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TMiP 2023 Puzzle Hunt(mscroggs.co.uk)
1 points by JNRowe 3y ago|0 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
A link to that discussion for those of us who missed it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37385716
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by JNRowe 3y ago
A much less thorough round-up of 29.1 was discussed here a little while ago¹, with many of great comments². ¹ https://emacsredux.com/blog/2023/07/30/emacs-29-1-released/ ² https://news.yc
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Glove80 Ergonomic Keyboard(danieldk.eu)
306 points by JNRowe 3y ago|224 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Full agreement, and with the addition of xpk¹/xfd² as natural extensions to that extensibility too. I see things like xfd supporting xz¹, and I'm simultaneously amazed that it exists and happy that I don't need to do xz {,d
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Apocalypse 5: Pattern Matching (2002)(raku.org)
2 points by JNRowe 3y ago|1 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
mupdf is the mupdf of epub; it supports epub and other formats beyond pdf¹. When I've had really large files I've used mupdf to read them a few times, as it seems to be far better at handling them than other tools. ¹ https:&#x2F
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Hmm, that is odd about fbreader. I have the Debian package¹ installed that is Open Source², but looks like recent versions are no longer Open Source. Hadn't noticed that before. Might also argue that nov.el³ is high quality and cross
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FSCKing /Home(flossexperiences.wordpress.com)
1 points by JNRowe 3y ago|0 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I think https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23660910 may be a trap street^wlink to see who is watching :)
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A Pair of Dice Which Never Roll 7(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
4 points by JNRowe 3y ago|1 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Bash has a range of modifiers for history expansion. You can "cd !$:t" to execute "cd <final argument of last command, basename only>" for your git example. zsh, somewhat predictably, has a superset of bash'
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by JNRowe 3y ago
That is the difference between the up-line-or-history and up-line-or-search functions that I linked above. The default Up binding is the -history function, whereas the -search function in unbound by default. There are pattern variants too
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I'm unsure what specific behaviour you want from zsh and the up key, but it provides more than one up-line-*¹² function out of the box. Also, you can add any behaviour you wish with a custom zle function. That said, I understand some
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by JNRowe 3y ago
That is a recent( -ish ) addition¹, arriving in 3.1. Your interpretation of recent may be a different length to mine, but one Debian release in this instance ;) ¹ https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/pull&#x2F
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I did jury duty at the Crown Court a few years ago, and met a Debian maintainer and MSR researcher over the course of a week. And far more oddly, I met a friend of one of the Dasher developers who saw me using it to reply to some mail beca
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Eterm used to have a support pack with some nice backgrounds for tiling, which sadly appears to be more difficult to find than it would've been a decade ago. I did find a mirror¹, but that is purely because I remembered the filename f
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by JNRowe 3y ago
In the specific instance of a "thanks" message, I'll somewhat regularly send an out of band message to say thanks for helpful replies(or general comments). It doesn't pollute the threads for others, and I'd like to
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I have to second that, it seemed to be a great tool. I've often wondered why it couldn't get traction¹. I can recall people gushing about it at what may have been the same Python meetup in London, and also people being impress
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by JNRowe 3y ago
[I'm not recommending this, but maybe… No, no. I'm not sure…] It isn't even just the newer shells that have solved this, zsh also has a solution out of the box¹. The extensive globbing support in zsh can largely replace `fin
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Browser Fingerprinting: Is your digital fingerprint unique and trackable?(browser-fingerprint.cs.fau.de)
7 points by JNRowe 3y ago|1 comments
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I perhaps shouldn't have said "bad," as my opinions sadly aren't universal truths ;) However, my reasoning is the same as noted in echelon's reply. There are often far better ways to move around as described in &
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I lean a fair bit in the opposite direction. If a sort is any more complex than -n or -k<number no flags>, I tend to vipe¹ my sort in my editor. It feels great when you can use narrow-to-region² to perfect a complex address or write
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I really can't recommend Drew Neil's resources enough. The vimcasts¹ series are great if you're the sort of person who likes videos to learn with, and both his books are excellent²³. [The books may appear to be getting a
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by JNRowe 3y ago
1) In the specific instance I hit when I wrote that comment I wanted a variant of `**/*(.Om)`, which gives me files sorted by mtime. I think I'd probably have ended up with a `find ... | xargs stat -c '%Y-%n' | sort -n
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by JNRowe 3y ago
[My bad, I wasn't very clear in my comment.] I do use `fd` in simple cases as it is sooooo fast, but it has quite limited functionality compared to zsh's extended glob syntax¹. I must add that `fd` is one-billion times more rea
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by JNRowe 3y ago
I really want this to succeed¹, but I struggle to use it. How are people that are testing/using it coping without the normal niceties of their regular setup? I'm wondering if there are just some tricks I'm missing. Off th
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by JNRowe 3y ago
Somewhat related: textual-paint¹ which uses the same interaction library, and was recently discussed here². I'm noting this purely because I'm enjoying the increasing frequency of rich³/textual⁴ posts, it hints at a latent d
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by JNRowe 3y ago
With zsh you can call it with the noglob builtin¹, that way it doesn't try to parse the bracketed section as a globbing pattern; if that works for you, then you can simply "alias qalc='noglob qalc'" for future use.
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Sorting in Emacs(susam.net)
2 points by JNRowe 3y ago|0 comments

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