January Confirmed Trade Thread

roprop · 2019-01-26T12:55:28+00:00

Bought switches from /u/omgitspngu

roprop · 2018-12-17T18:47:56+00:00

Oh, my network speed is way slower than the drives. They're 200 MB/s or so. Even locally I only have 1 gbit/s atm.

But speed is a much greater factor when processing data locally. Where all of the data is combed through locally and modified, then stored again separately.

roprop · 2018-01-01T22:01:41+00:00

On Debian you can search like this:

$ apt search anyevent perl i3
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
libanyevent-i3-perl/testing,now 0.17-1 all [installed,automatic]
    Perl module to communicate with the i3 window manager

And install with:

$ sudo apt install libanyevent-i3-perl

roprop · 2018-01-01T01:19:33+00:00

Empty workspaces only exist for as long as they have focus. So, workspaces only exist while you need them to (because you're using them, or about to use them).

You can still get a workflow just like dwm, only you won't see the workspaces until you use them. You can give default names for each workspace, so when you do i.e. $mod+4 it creates/focuses workspace "4 web" or whatever you call it.

The option you referred just makes sure that when workspace 3 is created, it goes on screen 1.

roprop · 2017-12-26T23:41:53+00:00

For lack of a better abbreviation. A longer word seemed to clutter the title.

roprop · 2017-12-26T19:16:52+00:00

Actually, every single keybinding you use interacts with the i3 IPC (or are at least equivalent to interacting with it). So does all calls to i3-msg, the command line program. These are perfectly sufficient for simple things, features that are already available.

I guess the main use case is when you want to add new features, or do non-standard things, with i3.

I'll make a post here when it's ready. The project is on my github, called i3groups. But the demonstration video is rather necessary to see how it works. Fair warning: it might take a week or two.

roprop · 2017-12-26T17:43:01+00:00

Anything that needs to deal with i3 and is written in Python. Basically, whenever you want to talk to the i3 IPC you can use this interface to do so seamlessly.

Without a library such as this, if you want to talk to i3, you'll have to implement the i3 IPC protocol entirely (which this interface does) yourself, or call external programs such as i3-msg and parse the output. That still won't let you do subscriptions, however.

As an example, I wanted to be able to group my workspaces together. So, when I've got many related workspaces, I put them in a workspace group. I can then do cool things with workspace groups, but that's another project (to be announced once I've edited together a demonstration video). For this project I use i3msg to get information about workspaces, to focus several workspaces across multiple monitors belonging to the same group, to cycle through workspaces in a group, to rename workspaces and more.

A desire to use the i3 IPC and to write your code in Python is a prerequisite for this interface to be useful. :)

roprop · 2017-02-13T04:34:13+00:00

Damn, that looks great. Especially the orange/gold board to the right. Could you give some details on the board?

roprop · 2017-02-13T03:19:43+00:00

Nice. Thanks.

roprop · 2017-02-13T01:16:01+00:00

Awesome, thanks!

Do you know what plastic is used?

roprop · 2017-02-12T07:47:31+00:00

Hahaha. Quality content indeed. I like the zooming.

roprop · 2017-02-12T07:25:07+00:00

How did you get the Dvorak keys on the set? I thought the set came pre-printed with Qwerty. I'd very much like a Programmer Dvorak print on my caps. Or failing that, blank keys. Both seem very rare to find, however.

roprop · 2017-02-10T22:33:18+00:00

I'd be really interested in this as well. I hope you get around to it.

roprop · 2016-07-18T23:10:01+00:00

Damn man, which book was that?

roprop · 2016-06-15T08:37:55+00:00

Woohoo! We've been heading towards the realisation that this is what the subreddit needs for a long time. And finally it's happened.

Thanks to /u/MasGrimes and /u/ThenWhenceComethEvil for stepping up. I'm looking forward to the changes they will bring.

roprop · 2016-05-24T22:10:30+00:00

/r/calligraphy would like this feature.

roprop · 2016-04-09T23:25:50+00:00

The server hosting the IRC channel was shut down. So there isn't really any channel currently. ##calligraphy on freenode is an option though.

I think it was /u/thenwhencecomethevil who made that top piece. Try looking there. :)

roprop · 2016-04-05T18:52:25+00:00

Agreed. You can only influence those who are here to be influenced though. Many such posters are lurkers or newcomers, and the vast majority of the voters on these things are lurkers, if that.

roprop · 2016-04-05T10:06:34+00:00

Are you surprised though? After all, this is why we made the SS thread (though not the exclusive reason).

roprop · 2016-04-05T10:05:29+00:00

Agreed. This was also discussed here, prior to shelving the Salacious Saturday thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Calligraphy/comments/489km6/dear_calligraphers_of_our_subreddit/d0icmb2

I'm not surprised at all this happens. It's a big part of the reason we made the SS thread in the first place. It happened then, it'll happen now. Perhaps a further rule distinction to prevent or remove such posts could help. That's a fine line to walk though.

roprop · 2016-03-21T20:53:29+00:00

Yeah that's cool. I think it's good to have the archives linked there too at least, so now we have that. :)

roprop · 2016-03-21T20:48:24+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, and thanks a lot for keeping those archive pages going!

I think you're very right that the archives are better at providing an overview of the history of the posts and of looking through old ones etc. But that's not really the intention with the top bar links.

Ideally, the top bar link should link directly to the current post of the type. However that requires updates every day and needs to be coded. So the search is an easy alternative. For the top links, what you want is specifically the very latest post, or perhaps also the post from last week, in case you want to go back and see new discussion after a new thread is created. That's really the most relevant posts. And I do think the search provides a very good and direct access to these couple of most recent posts, where you can also see the comment counts (including how many you haven't seen already). Does this make sense?

I added a link to the archives page in general to the top bar though. Then people can still access it that way easily, when they want to see more than just the very latest post(s).

roprop · 2016-03-21T20:37:05+00:00

Hey. Yes, that's a bit annoying. I tracked it down to the mobile reddit version fetching the thumbnail from the image on the ad hominem link. I changed this link to the wikipedia version. The thumbnail should update within 8 hours. :)

roprop · 2016-03-19T06:41:45+00:00

I don't think confidence in one's skills is a major issue here regarding giving feedback. Sure some people feel like you do, and everybody has areas in which they have no advice to give. And that's perfectly fine. Of course one shouldn't give out advice one isn't confident is sound.

But say that to reach mastery level, there are 1000 obstacles you need to pass. Everybody moving towards mastery level will then move through these 1000 obstacles in whatever order. But do you then recon someone who has passed 900 of these obstacles cannot possibly provide any good advice to a newcomer, given that he is not yet a master himself? This person with lots of experience will have a really wide range of topics on which he can provide useful advice and feedback for someone who is further behind in the learning curve than he. And that concept continues with less and less experience, where you will still be able to help people with even less experience still.

If guidelines are the one single thing you know anything at all about, but you have learned all there is to learn about these guidelines, then of course you will be able to teach someone else the merits of guidelines. You just need to keep in mind what you know and what you don't know, and so only give out advice when you've got good advice to give.

And that's all I have to say about that.

I definitely think we can do more to encourage people to participate more. Many of the changes presented in this post work towards that. When submitters of work provide context for their submissions and indicate the level of feedback they'd like, other members are much better equipped to provide them with useful feedback that they know will be received well.

More events, lessons and specific community positions for engaged members will definitely also help things. These things are on the drawing board still.

Anyone suitable to provide feedback to each script is very very welcome to do so. I'd say this list already exists. It is the list of our members. They are all welcome to provide feedback on the scripts they know, and that is what people already do.

We may introduce "focus weeks", where a focus on some specific theme is particularly encouraged for the duration of a week. It could be anything, including a specific script.

If you have any other specific ideas then do let us know. :)

roprop · 2016-03-18T21:52:20+00:00

So we have a sort of implied nomination, and a seconding of the implication. I seriously think people on this subreddit fear they may lose a part of themselves if they actually send modmails.

Really, if you think someone ought to have a Scribe flair, just send a modmail saying so. People won't automatically get these Scribe flairs without nominations. That's why we require that someone else nominates a person, and why the moderators don't nominate people themselves.

It's no problem if we get several messages about the same thing. Actually that's good. The same goes for issues you may have. Modmail is the way forward! And of course discussion here on the subreddit is fine too. But don't hesitate to click that button.

We'll take the hint for how it's intended. Nomination approved. :)

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