My doctor has a fancy new on-line booking system. Trying to set myself up an appointment to follow up on some blood work, but the system tells me he's booked solid for the next two months and won't even let me look at the schedule beyond that.
I guess I'll have to call the office to book the old-fashioned way.
ed(1) requires me to escape (, ), {, }, <, and > in a regex to not use them as literal characters. This is the exact opposite of what I would expect.like this
Yes, like I said, in basic regular expressions those characters only have special meaning when escaped. In extended regular expressions, they have special meaning unless escaped.
Both types of regular expressions are well documented in the latest Single UNIX Specification from The Open Group. Older versions of SUS are available from Debian contrib (or non-free?).
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Just got a letter in the mail that our healthcare information may have been compromised in a potential data breach. The hospital was very adamant that it wasn't their system that was compromised, but the systems of a third-party contractor used by the province.
Dear government, I take great pains to secure our personal systems. Can you please stop authorizing deals to hand over our sensitive information to sketchy third-party contractors without our consent? It's your responsibility to vet them. You don't just get to wash your hands of it when they inevitably screw it up.
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So... twice this week now the alarm that reminds me to take one of my meds has gone off, but when I've gone to take the pill, it's already missing from the organizer. No record in my medication log of my having taken it either.
That's... odd.
@Jonathan Lamothe that's incredibly concerning. Both because the lack of log event means you're either sleepwalking, or in a state to not perform a log. And the alarm is likely the trigger. Uh - can you account for theft? Are they worth stealing?
Sorry - that's "my brain goes paranoid" level of fear
@silverwizard No, they're antacids. If someone were going to steal a pill, the ADHD meds were in the same organizer.
There are many benign possibilities. It's possible that when I loaded the organizer, I accidentally put only one of those pills in it (I take two a day). It's possible that since I was late with meds today, I got the schedule wrong, and accidentally took one at the wrong time. These are much more likely.
Still, I'll keep an eye on the situation.
@silverwizard My medication schedule is... complicated. Med X needs to be taken with food. Meds Y and Z can't be taken within two hours of each other. It's like the damn wolf, goat, cabbage problem.
Getting old sucks (though it's preferable to the alternative, I suppose).
So I've solved the mystery.
It's the result of my half-asleep brain taking the wrong pill in the morning—by feel, in the dark, of course—and then failing to log that anything even happened. Problematic, but not so much as the potential reasons that had been proposed.
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In the year of our Lord, two thousand twenty-six, why are people still getting text encodings wrong?
I love #usenet.
Martino said there is "insufficient evidence" to conclude the five shots the officer fired were unjustified.
I'm sorry, what? Shouldn't the onus be on him to demonstrate that the shots were justified?
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@Jonathan Lamothe I once made a complaint against an office for pulling up to a bus stop at the mall and immediately drawing a taser and attacking a dude.
i got told drawing a weapon in a crowd was SOP and the standard plan for officers.
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@superketchup Right, I started using nnatom in the past few weeks and noticed its part of Gnus now. I've also running Gnus v5.13. Maybe there was no version bump when they brought nnatom in?
I had problems getting nnatom to work. IIRC it does not want http:// or https:// when specifying the server, unlike nnrss.
Just spent almost an hour on the phone with #Primus (my ISP) trying to get them to honour the original deal I had with them.
Long story short: my bill's still going up, but now it's only $2.
Not a deal I would consider fair, but the extra $2 isn't worth my sanity.
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Over the weekend I was messing around with ibuffer, integrating my custom ibuffer groups with @sanityinc's ibuffer-vc (recommended).
I was surprised to discover that documentation for ibuffer (in since 22.1?) is ... sparsely documented. But it was fun to get it working because the code (and Steve's add-on) is
PERFECTLY LIMPID
(the real story here is that I have been waiting a lifetime to drop the phrase "perfectly limpid" for internet points and here is my opportunity)
Let Emacs' ibuffer-mode group files by git project etc., and show file state - purcell/ibuffer-vcGitHub
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@jameshowell @sanityinc I also use Ibuffer but I am slightly annoyed that point changes on auto update (in contrast to Buffer-menu-mode). I would like to fix this sometimes.
@minad My annoyance with ibuffer:
The filter groups are defined as a list (of lists), which (per the definition of list) has an order.
That order determines the logic of which buffers get assigned to which groups. That order also determines the order in which those groups get displayed.
Sometimes I want those orderings to be different. Which would require two lists.
Each element already has a name string, so a display-order list could reference elements in the filter-order list. But that gets complicated when some of the elements are generated dynamically, like from ibuffer-vc.
This annoyance is probably not worthy of the effort to rewrite the package with a different abstraction. Especially not the effort to do so without introducing breaking changes.
A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them. - alphapapa/bufler.elGitHub
Agreed. I think the point to stress here is that users can decide. Hydra, for example, always struck me as relatively bloated, buggy, and a little too idiosyncratic with respect to (at least my mental models of) Emacs internal and UI conventions. But obviously it was very popular! Let a thousand flowers bloom. Cherish the Four Freedoms 😀
@James Endres Howell @Steve Purcell @Bharath M. Palavalli @Philip @Daniel Mendler That's the beauty of Emacs: if you don't like it, it's infinitely customizable, and you can massage it into something you do like (assuming you're willing to do some digging).
There's also something to be said for an out-of-the-box solution that's close enough. I just prefer the former.
Okay, I need to do a hacky #elisp thing. Yes, I know it's terrible.
Basically, I have an existing defun. Let's call it foo. I need to replace it with a new function that calls the old one and transforms its output before returning it.
I naïvely assumed I could do it like this:
(let ((oldfunc (function foo)))
(defun foo ()
(my-transform (funcall oldfunc))))I'm sure there's a way to do this.
#AskFedi
Edit: Got it. It's:
(let ((oldfunc (symbol-function 'foo)))
(defun foo ()
(my-transform (funcall oldfunc))))Also, there's still something Gmail isn't liking. Looking at the differences in the headers between emacs and my other clients (whose mail does get through), the next most obvious difference is that the Content-Type header doesn't specify an encoding. Whether this is the actual problem or not, I should probably fix that. I'm just working on how.
The usual way to do this would be to "advise" the function with an "around" advice. gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/…
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Of course there's a question about your underlying logic lurking here: Why don't you just define a new function that calls the old function and transforms its output and then just call the new function.
Transforming the output of an existing function risks breaking all other callers of that function.
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Historically, that hasn't really helped, has it?
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Why would that even be a thing you'd have to say? #monsterdon
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The Wolf: Jimmie, lead the way. Boys, get to work.
Vincent: A please would be nice.
The Wolf: Come again?
Vincent: I said a please would be nice.
The Wolf: Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick.
Jules: No, Mr. Wolf, it ain't like that, your help is definitely appreciated.
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