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groks

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    Comment #25660227

    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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    Comment #20228339

    A bit of Fry and Laurie, on language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MWpHQQ-wQg

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    Comment #20185373

    With the built-in winner-mode you can go back to the previous window layout with C-c left.

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    Comment #15825321

    > (H)Ledger does not support recurring transactions. https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Periodic-Tra...

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    Comment #14880385

    Use your thumb.

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    Comment #14066494

    > 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…

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    Comment #14045276

    cat ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css /* Make window title bars more compact. * * From: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/276951 */ headerbar entry, headerbar spinbutton, headerbar …

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    Comment #14044962

    https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-mir.html

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    Comment #13943974

    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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    Comment #13601069

    > 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. …

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    Comment #13594433

    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, …

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    Comment #13594347

    Some lid switches are broken: https://who-t.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/libinput-and-lid-switch...

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    Comment #13444824

    > 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…

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    Comment #13404553

    $ 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 w…

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    Comment #13298422

    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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    Comment #13262993

    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 m…

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    Comment #13139470

    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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    Comment #13130571

    Done! https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2016/10/15/fedorarisc-v-is-finish...

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    Comment #13050970

    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…

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    Comment #13038296

    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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    Comment #12865519

    http://www.orgzly.com

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    Comment #12856495

    http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/t-series/t460p...

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    Comment #12256769

    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 bw…

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