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quietemerge - pretty output wraparound for Gentoo emerge ( https://github.com/ppurka/quietemerge ) btex - interactively compile LaTeX to PDF or PS or DVI, highlighting warnings and…

Actually, having an Aadhar number does not imply that the person is a citizen - this is one of the statements present in the application form itself. So, it is possible for non-cit…

32°C is considered a "heat wave?"

Collaboration over jupyter notebooks has been available in CoCalc [ https://cocalc.com/ ], formerly the SageMathCloud online notebook, for several years now. I wonder what prompted…

I guess the promise is (also practically possible) to have electrical _connection_ to all households. It's a different question whether there will be, or can be, steady electricity…

Singapore has this thing called FAST transfers (Fast and Secure Transfer) that's instant transfer between the banks here. It's been around since 2014.

On one hand there are articles saying young people don't have enough savings, and on the other hand there are these articles ruing that the older generation don't spend more. Maybe…

I would suggest going for an NUC (at least core i3). These are small, has enough computational power for the tasks you want to do, runs OK with Linux, and can run VM if you want to…

This happened on the Yellow line, which is entirely underground.

I don't know where they get those statistics? Do they include the daily wage working families? I have several near my own home (in a city) and none of them are able to open bank ac…

This may have been a good idea, but it is terribly implemented. Especially, notes of denomination 500 should not have been banned with immediate effect. In general many poor people…

Having RAM slots that are user serviceable and having them soldered directly into the motherboard is besides the point. If there is only one RAM slot (whether soldered-on or otherw…

If I am not mistaken, the chipsets on the Intel NUC models are laptop chipsets. I have the Skylake Core i3 version and that supports up to 32G of LPDDR4 RAM (dual channel). Since t…

This tool looks interesting from the screenshots in the website. I wonder if some things that diff doesn't do well are handled separately by this tool. Or, I do not know how to mak…

For a terminal, you can give terminology a try: https://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology

Has commandline completion and history! This is nice. Thanks, will give this a try. :-)

One of the sources of this problem is the relentless experimenting that has been ongoing since about 2007-2008. First, there was pmount and hal introduced to take care this automou…

The only D-Bus tool that is nice in the command line is qdbus, and that stems from Qt. I wonder why the original D-Bus writers could not write a decent enough command line tool for…

Works for me. Across multiple vim sessions. Unless, you mean a new file thesis.txt, in which case the old file is untouched.

Indeed, printf is shorter. I use it in a similar fashion in my own script [1], which can be made to behave like hr() (haven't tried shells other than bash): centered_output '=' '' …

I think terminology [1] is quite promising, although it doesn't yet do all of the above. [1] http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology