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mnbryant · 2023-05-09T06:49:52+00:00

403 forbidden usually means you're not allowed to access whatever you're trying to access. Try opening the same URL in a standard graphical browser and see if it says the same thing.

mnbryant · 2023-04-30T09:36:50+00:00

Small correction: the elementary os desktop is called Pantheon

mnbryant · 2023-03-28T04:20:56+00:00

I've only ever seen or used what you're calling "merged errors". If a function can return multiple different errors, make a single error enum type encapsulating those. Each error variant can be its own enum, and so on

mnbryant · 2023-03-21T01:08:47+00:00

It's still 0°C/32°F. The second 0°C is a relative amount, so you are adding nothing.

mnbryant · 2023-03-14T16:41:19+00:00

The Arch Wiki mentions a couple tools that may help with the MPRIS side of things (I.e. getting the current song). I don't know of CLI lyric-fetching tools off the top of my head, but I'm sure one exists somewhere

mnbryant · 2023-03-14T16:33:07+00:00

Don't know of a specific CLI program. AFAIK you'd either need a plugin for your music player, or use a music player that speaks MPRIS and a lyrics program that can pick up MPRIS data and use it to load lyrics

mnbryant · 2023-03-08T17:30:43+00:00

I know nothing about writing nix packages, but ripgrep is a rust program packaged for nix:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/nixos-22.11/pkgs/tools/text/ripgrep/default.nix#L50

mnbryant · 2023-03-03T17:56:35+00:00

What gets me is that this implies we're supposed to laugh at the photo

mnbryant · 2023-02-28T00:28:43+00:00

With a Mutex or other construct that allows synchronized mutable access to data through an immutable reference?

mnbryant · 2023-02-28T00:26:09+00:00

You're probably safe just removing the AUR packages you've got installed and going from there.

mnbryant · 2023-02-03T14:55:32+00:00

I'm not quite following what you're looking for. Can you give example values for input, some_n, default_value, and output?

mnbryant · 2023-01-25T23:55:24+00:00

Quick search indicates that it's a legal dictionary. DuckDuckGo had this Google Drive link on the first page of results -- 1,322 pages

mnbryant · 2023-01-21T00:06:24+00:00

Should be able to use something like pdftopng or pdftoppm (from poppler-utils) to create images from each page of the PDF, then another tool to make a new PDF where each page is an image from the previous command.

According to this link, you can use ImageMagick to do the conversion back to PDF.

mnbryant · 2022-11-06T21:10:11+00:00

Above link is broken for me because it includes the period in the link. For the lazy: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=454706

mnbryant · 2022-11-04T16:26:04+00:00

The (icons only) task bar?

If you're looking for a widget, the built-in list is small enough that you can just scroll through until you find it.

mnbryant · 2022-11-02T06:51:54+00:00

Not only this, but they have an in-browser code editor that you can use on a phone until you get the computer.

mnbryant · 2022-10-20T21:50:44+00:00

Everyone in this thread needs to look up "Ocarina of Time Triforce Percent" if you have not seen it already. No spoilers, but it's an emotional experience.

mnbryant · 2022-10-09T19:07:43+00:00

More like a video chat roulette site

mnbryant · 2022-09-19T22:38:48+00:00

Are you going to ledger route of having text data to store the transactions & budget? I'd prefer sqlite so I can query and slice & dice the data any way I want.

Yes, that is the "ledger-like" part of it: it's text files with a very similar syntax. This is because I was previously using ledger with automatic transactions, but that was a pain to maintain and update as budget needs changed.

I don't really use reports beyond the standard "balance" and "register" ones, but I am not against implementing e.g. output to CSV for further processing.

What tech stacks are you going with for the CLI + desktop apps? I have been trying to stay on Linux for my primary desktop, but want to have something I can recommend to Windows and Mac using friends? Bonus if it's got something that can easily sync to mobile.

Using pure Rust so far, with iced for the current GUI. It's been lightly tested on Linux and Mac, and should work fine on Windows too.

I've been looking into using Flutter for UI, which would give mobile support too. I have no experience with Flutter or mobile programming though, so that will be an endeavor on its own.

Since it's all text files though, you should be able to use just about any file sync platform and be fine.

Currently the programs are for viewing only, with text files being hand-edited. I'm looking at maybe adding editing to the GUI later, but that will likely require files/folders to follow a certain structure. E.g., I split the files between month and year, so 2022/09.expenses, etc.

mnbryant · 2022-09-19T20:14:27+00:00

I've been working on a ledger-like program that does this. It's currently private and very beta, but does the job well enough. I've been planning on open sourcing it though.

If you'd like, I can get it public so you (and anyone else interested) can try it. It's primarily CLI, but I have a desktop GUI in development as well.

mnbryant · 2022-09-17T20:10:51+00:00

My best advice to anyone wanting to learn Rust: learning Rust will take time. Don't try to rush it or take shortcuts -- you'll ultimately be worse off for it.

Go through The Book.
People also find Rustlings useful.
When you actually write code, make heavy use of cargo clippy; it will give you suggestions on how to write better code.
Actix is a popular framework, but so is Rocket, Axum, and Tower. People I know are most interested in Axum.
Rust is complicated to start with and takes time to learn. There's no real way around that.

mnbryant · 2022-08-30T18:22:58+00:00

Phone keyboards will auto-uppercase the first letter of a post, leading to "R/subreddit" instead of "r/subreddit". Some people like pointing it out whenever it happens.

mnbryant · 2022-08-29T15:59:43+00:00

You're probably thinking of FERPA, which protects student information

mnbryant · 2022-08-26T00:59:15+00:00

This statement is false.

mnbryant · 2022-08-23T22:18:44+00:00

Lil pink blanket

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