groks

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by groks 6y ago
Emacs has org-mode, and org-mode has tables with formulas which can invoke calc-mode. calc-mode also has units: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/calc/Uni...
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by groks 7y ago
A bit of Fry and Laurie, on language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWpHQQ-wQg
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by groks 7y ago
With the built-in winner-mode you can go back to the previous window layout with C-c left.
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by groks 9y ago
> (H)Ledger does not support recurring transactions. https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Periodic-Tra...
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by groks 9y ago
Use your thumb.
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by groks 9y ago
> The things that I don't feel as comfortable with are basically UI things and application launching. I love Cmd-space to launch stuff on OSX, and hitting the Windows key to search for stuff to launch just feels sluggish in comparis
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by groks 9y ago
cat << EOF > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /* Make window title bars more compact. * * From: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/276951 */ headerbar entry, headerb
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by groks 9y ago
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-mir.html
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by groks 9y ago
If you enable server-mode you can run gui emacs to get the icon in the doc and pop up a gui window when you drop something on it, while also connecting in a terminal.
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by groks 10y ago
> The true metric for success for something like ntpsec is the number of meaningful security problems ntpd has been vulnerable to since ntpsec's inception that ntpsec hasn't been. They talk about 3 areas where bugs have been re
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by groks 10y ago
We've already got virtual pop stars. Why not a virtual CEO? https://arstechnica.com/the-multiverse/2016/04/waving-glow-s... RIM had a par of co-CEOs. Why not buy one CEO from IBM, and hire another to pla
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by groks 10y ago
Some lid switches are broken: https://who-t.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/libinput-and-lid-switch...
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by groks 10y ago
> it lacks several packages that I use (Kodi comes to mind $ dnf search kodi kodi.x86_64 : Media center ... > They also changed the package manager from Yum, so a lot of new things to learn since I last used 17
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by groks 10y ago
$ youtube-dl --list-formats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeJLzyxZqbk | grep '[0-9]x[0-9]' 278 webm 256x144 DASH video 93k , webm container, vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.09MiB 242
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by groks 10y ago
You might enjoy Peter Norvig teaching you this technique which he uses to solve the Zebra Puzzle in lesson 2 of CS212: https://classroom.udacity.com/courses/cs212/lessons/48632874...
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by groks 10y ago
As a quick guide to trying it for yourself (it's cross-platform, free software) have a look at these videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/harrydurgin/videos He has the topics and modules covered in each video
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by groks 10y ago
They're available under the OFA license. They're already shipped with Linux, eg. here: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/fontaweso...
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by groks 10y ago
Done! https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/fedorarisc-v-is-finish...
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by groks 10y ago
Use a bookmarklet and org-protocol to trigger an org-capture template: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7464951/how-to-make-org-... You can make the bookmarklet pass along extra info on certain pages, eg. gmail
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by groks 10y ago
Use emacsclient on the server to trigger emacs on your desktop to edit your mail message: https://andy.wordpress.com/2013/01/03/automatic-emacsclient/
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by groks 10y ago
http://www.orgzly.com
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by groks 10y ago
http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t460p...
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by groks 10y ago
Stew.
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by groks 10y ago
I agree, the tool is (currently) poorly documented. I would have appreciated something like this: bwrap --ro-bind / / id bwrap --ro-bind /usr /usr \ --ro-bind /lib64 /lib64 \ id
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Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool(github.com)
91 points by groks 10y ago|8 comments
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by groks 10y ago
Bubblewrap is a similar tool which carefully handles it's setuid responsibilities: https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap#related-project-...
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by groks 10y ago
Appengine's whack pricing says: we'd like to kick you off appengine onto GCE but that would scare away all the enterprise users from GCE. If we announce regular Moore's Law following price cuts for GCE and nothing for appengi
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by groks 10y ago
No problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahqKXbBVjpQ
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by groks 10y ago
org-mode has the concept of attachments which you can use for pdfs, images etc. http://orgmode.org/manual/Attachments.html
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by groks 11y ago
A carbon fibre car performing well in a crash test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guOq9cdFbJA

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