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kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: How Firefox Got Fast Again

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.

kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: Qutebrowser – a keyboard-focused browser with a minimal GUI

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.

kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2

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)

kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables

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.

kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: UPX – Ultimate Packer for Executables

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.

kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated

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.

kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: Numba: High-Performance Python with CUDA Acceleration

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.

kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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.

kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: DuckDuckGo vs Google

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.

kronos29296 | 8 years ago | on: Fresh IDE

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