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(We don't hear about the Beta Quardrant as much, mostly because the Klingon Empire and Romulan Star Empire take up a big chunk of it and are surprisingly close to Earth).
@Darcy Casselman I'm surprised Earth had that much power considering how much later they were to warp technology than more or less every other member of the Federation (though that probably wasn't established until after the boundaries were drawn).
I wonder if there's a market for someone who can convert a schematic drawing (or rough sketch) to an STL file for #3DPrinting on a freelance basis. I'm getting to be pretty decent at it, and it's kinda fun.
I'm pretty sure there's probably already some AI garbage that purports to do so.
The advice I hear is that the included Windows Defender is as good as any of the others, so no need to add something else. Especially as AV packages by their nature tend to become security issues of their own.
@silverwizard @Janne Moren Fortunately, this machine will only be used for certain things that require Windows (which are few and far between). It's not an issue for me to regularly factory reset it as it will contain nothing sensitive or that needs requires persistence.
Anything important lives on a machine with a trustworthy OS.
The only Windows computer I touch (ie. #SysAdmin) has only Windows Defender. It's essentially a public computer, used by many people with unknown computer hygiene.
So far, so good.
I think Windows Defender is at least as good at updating against (Defender-specific) attacks as any other anti-virus. I say that without having any evidence.
@silverwizard @Jonathan Lamothe @Janne Moren Maybe, but Windows will fight most third-party antivirus software, and/or it's a massive spyware/performance drain.
In the end, the best move seems to not add any additional liability to Windows Defender.
@beko Believe me, I'd love nothing more than to slap Debian on this machine. Unfortunately, its whole reason for existing is to run things that require Windows. Most of the time it's going to sit unused.
@Jonathan Lamothe when I did use microsoft I just used the microsoft virus checker. But the simple truth is that windows is designed to be susceptible to viruses to discourage people from using non-microsoft software. So, the only way to stop the viruses is to stop using Microsoft. That is the only real solution.
@Jonathan Lamothe I have used several operating systems such as Linux, which had no problem stopping viruses on the same machines as Microsoft. If they could do it, Microsoft could easily have stopped viruses. We might have accepted a transitory issue when viruses first appeared, but not a continued issue that continue despite many updates. The truth is Microsoft did very well from all the viruses, because they were used to deter people from trying non "official" microsoft software. That put Microsoft in a very dominant position and that is what made it so much money from some of the crappiest software on the planet.
Cleaning and re-inking my #FountainPens and I managed to spill one of my favourite Inkvent sample bottles. Fortunately, I somehow managed to save the majority of the ink. Don't ask me how.
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I'm particular about my morning coffee. I always have 170g of coffee to 15g of flavouring syrup. (I used to drink double that, but I'm trying to keep the stimulants down.) The ratio is important.
Every now and again (like this morning) I accidentally overshoot on the syrup and have to adjust the amount of coffee to compensate.
This means, I get extra coffee (yay!) but I have to do semi-complicated math before my morning coffee, which is a little annoying.
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Encountered my first mask ban in Canada. I had hoped we were smarter than this, but I suppose I'm not surprised. I guess they value their bottom line over public health, but it's a vape store, so I suppose that tracks.
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Edit 2: It has been pointed out to me that there is an exemption for medical masks in the tiniest font imaginable at the bottom of the sign... almost as though they don't want you to read it.
So, I've been using nov.el for #emacs to read epubs. It does a pretty decent job of it, but I have one point of irritation: I can't for the life of me find a way to tell how far through the book I am. Is there some way to see this?
I use it! It shows a % figure on the bottom line, but it does it only if I maximize past the 80 columns (in other words, it doesn't appear on my VT terminal!).
@मोक्ष / untrusem ⁂ This package appears to render documents using SVG output. Considering that I spend 95% of my time in the terminal, this would likely be a deal-breaker for me unfortunately. 🙁
this is for Doom but might give you some ideas? I stole some code from here and it's a bit beyond me but involves setting a custom modeline when in nov mode > tecosaur.github.io/emacs-confi…
@Zenie The mode line shows the position in the current buffer. The buffer displays the current chapter. Thus, it shows your position in the current chapter, not the book overall.
@Zenie The feature might actually exist for all I know, so I hesitate to put in a feature request. I was just hoping that it was an already solved problem.
I glanced at the code. But I'm not at my usual computer so I can't look at help, the mode or the code more thoroughly. I only just installed it recently so don't know it well.
Little by little I've been going more and more analog. I still track every little thing I need to do in my #OrgMode system to help manage my #ADHD, but that list itself can get a little overwhelming. I've started combing over it in the morning, picking out the most critical things for that day and writing them down on a paper checklist in a small notebook I keep in my pocket. The notebook has the advantage of not distracting me with a thousand notifications every time I'm trying to do something productive.
Plus, I just really like having an excuse to put a nice #FountainPen and ink to paper.
Trying to design a custom phone holder for the dashboard of our car because it's a weird design that makes conventional ones unusable (I don't trust the suction cup ones).
Taking the measurements has made me painfully aware of just how... curved everything is on a dashboard. 🤬
Not to deter you from your chosen path but just to provide info this is what I have:
A sticky metal plate is attached to the rear of the phone.
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@Brian Sullivan We've got a similar one that suction cups to the windshield. I didn't want to permanently affix the plate to my phone (especially since we have two phones between the two of us).
Thought I could get around it by putting the plate inside of the case, but it holds much less securely that way (though the suction cup has still historically been the weakest link).
Our current solution involves a wooden block and a sock. It works, but my plan is a decided upgrade.
Just spent a good half hour pulling my hair out trying to figure out why one of the #elisp functions I had just written was always returning nil when I tested it. Turns out, my test was mistakenly passing its inputs to the wrong (but similarly named) function (pivot-table-get-columns instead of pivot-table-get-body).
It sounds like the sort of thing a more type-ful Lisp implementation would have detected too. I bet SBCL would have have given you a compiler note warning of an analogous problem, for example.
C's type system would also have caught it, and it isn't worth a hill of beans.
By caught it what do we mean? This is not a case of some undetected error escaping your attention due to dynamic typing. You know you got a nil which is unexpected and wrong. It's in a test case which catches it.
The only thing a type system would change is that you would instead waste a half hour not understanding how your obviously correct function call can possibly have the wrong return type.
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So Katy has a #Jinhao10 and today the clicker seems to be jamming. When pressed, it seems to resist extending or retracting the nib. I'm giving it a cleaning right now to make sure there was no debris or anything in there stopping it from working, but I don't know if that'll fix it.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a fix?
I have a function, pivot-table-get-columns (shorthanded as pt-get-columns). Its job is to take an #OrgMode table and produce an alist of mappings of column names to column numbers. The column names are as defined by section 3.5.10 of the org-mode manual.
Edit: I've been beating my head against a wall for some time on this getting nowhere and less than a minute after asking this, I see it. My first unless should be a when. I'll fix it later.
what does org table source look like by the way? I normally pass org tables into org source blocks (where they become s-expressions in lisp), but I'm not sure what the tables look like internally to org.
further about eq in common lisp at least, I've seen people make a mistake before- when you compile code, if you referred to "" twice, in common lisp compilers are allowed to coalesce them at which point they /will/ be eq. (Eq would be a good test to see if they /had/ been coalesced). But in the general case two strings entered in different places are not eq.
@screwlisp I've not seen the comma prefix used outside a macro before. Also, this would probably be better written as: (push (cons (format "%s" cell) n) result)
it is very exciting! commas have to appear inside backticks, and backticks are just quotes that can have certain things inside of them unquoted (using a comma).
Macros to a large extent work like this because one principle of lisp is that lisp code be regular lisp sequences. At read time, the function names are just symbols. So it's a list of symbols/atoms and lists.
However, sometimes we /do/ want to run some code, hence backtick and comma/unquote.
Backquote forms are merely list (S-expression) constructors where some pieces are constant and some pieces are evaluated. (The latter are marked with commas.) Such forms can be used anywhere. Obviously they are often used in macros, because macro functions construct lists (S-expressions).
I often write `(,foo ,bar) instead of (list foo bar) because the former seems clearer, especially when the structure is more involved.
#cfw got an org-table import/export functionality. Just select the org-table and run M-x cfw-org-load. Analyse, sort, edit, filter your table in CFW. Then update the original org-table by M-x cfw-org-save.
If there was no original org-table (the table was created from scratch or from other source like CSV), the cfw-org-save places the exported table into the kill-ring. This way org pivottables can be generated from CFW.
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So, keeping a #journal in #teeline has had some unexpected benefits for my #ADHD brain beyond my handwriting just being more able to keep up with the rate of my thoughts.
I might blog about this later, but the TL;DR is that the process of transcribing my entries requires me to think deliberately about the meaning of every word I've written.
For all the criticism I have of dynamically typed languages, I have to admit that the way #elisp (and presumably #lisp in general) does in-line documentation is pretty nice.
The seemingly canonical way of detecting whether the C-u modifier was used on an interactive function call (when an actual numerical argument wasn't provided) in #elisp feels... icky. #emacs
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