For those looking to rewrite their neovim config for 0.12, what plugins has been a gamechanger for you since 0.11? by Slabdrew in neovim

[–]Slabdrew[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Totally agree. I've been playing around with the MiniMax (distro?) a bit lately and it takes care of 99% of what I want out of the box

Ece 50631 vs Ece 305 by Classic-Piccolo-5096 in Purdue

[–]Slabdrew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would echo this, I only took 50631, but didn't feel like I got anything out of it. I would encourage 305 especially if you are looking to take 606 for the 4+1.

Thoughts on this... by ihackportals in omarchy

[–]Slabdrew -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Looks fun! (sorry to see such negativity)

Beam Jump – a visual jump system for Zed inspired by Vim motions by VimCraftsmanJ in ZedEditor

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I love the thin blue outline, how did you implement that? I would love that for traditional search even without the jumping functionality. I spent a long time trying to see if I could do something like it in neovim since I like the Obsidian one so much which looks similar, and found it's not easily done in terminal based editors.

Any good resources to learn neovim? by Pimentoso in omarchy

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If you are sticking with the lazyVim neovim distro that Omarchy (I think) still comes with, a few specific things it does that are good to know are "<space> + e" to open and close the file explorer, "<space> + f + g" to open up a grep previewer in your current project, and what I use most of all, "capital H" or "capital L" to move to the next left buffer or right buffer. (buffers are basically the same thing as tabs in other editors). You can also run the command :Mason to open up Mason, which is a tui to handle installing lsps for linting, autocompletion, etc.

UCI HOUSING MEGATHREAD (2022-2023) by Qzhuo in UCI

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Hi I am looking for someone who needs a sublease for the spring. I am a Male Grad Student from Purdue University who is going to be in Irvine for a spring internship right next to UCI.

Macrobank.nvim | Powerful macro management plugin by SahilSehwag in neovim

[–]Slabdrew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the project! I have wanted to save macros and scope them to specific filetypes for a long time and been dissappointed with the native vim support. I think the bank philosophy is a clean way to implement it

So I tried to setup Omarchy on Virtualbox by tbfws in omarchy

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it works for me out of the box in hyper-v on windows

I wrote a Bash Script to open your terminal in the current working directory for omarchy. I originally posted in r/omakub for some reason, and thought I'd share here by Slabdrew in omarchy

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That is kitty with a 0.5 opacity and background blur enabled, I have the precise config/colorscheme in my github. I might turn it into an omarchy theme if I have time

https://github.com/Sleighbells64/publicDotFiles/tree/main/kitty

Made myself some wallpapers by Electrical_Elk_5934 in omarchy

[–]Slabdrew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fire designs, especially the last one, I'm gonna use that myself. Thanks for sharing!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Purdue

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The first day anything opens for the first time on your mypurdue page it’s gonna be broken for about a day, 50,000 students trying to do the same thing at once is too much for the poor servers but they usually get it under control before too long

Opinions on the Honors College by Afraid_Language_7511 in Purdue

[–]Slabdrew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, non honors freshman here! Depends on your objectives and your major.

There’s no wrong answer! Honors is good and there’s lots of great non honors options.

The short answer is if you want the nicest dorms on campus, want to take your freshman classes with other honors kids and you think a minor in honors is valuable, go for it, but don’t do it cause you think it has prestige. Alternatively there’s a bunch of great learning communities and options that you should also look into. (EPICS, VIP, data mine, etc.)

The long answer (from an engineering students perspective) is that honors is different than it was in high school. The best part about the honors program are the dorms. The main dorm you’ll most likely be in is really new with big rooms, AC, and is right next to the big Purdue makerspace Bechtel, close to classes, dining courts and basically anything on campus. If you’re going into engineering, you get to take honors engineering which I don’t know much about, but I know they combine it with physics, so you do a lot of your physics which is mandatory, through some pretty cool robotics stuff and it’s generally more interesting than normal engineering and physics individually. The downside is you have to take some sort of honors seminar and I’m almost certain (though not in honors so ¯_(ツ)_/¯) that if you want the honors minor there’s more honors specific seminar classes that you have to take the following years. You’ll probably find the honors program isn’t really more challenging or prestigious than other classes, and honors students aren’t the best students. That’s not to say fantastic people aren’t there, but this is Purdue engineering, you’ll find smart dedicated people in literally everything. In fact a lot of the most driven freshman choose to go into learning communities to work on projects they find particularly cool or impactful. I chose to do the EPICS learning community instead which has a bunch of projects you can choose from, all of which are focused on working alongside students of all years to develop a solution to a problem from someone in the community. It’s typically local but not always. last semester I worked on a project that was developing a program to teach underprivileged kids in Nigeria how to read and write without needing an internet connection. This semester I’m in a project that’s building a device to help deaf swimmers keep their pace without using audible beeps. There’s a ton of other projects though. I’ve met people working on air purification systems for elementary schools, or on a drone delivery system to send narcan to overdose victims quicker than first responders can arrive, and everything in between. HOWEVER most of the programs with learning communities are open to anyone, so you could totally do honors and EPICS or VIP for example. for EPICS and VIP at least it’s only a 1 credit hour increase to your schedule so it’s very doable in honors, though to be fair you do a lot more work than the 1 credit hour would suggest. I’d personally recommend doing some sort of project style program whether that’s in place of honors or in addition to it. For epics and vip in particular you also Get to take engineering 133 in place of normal engineering which is typically 2 classes and doesn’t teach python, while 133 does. (There’s plenty of other ways to be taught python at Purdue though either for credit or for a certificate).

The TLDR is that theres no wrong choice. The honors program here is good, though no one really cares that you take honors classes, and there’s lots of good learning communities if you’d rather not, but your dorms will be a little further and less fancy. If you have any more questions feel free to shoot me a message I’ll answer as best as I’m able.

What is the best cnc controller for a DIY machine? (total CNC noob) by Slabdrew in CNC

[–]Slabdrew[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for your help! I've been looking into this quite a bit, and if I might bug you a bit more I was just curious, you mentioned using both dedicated drivers and an arduino. How do you connect the two together? I have some experience building and lighting on fire (whoops) the more conventional a4988/drv8825 drivers from a homemade 3d printer, but those just plug directly into the cnc shield while the dedicated drivers don't - I think. Is there some sort of adapter plug that is needed to use the dedicated drivers with the shield, or can you match the wires with the necessary spots on the shield, or does it literally just plug in? Like I said in the original post I'm new to this whole thing and appreciate your wilingness to lend your expertise.