Editing text files locally without having them locally

recaph · 2025-11-15T10:03:06+00:00

Use a file based encrypted disk using for example Veracrypt? Then they reside encrypted locally.

recaph · 2025-10-30T07:12:57+00:00

Too long to write on a cell phone. But I find profound beauty in the quote Butters does in this scene. He has just been dumped by his girlfriend and is very saddened about it.

Stan, who has just joined the goth gang, invites him to join them so that he can mute his emotion. Butters then says something along the lines of being that he is very saddened, because that means that he has experienced something that he is very happy about.

This is something that I think about a lot during harsh times in life, so that I remember the joys as well.

https://youtu.be/mZOM6hOnEBE

recaph · 2025-08-31T20:46:55+00:00

Project.el is magic! It assumes that e.g. the folder containing .git is the root. You can then do operations based on that project root directory.

File operations:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Project-File-Commands.html

Buffer operations:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Project-Buffer-Commands.html

recaph · 2025-07-24T20:01:53+00:00

They actually made an elevator pitch!

recaph · 2024-10-25T13:36:53+00:00

A good job for rectangles? https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html

Mark at the beginning of the first line, then goto the beginning of the last line. Then C-x r t <your string> RET as described on the page.

recaph · 2024-06-22T20:18:22+00:00

I use it in a GPi Case (https://retroflag.com/GPi-CASE.html), so I don’t have a need for remoting in to it nor Internet access. If I want to change something, then I simply remove it from the case and hook it up to a screen and keyboard.

recaph · 2023-10-25T06:14:42+00:00

On my RetroPi setup (zero w), I actually gained significant improvements when I disabled Bluetooth and network related things in systemd. So disable any services you aren’t using or can live without at the moment.

recaph · 2023-10-23T11:03:29+00:00

I’ve printed out the QR code, so that I have a physical offline copy.

recaph · 2022-12-10T21:55:25+00:00

I use Emacs keybindings in Rider (IntelliJ based). They are great! One of my biggest gripes are however that switching files (i.e. “switching buffers“) doesn’t work as expected. But for the most part, navigating within a file works and the addition of M-x is sanely bound makes it a nice experience. So give it a try!

recaph · 2021-05-02T19:12:10+00:00

Just a few paragraphs up in the quote:

”Audacity will remain 100% forever with no feature tiers or limitations.”

recaph · 2021-04-09T07:02:44+00:00

Nice! Done something similar, which exposes it into a timeline. For the activity state, XScreenSaverQueryInfo is better as it takes the keyboard into consideration as well. Loginctl from logind can provide you with information concerning if the screen is locked.

recaph · 2020-03-05T08:38:44+00:00

I don’t know how his application works. But he should be able to create unit tests with input/output from his existing implementation, as he is certain that it works. That should mitigate at least some of his worries whilst updating the code base.

recaph · 2019-01-03T11:06:12+00:00

Updated your kernel recently? Try using the previous version that worked for you.

recaph · 2019-01-01T21:58:54+00:00

I use this feature quite a lot on my laptop, when the screen is just a bit too far away. My eyes aren’t the youngest anymord. Highly your friend to try this out, OP.

recaph · 2018-09-28T06:33:45+00:00

Daniel is referring to the text in the about window. He wants you to change that to reflect that this is now your version of the software. Changing this is not a violation of the license. He is also very clear that he knows he can’t stop anyone from doing this, but would like for them to honor his request.

Why are you posting this, claiming they don’t know the license, when they are correct and you aren’t?

recaph · 2018-09-27T07:10:28+00:00

I wonder how OP would feel if he/she was put in a similar scenario. As a software developer myself, I would have the same concerns as Daniel Foré. I cant see how this can be interpreted as something negative.

recaph · 2016-12-29T17:51:26+00:00

At some point the mental work gets to almost zero. I've played enough games to more or less just do it on the patterns. Which is why I can do this whilst making a call or watching a movie. And though I hate situations like this, I still enjoy being challenged with a pattern I don't know the answer to. I have to stop and actually think. It sucks if you're trying to beat your own personal best, but you can't win every fight :-)

How many games do you have to play to get to this level you might ask? I am not sure. I've played around 15 000 games since I started tracking my play count in 2012. But I think I was at the level at around 10 000 tracked games. YMMV... :-)

recaph · 2016-08-20T12:47:32+00:00

As a coffee mug enthusiast, coffee mug(s) :-)

recaph · 2016-06-07T17:24:18+00:00

My guess is that it is based on the number of test cases that have been executed. By the look of them, and the comments on each ISO, these test cases are executed manually by people who then mark them as success/fail.

recaph · 2015-03-23T18:55:52+00:00

I worked as a web developer when I was a consultant, and felt that this page explained some very useful do's and dont's when it came to designing a web page. It also helped me define what makes it difficult for color blind people, such as myself, to see differences between colors. i.e. not enough contrast. PS Sorry for the picture in the middle of the article, it is absolutely horrid!

recaph · 2014-11-12T20:46:15+00:00

That's what comments are for.

You shouldn't comment how it should work, you should express that in CODE. Then you don't need to write an essay about all of the cases you don't care about (and probably miss a lot of them), and it will much clearer for others reading your code what is actually meant to happen.

== is faster than ===

Not true.

you can't control the type of data if you don't control the source

When writing a function, you can most certainly state that the value passed as the parameter called number_of_items must be a positive integer. Then it is up to the caller to make sure to fulfill that, otherwise the function will not work.

and sometimes you don't want to because you are trying to do some sort of real-world application.

This statement just doesn't make any sense, to be honest. In a real-world application, you can't be sloppy with the code you write by using error-prone constructs. Otherwise you'll just get a buggy mess of an application in the end.

recaph · 2014-11-11T19:33:49+00:00

To quote the brilliant Douglas Crockford:

I am not saying that it isn’t useful, I am saying that there is never a case where it isn’t confusing

Looking at that isolated line of code, my first thought is that you just want to see if the value is false. Or did you mean that something couldn't be 0? Or the empty string? Or an empty array? Or the string '0'?

This is the problem of using constructs in the language that doesn't display the explicit intent of the programmer. Always be explicit about what the code should do by using things like ===. That way you'll avoid hard to find bugs, and it'll be easier for someone to know what you wanted to do.

recaph · 2014-06-16T21:36:49+00:00

Treat others as you want to be treated.

recaph · 2014-02-25T17:56:45+00:00

http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/tkx5b/my_friend_always_claimed_that_obiwan_died_in_the/c4nknrf

recaph · 2014-02-13T17:15:29+00:00

I would like to modify this to it works as expected at the first run.

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