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Awesome! I especially look forward to trying Org mode with this. One of the biggest weaknesses of Org-mode as a planning tool is the situation on mobile. Any tips for configuring E…

I use Free File Fillable Forms together with excel1040.com. First I fill in the numbers in Excel, then into Free File Fillable Forms, and check that they get the same answers. It w…

> I worked on tax software and have seen these kind of efforts. Noble, yes. Short lived, yes. I've been using excel1040.com for several years now (2017 iirc), and I think it's been…

Magit's wip-mode seems similar in some respects: https://magit.vc/manual/magit/Wip-Modes.html I haven't tried it, but have been meaning to look into it. Would be curious to hear ex…

I really hope other GNU projects, in particular Emacs, follow suit, though I doubt it will happen. In my experience it is a massive hassle to get the copyright disclaimer from my e…

`emacsclient -nw` in the terminal will open a terminal emacs that works with the same daemon.

This is yet another attack against immigrant students as noted in sibling comments. But it is also an attempt to force universities to open in the Fall despite the dangers of doing…

Emacs does this too -- I think it was the pioneer for this sort of functionality. One thing I'm jealous of VSCode (as an Emacs user), is the Google Docs-style collaborative editing…

Counterpoint: Twitter is the preferred social media among scientists, and a good place to keep up with the latest papers and developments. The quality of discussion on science twit…

> My suggestion is to prepare for the possibility of major disruption starting 2 to 6 months from now. This is too optimistic. We're currently in the exponential growth phase of th…

> This is with the figures known so far and before there is a vaccine around 2-3%. There's still a lot of uncertainty around the fatality rate here. For cases outside China, the fa…

To expand on this -- I believe pysam [0] is the official htslib interface for Python. It's quite good. In addition to providing Python bindings, it also provides extra functionalit…

Another complaint I have with jupyter notebooks is that they don't play nice with git. For this (and other reasons), I much prefer Emacs org-mode, or even running Python in Rmarkdo…

Emacs and Atom also support interacting with running Jupyter kernels when editing scripts ([1], [2]). In a sense, notebook-less Jupyter kernels already are the "LSP for REPLs". [1]…

Does anyone know if this will affect the desktop client as well, or just the browser interface? Personally I prefer the browser interface because I find the Desktop notifications a…

I've been using this for last couple years and it's a great piece of "software", I prefer it over TurboTax. The dedication of the maintainer to this project is truly impressive. I'…

- 1 less step (just open the remote file directly, rather than running "sshfs" and then opening the file) - If you execute shell commands from emacs -- these will be executed on th…

There should also be more representation from far-left organizations. See this article on how Google traffic to far-left sites dramatically dropped in 2017, due to Google deciding …

I use and love ledger-cli but importing/downloading bank data is the biggest pain point. I'm currently using ledger-autosync ( https://github.com/egh/ledger-autosync ) to import OF…

By "slow startup time" I also include the time to import libraries which is really the bigger problem. For example loading the DataFrames library takes quite a long time, and I've …

I think it's disappointing that Julia is not meant for CLI scripting. IMO it has failed to live up to its manifesto ( https://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia ) of b…

I would be very cautious interpreting these results. There are no DNA samples from the putative EH1 and EH2 hominin populations -- these populations are statistical constructs used…

Not sure who you work for, but I'm going to talk about Box since that is the competitor I'm familiar with. I'm in academia and to my annoyance have to interact with Box which has n…

I've been using a Google cloud free-tier VPS with Syncthing and it works great; I imagine Nextcloud would be similar. I do backup my instance with snapshots, which aren't free, but…

Growing up MUNI did have fare inspectors, albeit not too common and mostly on the light rail. However, I haven't seen a fare inspector in years, and fare evasion is noticeably wors…