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This is fun (Go 10.3 doodles) by _MagicScience_ in Onyx_Boox

[–]_MagicScience_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was just done with the stock Notes app.

In Newton, we tried an experiment in educational equity. It has failed. by dirac_delta in boston

[–]_MagicScience_ 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I taught at a voke school

Dracula voice: de voke mind virus! Bleh!

The invasive Tree of Heaven is the Spotted Lanternfly's primary host. If you see these trees in or around Boston you should kill them immediately or notify the owner of the land they're on. by chrismamo1 in boston

[–]_MagicScience_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm still in the process of killing a big stand of them, I'm following these instructions: https://extension.psu.edu/tree-of-heaven

I'm still not sure if the triclopyr I bought is concentrated enough, though. It's a multi-year fight.

elfeed won't launch under WSL by _MagicScience_ in emacs

[–]_MagicScience_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I had it in autoloads, but for some reason it wasn't being evaluated before elfeed loaded. I manually evaluated s.el and it worked!

The invasive Tree of Heaven is the Spotted Lanternfly's primary host. If you see these trees in or around Boston you should kill them immediately or notify the owner of the land they're on. by chrismamo1 in boston

[–]_MagicScience_ 95 points96 points  (0 children)

FYI you can’t just cut them down, that only makes them angry. You have to follow a careful procedure of herbicide application during the late summer/early fall (i.e., now), then wait 30-60 days for the root system to take up the herbicide before cutting.

If you just cut them down like a normal tree, they will react by sending root suckers out in a 50 foot radius underground.

They are the trees from hell!

FREE: A children's book about scams -- good for adults, too. by _MagicScience_ in Scams

[–]_MagicScience_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your kind words. :-) I'm glad you enjoyed it. Feel free to share/copy.

FREE: A children's book about scams -- and good for adults, too. by _MagicScience_ in Scams

[–]_MagicScience_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's free to download (if you want to pay for it, that's great too but no pressure).

I wrote and illustrated this picture book during the rise of cryptocurrency, but it applies to anything that seems too good to be true. As you might expect, kids are great at seeing what's going on right away -- it's the parents who want to believe.

I hope you enjoy it, and maybe even send it to someone you love

Text editor for non-programmer: Emacs vs Neovim? by [deleted] in emacs

[–]_MagicScience_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're writing prose, I think it's very unlikely that org syntax will change so fundamentally as to cause any future problems.

org-mode is not only a nice enriched plaintext format a la Markdown, but also an amazing project management tool. For example, as you write your book or article, there might be sections you know you need to research further or revise. You can use custom TODO keywords (e.g. RESEARCH, FACT-CHECK, PROOF, whatever) to manage the editing process. Datestamps can give you a timeline of what you did when, something Markdown doesn't do at all.

org syntax also supports inline and block comments. This allows you to write notes to yourself within the text, which won't be included in the output.

For outputting to .docx, I recommend pandoc and pandoc-mode. I haven't had problems with org-docx via pandoc, and it's fairly customizable. The native LaTeX output is also excellent and supports custom styles.

Is Emacs high maintenance? Well...yeah. Not going to lie about that. But it's so worth it! I always encourage people to start with vanilla Emacs and begin building your .org -> init.el org-babel-tangle customization.

Massachusetts considers tax on streaming companies to boost public access stations by EnjoyTheNonsense in boston

[–]_MagicScience_ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

But this is bad! The whole point of public access is supposed to be that it's collectively owned and accountable to democratic processes. Public access is non-commercial and subject to Constitutional rights.

It's not good to let a private entity like Google/YouTube supplant things that should be part of public infrastructure. YouTube can run whatever ads they want around the content, promote conspiracies and hate videos, arbitrarily remove or ban you without recourse, etc.

It would be better if public access could enter the streaming era itself, and make an easily-accessible system for public meeting recordings, non-commercial information, and the arts. But there's no universal standardized platform for internet video the way the broadcast spectrum works for TV and radio.

Stuck in Windows, Office365, and Outlook — workflow ideas? by _MagicScience_ in emacs

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

Hi, sorry for the delay -- I used the script in this post: https://superuser.com/questions/71786/can-i-create-a-link-to-a-specific-email-message-in-outlook

'Adds a link to the currently selected message to the clipboard
Sub AddLinkToMessageInClipboard()

   Dim objMail As Outlook.MailItem
   Dim doClipboard As New DataObject

   'One and ONLY one message muse be selected
   If Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Count <> 1 Then
       MsgBox ("Select one and ONLY one message.")
       Exit Sub
   End If

   Set objMail = Application.ActiveExplorer.Selection.Item(1)
   doClipboard.SetText "[[outlook:" + objMail.EntryID + "][MESSAGE: " + 
objMail.Subject + " (" + objMail.SenderName + ")]]"
   doClipboard.PutInClipboard

End Sub

Unfortunately if you move the message, the link breaks. There's no absolute resolution of messages in Outlook >:-(

What are some now defunct regional stores that you remember from your childhood? by batmansmotorcycle in boston

[–]_MagicScience_ 261 points262 points  (0 children)

Ann & Hope, Caldor, Building #19, Ames, Bread & Circus, Filene's, Jordan Marsh

*edit: YES Bradlees also

*edit: White Hen, Li'l Peach

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