if that guy's raw hyper optimised x86 assembly can get transpiled to WASM Not really. WASM is significantly simpler and more abstract than x86 assembly, and has a JIT compile step that probably wouldn'
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by Taywee 5y ago
Yes, you're right. I think it's fine to depend on the existing which behavior for the current use cases. I just disagree that the behavior is really more useful than `command -v` for any sort of build or scripting purposes. It&
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by Taywee 5y ago
The problem is that `which` behaves differently in many different existing use-cases (sometimes reporting aliases and sometimes not). If POSIX defines the behavior, then many existing uses become non-standard, and the existing implementati

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