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kronos29296··on Hy – A Lisp-flavored Python
The entire thing is full of puns really too much of puns related to hy. Cool project. Python joined Erlang and Java with a lisp flavour of its own with Hy. Hope we get a let expression soon.
kronos29296··on Scientists Edit a Dangerous Mutation in Human Embryos
What Chinese Govt. says is much more important than Chinese morals and culture.
kronos29296··on Clojure-turtle – Logo programming language in a Clojure context
It is part of the fine print in the job contract for developers and is pretty common in most companies. You don't create a side project while being employed there without the company claiming ownership of it. It is part of a safety net for the companies so that they don't take a loss by an employee claiming copyright of code they wrote for the company during work hours.

According to law if there is no such clause the developer may claim ownership of code he wrote even if he was employed. The contract protects the company from that but also applies to any code written by employees generally (not a nice thing but prevalent).

kronos29296··on App sizes are out of control
Its 174 MB installed with another 150 on Data which is a thing but I hardly use facebook once a day (just to see notifications not even the feed) which is quite big and no cleaner is going to delete the Data as it is not cache. Facebook app is a big one and I don't even know why.
kronos29296··on App sizes are out of control
Yet the installed size of my facebook app on android is 350MB and since the total phone memory is 2 GB I have a storage problem (less than ideal free space). While facebook lite is not a smooth experience compared to the full app.
kronos29296··on Google’s new program to track shoppers sparks a federal privacy complaint
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14892826
kronos29296··on The Worst Internet in America
I would do anything for your so called worst speeds. Your worst is better than my best speeds.
kronos29296··on Google is trying to do to Facebook what Facebook did to Snap
Somehow I am using more google than facebook (removed the damn bloated app that eats all the free space on my old phone). Subjectively Google just might succeed in things like Feed because Facebook is for situations where you want to know what the other guys around you are doing. Google is about what is happening generally like news or blog posts or announcements or anything interesting but not personal.

Can't beat Facebook at social network but at everything else Google can use similar features to solidify their market.

kronos29296··on Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck
Take any NP-hard problem at its simplest form. Whatever half assed heuristic you use chances are the solution becomes optimal (if it is even half good.) The more complex the problem the more the heuristics fall apart. For the smaller ones we can simply brute force it. The same thing happens here. Compared to something like face recognition, recognizing simple shapes is much simpler. So even the not so great techniques (comparatively) work well enough. They fall apart when we use the same methods for the complex stuff.

A great example would be a greedy algorithm. It works for some problems but doesn't for some others. Take a simple enough problem and you get optimal solution. Push the algorithm to its limits and you don't even get a good solution. You don't have to understand how the best algorithms for a task work to come up with a greedy algorithm.

kronos29296··on GNU Ring 1.0 released
Some examples maybe? Haven't been in touch with any new GNU projects.
kronos29296··on GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux (2016)
It's all free software but due to license proliferation, we have this mess. Hope somebody relicenses and everybody becomes happy. After all from what I hear ZFS is a great file system for recovering backups and better than ext4. And the BSD guys are using it all the time.
kronos29296··on Arch Linux Mirror Loli.forsale Removed After Name Complaint
Just otaku stuff. not just 4chan
kronos29296··on China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
Well damn. I am happy that I am not there.
kronos29296··on China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
Please read 1984 by George Orwell. Everybody knows its happening but nobody can stop it.
kronos29296··on China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
Effectiveness has nothing to do with it. It is about sending a message and very strong one at that.
kronos29296··on China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
Somehow china is becoming Ingsoc from 1984. Control people, censorship, Dictator state with no prospect of change, monitoring people, big brother is watching you type stuff among other things.

Just a week ago I read about traffic warnings personalised by face recognition. Now this. Soon China might become Ingsoc with Minlove and Double think and what not.

kronos29296··on China forces one of its Muslim minorities to install spyware on their phones
Real men use CRC.
kronos29296··on The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
If such numbers happen in android also you sir just have another firefox fan. I want to know right now. (Chrome sucks at this on all devices now.) The only reason I am using it is that it is better than firefox for accessing google.
kronos29296··on The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
Opera was a damn fine browser. Used it upto version 12 from version 6 onwards. IE sucked during those days. All those widgets that nobody knew about. Opera was too ahead of its times and now it has moved to chromium which is really bad.
kronos29296··on The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
I use onetab though it only saves the tabs and can only be exported as plain text but it fills all my needs.
kronos29296··on The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs
100 tabs is too much but I use anywhere around 10 to 20 tabs at any given time. And chrome on windows hangs half the time while on linux chromium is slightly better. This too with just 5 or 6 extensions. If firefox really has these ridiculous speeds then I will switch to firefox in a heartbeat.
kronos29296··on [dead]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14791064

First Winnie the Pooh now Justin Bieber.

kronos29296··on Pass: A standard Unix password manager
Browser integration just means you trust the plugins that provide browser integration. May not always be secure. With the recent trend of popular browser extensions being made adware after purchasing them I wouldn't always trust them. A time out clipboard is sufficient for me.
kronos29296··on Pass: A standard Unix password manager
Such ideas are already implemented in deterministic password managers (erm generators) which have a some key security issues related to portablility and weaker schemes that can be hacked and if your master password is compromised or insecure. A bad idea in my opinion.
kronos29296··on Pass: A standard Unix password manager
KeepassXC now supports YUBIkey now.
kronos29296··on “We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”
Yup. Can't believe that such great drivers were written from nothing but Reverse Engineering. Since mine is entry level laptop GPU the performance has no limits. But Nvidia should follow AMD is releasing Opensource drivers. (But they won't)
kronos29296··on “We currently have no plans to support Xwayland”
This really sucks considering that nvidia drivers have better perf than nouveau. Well can't help it, only nouveau till nvidia releases new ones.
kronos29296··on Emacs and Magit
Neovim came along but majority who use vim still use vim. They won't change. This is in a situation where neovim is ahead of vim in certain areas (some may not like it and call it bloat but I call them features).

Unless remacs gives a clear advantage over emacs in terms of performance while still retaining compatibility people won't switch easily. Even then the switch should be quick and painless. (Neovim had those and so some people jumped ship).

kronos29296··on Emacs and Magit
Isn't the default package site called ELPA? (not MELPA which is not official but maintained by the community).
kronos29296··on Emacs and Magit
So like org mode and other packages they want to include magit in Emacs. Just got bigger but magit being such a great package I think they should do it. Hope the copyright assignment happens and FSF does it.
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