Hacker News: chrismonsanto

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now"

chrismonsanto — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:55:04 +0000

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.

[1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1789602

New comment by chrismonsanto in "All I want for Christmas is these seven TypeScript improvements"

chrismonsanto — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 02:14:41 +0000

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.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Scaling Mastodon with systemd template units"

chrismonsanto — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 14:02:34 +0000

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.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Pulse Browser – An experimental Firefox fork"

chrismonsanto — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 10:23:12 +0000

> 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

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Are Real Numbers Real? (2017)"

chrismonsanto — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:53:24 +0000

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...

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Are Real Numbers Real? (2017)"

chrismonsanto — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:38:31 +0000

Graham's number can be computed in a few lines of code using Knuth's up-arrow notation.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Are Real Numbers Real? (2017)"

chrismonsanto — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:29:43 +0000

>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.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Are Real Numbers Real? (2017)"

chrismonsanto — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:23:04 +0000

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

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Userspace FUSE for macOS"

chrismonsanto — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 01:47:43 +0000

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.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Userspace FUSE for macOS"

chrismonsanto — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 22:50:16 +0000

This limitation only applies to the file name, as you can chdir to the directory before bind/connect. Unfortunate but not a deal breaker

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Use native context menus on Mac OS"

chrismonsanto — Tue, 25 May 2021 17:11:59 +0000

> 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

New comment by chrismonsanto in "They redesigned PubMed"

chrismonsanto — Sun, 24 May 2020 14:20:01 +0000

I'm an old Ubuntu user and I love Unity. It's pretty, space efficient, & keyboard friendly. I'm sad to see it was discontinued and don't know what I'm going to eventually switch to.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public"

chrismonsanto — Sat, 23 May 2020 14:04:52 +0000

I think few people are interested in responses other than "we will stop doing that"

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks"

chrismonsanto — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 18:28:32 +0000

Reading and writing memory are excluded from the guarantee, aside from the LR/SC instructions that bookend a transaction. Inside the transaction you're basically limited to register-register ALU and aborting branches.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Mutexes are faster than Spinlocks"

chrismonsanto — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 04:10:32 +0000

> in practice

FWIW RISC-V guarantees forward progress for reasonable uses:

> We mandate that LR/SC sequences of bounded length (16 consecutive static instructions) will eventually succeed, provided they contain only base ISA instructions other than loads, stores, and taken branches.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "What's new in Ubuntu 19.04"

chrismonsanto — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 21:53:40 +0000

They aren't just changing the default, they are dropping it entirely. The GNOME port is noticeably different. Apparently some other company is going to continue work on the original Unity and I hope that works out.

To give another example, one upgrade my Xmodmap stopped working, and I had to stop everything to learn how xkb worked. If there is some package I could install to just have Xmodmap work again, that'd be great, but I wasn't able to figure it out at the time.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "What's new in Ubuntu 19.04"

chrismonsanto — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 17:00:53 +0000

I do and have no plans to switch from it.

The constant UI flux is the worst part about using Linux.

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Panic’s Next Editor"

chrismonsanto — Wed, 17 Apr 2019 01:06:21 +0000

When I last used it (early 2000s) it had built-in FTP support

New comment by chrismonsanto in "LastPass release fix for DOM manipulation vulnerability"

chrismonsanto — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 11:04:59 +0000

> Out of curiosity, what LastPass features are you missing in 1Password[0] or Dashlane[1]?

Linux support

New comment by chrismonsanto in "Visual Studio Code 1.7"

chrismonsanto — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 22:26:05 +0000

There's no need to switch editors for that. The language servers can be used by any editor that supports the language server protocol. As far as I know nobody has written a plugin for Vim yet, but here's a discussion issue on the neovim tracker: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/5522