ericsfraga

@ericsfraga@fediscience.org

Long time #Unix (v7, BSD, Solaris), #GNU #Linux, and #Emacs user and developer. Programming mostly in #JuliaLang but also #Octave. Into #cycling 🚲 and dismayed at #Brexit 🇪🇺.

Author of

Nature inspired methods for optimization -- a Julia primer for process engineering

Available free on the Interweb at http://tiny.cc/nl5yuz and ebook (PDF) for a price at http://leanpub.com/natureinspiredmethodsforoptimization #Julia #JuliaLang #optimization #NatureInspired #ProcessEngineering #book #ebook

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b0rk, (edited ) to random
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been thinking about this very common git workflow and how git doesn't do much to help you ensure that if you're using this workflow:

a) you never commit to your local main branch directly
b) you regularly pull from origin/main to keep your local main branch up to date

you just need to be careful

branch protection on github/gitlab helps with this, but I don't think there's much in git itself

ericsfraga,

@meliache @petes_bread_eqn_xls @b0rk has a spin-off command. Wish I'd known about this sooner as it would have saved me a lot of (unnecessary) grief. Thank you!

ericsfraga, to emacs

This is so true:

"Only a tiny part of written text is printed on paper, so the What You See is What You Get (WYSIWYG) approach does not make much sense in the digital age. Plain text uses the What You See Is What You Mean (WYSIWYM) approach. "

from https://lucidmanager.org/productivity/why-use-emacs/

ericsfraga,

@lproven
I am not sure what was condescending but my original toot was about and you responded with UI standards. Totally missing the point?

If it's the reference to that bothers you, in the decades I have been using Emacs (and ), I have seen many standards and tools come and go. Emacs & vi keep on going strong. Nobody says you have to use these tools, however. To each, their own.
@publicvoit @hajovonta

ericsfraga,

@publicvoit @revk @hajovonta @lproven Those were the days. 🤪 And the key is definitely to not take any of it personally.

ericsfraga,

@lproven Interesting take. Let me summarise from my point of view: I post a quote about plain text and you respond with something about "UI standards" which has nothing to do with plain text. And you then go off on rants about Emacs and how you are an expert on something.

I couldn't care less whether you or anybody else uses Emacs and what you think of it. It works for me, better than any other tool out there.

@hajovonta @revk @publicvoit

ericsfraga,

@revk

And, as an aside, one the most underrated features of in is that there is a complete (almost?) implementation of under the hood, accessible via the : key binding (as in ).

And the combination of Emacs, evil mode, and is unbeatable for interacting with the . 🙃

@lproven @hajovonta @publicvoit

ericsfraga,

@lproven

"I have been in this field for some 40 years now and I am willing to
bet I know how to use more text editors than you even know exist."

This is a bet you would probably lose... 🤔 I've been at it for very long time on many different systems & editors, from mainframes and mini-computers to micro-computers. I know what I need and choose accordingly. You are welcome to choose what you wish. I don't see the problem with that.

@hajovonta @publicvoit

ericsfraga,

@revk

My first venture into (v7 as was, on a PDP-11/70) led me to ed, then ex, and finally Wrote a large graphics program in vi. Loved it (compared with the editors I had previously been using on mainframes).

ed's error messages were so zen. 😉

I now use evil-mode (but only for text modes) in so best of both worlds!

@publicvoit @hajovonta @lproven

jsq, to random
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    ericsfraga,

    @jsq
    And it's portable! 😜
    @inigo

    Helen50, to books

    when do you abandon a book?
    I'm not very good at it, but I might be about to do it again.
    #books @bookstodon

    ericsfraga,

    @Rhube @bookstodon @Helen50 I remember feeling guilty (for some unknown reason) the first time, many decades ago, I abandoned a book. Since then, I realised that I have so many books on my TBR pile that making myself read a book I'm not enjoying was just plain silly. I now quite often (more than 1%, less than 10%) abandon books without finishing them. Life's too short!

    ericsfraga,

    @Grizzlysgrowls @Helen50 @bookstodon @Rhube Same with me (Kobo). Further, many of my not finished books are borrowed from the library so they're gone completely even from the Kobo after a short time. Those I've bought remain on there but I don't see them unless I really go looking for them (which doesn't happen 😉).

    nixCraft, to random
    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

    Math people 😂

    ericsfraga,

    @nixCraft
    Best analogy for rounding error ever!

    Polynomial_C, to random Catalan
    @Polynomial_C@mastodon.social avatar

    Micro$hit Teams vs

    ericsfraga,

    @Polynomial_C
    What does Teams do with all that memory? Whatever it does, it doesn't do it particularly well.
    @hajovonta

    ctietze, to random
    @ctietze@mastodon.social avatar

    I've split my frame into 2 windows, each pointing at a different directory via , and copied files left and right style.

    I rarely ever use this. But when I do, it's great.

    ericsfraga,

    @dekkzz76 @ctietze the do what I mean aspect of dired: if I have two dired windows open, dired knows that when I ask to rename a file (R), I really mean that I want to move it to the other directory.

    ericsfraga,

    @ctietze I do this all of the time! The dwim aspect makes moving files around so easy: mark files, hit R (or C), and I'm done.

    CarolineLucas, to random
    @CarolineLucas@respublicae.eu avatar

    Timely
    https://nitter.cz/NatInfraCom
    report shows UK energy infrastructure is desperately underfunded. Clean electric heat could provide warm homes, slash emissions, lower bills, ensure energy security & save people £1,000 a year in the process - what's Sunak afraid of?
    https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/18/uk-infrastructure-needs-much-more-investment-say-government-advisers

    🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1714672089016246380#m

    [2023-10-18 15:57 UTC]

    ericsfraga,

    @tf
    Agreed. Electricity prices need to be decoupled from gas prices and actually reflect the cost of generation.
    @CarolineLucas @simon_brooke

    publicvoit, to monitors
    @publicvoit@graz.social avatar

    How come that people are working with tools (and content) like , , in general, , ... and don't have external in portrait orientation? 🤔 🤷

    ericsfraga,

    @publicvoit First thing I did when I got a multi-monitor setup, years ago, was turn one of them to portrait. Seemed like the obvious thing to do when most of my time is spent writing prose and reading articles, all of which are naturally portrait. Coding I do on the wide screen with multiple windows (in parlance).

    ericsfraga,

    @kisharrington
    It's challenging to switch a 38" or 49" monitor to portrait. And hard on the neck during use. 😜
    @publicvoit

    ericsfraga, to til

    #TIL Emacs occur mode allows you to edit in the occur buffer (type e to enter edit mode, C-c C-c to leave edit mode) without having to switch the originating buffer! Makes it easy to refactor code and prose. I use occur all the time but never knew about this functionality. As always, #Emacs is one step ahead. 🙂

    https://irreal.org/blog/?p=11737

    ericsfraga,

    @mykhaylo
    Ah, great idea! Very much in line with the Emacs philosophy: it's all text. 😊 Thank you.

    Private
    ericsfraga,

    @toddtyrtle
    Given the amount of rain coming down this weekend, here in the UK, I did #3 as well. 🙂


    @3goodthings

    pymander, to emacs

    I have a USB footpedal that I used back when I was doing a lot of transcription work. I now have it plugged in and bound to certain things in . Right now, just to 'paredit-backward' and 'paredit-forward'. What else would make good keybindings for it?

    ericsfraga,

    @pymander
    I would bind completion-at-point and flyspell-correct-previous-word as 2 commands I use all the time while writing prose.

    purplepadma, to random
    @purplepadma@beige.party avatar

    So I managed to focus fairly well on my work and not dive down my big ideas rabbit holes by being slow and methodical. I worked in silence as usually I listen to upbeat music but it’s better for my brain to have quiet. I’ll take some more diazepam this afternoon and I’ve got my bestie lined up to text me to remind me. I’m somewhat irritable and sensitive to noise which is par for the course for a high. But I’m doing OK

    ericsfraga,

    @purplepadma Today (so far) has been a "slow and methodical" day (other than giving a talk this morning) to get through the accumulated TODO list from a week of otherwise going down rabbit holes. 😉

    Just in time for the weekend! 🙂 (even if not all items on the TODO list have been done, just enough to not feel guilty.)

    ericsfraga, to cycling

    Why is it that motorists (because they are always motorists) feel that they should give me unsolicited advice to wear a helmet for "my safety". I don't give them (unsolicited) advice to lose weight for "their health". #cycling #BikeTooter

    ericsfraga, to privacy

    First it was television sets. Now it's cars. No privacy. I think I'll stick to riding my bike and reading books.

    #Privacy

    @Jeremiah 🔗 https://alpaca.gold/users/Jeremiah/statuses/111278597010939018

    andreaslindholm, to bookstodon Swedish

    Am I the only person who thinks that kobo.com is clunky when you want to find a book in the store?

    @bookstodon

    ericsfraga,

    @andreaslindholm @bookstodon not great overall but at least the search function usually finds me what I was looking for, unlike some other sites I buy books from.

    ericsfraga, to linux

    I absolutely detest #DRM, especially for #ebooks. 🤬

    Discriminating against those of us running #linux and that have no access to other operating systems (nor wish to use those other systems).

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