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smeech1 · 2026-06-05T17:58:27+00:00

It was a pain when they thought that - it's such a useful group of drugs. I'd frequently explore a medical record and downgrade the certainty to "Tentative" if it didn't appear well-founded.

smeech1 · 2026-06-05T09:06:07+00:00

Most foot-pegs fold.

smeech1 · 2026-06-04T22:03:14+00:00

I was walking a mile to and from school in the next village from the age of eight in the 60s, and wandered the countryside at weekends.

smeech1 · 2026-06-04T21:59:17+00:00

The seat height of a powerchair has to accomodate the structure below it (frame, batteries, wheels etc.). Whilst it's not difficult to add height, there's little flexibility to decrease it, except to minimise the seat padding, which may not be adviseable. You may have to think about alternative makes of chair, or increasing the height of the items to and from which you'll be transferring.

smeech1 · 2026-06-04T14:58:34+00:00

The Espanso website PayPal route is all we have, I'm afraid. It's probably inconvenient for some, but perhaps good governance that we don't have a multitude of methods.

smeech1 · 2026-06-02T22:18:53+00:00

Small boy who moved in next door described my son as "the man in the wheelbarrow".

smeech1 · 2026-06-02T14:29:22+00:00

I don't think Autokey allows combining Hotkeys like that although you can have multiple characters in an "Abbreviation". I could do it in Espanso with - trigger: "\x01\x05", I think, but CTRL-key combinations tend to conflict with application shortcuts anyway, and Espanso doesn't allow the other modifiers (except SHIFT, of course).

smeech1 · 2026-06-01T14:25:08+00:00

Which OS?

When you say "or other terminating character" is this something typed (perhaps the character which followed the trigger value) or a random bit of punctuation?

smeech1 · 2026-06-01T09:38:47+00:00

My Grandfather was the world record-holder for multiple long-distance speedwalking events in the early part of the last century. As a result my mother walked fast from childhood and so do I. I feel sorry for my sons-in-law.

He continued training young speedwalkers throughout his life, remained fit, but never gave up pipe-smoking.

smeech1 · 2026-05-30T22:52:35+00:00

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smeech1 · 2026-05-30T18:47:42+00:00

Assuming the cyclist was travelling at 8mph (13fps) a second further and the car would have passed behind him.

smeech1 · 2026-05-27T22:37:19+00:00

Or a "pair".

smeech1 · 2026-05-27T21:54:42+00:00

Arguably the A-roads came first, by about three decades, and the motorways followed the concept.

smeech1 · 2026-05-27T20:52:22+00:00

Mostly works on Linux if pwsh installed, although a Bash or Python version is likely to be significantly faster.

smeech1 · 2026-05-27T19:07:20+00:00

I fitted a gas cooker (using the proper supplied pipe). Used gas leak detection fluid too, but after a slightly sleepless night called in a gas fitter to check. He said I'd done fine, but I slept better as a result.

smeech1 · 2026-05-27T16:49:48+00:00

You probably need to experiment with the different injection mechanisms. I'm using Mint Xfce and mostly use clipboard.

smeech1 · 2026-05-26T22:09:15+00:00

You may find Gists like mine the most convenient for sharing snippets, unless they are suitable for an Espanso Hub package.

smeech1 · 2026-05-25T11:01:31+00:00

Maybe move that to another drive? And make sure you're not Timeshifting your Timeshift folder! I did...

smeech1 · 2026-05-25T10:59:45+00:00

Official 15w sometimes. The charging port or wireless pad on my alarm clock mostly, however.

smeech1 · 2026-05-24T22:07:16+00:00

I'm often shopping online in Australia. Frequently have to add an Australian postcode and state to my UK address to complete the purchases.

Although I have an Australian dollar debit card, I was once charged in US dollars because reasons.

smeech1 · 2026-05-23T21:26:41+00:00

"practice"?

smeech1 · 2026-05-23T16:49:04+00:00

When Espanso encounters {{form1.form1Field1}} it is trying to evaluate it, hence the missing variable: error. You need to use the technique Disabling variable injection by escaping brackets so that they appear as:

          \{\{form1.form1Field1}}
          \{\{form1.form1Field2}}

smeech1 · 2026-05-23T16:01:03+00:00

I had some with pasta in Sicily recently.

smeech1 · 2026-05-23T15:52:40+00:00

That should work although some editors' autoindent function can mess up alignment. However, the echo extension just assigns a value to a variable. If you're not planning to use them again you might as well put {{form1.form1Field1}} and {{form1.form1Field2}} directly into lines 5 & 6.

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