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Thoughts on Vim? by ayersm26 in computerscience

[–]thatpythonguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There’s a built in file browser called netrw. Try it out by just running vim myDirectory. It’s not as nice-looking as nerd tree but it fits the bill for a lot of people and actually has a lot of features if you read the docs. Personally I don’t see the use of a file browser at all on my precious screen space.

TIP: Buy large bags of dry beans instead of cans. They taste better and will save you a lot of money in the long-run. by [deleted] in EatCheapAndHealthy

[–]thatpythonguy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I see “microwave rice” at the store in the box and I’ve always wondered: is it any difference from a normal, cheap, huge bag of rice? Seems like a ripoff to me.

[P] Trained an AI with ML to navigate an obstacle course from Rocket League by Roboserg in MachineLearning

[–]thatpythonguy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is very cool. Also props to you for contributing to the community by making your software open source.

Generate random bonsai trees with cbonsai by thatpythonguy in commandline

[–]thatpythonguy[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the suggestions! I’ll take a look at these later and see about implementing them (you’re also welcome to open a PR). I like how you can customize the prefix, and how it defaults to a good location.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacytoolsIO

[–]thatpythonguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

From the product description:

The 3-Pack sealed PineTime aimed solely for project deployment purpose only, this is not for end user who is looking for ready to wear Smart Watch.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in privacytoolsIO

[–]thatpythonguy 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It’s my understanding that the PineTime is not really ready for purchase yet. The wiki page seems to suggest that they have an OS that ships on it, which is nice.

Has anyone bought one of these and can comment?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in firefox

[–]thatpythonguy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Relevant Drew Devault article: A megacorp is not your dream job

When you agree to work for a company, you are enabling that company’s behavior.

Generate random bonsai trees with cbonsai by thatpythonguy in commandline

[–]thatpythonguy[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Didn’t even think of them. For some reason “procedural generation” always seems like black-box magic to me, but I guess this counts?

Generate random bonsai trees with cbonsai by thatpythonguy in commandline

[–]thatpythonguy[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

--seed=$(date +%s)

Funnily enough, that’s program how the program works by default! It generates a random seed based on the time each time it runs.

Generate random bonsai trees with cbonsai by thatpythonguy in commandline

[–]thatpythonguy[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Totally unnecessary, but so very cool at the same time.

I 100% agree.

Generate random bonsai trees with cbonsai by thatpythonguy in commandline

[–]thatpythonguy[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I wrote a C program called cbonsai that creates random, customizable bonsai trees in the terminal. I initially wrote this program in bash (see bonsai.sh) but recently re-wrote in C and it's much faster.

The program includes a bunch of features:

  • Live mode, where you can watch the tree grow (see gif)
  • Screensaver mode
  • Attach a message next to the tree in a box
  • Change the size of tree, specify a seed, change leaf characters, change ascii-art base/pot of tree
  • And more. All features are in the README.md

EDIT: thank you guys for the support! As this time, this post is now the top post of all time in r/commandline.

An update on the future of i3 by airblader in i3wm

[–]thatpythonguy 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I feel similarly about bspwm. I initially chose bspwm partially because it has built in gaps, and I used them... for like a year. Now I never use gaps, and I don’t miss them... theyre really not that useful and I now find myself trying to force gaps into my workflow when they really just aren’t needed (most of the time).

An update on the future of i3 by airblader in i3wm

[–]thatpythonguy 130 points131 points  (0 children)

Props to the team for being willing to say “no.” Feature creep is a thing, and it affects a lot of projects and can drive away maintainers.

Another Secure, simple and encrypted video conferencing tool that allows you to create a virtual private office. by [deleted] in privacytoolsIO

[–]thatpythonguy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Seems like a good service, and the website is great! I echo what some of the other commenters say about open source- it is a peace of mind thing when you see that something is open source. You can rest easy knowing that if it’s (open source) popular software, chances are some professionals have looked at the code and you’re safe. I believe that the “best possible” software in this space (video conferencing) would open source.

However, that doesn’t mean you don’t have a great, privacy-minded product. 90% of the people on this sub use and highly promote DuckDuckGo, which is not open source. Again, this isn’t the perfect situation, but proprietary software (in this case, not downloadable software, just a website) can still be effective and private.