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by aplaice 9y ago
Entirely irrelevant to the content of the article, but is there a solution to the problematic interaction between sticky headers and full-page scrolling? At least in Firefox, if you press Space or PageDown (to scroll down a "page"
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by aplaice 9y ago
By any chance, do you know what the rationale for this change is? If the torrent repository were gone permanently, it would be extremely sad, since it's (AFAIK) the only way of having automated and/or bulk download of papers, for
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by aplaice 9y ago
The images are of quite a high resolution — they're even better than what you can get with celestia [0] and the (amazing) best surface and normal maps (by John van Vliet) [1]. Compare [2] and [3]. Celestia still has advantages — nicer
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by aplaice 9y ago
Slight aside (since LibreOffice != Word, and XML diffs are still horribly messy): If you save your LibreOffice documents in flat XML format, (e.g. fods, fodt instead of ods, odt), placing them under version control becomes slightly less ann
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by aplaice 9y ago
It's rather sad that none of the images (that I checked — I might be wrong) on blog.mozilla.org seem to have an alttext. (For the record, while I generally dislike gifs, I don't have strong feelings, either way, regarding the anim
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by aplaice 9y ago
I don't think that LaTeX is a significant competitor of MathML, just like markdown isn't a competitor to HTML. If you're writing something for the web, you're highly unlikely to be directly inputting HTML, whether it&#x2
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by aplaice 10y ago
Will the developers of Chromium and Edge perhaps reconsider incorporating native support for MathML in light of this, considering that apparently people do use maths on the web? 180 million monthly users is a significant portion of the worl
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by aplaice 10y ago
> From my experience, Firefox is the undisputed king of making sure anything you type in the address bar will be instantly checked against your bookmark collection. In case people are not aware of this, prepending a * to your query will
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by aplaice 10y ago
I don't want to pick a side in this, but OpenAI does seem to have published some open source software projects on GitHub, all that I have checked under the MIT license. ( https://github.com/openai?type=source ). This
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by aplaice 10y ago
According to https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html : > It is not worth the trouble to use copyleft for most small programs. and they recommend Apache 2.0. What are you disagreeing with?
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by aplaice 10y ago
Sorry to be nit-picky, but software released under the Apache 2.0 _is_ also free/libre software. Free software ≠ copylefted software (the latter is, approximately, a subset of the former). In most cases (vast majority?), Open Source so
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by aplaice 10y ago
Yes, if they're Firefox (to a large extent) or Safari (to a small-ish extent); not if they're Chrome or Edge, etc.
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by aplaice 10y ago
Yes, you're right — I wasn't being sufficiently clear. MathJax is indeed a rendering system which takes an input format (TeX, AsciiMath, MathML and possibly others) and converts it into a chosen output format (HTML (with CSS) — ef
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by aplaice 10y ago
It's lovely when a website actually uses MathML on browsers that mostly support it (i.e. Firefox and IE with mathplayer). <rant> For those not convinced why MathML is preferable to javascript-polyfills: i) Browser rendering of Ma
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by aplaice 10y ago
I don't want to be too greedy (considering that the presence of this feature on the desktop is already great), but is there any chance that this will be coming to Firefox for Android? It might be a challenge to implement this UX-wise;
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by aplaice 10y ago
> but does anyone honestly look at the default Ubuntu desktop and think "Well, that's just the pretties desktop I've ever seen". Data point of one, but yes, I have — I genuinely think that Unity (>=12.04) looks bet
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by aplaice 10y ago
Firefox has a setting that prevents images from being animated (in about:config): image.animation_mode set to none (The gifs are still loaded and present as static images. Video files pretending to be gifs are not dealt with.)
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by aplaice 10y ago
For anyone interested, here are some web browsers that are actually lightweight (if not html5-compliant) and not webkit-based: http://www.dillo.org/ http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
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by aplaice 11y ago
If you're willing to install an addon, there is: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autoreadervie... (I'm in no way affiliated with the author of the addon, nor do I use it — with Vimper
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by aplaice 11y ago
If you're on Linux and running GTK-{2,3} applications, you can also have emacs key-bindings in your text entry fields (in firefox, nautilus, gmrun etc), with a small amount of work. See [1] for details. Using the pre-defined emacs keyb
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by aplaice 11y ago
FWIW someone is trying to create a Signal/Textsecure client for Ubuntu phone[1][2], using web-sockets, with (I think) a QML-interface and a go back-end, so once it's ready it should hopefully be relatively easily portable to deskt