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Re:The modern web is becoming unusable on Sunday December 22, 2019 @04:50AM (#21856204)
I'd like to add that we can use ublock origin as well with JS-Off-By-Default.
Re:Go + Services = One Goliath Project on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:02PM (#21855098)
LoL
I don't feel like linux is expensive investment for everyone.

I am a first year CS student. when I got my first laptop recently, I got crazy and installed debian (had some prior experience with command line), it didn't work very well for laptop. All DEs except enlightenment (yeah i even tried it) had lots of display related glitches due to cheap hardware.

Then I moved on and installed fedora. Nothing to tweak from CLI. Just changed few settings from GUI and peace of mind even on relatively obscure hardware.

It has been vastly simplified and worth it for anyone in IT / CS related fields.

This.

What he suggested wasn't viable in terms of productivity either. One may be programmer but don't want to spend time administering the insignificant parts of the system.

I never understood the culture of elitism in system micro-administration by hobbyist crowd.

7z file explorer works well for me. Now I am mostly using Linux though.
Re:Nebraska farmers vote overwhelmingly for Right to Repair on Monday December 16, 2019 @07:49PM (#21809369)
Curiosly, which chromebook? You can install linux on some chromebooks.
Not even open source. But it tries to mislead people into thinking it is open source.

Stay away from it.

Re:How I Switched to Plan 9 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:04AM (#21712316)
I think `micro` will do.. not sure about cursor based cut-paste though..
Re:How I Switched to Plan 9 on Thursday December 05, 2019 @09:02AM (#21712302)
nano isn't very weak, I have modified nanorc substantially and also have binded many keys. It works better than, say, notepad++ on windows.

For those who aren't touch typists, or occasional users, nano is just more comfort than vim or emacs.

And there is a editor named `micro`, which is similar to nano but has more features including bracket completion etc.. I am delaying switch because it is written in go (being unavailable in repos) and anyway I haven't found time to configure it. But it is scriptable in lua..

Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:57PM (#21704826)
I use ubo and have used AMP in past. UBO is an excellent ad blocker, but as far as bandwidth savings are concerned, it doesn't come close to AMP. Of course I use UBO with JS off by default which is better and arguably more secure. But I still occasionally have to unbreak sites.
Re:Fight back against Google AMP (2018) on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:54PM (#21704776)
Not everyone can buy $800 iPhone or close to that. Being from a third world country, I understand how valuable it was to have a cheap smartphone (umm laptops were too costly) so my main interest shifted from physics to CS / Programming..

If you don't like Google AMP, it is fine.. (of course I too prefer to browse with only HTML & CSS whenever it works).. If you don't like low end hardware standards, it is fine.. But they have solved real world problems, whether first world problems or not. Not everything is black and white..

I can pretty much agree with you. Especially in state boards, it is just knowing how to solve problems given at end of textbook..

To What Degree Is It Possible to Do Memory Management at Compile Time?

Memory management is usually offloaded to runtime (tracing GC / Reference Counting) except those variables which can be stack allocated by escape analysis.While rust claims to eliminate it, it still needs a lots of care around lifetimes, scope etc... It however brings some good concepts to the table.apart from rust, I have found some papers on mercury logic programming language, cyclone...

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Re:I am no longer able to use Google with Lynx on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:39AM (#21645559)
I use text browsers because they are efficient and fast. Also Static content shouldn't ideally need js because it is a security concern.

AFAIK most of us don't complain when a dynamic website doesn't work. We just use a modern browser.

Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:33AM (#21645527)
And all those 'IIT' Q/A tho
Re:Tell HN: Google should drop Quora from search results on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:30AM (#21645510)
In some browsers which store search urls as string with a %s qualifier it should be easy I guess.