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In some cases, I think users may want that 50 MB OS so that they can add functionality as they need it. Sure, the 1 GB OS comes with some neat built in functionality, but how much of that is unnecessary for your use cases?
Some anecdata: I haven’t had performance issues with Firefox on Mac for a very long time. I’ve had more issues with Firefox on Windows than I have on Mac.

As for Chrome, I used to use it a lot, but the privacy concerns and controls it comes with bothered me too much to want to continue to use it on any of my systems.

Firefox containers are also essential to me while browsing the web - I don’t know if Chrome provides anything similar.

Re:PlotNeuralNet: Latex Code for Drawing Neural Networks on Thursday February 21, 2019 @04:21PM (#19220674)
It would be really awesome if someone could package this into a Latex package. Then you could directly define your neural net inside of Latex instead of having to generate the Tex from python.

Otherwise, these graphics are wonderful to look at.

Re:Ask HN: What is the most secure way to do email? on Friday February 01, 2019 @01:32PM (#19056955)
Its been awhile since I’ve used Thunderbird. I haven’t used enigmail before, it sounds neat.

I’ve been using a mixture of email providers, like Protonmail for example. I was wondering if that’s about as good as it gets in terms of security.

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Re:Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @11:08PM (#19042251)
One of my largest problems with ridding Google from my life has been dealing with their Captchas.