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Re:GNU Units
on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @12:52PM (#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...
Re:Use YouTube to improve your English pronunciation
on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @07:23PM (#20228339)
A bit of Fry and Laurie, on language:
Re:Buying into the Emacs Platform (2018)
on Friday June 14, 2019 @02:25PM (#20185373)
With the built-in winner-mode you can go back to the previous window layout with C-c left.
Re:Command Line, Console and UI Based Open Source Plain Text Accounting
on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:16PM (#15825321)
> (H)Ledger does not support recurring transactions.
https://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Periodic-Tra...
Re:'Using Emacs' Series
on Saturday July 29, 2017 @05:33AM (#14880385)
Use your thumb.
Re:Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 Said to Move to Intel Kaby Lake Processors
on Saturday April 08, 2017 @07:49AM (#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 for stuff to launch just feels sluggish in comparison.
In Gnome, Hit the Windows key and start typing 'shortcut' to run the keyboard shortcut editor.
Start typing 'application' to search-ahead-find the 'Show all applications' shortcut and click it.
Press Cmd-space.
Re:What makes us Red Hat
on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @04:22PM (#14045276)
cat << EOF > ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
/* Make window title bars more compact.
*
* From: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/276951
*/
headerbar entry,
headerbar spinbutton,
headerbar button,
headerbar separator {
margin-top: 2px; /* same as headerbar side padding for nicer proportions */
margin-bottom: 2px;
}
EOF
Re:Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence
on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @03:44PM (#14044962)
Re:My Text Editor Journey: Vim, Spacemacs, Atom and Sublime Text
on Thursday March 23, 2017 @04:32PM (#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.
Re:Grappling with Go
on Wednesday February 08, 2017 @02:10PM (#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.
They talk about 3 areas where bugs have been removed, including:
Much of ntpd’s most convoluted code lives in ntp_proto.c, which
implements the state machine central to the protocol. Of the 29
vulnerabilities that have received CVEs so far in 2016, a couple
of multi-KLOC functions in ntp_proto.c are responsible for 15 of
them — just over half. Of course, "just rip it out" wouldn’t
suffice in this case: this is core business logic, not junk code.
So we rewrote those functions from scratch, cutting line count
considerably and yielding a far more readable result.
The other two areas are guaranteed bug-free because they removed the code.
Re:25% of CEOs’ Time Is Spent on Tasks Machines Could Do
on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:23PM (#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, and hire another to play golf?
Re:Systemd's slowly but steadily increased idealism about the world
on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:09PM (#13594347)
Some lid switches are broken:
https://who-t.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/libinput-and-lid-switch...
Re:The Many, the Humble, the Ubuntu Users
on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:19AM (#13444824)
> it lacks several packages that I use (Kodi comes to mind
$ dnf search kodi
kodi.x86_64 : Media center
...
$ yum search kodi
Redirecting to '/usr/bin/dnf search kodi' (see 'man yum2dnf')
kodi.x86_64 : Media center
...
Re:YouTube no longer supports 4K video playback in Safari
on Sunday January 15, 2017 @11:04AM (#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 webm 426x240 DASH video 110k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.00MiB
160 mp4 256x144 DASH video 113k , avc1.4d400c, 24fps, video only, 1.41MiB
243 webm 640x360 DASH video 196k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 1.83MiB
133 mp4 426x240 DASH video 247k , avc1.4d4015, 24fps, video only, 3.08MiB
134 mp4 640x360 DASH video 263k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 2.95MiB
244 webm 854x480 DASH video 322k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 3.11MiB
135 mp4 854x480 DASH video 554k , avc1.4d401e, 24fps, video only, 6.30MiB
247 webm 1280x720 DASH video 714k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 7.48MiB
136 mp4 1280x720 DASH video 1127k , avc1.4d401f, 24fps, video only, 12.92MiB
248 webm 1920x1080 DASH video 1579k , vp9, 24fps, video only, 17.86MiB
137 mp4 1920x1080 DASH video 2304k , avc1.640028, 24fps, video only, 27.09MiB
17 3gp 176x144 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2@ 24k
36 3gp 320x180 small , mp4v.20.3, mp4a.40.2
18 mp4 640x360 medium , avc1.42001E, mp4a.40.2@ 96k
43 webm 640x360 medium , vp8.0, vorbis@128k
22 mp4 1280x720 hd720 , avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2@192k (best)
Re:How (Not?) to Use Python’s List Comprehensions
on Sunday January 01, 2017 @08:10PM (#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...
Re:Darktable 2.2.0 released
on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @08:28AM (#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 modules covered in each video cross-referenced over at his website:
You're bound to find something useful.
Re:Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts
on Friday December 09, 2016 @11:03AM (#13139470)
They're available under the OFA license. They're already shipped with Linux, eg. here:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/fontaweso...
Re:LowRISC – An open-source, Linux-capable System-on-a-Chip
on Thursday December 08, 2016 @09:49AM (#13130571)
Re:Show HN: Storing your bookmarks under revision control
on Sunday November 27, 2016 @02:37PM (#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 info on certain pages, eg. gmail and have a capture template match it - handy for TODOs with deadlines that link back to emails.
Re:Ask HN: What text editor do you use and why is it your editor of ch...
on Friday November 25, 2016 @12:28PM (#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/
Re:Org mode 9.0 released
on Thursday November 03, 2016 @12:38PM (#12865519)
Re:Ask HN: Best linux laptop for developers
on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @12:25PM (#12856495)
Re:Soylent Coffee: Nootropics, fat, carbs, protein
on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:03PM (#12257342)
Stew.
Re:Bubblewrap: Unprivileged sandboxing tool
on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:32PM (#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
bwrap --ro-bind /usr/bin/ps /usr/bin/ps \
--ro-bind /lib64 /lib64 \
--proc /proc \
ps -x
bwrap --ro-bind /usr/bin/ps /usr/bin/ps \
--ro-bind /lib64 /lib64 \
--proc /proc \
--unshare-pid \
ps -x
bwrap --ro-bind /usr/bin/echo /usr/bin/echo \
--ro-bind /lib64 /lib64 \
echo "to a file outside the container" > /tmp/a-file
bwrap --ro-bind /usr/bin/sh /usr/bin/sh \
--ro-bind /lib64 /lib64 \
--bind /tmp/a-file /tmp/a-file \
sh -c 'echo "editing inside, available outside" > /tmp/a-file'
- The above works on my 64bit, combined /usr system, but maybe not yours. The more complicated the example, the more likely differences between systems are to show up.
- You may want to run a program with different privileges in different scenarios, so it is hard to guess what the right thing to do is in the general case.
Both bubblewrap and firejail need to be setuid. People commented on the firejail thread that it has a lot of code to be audited. Bubblewrap addresses that by stripping down to the essentials. It's going to have to compensate for that with great documentation and error messages.
Re:Firejail – security sandbox
on Sunday August 07, 2016 @09:03AM (#12241966)
Bubblewrap is a similar tool which carefully handles it's setuid responsibilities:
https://github.com/projectatomic/bubblewrap#related-project-...
Re:Google App Engine Silently Stopped Sending Email 5 Weeks Ago
on Thursday April 14, 2016 @08:58PM (#11501389)
Appengine's whack pricing says: we'd like to kick you off appengine onto GCE but that would scare away all the enterprise users from GCE. If we announce regular Moore's Law following price cuts for GCE and nothing for appengine, well hey, we can't stop you leaving. We're totally not twisting you're arm! (aside: we are)
"A commitment to Moore's Law: https://cloud.google.com/pricing/philosophy/ "
Re:Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text
on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:15PM (#11392101)
No problem:
Re:Org Mode for Emacs – Your Life in Plain Text
on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:15PM (#11391623)
org-mode has the concept of attachments which you can use for pdfs, images etc.
Re:127-Year-Old U.S. Aluminum Industry Collapses Under China's Weight
on Thursday November 05, 2015 @02:09PM (#10515472)
A carbon fibre car performing well in a crash test:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guOq9cdFbJA