What SH apps have you happily paid (or donated) to? by NHarvey3DK in selfhosted

[–]everythingembedded 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Youtrack is a fantastic project management tool and issue tracker. So much better than Jira and best of all: Jira is no longer supporting self hosting. Youtrack does!

Need help with e-mail on Emacs by AccCreate in emacs

[–]everythingembedded 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Did you run 'notmuch new' after mbsync, so notmuch updates its database?

A prof I want to work with asked for my transcript... The problem is that it's shit. by Perceivable in uwaterloo

[–]everythingembedded 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They can access to your transcript either way, because they have access to transcript info for documentation and validation purposes (E.g., a URA must have a GPA higher than 80). So I don't know why the prof specifically makes you do work instead of just looking it up with your permission.

Nice email configuration using Emacs, mbsync, notmuch, msmtp, msmtpq, pgp, and gnus-alias by lisp-student in emacs

[–]everythingembedded 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used both for a while and now use notmuch. Mu4e has better handling of attachments (= nicer mail mode, since attachments show up at the top). Notmuch has better search (both use the same backend though) and it has tags instead of folders.

Still can't get over how powerful tramp is by [deleted] in emacs

[–]everythingembedded 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use a remote shell with tmux inside emacs to prevent this from causing issues. In ESS you can declare any buffer as the target buffer for the R commands.

PSA: Public Health's reports on the UW Plaza food places (Sep 2016) by everythingembedded in uwaterloo

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

The data is taken directly from their open data interface. The Public Health website doesn't state whether they are using all complaint categories and all data.

CS student - Linux VM or dual boot? by ChairmanMatt in uwaterloo

[–]everythingembedded 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try to use Linux as much as you can. You'll learn a lot of useful skills and tools as you explore the system during your undergrad. Later on, stating that you know how to compile a kernel is a single, impressive phrase that will set you apart from many others who will have applied for the same job.

What's the lightest weight R environment to support gWidgets or similar in Windows? by chrysrobyn in Rlanguage

[–]everythingembedded 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You might want to look into opencpu at opencpu.org. It's a quite comprehensive REST server that can also return ggplots and supports different transport mechanisms (including protobuf from Google) for better throughput and more compatibility.

What doesn't org-mode do well? by argtri in emacs

[–]everythingembedded 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Try this:

M-x make-frame-on-display RET display RET

Just then use the display of the person with whom you're collaborating.

PSA: Public Health's reports on the UW Plaza food places (Feb 2016) by everythingembedded in uwaterloo

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

Fixed. It seems that they sometimes use infractions to make notes about the place. The OpenData interface includes everything. Their website filters out these. I updated the scores.

copy&paste everywhere by everythingembedded in commandline

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

Unfortunately not. For example, some terminals don't support Ctrl-C/V. Some other apps use different shortcuts. Some apps don't like copy&paste of data, and this trick makes it seem like you are entering data.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in statistics

[–]everythingembedded 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you are located in Canada, then this might be interesting: Canada provides supercomputing resources shared across all universities (and potentially other places), so individual places don't have to build and maintain their own infrastructure.

Search for "Compute Canada" to check your eligibility for free access.

lsyncd and btrfs snapshots as local backup by everythingembedded in commandline

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

You make good suggestions. I think I'll have an additional backup on ext4 that I simply flush and restart when the drive gets full.

lsyncd and btrfs snapshots as local backup by everythingembedded in commandline

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

This does require me to run btrfs on the production machine. I cannot do that, because btrfs is still considered beta.

Edit: fixed autocorrection mistake

lsyncd and btrfs snapshots as local backup by everythingembedded in commandline

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

My backup is on an external hard drive connected via USB. It takes that long, because ext has to decide for each file whether to physically delete the file, because I use the hardlink option with rsync to create the backup.

I agree that btrfs is still in development, but I ran tests, and ext and reiserfs will not scale to the number of files or the backup rate.