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by snackematician 4y ago
Awesome! I especially look forward to trying Org mode with this. One of the biggest weaknesses of Org-mode as a planning tool is the situation on mobile. Any tips for configuring Emacs to work well in this environment? E.g. with strokes-mod
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by snackematician 5y ago
I use Free File Fillable Forms together with excel1040.com. First I fill in the numbers in Excel, then into Free File Fillable Forms, and check that they get the same answers. It works well for me.
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by snackematician 5y ago
> I worked on tax software and have seen these kind of efforts. Noble, yes. Short lived, yes. I've been using excel1040.com for several years now (2017 iirc), and I think it's been around for awhile before that as well -- so I
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by snackematician 5y ago
Magit's wip-mode seems similar in some respects: https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Wip-Modes.html I haven't tried it, but have been meaning to look into it. Would be curious to hear experiences of anyone who
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by snackematician 5y ago
I really hope other GNU projects, in particular Emacs, follow suit, though I doubt it will happen. In my experience it is a massive hassle to get the copyright disclaimer from my employers. I'm currently on hold from contributing to Em
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by snackematician 6y ago
`emacsclient -nw` in the terminal will open a terminal emacs that works with the same daemon.
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by snackematician 6y ago
This is yet another attack against immigrant students as noted in sibling comments. But it is also an attempt to force universities to open in the Fall despite the dangers of doing so. Many universities depend on the tuition from foreign st
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by snackematician 6y ago
Emacs does this too -- I think it was the pioneer for this sort of functionality. One thing I'm jealous of VSCode (as an Emacs user), is the Google Docs-style collaborative editing. Seems particularly useful for pair programming in the
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by snackematician 6y ago
Counterpoint: Twitter is the preferred social media among scientists, and a good place to keep up with the latest papers and developments. The quality of discussion on science twitter can be pretty good too, despite the character limit.
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by snackematician 7y ago
> My suggestion is to prepare for the possibility of major disruption starting 2 to 6 months from now. This is too optimistic. We're currently in the exponential growth phase of this outbreak. Things can change rapidly, much sooner
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by snackematician 7y ago
> This is with the figures known so far and before there is a vaccine around 2-3%. There's still a lot of uncertainty around the fatality rate here. For cases outside China, the fatality rate so far is about .2%, compared to about .
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by snackematician 7y ago
To expand on this -- I believe pysam [0] is the official htslib interface for Python. It's quite good. In addition to providing Python bindings, it also provides extra functionality from within Cython, if you need additional features&#
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by snackematician 7y ago
Another complaint I have with jupyter notebooks is that they don't play nice with git. For this (and other reasons), I much prefer Emacs org-mode, or even running Python in Rmarkdown+Rstudio+reticulate.
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by snackematician 7y ago
Emacs and Atom also support interacting with running Jupyter kernels when editing scripts ([1], [2]). In a sense, notebook-less Jupyter kernels already are the "LSP for REPLs". [1] https://github.com/dzop/emac
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by snackematician 7y ago
Does anyone know if this will affect the desktop client as well, or just the browser interface? Personally I prefer the browser interface because I find the Desktop notifications and the Angry Red notification icon very distracting. But it
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by snackematician 7y ago
I've been using this for last couple years and it's a great piece of "software", I prefer it over TurboTax. The dedication of the maintainer to this project is truly impressive. I'm on linux but it works fine in the
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by snackematician 7y ago
- 1 less step (just open the remote file directly, rather than running "sshfs" and then opening the file) - If you execute shell commands from emacs -- these will be executed on the remote machine when editing thru tramp - Tramp i
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by snackematician 7y ago
There should also be more representation from far-left organizations. See this article on how Google traffic to far-left sites dramatically dropped in 2017, due to Google deciding to promote "authoritative" content ahead of "
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by snackematician 7y ago
I use and love ledger-cli but importing/downloading bank data is the biggest pain point. I'm currently using ledger-autosync ( https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync ) to import OFX/QFX files. For some ban
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by snackematician 7y ago
By "slow startup time" I also include the time to import libraries which is really the bigger problem. For example loading the DataFrames library takes quite a long time, and I've heard the libraries for plotting take even lo
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by snackematician 7y ago
I think it's disappointing that Julia is not meant for CLI scripting. IMO it has failed to live up to its manifesto ( https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia ) of being a general-purpose la
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by snackematician 7y ago
I would be very cautious interpreting these results. There are no DNA samples from the putative EH1 and EH2 hominin populations -- these populations are statistical constructs used to explain the data, but not (yet) directly observed. I do
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by snackematician 7y ago
Not sure who you work for, but I'm going to talk about Box since that is the competitor I'm familiar with. I'm in academia and to my annoyance have to interact with Box which has no linux support (and has also deprecated exis
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by snackematician 7y ago
I've been using a Google cloud free-tier VPS with Syncthing and it works great; I imagine Nextcloud would be similar. I do backup my instance with snapshots, which aren't free, but so far cost me about $.01 per month. Note, Syncth
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by snackematician 7y ago
Growing up MUNI did have fare inspectors, albeit not too common and mostly on the light rail. However, I haven't seen a fare inspector in years, and fare evasion is noticeably worse these days.
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by snackematician 7y ago
Nextflow is indeed the best option today. It's sad that it's based on Groovy though, which seems past its heyday as a language/community. I'm very excited that this is based on Scheme -- I've long wanted a lispy wor
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by snackematician 7y ago
Thanks that solved my issue :)
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by snackematician 7y ago
The suggested mitigation (editing `gpg.conf` and `dirmngr.conf`) doesn't seem to work for me. In particular I created `~/.gnupg/dirmngr.conf` with a line for the `keys.openpg.org` keyserver (and don't have a `~/.gnu
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by snackematician 7y ago
Sibling comments have discussed how this affects Debian, Ubuntu, and opensuse -- any Arch users know how this affects us? Seems like official repos should be fine but what about packages from the AUR?
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by snackematician 7y ago
I have used pandas extensively, it was my main statistics environment for a couple years before I switched back to R for tidyverse. At the time chaining was not well supported or idiomatic; multi-indexing was all the rage. I still occasiona

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