Chris Down

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icon company @Facebook icon location London, England icon location I keep @facebook running as part of Meta's Linux Kernel team, and also help maintain @systemd. I mostly work on memory management and cgroups.

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the recommended AUR helper is now in umaintained state

I don't see any problem with this. Either: 1. pacaur will break, and then we can have this discussion 2. (more likely), pacaur will be adopted by someone 3. if...

Automatically become lower-privilege user

I also use this with `become_user`. You're right that the readme should be cleared up. The problem is that we cannot determine which user is suitable for this. We can...

Pasting large images

Hi! Thanks for digging, sorry for the late reply. I think it might be time to move to `xclip`, which has `-t UTF8_STRING` to make it clear which types of...

Pasting large images

Thanks for getting back! Well that's... weird, I don't expect UTF8_STRING to get populated when there's an image. I'll investigate more, thanks.

Pasting large images

That's particularly weird because UTF8_STRING isn't even listed in TARGETS. With `-verbose`, one sees that it's being converted, I guess? ``` % xclip -verbose -debug -selection clipboard -t UTF8_STRING -o...

Pasting large images

Ah, so it's just freely interpreting: ``` % xclip -verbose -debug -selection clipboard -t DOESNOTEXIST -o >/dev/null Connected to X server. Using selection: XA_CLIPBOARD Using DOESNOTEXIST. Type is image/png. ```...

Clipboard items should not be indexed solely by first line contents and number of lines

This was initially a design decision rather than a bug, but yes, it's worth reevaluating now that we have better indexing time complexity. Probably we can just also bunch the...

Code submit

Thanks: I won't have time to look at these for a bit, but will get back to you eventually. :)

Code submit

Commented there, thanks.

Speed enhancement

Hi! Sorry to be late getting back. In general, we're not going to move away from bash with the convenience provided by bash arrays and other features, and readability is...