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So basically it's really similar to Niri, but with a widget framework and bar bolted into it, and a rather nice glass shader; imo it's not AI that made the "cost of building a desk…

> Could you imagine if you found everything interesting? You’d spend years living in a basement curating a wiki of late Soviet military hardware or something. Yes... imagine... Tel…

Just wait until someone finally gets why CSI ( aka the “other escape” from the 8-bit ansi realm, which is now eternalized in unicode C1 block ) is written ESC [ in 7-bit systems, s…

It's not the most obvious UX but hit "/" to open the rules dialog, this rule set is "ant(2L 64F 2S)". Click through to the project page and check out the README for more info on th…

e.g., here's a neat one: http://jcorbin.github.io/hexant/#colors=light%28360%2C%20100...

My versions of the same fwiw: - https://jcorbin.github.com/hexant -- the hexagonal one I'm working on now - https://jcorbin.github.io/ants -- the square grid one I made several yea…

Further showing the advantage of the pythonic way, is that the above construction remains about as clear when you refactor it for better pruning: ( (to_number(s, e, n, d), to_numbe…

An alternative using Python's builtin monadic machinery (comprehensions) with a utility function to aid with threading around the remaining alphabet: def to_number(*digits): return…

I'm really still trying to come to terms with the opener: "It’s not like I deserve any credit for being smart. I didn’t do anything to make that happen. I’m also tall, but nobody c…

One of my favorites: column -t Examples include: $ df -h | column -t $ column -t -s: /etc/passwd

Even more interesting to me: In [3]: ar = [1, 2, 3, 2, 4, 6, 3, 5 ,7, 3, 5, 8] In [4]: %timeit zip( [iter(ar)] 3) 100000 loops, best of 3: 2.02 us per loop In [5]: %timeit zip(ar[0…

Also useful to hook BufLeave/BufEnter and WinLeave/WinEnter imo.

I'm still pondering the "how is this useful?" part... why are absolute numbers useful for you in insert mode?

Really? Sed? Me thinks they should TRy harder ;-)

Except that if you do: whatever | tee filea | tee fileb | tee filec | tee filed >/dev/null, you'll get parallelism. This works since tee will write first to stdout, and then to the…

For me I've found these two websites to be helpful: * http://www.audiodharma.org -- podcasts, including introduction to mindfullness meditation * http://www.accesstoinsight.org -- …

Even better: just type \ (line continuation) at point that you realize that you need to do something else first. Then hit Ctrl-c to cancel once you get to the new line.

Isn't it a bit of a retcon to say that Vi(m) has grep builtin? As far as I understand it, grep was named for the :g/.../p sequence one can do with Vi's global command; that is "glo…

That's actually what I'm speaking to. The Mahayana tradition (in particular Zen) is the one that focuses more on not doing; where-as Theravada very much puts forth the practice as …

As I understand Theravada, it's about observing what is happening rather than stopping or nullifying; so thought -> observe -> repeat is quite appropriate for it.

Aldiko ( http://www.aldiko.com ) is a great Android ebook viewer for epub, pdf, etc.

I use gkrellm in the top right corner, and a small vertical panel in the lower right corner that has a clock and notification, nothing else. I find that tucking the clock away in t…

Wide lines like from syslog, frequently you want one event per line and not to have wrapping occur. The -S switch to less is a boon here.