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by ronjouch 10y ago
I tried Elm with much enthusiasm, but ended up putting it aside it for now (0.17) after being bored by JSON decoding (of big, deeply nested API response objects). Could there be a way to more succinctly (declaratively?) express my data type
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Ffffound it, it was a my general.useragent.override
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by ronjouch 10y ago
I'll pinch my two cents into JetSpiegel's bowl when s/he suggests that "maybe you are paying the wrong kind of games? [...] other single player games are comparable artforms and only nominally 'pointless wastes if
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by ronjouch 10y ago
> "The open solution to a faster mobile web would have been so easy: just penalize large and slow web pages, without defining a dedicated mobile specification." A million times yes. As to why this didn't happen, I feel
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Right, let me reformulate: Wayland is what you get by default on Arch when you go with the gnome/gdm stack. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM#Use_Xorg_backend
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by ronjouch 10y ago
I want to use Wayland, but it breaks a few tools I use (Autokey [0], marathon [1]) as they depend on X-specific tooling/APIs (for marathon: wmctrl, xdotool). So I'm disabling Wayland for now even though I'd like to use it (fo
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Nah, I have zarroo cookies set for the Maps domain (gratuitous plug to Self-Destructing Cookies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct... )
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Funfunfunction – Open Source lacks accountability(youtube.com)
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Yeah, other WebGL apps/demos work, and webgl.disable isn't set to true. I have quite a few modified prefs and would like to avoid a Refresh, so I'm going to just bisect across prefs. Thanks for the suggestions.
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Tangential question: Maps automatically switches to Lite mode under certain browser conditions. It does so on my home Firefox machine (Dev. Edition 52.0a2, Linux, Intel HD Graphics 520), and: - When I deactivate all my addons it still does.
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by ronjouch 10y ago
> "Dismissing anecdotes about failure as FUD is not constructive. FUD is first and foremost a business tactic." Hm, reading {your, UnoriginalGuy, mwfunk} comments, I realize "FUD" is a loaded term. I was using it li
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by ronjouch 10y ago
You're re-framing the context of "doing their homework". I agree you shouldn't be doing any homework to perform basic tasks such as "get [the] machine to hibernate, connect to wifi reliably, etc..." . I'm
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by ronjouch 10y ago
> So which is it, they're spreading "Fear, uncertainty and doubt" or they're right? They're spreading the FUD that Linux laptop hardware support is frustrating, no questions asked. It's FUD because it&#x27
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by ronjouch 10y ago
FUD. I do use the features you are mentioning, but encounter none of the issues. Thinkpad + Arch user. We Linux users need to realize we are an island, and it's our duty to: - Either Linux-QA-check on our own / as a community th
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Happy T560 (same laptop, with a 15'6" screen) owner here. Fully agree with the post conclusion: "powerful, has a very long lasting battery, it is silent under normal work and you can get your stuff done quickly and get solid
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Maybe you don’t have a problem(raptitude.com)
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by ronjouch 10y ago
> "Would you mind linking to some of those blogposts." A quick parsing of https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis yields "Memory Usage of Firefox with e10s Enabled" [1] and its followup "Are t
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by ronjouch 10y ago
And if you want so, the about:config key to fiddle with is called "dom.ipc.processCount" and currently defaults to 1, with plans to raise this soon, as described by the article. EDIT also, to come back to DanBlake's questio
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Wherein DNA Lounge will be closed soon, without your help(dnalounge.com)
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User study of tracking protection in Firefox Nightly(medium.com)
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FunFunFunction #62 – Settings are evil(youtube.com)
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Exactly what I was hoping. Thanks for naming these things, names are what those of us without the academic baggage need to be able to investigate/study what we are talking about.
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by ronjouch 10y ago
> "the idea is that as more and more job get automated, prices should go down until the point where people will not have to work full weeks anymore" Fallacy; apart from a short break thanks to syndicalist wins, we're jus
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by ronjouch 10y ago
No problem, your comment was clear and I didn't perceive it as snide, at all. Thanks for your carefulness in the discussion.
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by ronjouch 10y ago
> "I'm curious how did you expect Racket to work without a GC or any Lisp like language for that matter or did you just assume because of video game usage?" Just because of video game usage and my perception of Carmack a
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Well, Today I Learned that Racket is GCed; I assumed the contrary due to John Carmack being enthusiast about it in the context of video games. I understand the fact that not everything in a game belongs to the critical 16ms budget (and know
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Not exactly what you describe but related: people build intentionally-vulnerable applications for the sake of teaching security by example. In the sub-domain of web security, django.nV is such a "purposefully vulnerable Django applica
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Paragraph "Development" (page 14 in the current version) answers your question: "The entire Crypto 101 project is publicly developed on GitHub under the crypto101 organization, including this book: https://github.
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by ronjouch 10y ago
That's different. MS wants you to upgrade to at least IE11 (or Edge) because IE10 is no longer supported [1], and keeping using it is dangerous. (But maybe you cannot upgrade because of !@#$% corporate policies.) [1] https:/&#x2F
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by ronjouch 10y ago
Ouch, that sucks. Haven't heard about those and haven't seen them yet.

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