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bovine3dom 2 years ago | link | on: The Frink is Good, the Unit is Evil
Julia is pretty good at this stuff too with Unitful.jl:
```
]add Unitful

julia> using Unitful: m, ft

julia> using Statistics: cov

julia> cov(rand(100).*m)
0.07996239074313088 m^2

julia> 1ft + 1m
1631//1250 m
```
It’s probably not quite as ergonomic out of the box as Frink, but you get the added benefit of being able to use Julia’s speed and packages.

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guiraldelli 3 years ago | link | on: The sad state of language translation in Firefox

That’s the second translation extension which I use that was “attacked” by Mozilla. The other one was S3.Translator after a request to collect statistics of use.
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  sanxiyn 3 years ago | link
  
  That’s removal from addons.mozilla.org. Is S3.Translator also blocked for side-loading?
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  ssl 3 years ago | link
  
  Another one: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/1800
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    bovine3dom 3 years ago | link
    
    FWIW we have been delisted (wiped from the face of the AMO, automatic updates disabled, but people can install/still use the extension) rather than blocked (forcibly disabled on every users’ machine).
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      inactive-user 3 years ago | link
      
      Jesus. If Mozilla prevents me from using tridactyl, then it’s likely that I move back to Chrome. Thank you for dealing with it. It sure looks frustrating.

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N64N64 3 years ago | link | on: Next browser 1.3.0 - the programmable web browser

Looks cool but I’m too risk adverse to invest in something like this.
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  WilhelmVonWeiner 3 years ago | link
  
  Risk adverse?
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    N64N64 3 years ago | link
    
    This project could die at any moment. I try to avoid filling my head with stuff I won’t use in the future.
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    Rovanion 3 years ago | link
    
    Probably risk averse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_aversion
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      WilhelmVonWeiner 3 years ago | link
      
      I more meant “what about this is so risky you shan’t use it?”, it didn’t occur to me that verbal cues are lost through text like that, I’m tired.
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  vindarel 3 years ago | link
  
  I can understand, but note that IMO using Vimium, Tridactyl and friends is more risky. Similar projects that were tied to a single platform all died in the past (Vimperator, Conkeror,…). Next’s core is an independent Lisp program (and Lisp is, by the way, known for its stability).
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    bovine3dom 3 years ago | link
    
    I’m not sure that’s fair. Qutebrowser has a nice list of similar projects - http://qutebrowser.org/#_inactive - and you can see that the graveyard is equally littered with “independent programs” and browser extensions : )
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    majkinetor 3 years ago | link
    
    Vimium exists for a very long time and is very unlikely to die. Port also exists on Firefox. I use both ATM and didn’t have any problems whatsoever.
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    N64N64 3 years ago | link
    
    I don’t use those either. I tried Qutebrowser briefly but, again, too high risk. Browsers at this point are a closed platform

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Mordo 3 years ago | link | on: Chrome to limit full ad blocking extensions to enterprise users

I really need to make the effort and transition to FF.
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  mpcsh 3 years ago | link
  
  It’s really not an effort. Firefox is just a better browser at this point.
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    feoh 3 years ago | link
    
    Yet Firefox gets a LOT of hate for…. Just about everything.
    
    Given that it’s the only 100% open source browser with any market share to speak of, I struggle to understand people’s stance on this.
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      freddyb 3 years ago | link
      
      Higher expectations, I suppose
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        feoh 3 years ago | link
        
        Yeah I think that’s a big part of it. Most people who like to throw shade at Firefox prefer some niche browser or other, because that meets their particular preferences, priorities and needs better.
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      soc 3 years ago | link
      
      Lack of vertical tabs.
      
      :-P
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        feoh 3 years ago | link
        
        Can you articulate why lack of vertical tabs is such a deal breaker for you? Just aesthetics or is there a functional reason?
        
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        soc 3 years ago | link
        
        Vertical tabs conserve horizontal screen space; important as displays lose more and more height and gain more width with each year.
        
        Switching tabs using the mouse requires a large (> 100px) and non-predictable (due to varying tab widths) amount of hand movement; vertical tabs always take the same, small movement.
        
        Horizontal tabs start to get compressed and increasingly harder to read with >8 tabs; vertical tabs always keep the same width.
        
        These are the functional reasons, but this doesn’t mean that vertical tabs should allowed to be aesthetically repulsive, just as long as they provide these features.
        
        Compare this dog’s breakfast Firefox devs force upon people with this design for instance.
        
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        feoh 3 years ago | link
        
        I’m an unusual edge case where UX is concerned so I’ll appreciate your radically different perspective and thank you for taking the time to elucidate it!
        
        For me, the mouse is a productivity vampire. I avoid it like the plague. I use keyboard based random access to get to tabs and never have more than 9 open at once so it’s never a problem.
        
        I have fine and gross motor difficulties so getting the mouse to move where I want and to actually hit the accursed tiny clicky thing is torture :)
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    ahal 3 years ago | link
    
    Yeah, I don’t really understand this conception. I have the hardest time trying to convince my friends to switch, they always state it’s too much of a hassle. What hassle? Bookmarks, history, passwords and even settings all automatically imported on first run. Thanks to web extensions, most extensions are a simple re-install away (or worst case alternatives are easily found with a quick search).
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      Mordo 3 years ago | link
      
      That´s all true both, and yet there is something freaking sticky about Chrome. But you are completely right.
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    chobeat 3 years ago | link
    
    do they have user-friendly multiprofile? That’s always been the blocker for me
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      jamesog 3 years ago | link
      
      Same here. Containers are nice but I use profiles a lot in Chrome. Having the separation of history is useful. Firefox still doesn’t have a good way of managing profiles.
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      tse 3 years ago | link
      
      I’m using different profiles, a personal one, and a work one, and it works great. I’ve never used multiple profiles on chrome though, so I don’t know how it would compare.
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        jamesog 3 years ago | link
        
        Chrome profiles are a first-class feature available by clicking on your profile picture on the menu bar: https://imgur.com/a/j6vIeG2
        
        While Firefox has profiles, they seem a bit tedious to set up and manage https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles. It looks like the only way of controlling them is through about:profiles - do you use them this way or some other way?
        
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        tse 3 years ago | link
        
        I’m afraid I do use them through about:profiles. Chrome’s do look better, I must say, but Firefox’s work well enough for me :)
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    jlarocco 3 years ago | link
    
    Chromium’s UI is better than Firefox, IMO.
    
    On the same machine (2011 27” iMac, Debian, 16 Gb RAM, 3.6 Ghz i5) Chromium is noticeably snappier, smoother, and less glitchy.
    
    Right now, even as I’m typing this, I’m experiencing a glitch where popup menus (from right click or clicking the >> button, for example) show up for a fraction of a second and disappear.
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    inactive-user edited 3 years ago | link
    
    It is an effort. I switched a few months ago and it took me a few solid weeks to get comfy. I had to sink lots of time into configuring tridactyl.
    
    Just depends of workflows really.
    
    Other things that require a similar level of effort (or more): changing your email client, changing your shell, changing your window manager.
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      mpcsh 3 years ago | link
      
      I suppose I am a rather vanilla browser user - I hadn’t considered more niche use cases.
      
      Sidebar: thank you for making ripgrep! I use it daily and love it.
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      utahshex 3 years ago | link
      
      FWIW I find vim-vixen much easier to get going with than tridactyl.
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        inactive-user 3 years ago | link
        
        A brief look suggests that vim-vixen has far fewer features. Tridactyl wasn’t necessarily hard to use. It just took awhile to perfect my setup. One really nice feature it has is that I can configure it via a vim-style config file on disk that keeps everything consistent and under my control through all my workstations.
        
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        utahshex 3 years ago | link
        
        I admit, I basically only use j, k, f, and / for the most part. Perhaps I don’t know what I’m missing.
        
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        inactive-user 3 years ago | link
        
        I don’t use too much more, but this is my config: https://gist.github.com/BurntSushi/393546a65db38d57cedcfd72c6d89bf3
        
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        bovine3dom 3 years ago | link
        
        We fixed set findcase smart a few days ago by the way. No-one else had mentioned it. It isn’t quite in a stable release yet but will be soon.
        
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        inactive-user 3 years ago | link
        
        Thanks! :)
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  Yetanfou 3 years ago | link
  
  Enable WebRender (set gfx.webrender.enabled and gfx.webrender.all to true in about:config), restart FF and it’ll be almost as fast as Chromium in most tasks, faster in some.
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  jlarocco 3 years ago | link
  
  I switched over this morning after going back and forth between it and Chromium a few times in the past. Chromium’s UI is better, but I haven’t had any problems with rendering yet.
  
  I’d love to use https://github.com/atlas-engineer/next, but it doesn’t have uMatrix or an adblocker yet, so I’m not going to use it full time.

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pushcx 3 years ago | link | on: Keyboard shortcuts for browsing lobsters

Relatedly, Tridactyl or Vimium might scratch this itch for you. I’ve used them and previous extensions (Vimperator, VimFX, VimVixen) for over a decade and love them.
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  weakforce 3 years ago | link
  
  Thanks for the recommendation.
  
  I am trying out Tridactyl, and so far it doesn’t seem close to what I talked here about. For example, I can’t seem to find a way to sift through story threads, or open them easily in a new tab, or upvote/downvote, any easier using Tridactyl.
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    bovine3dom 3 years ago | link
    
    You’ll need to do a little customisation to get what you want out of Tridactyl.
    
    E.g.
    
    :set searchurls.lobsters https://lobste.rs/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%s&what=stories&order=relevance :bind gs fillcmdline tabopen lobsters :bind gu tabopen https://lobste.rs/stories/new
    
    etc.
    
    As for opening threads and upvote/downvoting, you’ll want to look at :help hint and :hint -c [css selector]. For Hacker News, I have bind ;c hint -c [class*="expand"],[class="togg"] which makes minimising comments easy.
    
    Hope that helps.