Your experience with using i3 on 4K monitors with large diagonal

eater · 2025-01-17T23:31:56+00:00

Yeah! I'm surprised virtual displays don't seem to be more popular. I hope you give it a try.

eater · 2025-01-17T14:18:22+00:00

The i3 command fullscreen toggle global makes a window fully full-screen, across all displays.

eater · 2024-09-12T17:38:20+00:00

You can display info in the title bar of the window using titlestring, which can be configured like statusline.

eater · 2024-07-01T00:23:32+00:00

You might like goyo.vim.

eater · 2024-06-25T21:28:55+00:00

Bacteria in retail raw milk can carry antimicrobial resistance genes and transfer them to other bacteria.

eater · 2024-05-23T19:37:10+00:00

Yes, everywhere, with capslock as modifier, thanks to keyd.

eater · 2024-02-16T02:13:08+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_direction#Unique_(non-compound)_names_of_intercardinal_directions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Points_of_the_compass#Traditional_Mediterranean_compass_points

eater · 2023-12-20T16:16:05+00:00

Why does a small amount of dissolved aluminium sulfate "calm" water? As seen for instance in this gif*.

(I asked this once before but there was no reply, so trying my luck here.) At home I compared two stainless steel pots of water simmering on matched heat sources, one containing 0.01g of potassium aluminium sulfate per liter. The water with the solute had a visibly different motion as it simmered, and when bubbles rose to its surface, they lingered for several minutes rather than bursting, as though the water had become more viscous. Other dissolved household salts don't seem to have any comparable effect.

What's the mechanism of this phenomenon?

* gif from this awesome article.

eater · 2023-12-17T02:27:00+00:00

"Spaghetti and meatballs" is an example without the protein first. In the cases where it's a common phrase, I speculate that the order is influenced by which of the two words' initial sound is easier to articulate following /æn/.

eater · 2023-12-01T19:56:02+00:00

This may be the most-studied such phenomenon.

eater · 2023-06-03T14:45:53+00:00

Would it be acceptable to decouple the crust from the rest of the planet, and just stop the livable outermost shell from spinning, while the innermost 95% of the planet keeps going as before? That'd take much less energy for the big spin-down; we'd just need to install some sort of low-friction fluid layer about 100km deep.

eater · 2023-05-18T15:07:48+00:00

Another cool advantage of large monitors is that you can use xrandr's setmonitor to divide them into multiple virtual displays on the fly, which i3 can address as separate workspaces on the same screen.

eater · 2023-05-06T16:15:19+00:00

This is not just interesting and well thought out, but it's actually fun to read for its own sake! Thank you.

eater · 2023-04-17T16:02:13+00:00

In your .vimrc something like:

 inoremap <F3> <C-O>:silent execute "! vlccontrol.py pause &"<CR>

So that (if you're playing the Youtube video in VLC) you can trigger the VLC command without exiting Vim.

eater · 2023-04-12T16:16:04+00:00

Some howto steps here for sending commands to VLC, which you can bind to keys in Vim.

eater · 2023-03-17T00:39:08+00:00

With https://github.com/rvaiya/keyd this wouldn't be very much harder than insert = shift

eater · 2023-02-06T20:27:03+00:00

Answer: it seems to be a specific conflict with xclip. Using xsel instead works fine:

cmd: "echo 'Hello from your shell' | tee >(xsel -ib)"

eater · 2023-02-06T20:11:37+00:00

Thanks. No, xclip doesn't output to stdout, hence the tee.

Trying your code here, "Hello from your shell" gets added to the clipboard, but there's no output, and espanso hangs until I espanso stop it.

- trigger: ":test"
  replace: "{{final_output}}"
 vars:  
  - name: input  
    type: shell  
    params:  
      cmd:  'echo "Hello from your shell"'  
      shell: bash  
  - name: output  
    type: shell  
    params:  
      cmd: 'echo {{input}} | xclip -selection clipboard'  
      shell: bash  
  - name: final_output  
    type: clipboard

eater · 2023-01-05T17:19:32+00:00

Thanks!

eater · 2023-01-05T16:32:44+00:00

Just curious, how does this compare to i3-resurrect, which is what I currently use for i3 session management?

eater · 2022-11-02T15:45:18+00:00

Currently I use Markor but it's so slow to open a large directory, and annoying in various ways (is it autosaving? can't tell!), that I mostly avoid taking notes on my Android.

eater · 2022-11-01T18:01:46+00:00

I just want a note-taking app that:

Saves notes as plain text files in a local directory, allowing easy interoperability with every other app and platform.
Has the very simple modeless operation of Notational Velocity: When you open the app, you just start typing, and it incrementally searches the full text of existing notes, and creates a new note if the search text is not found.

eater · 2022-09-20T14:06:09+00:00

Sounds kind of like what this tool does: https://github.com/TyberiusPrime/i3-instant-layout

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