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by bscphil 5y ago
Late replying, but who exactly do you think is going to lead this? Firefox is so bloated at this point precisely because there's a mandate to make it fast and support new web features. There are so many Rust dependencies that I can&#
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by bscphil 5y ago
Honestly I have been disappointed beyond the capacity for outrage with Firefox. Do you know of any positive cases of a distribution that disables this? Edit: just to add to this, my understanding is that Mozilla uses (abuses?) their tradema
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by bscphil 5y ago
A cursory glance at the Wikipedia article seems to suggest that it does what it says on the tin: makes you more resistant to inflammation caused by certain stressful external conditions (e.g. extreme cold). So it "works" in that s
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by bscphil 5y ago
Sorry, context for this? I take a pretty thorough scalpel to removing any traces of sponsored content from Firefox, and it never occurred to me that they might have ads in the address bar. Is there a previous discussion an announcement abou
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by bscphil 5y ago
Worth noting that the article itself doesn't seem to cover the blue light / sleep question except to link to this 2021 paper, which is fortunately in English! https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2021.03.005 Duracc
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by bscphil 5y ago
Most screens are too blue. Not in a personal preference sense, in an objective sense. That's why monitor profiling and color correction are important. Similar to you, I find it grating to use most screens for a long period of time, but
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by bscphil 5y ago
We recently purchased a cheap (<$500) Dell Inspiron, and it advertises support for Ubuntu in the specs. Not even one of those fancy XPS "developer edition" laptops or whatever, just an ordinary Inspiron. It's fine to worry
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by bscphil 5y ago
I'm sympathetic to marcan's points and I don't think Apple is likely to do anything like this, personally, but this argument isn't very convincing. All this means is that they can't release a firmware update blockin
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Keep in mind too that "requirements at hand" can include a significant degree of path dependency, and that it can be a mistake to read too much reasoning into something too. This is why I'd say there's some value in
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by bscphil 5y ago
Sure, not in a literal sense (to the extent they manage internal affairs with a sovereign fiat currency, it's not possible for them to be under water in that currency ), but it's possible for them to destroy their own credit due
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by bscphil 5y ago
The real misleading part, to the point of being actively malicious, is "Each Taxpayer's Share: $951k". This is intended to make the median viewer, who will never see that much money at once in their entire life (and will ta
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by bscphil 5y ago
> a fast touch typer will hate this keyboard Interesting. On this site, I see nothing but complaints about the Macbook short travel keyboards. I have not used one for more than a few minutes, but I am a fast touch typist and I like the g
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by bscphil 5y ago
> like bad keyboards, bad trackpad (too much scrolling, jagged scrolling, bad trackpad surface) Curious to hear more about the keyboard / trackpad issues you're seeing. I have an older XPS model, which has the best laptop keybo
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by bscphil 5y ago
More seriously than my previous response. > I wish someone would just dump a bunch of money, hire former Windows/Mac devs and properly build a lot of the supporting components of some distro, then all the other distros can roll up t
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by bscphil 5y ago
> They just go sign up and drop in just like they would with Signal or WhatsApp or any other messenger. Are they actually verifying each of their devices and getting full end-to-end encryption across all their devices with each of their
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The official client is plagued with UX bugs. Agree. As a pretty knowledgeable tech person, I tried a few days ago to get an account working with Element, and I almost failed entirely. Different logins failing to sync with each other,
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by bscphil 5y ago
> The only thing that is a given is that any comment bashing Linux will ultimately attract someone like you that tries to twist and turn my words to justify it. The only thing that's a given is that any post that proclaims the relat
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by bscphil 5y ago
I'm responding to the following in your parent comment: > I expect you mean that you want to repair it yourself, but if you are skilled enough to do that, your time is valuable, so it hasn't been worth your time for at least tw
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by bscphil 5y ago
> This is something even Windows gets right. It comes from the fact that Canonical does not have the resources to build each app around a unified design and UX principle Isn't it a bit on the nose that you accuse Linux of failing at
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by bscphil 5y ago
> it hasn't been worth your time for at least two decades to spend even 10 hours a year repairing a machine more than about 3 years old. The median hourly income in the United States is $20/hr. Buying a new computer every three
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by bscphil 5y ago
The most reasonable gloss on "You need a math PHD to code Dwarf Fortress" is "Necessarily, if someone codes Dwarf Fortress, they have a math PhD." The modality "necessarily" is widely understood to refer to pos
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Western meat production isn't unsustainable, at least not the one run in Europe. More land is used to raise animals for consumption in the UK than exists in the UK . https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E6XE2_qVUAAPuO
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Wouldn't getting rid of ruminant cattle farming reduce the amount of arable land required since so much of it is used to grow animal feed? I think this is exactly the point missed by the people in this thread saying that a lot of
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by bscphil 5y ago
How would you remap the capslock key without using a hotkeys-like setup, such as Karabiner? I looked for a long time for a way to do that and couldn't figure it out.
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> When the user takes in a fresh breath, some of the previously exhaled air which remains in the snorkel is inhaled again For a long snorkel, you would want to exhale through your nose.
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by bscphil 5y ago
Part of the issue is just that Rust is actually very good at working out lifetimes in certain situations, so they become implicit. This makes it even harder for the inexperienced to know when and why one has to specify a lifetime, as
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by bscphil 5y ago
> Yes, random whether a chosen gateway works or not That might be true, but what I was saying in the OP was that the interface at libgen.fun usually does not work for me in Firefox, but the direct link to the gateway (the same one that t
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by bscphil 5y ago
2. I don't understand what you mean? Are you saying the gateway is random? I tried several different browsers and got ipfs.io every time. Are you saying it's random whether it works or not? If so, that seems ... bad. 3. It's
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by bscphil 5y ago
Couple of thoughts: 1. > Show HN Did you @sixtyfourbits make this? Any stories about how you came to be involved in the project? IPFS seems like a pretty ideal way to handle sharing documents like this, I'm surprised LibGen hasn&#x2
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by bscphil 5y ago
> I admit that Rust can get a little verbose Heh. As a self-taught developer with a dumb ape brain, if anything I wish it was more consistently verbose. I've read through the Rust book and tutorials multiple times, and I've s

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