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by JNRowe 6y ago
And Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: > At the corner is the store known as Soul Scrolls. [...] Behind it are printout machines, row on row of them; [...] There are five different prayers: for health, wealth, a death, a birth, a si
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by JNRowe 6y ago
For use cases like that it is incredibly similar if you give the --verbose flag: $ units --verbose [header] You have: furlongs per fortnight You want: m/s furlongs per fortnight = 0.00016630952 m/s
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The first two hours of Kakoune in two minutes(kakoune-editor.github.io)
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by JNRowe 6y ago
I recently pimped an Orwell biography in a different thread¹, but I'll do so again. Dorian Lynskey's The Ministry of Truth is a really well written and thoroughly researched treatise on Orwell. I found the passage of his life fro
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Full agreement about how to increase ridership. I've been lucky enough to work somewhere with good storage, power for charging¹, great security and that really changes the dynamic for cycling to work. Re: showers at work. I've b
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by JNRowe 6y ago
One of my favourite things about working with Vala¹ was being able to use Genie² with the off-side rule syntax where it felt appropriate. Some chunks of code feel better to me when structured in certain ways. I often find myself wonderin
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Wheel Aerodynamics: The Flow Deflector Explained(racecar-engineering.com)
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> [...] Story of your life, which is an intensely interior novel. SoYL and Hell is the Absence of God both really broke me. Even after reading SoYL I genuinely wasn't prepared for how HitAoG made me feel. Edit : FWIW, I th
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Some years ago, having not spoken any German since high school, I wanted a little refresher before starting a project with some German co-workers. I figured DW would offer some standard texts I could use to get started, and was pleasantly
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The other benefit to your full solution is that you won't get a 50 year sidebar in your GitHub contribution profile too. Until seeing your suggestion it hadn't occurred to me to use a fake user. However, using UNIX epoch was some
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You can ensure the hashes are consistent by setting GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE in your initial commit alias. They still won't be consistent if you've enabled commit.gpgSign though. So, you'd want --no-gpg-sign o
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Puzzle Advent Calendar(mscroggs.co.uk)
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by JNRowe 6y ago
The book "Bike, Scooter, and Chopper Projects for the Evil Genius" by Brad Graham is a pretty fun read around projects for and with bike frames. Loads of pictures too, if you're just interested in the sort of things you
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by JNRowe 6y ago
I don't know of a plugin, but you can sorta do something kinda like the thing ish if you squint and cross your fingers... You can perform actual in-place calculations by using the expression register. So for example: = 2 + 2
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by JNRowe 6y ago
There were a bunch of insightful comments when the wikipedia articles was discussed here last year¹. Some about Oberon in particular, and some about the surrounding ecosystem and history. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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nq: Utils for creating lightweight job queue systems(github.com)
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> the desktop background is called the "backdrop" Hmm, non-British AmigaOS also used backdrop¹. Was that perhaps the common name back then? Plus, you can experience /some/ of the quirkiness of RiscOS on Linux by play
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by JNRowe 6y ago
And a few years before that to 1840, people used to perform similar tricks with mail. Prior to the introduction of postage stamps mail was paid on delivery¹, so you could send messages to friends or flood enemies with someone else picking
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by JNRowe 6y ago
"icesound - play audio files when interesting GUI events happen". The full man page list all the details¹. Note that it is optional too, you don't have to enable MovieOS swooshing and zooming sounds to use icewm ;) ¹ https
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Dorian Lynskey's Orwell biography The Ministry of Truth spends a chunk of its time on interactions between Huxley, Wells and Orwell. I found much of that fascinating, picturing these esteemed authors critiquing each others works(somet
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by JNRowe 6y ago
You can add your own binding for e or perhaps some other key: [tig "bind"] generic = e !script %(file) With script containing something like: cd `dirname $1` vim `basename $1` Although, if you're alr
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by JNRowe 6y ago
It uses whatever git's core.editor option tells it to, and supports setting $GIT_EDITOR to override it. I rely on that from time to time instead of having to write a bunch of different aliases in to my tig config for different editors
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by JNRowe 6y ago
> relative lines might also be worth checking out: "set relativenumber". I really like the behaviour of `set number relativenumber`, where it shows me my actual line number of the current line and relative numbers on the lines
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by JNRowe 6y ago
> I hit :w so reflexively and regularly in working files that swap files only occasionally saves my butt I'm definitely one of those people too, and while I don't disable swap files I do depend heavily on `persistent-undo`. It
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Like many things in vim it depends on whether you wish to write it ;) You can define your own popup(:h bexpr) however you feel, including per-filetype or buffer. Instead of simply operating on the variables it defines to you can also work
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Even without resorting to external tools the expression register(:h @=) can act as a surprisingly good builtin calculator, and there is a moderately large builtin math library(:h functions). Like all registers you can abuse it in many ways
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Drew Neil's awesome vimcasts¹ are available, while no longer getting updates they'll still be pretty useful. Also a /big/ fan of his Modern Vim book², even after literal years of vim use I still found a bunch of new-to-
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by JNRowe 6y ago
Until reading through TFA, I hadn't noticed just how mainstream QR codes seem to have become. In my head I was still kind of thinking of Pictures of People Scanning QR-codes¹. ¹ https://picturesofpeoplescanningqrcodes.tumbl
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QR code inventor relishes its role in tackling Covid(theguardian.com)
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Autoconf-2.70 Released(lists.gnu.org)
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