Hacker News: kronos29296

New comment by kronos29296 in "Can the new Firefox Quantum regain its web browser market share?"

kronos29296 — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:32:10 +0000

IIRC Hasn't some of them already been ported? (Tree tab and Tree style tab) Maybe you can try the alternatives.

New comment by kronos29296 in "How Firefox Got Fast Again"

kronos29296 — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 22:49:37 +0000

Thanks to you I found something really useful. With this I can finally have the convenient replacement for the good old private window which gets overused for logging in to multiple accounts simultaneously.

New comment by kronos29296 in "The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history"

kronos29296 — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 15:39:46 +0000

I did my part by upvoting the post and downvoting the game. EA is one he of a moneygrubber. Would even make the guys who buy games pirate it.

New comment by kronos29296 in "Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI"

kronos29296 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:05:00 +0000

An incredible project considering the average longevity of other vim key browsers and their limited communities. This one is loads better with a good renderer unlike most light weight browsers. (Qtwebengine which is just qt for blink because webkit is old now). It even has adblock.

New comment by kronos29296 in "An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2"

kronos29296 — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 00:00:35 +0000

Or OpenMW which does the same thing for Morrowind (The Elder Scrolls 3). The main difference here being it runs on Linux natively and fixes tons of engine bugs that never were. They even have their own map editor for Morrowind which is just awesome.

Engines are easier compared to the assets. You only need programmers writing code (hard but easier than finding teams to work on assets)

New comment by kronos29296 in "UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables"

kronos29296 — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:03:45 +0000

I think upx is more useful for static binaries like that of Haskell applications which is kinda huge. (GHC produces huge binaries - eg. pandoc or ghc-mod). A 100 something mb binary is not what you usually have. UPX can work its magic stuff like that. More manageable not necessarily essential but when you need it you need it badly.

New comment by kronos29296 in "UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables"

kronos29296 — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 21:00:26 +0000

When I first found upx I did this a couple of times only to fail pretty badly and then I stopped doing it. This was like 7-8 years ago when I first tried the portable version. Never found the cause till today.

New comment by kronos29296 in "KeePass 2.37 has been released"

kronos29296 — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 16:03:06 +0000

Does proper version control mean using github or just a git repo or something of that sort? I guess the developer wants to keep it a single dev project (old fashioned but the small project size means it doesn't make a big difference).[1]

[1]: https://sourceforge.net/p/keepass/discussion/329220/thread/0...

New comment by kronos29296 in "KeePass 2.37 has been released"

kronos29296 — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 14:31:08 +0000

.NET Core is for cli or server software primarily. Not for gui apps. So probably not. They'll continue with Mono on linux I think.

New comment by kronos29296 in "Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated"

kronos29296 — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:59:46 +0000

This may be because there is so much low quality stuff everywhere while only the good and high quality ones survived from the past (Survival of the fittest I guess). So the past looks like it was all good but the present is mostly rubbish.

New comment by kronos29296 in "Diminishing returns of static typing"

kronos29296 — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:15:04 +0000

Highly templated C++ is the highway to hell. If you haven't heard C++ templates are turing complete and so can also have the halting problem.

New comment by kronos29296 in "Modern terminal-based text editor"

kronos29296 — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 09:00:23 +0000

Do you use nano instead of nano? Is it typo?

New comment by kronos29296 in "Git git git git git"

kronos29296 — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:17:23 +0000

I really do that a lot so I aliased 'q' to exit in shell.

New comment by kronos29296 in "Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration"

kronos29296 — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 11:01:37 +0000

Nearly as fast as Numpy but never faster for jitted code while for the first run it takes longer as the jit need to generate llvm code the first time. If your calculation does not use unsupported features like classes (last time I checked they were not supported 1 year ago) and needs to be written as a loop rather than vectorized code, numba can be used to speed it up.

I believe Scipyconf 2016 had a talk on numba where he goes into it in great detail. Just search it up on Youtube.

Anything that is not convenient to be written as numpy arrays can be written using numba. Also it works with pure python code so your prototype can be used at scale with nothing but a decorator.

New comment by kronos29296 in "DuckDuckGo vs Google"

kronos29296 — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 16:53:31 +0000

Interestingly ddg requires quotes for me atleast twice a day. Still I have to use Google for stuff like Google scholar. So !g is pretty common for me.

New comment by kronos29296 in "DuckDuckGo vs Google"

kronos29296 — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 15:35:33 +0000

It is quite for common things but searching uncommon ones always throws it off. Searching for research publications in a specific domain or just haskell or some thing like just returns 1good result with 10 bad ones. So I use !g for those.

Also the autocorrect really throws my search terms off while Google does is right most of the time.

New comment by kronos29296 in "Fresh IDE"

kronos29296 — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:19:19 +0000

The entire thing is writted in FASM assembler. So maybe they thought a normal gui toolkit is too heavy weight for asm.

New comment by kronos29296 in "Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust"

kronos29296 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:54:16 +0000

Shouldn't be too hard considering that the entire thing is written in C.

New comment by kronos29296 in "Malware identified in CCleaner 5.33"

kronos29296 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:31:26 +0000

Just Wow. I am happy now that I haven't updated my installation of ccleaner for over a year and so I am safe.

New comment by kronos29296 in "Hack – A typeface designed for source code"

kronos29296 — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 12:35:23 +0000

WOW! The website looks so shiny just for hosting a single font. Almost thought it was some website advertising Hack the language related stuff. Great web devs behind the site. Kudos to you.