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JNRowe
7,426karma·1,207submissions·February 3, 2014
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If I'm correct… that ¹ is a alluring building. Has the copper started to weather yet? Making a mental note that I want to see it, more so when it has aged a little. ¹ https://en.m.w…
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The article mentions the chalkboards having been removed at Cambridge, but I recall one of the colleges having chalkboards in the toilets at one of the sites¹. They were a curious mix of nerdy jokes …
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Some discussion¹ from the original announcement that is linked in the opening paragraph. ¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290851 …
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bash supports the same, also named magic-space. For bash you can chuck something like "Space: magic-space" in your $INPUTRC, although you'd probably want a guard(see Readline Condition…
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That isn't standard zsh behaviour. I suspect it comes from oh-my-zsh¹, but wouldn't be surprised if it isn't a bunch of the configuration bundles. ¹ https://github.com/…
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Presumably, the folk at the Académie Française¹. Every couple of years they release a statement that causes a flurry of changes in the documentation of a few projects I've worked on. Always in r…
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nocache¹. It is LD_PRELOAD based so will only function within the normal limitations of that. It also comes with a couple of tools for examining and modifying a file's cache state, which makes …
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Painting GNU's situation¹ as somehow similar to that section of the README is absurd. Its purpose is to prevent the situation you describe, not only by committing to Free distribution but also b…
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To some extent that was kind of my point. Many well meaning people have tried to make better decisions at various points, but it just increases the amount of unexpected behaviour. I suspect another…
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Every single thing about the interactions worry me deeply. Your solution is far shorter and easier for me to understand, jamessan's is very mature but also more complex. I'm impresse…
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I used to have some ex-Soviet country co-workers who took their Christmas break in my January, and I'm sure it was the only time of the year they used that calendar in public. Perhaps in part …
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emotion note: JNRowe heavily suspires I was going to say that cal on Linux correctly displays the weird year, then I ran "cal 9 1752" and thought I had misremembered. Five minutes in to th…
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Have you considered using the jamessan's vim-gnupg plugin¹? It handles all of the grunt work for you, and has been exposed to people for a long time(packaged in Debian and such). For example, I …
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Hmm, I'm not sure what this provides over the built-in thesaurus support¹. Perhaps, the README could include a little comparison? ¹ http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/ins…
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emacs can be a surprisingly comfortable text mode epub reader too, via nov.el¹ which has been discussed here². If you use a GUI emacs build you get inline images and other goodies, but starting emacs…
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You don't have to choose glob&loop or find&xargs as a zsh user, as there is a built-in zargs function: zargs -- $crazy_glob -- $command
Much like the `find | xargs` version you ca…
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Yeah, I was impressed enough to fill out the feedback form at the end. It is probably the first time I've used a feedback form for compliments in my life.
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I'd probably like to see powershell usage increase too, but I think we may be in the minority. Every time it comes up I check to see if it is available in Debian and see that the packaging bug¹ …
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> Interestingly zsh also doesn't split words Should zsh users ever want that behavior they can enable it globally with the SH_WORD_SPLIT option, or more sensibly local to a given parameter w…
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Beyond agreeing with jjgreen on start small… For motivation: I know it is trite, but The Seinfeld Calendar¹ can be a really useful method to train yourself. If you're an org-mode user org-habit²…
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Fell in to this rabbit hole a little earlier, so I'll try to drag you in as well. If you switch languages on Wikipedia the list grows a whole lot ¹. FWIW, I've only ever seen one local not…
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Being able to switch to Genie on a whim is great¹. I've used vala on a few projects, and depending on the devs involved or type of project the ability to choose a syntax is really useful. Althou…