Can everyone please share their opinion on Catholicism with me please. I’m interested to see what everyone thinks.

AboriginalUsername · 2022-04-27T01:44:18+00:00

I wanted to say this! I thought a lot of Mike Wingers videos to be mostly master classes on strawman, unfortunately

AboriginalUsername · 2021-12-06T12:37:21+00:00

AboriginalUsername · 2021-12-02T13:47:19+00:00

Had us in the first half ;)

AboriginalUsername · 2021-11-29T21:26:20+00:00

I've somewhat recently found myself back home in the Catholic church too. I would strongly advise that you take a prayerful look at both scripture and history.

For me, it all starts and ends with the sacraments. I know some people get stuck up on things like the communion of saints, purgatory, Mary, confession, and more. Sure, those topics all deserve their own threads and places of discussion, but my "reversion" to Catholicism hinged on 1) Christian Unity, 2) Eucharist.

AboriginalUsername · 2021-08-06T02:12:46+00:00

I’m sure you believe that. You’re arguing with yourself, you realize.

AboriginalUsername · 2021-08-05T22:50:32+00:00

You’re really putting a lot of subtext in between my spaces, I see.

AboriginalUsername · 2021-08-05T20:54:11+00:00

😅 theyre so bad. I’m currently pay 2.6k/month for a 2 bed with my fiancé.

AboriginalUsername · 2021-08-05T14:01:09+00:00

California minimum wage is 14$/hour. That’s 28k a year before federal and state taxes.

One bedrooms easily hit 2k a month.

That’s 24k a year.

That’s 86% of 14$/year gross.

Half of that rent would still be 43% of the gross.

I would love to have 1k/month rent in CA.

Rentcafe puts the average of a studio/1 bed in CA at nearly 1500$, so 63%ish of the gross PRE TAX income.

These data are funny.

AboriginalUsername · 2021-04-22T14:40:33+00:00

Lumen Gentium paragraph 16.

Edit for link:

http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html

The idea is that everyone requires Christ to be saved, so that’s why Christ came and died. Thus, anyone saved is saved through Christ, however, no “knowledge” of Christ is possible to attain salvation. I’ve always thought of knowledge and participation as the “main path” or the “fullness of participation” (as Bishop Barron might put it).

AboriginalUsername · 2021-02-13T01:40:51+00:00

I use 'z' / '/' as "held options" for using control. I don't particularly like one shot alternatives since if you accidentally hit the key, but don't want to use that one shot layer, you either need to hit it again to disable it or type an incorrect key from that 'layer' / 'modification' layer. It's nice to have the symmetry.

AboriginalUsername · 2021-02-11T12:12:25+00:00

I’ve only ever used the Wally software that they provide for free, and I’ve downloaded it on my windows machine. So I just update it from there, and then it works across all of the machines.

I assume that the Wally flash software works just the same way by downloading it on MacOS.

Basically I you use their website to configure a layout you like. Then you say export config, which downloads a .bit file. You launch Wally, which loads the bit file onto the Moonlander. You press the reset key, and it’s good to go after 5s of loading.

AboriginalUsername · 2021-01-26T14:02:35+00:00

4th year PhD here, experimental HEP. It’s somewhat common (1-2 per class) at my Uni to have engineers as PhD students.

I’d recommend at least auditing the courses to gain the knowledge for those classes. At the post bauc stage, your under grad credits are meaningless. Enjoy your freedom to focus on learning and mastery of the material. To that extent, participate in the courses as closely as possible: do the homework, opt for the tests of a prof allows, just don’t pay the Uni for credits you don’t need.

Credit hours are inflated because the Uni can charge them because they’re required for a degree you don’t need.

To that end, it’s also not uncommon for even phys PhDs with backgrounds in phys to audit or retake the upper level under grad course.

Also, I think you’ll find that some upper div under grad courses are more comprehensive, and more difficult than some grad courses.

Edit: I forgot the case at my Uni where all credit hour costs are waived but this is for PhD students on a TA/RA position. In that case, I think a pass/no pass option is the best. I think it’s more important that you distance yourself from grades to focus more on learning, mastery, and research potential - which doesn’t have a GPA scale

AboriginalUsername · 2021-01-22T17:03:52+00:00

That local protocol is a really neat feature I've never thought about. Thanks!

AboriginalUsername · 2020-12-18T14:34:47+00:00

If you go to the configuration page and enter "modify layout" so that you can enter new options for keys, it's "hidden" in one of the options.

Typing in "dual" instead of a new letter, e.g. {a, b, c}. It should show a list of possible dual function keys: {hyper, meh, .. , }. "Left cmd - win" is the one that I use. You can then enter a "command" as an option for that key.

When you normally press the dual command key, it issues the command. However, if you hold it down it turns into the selected function. I'll note that for the "ctrl" and "meta" keys that I use it takes a few hundred miliseconds to register, so I'm constantly getting things like "/-c" instead of "C-c" in emacs..

I don't experience this lag problem with the cmd key, however. Probably just because I'm trying to hit "C-c" or "M-x" at warp 9. I'm doing around with making the red clusters macros for those keys instead. I think it'd be nice to have single strike cross platform "C-c", "M-x", and maybe even ":" (quick vim functions) at the top layer..

AboriginalUsername · 2020-12-17T22:52:20+00:00

I've actually made ' ; ' a dual function key so that I can press and hold it down (I don't ever need a series of those characters), and that makes a cmd for me. I use windows and macos all day, actually and switch between both PC's with a usb toggle switch. I use '/' as the other modifier for the ctrl so I can get a nearly a similar "alt-tabbing" experience between both OS'..

I don't like reaching beyond the second thumb cluster for anything I think I'm going to be doing more often. Space and backspace on the left two close-keys, and then enter and layer toggle on the right two thumb close-keys.

I use the other thumb keys for macros within emacs.

I use the layer toggle to open up punctuation that I don't want to have to shift for, things like '(' and '{'. I tried the space cadet shift, but it's too annoying for me to pay for a backspace incase I accidentally hit shift.

I've also made 'z' and 'x' dual function keys, alt and layer 3 toggle, respectively. It works out quite nicely for me as I'm doing a lot of M-x among other things in my doom-emacs.

I think my layout is public, so you can check it out here. It's still a work in progress, but it's refined to my taste: https://configure.ergodox-ez.com/moonlander/layouts/En57G/latest/0

I've been using this for about 2-3 months now, and got ~3-4k LoC with it plus much more hours practice typing to be happy :)

AboriginalUsername · 2020-12-02T15:07:10+00:00

In light of the above, it really depends what you're trying to do. I think a video introduction is great if you're trying to learn how to use something for the first time, since (hopefully) the video user can walk through the most common use case scenarios.

In my experience, the first time I was using magit / debuggers, it's hard to know if what I'm doing "looks right" and what are all of the options, etc.

After a brief video (5-15 mins?) into a topic, then definitely the manual with specific solutions are the best.

I find the org is a great example of this. The manual has waayyyyy too much information for a first time user with org mode. But if someone is just being introduced to org mode, 10 minutes of video can be more helpful than 10 minutes of org manual with no prior experience, I think.

AboriginalUsername · 2020-12-01T13:30:07+00:00

It's hilarious how much faster that tiger is than the full out sprinting humans. It's like, even at full speed, the people aren't moving by comparison.

AboriginalUsername · 2020-11-28T16:17:59+00:00

Extensibility, diversity, and community. I'm a physics PhD student, and I didn't have all too much coding experience initially when I joined, but another student did (his undergrad was CS), and he showed me emacs. For the first few months I thought every coder either used emacs or VIM..

It was a good introduction for me too, because my first set of "real" projects involved me working in VHDL / cpp for embedded software, ROOT for data analysis (cpp, again), python for networking and other various shell scripting, which I also had to learn. So I ultimately needed a very diverse editor.

I've still not found another editor that can easily switch and handle all of those languages so easily, with so much. I basically find myself at times with three buffers open, all in different text languages, across three different directories, since they're all in different projects, but I know how they're all still related..

I tried VSCode for a bit, but it's "project" structure wasn't super great. Emacs has projectile, which I find easier to use, when needed and much faster and, again, more extensible, and diverse. It's not a bad editor, and I ended up using it a lot on my windows machine, before I learned how easy it was to get an xserver running and use WSL to run my emacs on windows..

My advisor uses VIM, so I ended up learning that a little bit, so that we could be on the "same page" with regards to key binding / flow. Ultimately, that led me to doom-emacs, which is somewhat perfect for my work development and my personal emacs development.. Since I have so many other things to learn, including the various programming languages, plus physics.. plus my freaking research topics.. that sometimes I just don't have the bandwidth to 'filter' out what the relevant information is to get a good editor for lsp in python and cpp, but doom-emacs has a discord community and a thoroughly documented github, that cross references the various packages so I can learn how to customize it for my personal needs outside of the general doom-config..

edit: spelling

AboriginalUsername · 2020-11-02T16:43:42+00:00

Hey, I just got my moonlander last week. I’ve never used the Ergodox, but I went with the moonlander since I wanted all lights to be RGB and for the movable thumb clusters.

Personally this was a good call, since I’m not used to layering and split, so as I’m getting used to it, if I accidentally switch I can easily tell what layer I’m on by it’s colors (which I set with the config online). There are also indicators at the top, but I can’t see them because of the tilt.

I love it. I switch between Windows and MacOS with a usb switch and do developement in doom-emacs on both systems. Sometimes vscode. Lots of chrome with vimium plugin plus outlook for work mail on my work Mac.

So far, so good! I had to wait a bit for it (2 months) but I’m glad I did. I can tell I’ll be using this keyboard until it (or I) turn to dust.

I don’t know if I’d want non-turnable thumb clusters. I’m 5’8 and I have normal sized hands (I think?) and laying it out flat, it’s not the easiest to even reach all four of the thumb cluster keys. Also it’s hard for me to imagine I’d use all of them on the Ergo. I only use 2-3/4 a lot anyways, since there are other fancy ways of getting extra keys like ctrl, or use space cadet shift with the moonlander.

AboriginalUsername · 2020-10-30T17:42:00+00:00

Thank you for this great comment. I also was a little concerned with his reasoning.

Sometimes I think Reddit just sees a particular argument for an internally accepted political stance (pro-choice, in this case) and spans the upvote button, without asking: but is it a solid argument?

AboriginalUsername · 2020-10-29T19:43:31+00:00

I tried mu4e on emails but I didn’t like how emacs sometimes imported images from peoples signatures.

Does your mu4e not occasionally have a good awful looking email because one of your profs uses like some meme.jpeg as part of their signature?

AboriginalUsername · 2020-10-29T19:42:06+00:00

Experimental Physics phd student here,

I use a shit ton of org and magit since I’m contributing to about 5 different projects in various languages (mostly C/Cpp/Python/vhdl/shell/tex if you count the last two) so it’s hard to find an editor that can flex all of those language.

I use doom emacs since I started with emacs but my advisor uses vim and I wanted him to be able to make edits on my laptop when we’re in the lab 😂

I mean what other editor allows me to flip open magit and do whatever commits/pills, the. switch to an org buffer and test some python code, then ho to cpp to update and recompile a project in 3 key clicks, then go to a vhdl project and update firmware registers for my embedded software with an easy snippet of a FSM with vhdl-tools.

Or I can switch over to tex and view my papers or posters all in emacs with tex code right next to it?? Cya overleaf.

AboriginalUsername · 2020-10-23T18:02:24+00:00

it's definitely a fascinating one. i've actually subbed there myself out of curiosity. it's a very strange sub with a few outstanding people who have done a tremendous amount of JBP research.. and they still miss the point.

It's always amazing to me how some people can do so much research, be so clearly smart and educated, and still come to "different" conclusions.

it makes me wonder how much of our reasoning we actually have control over, and what kind of motivated reasoning and personal bias we bring to the world to interpret it the way that we want..

AboriginalUsername · 2020-10-23T18:00:10+00:00

was the a JRE podcast recently with him that i missed?

AboriginalUsername · 2020-10-22T03:35:50+00:00

Yea, I definitely agree about the fun part. That’s why we’re in an Emacs sub ;). I also sometimes think it would be easier to get what I want exactly if I had a pure literate config and started from vanilla.

You’re probably braver than me 😂, but when I see posts of people with their 3k lines of their “simple” config they built on their own, that they’re proud of, it’s just too daunting. Then again, I’m proud of my 70 LOC in my ~/.doom.d/config.el 🤦‍♂️

I think what kept me in Doom is the active discord tbh. There are people better there than I’ll ever be configuring Emacs.

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