chrismonsanto
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Comment · 13 days ago
I was hoping with the delay nixpkgs would come with a fix.
Comment · 3 years ago
At least for me (Linux, Wayland) it is literally unusable, due to this bug[1] and related issues in the comments. I finally stopped putting up with it and switched to Chrome this year, after being a loyal user since the browser was called Firebird.
In retrospect I should have jumped after Mozilla ruined Firefox on Android.
Comment · 3 years ago
TypeScript the language works well for me. All I really want is a more robust incremental mode, especially with respect to renaming or deleting files. I've been bitten enough by this that I blast the cache directory in my pre-push hook.
Comment · 3 years ago
systemd is a significant improvement over script-based inits (and upstart, which I always found buggy). Nobody sings its praises because they don't have to: it "won" a long time ago.
Comment · 4 years ago
> The only feature that people want and need from browsers ... is enhanced privacy and cast-iron control over what a browser is doing. ... client web application firewalls, different, customisable jailing schemes, detailed easy to understand monitoring, file monitors, inviolable fine-grained per-io-device permissions, better Tor and IPFS integration
That's what you're interested in at least, I don't care about these features and if it was up to me the #1 priority for Firefox developers would be making desktop mode persistent by-site on Android
Comment · 4 years ago
Again, you're implicitly assuming the representation has to be a string of digits. I'm not sure that I can convince you, or even what to convince you of, as you aren't accepting the premises of the argument. The numbers +/- 1% of Graham's number can be trivially represented with a program. Likewise, here's some people codegolfing programs to output Graham's number[1]. If it seems like I'm cheating by using too powerful of a method, that's the point that the original person was making: there exist real numbers that can't be described even like this.
[1]: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/83873/theoretic...
Comment · 4 years ago
Graham's number can be computed in a few lines of code using Knuth's up-arrow notation.
Comment · 4 years ago
>your stance
Just to be clear, I'm not the person you were originally replying to. You can describe what you're talking about by writing a program--whether or not it terminates in our lifetime does not change that it is in fact a representation of the number.
Comment · 4 years ago
Your insistence here & in the other sub-thread that these numbers are represented as a string of digits suggests that you don't understand the argument being made.
If you don't insist on this, then let me give a quick counterexample to "All the numbers larger than say... a googleplex": googleplex + 1
Comment · 4 years ago
Working directory can be changed on a per-thread basis on Mac with pthread_chdir_np, and on Linux you can create a thread with the clone syscall and without the CLONE_FS flag to avoid sharing working directory with the rest of the process. I don't know about Windows.
Comment · 4 years ago
This limitation only applies to the file name, as you can chdir to the directory before bind/connect. Unfortunate but not a deal breaker
Comment · 5 years ago
> Computers don't excite me
Honestly kind of a depressing thing to read on "Hacker News", not that I disagree that UI consistency is good