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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ericsfraga,

@angdraug @ajsadauskas @Ilovethebomb @lordriffington @tomiahonen
And pre-dating those, my N900 still works and has a keyboard!

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/

Likewise, to books
@Likewise@beige.party avatar

Short Stories.

Love ‘em, hate ‘em, somewhere in the middle?

Years ago one of my dear friends (who is a huge bookworm) and I were talking. She told me she hated short stories. I can’t remember why or if she even told me a reason. This conversation has stuck with me, because I struggle with them- why? I have no idea. I have tried different tactics to overcome this. I am s l o w l y reading one now, but I don’t gravitate toward it (not the one pictured, but it’s one I really want to read if I can ever get there).

I’d love to hear your thoughts.
#books #photography #fediverse #shortstories @bookstodon

ericsfraga,

@MikeHar94962844 @Likewise @bookstodon
For science fiction, there are plenty of sources of excellent short stories, e.g. Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Uncanny, ..., especially if you're OK with epub or PDF.

Of course, sometimes, a long story is what one needs! I like alternating.

daviwil, to emacs
@daviwil@fosstodon.org avatar

If you've got questions about Emacs, Guix, Guile, or other related topics and want a friendly place to ask them, come check out the new System Crafters Forum!

https://forum.systemcrafters.net

Things are a little bare for now, so feel free to come introduce yourself and tell us about something cool you've been working on lately :)

More information in the news post: https://systemcrafters.net/news/new-system-crafters-forum/

#emacs #guix #guile #scheme #lisp #linux #freesoftware

ericsfraga,

@daviwil @sqrtminusone @publicvoit Sorry David, I was not trying to say it's not useful to others and I understand your reasons for setting this up. I just find having to open up web browsers intrusive! As always, YMMV.

ericsfraga,

@sqrtminusone @daviwil Partly why web forums are such a poor substitute for USENET newsgroups. I dislike these forums and seldom use them (two exceptions: mobileread.com and pyra-handheld.com but visit infrequently even then).

I would love to see a systemcrafters usenet newgroup... maybe on feedbase.org? Just musing out loud here.

#Emacs

helenczerski, to mastodon

University College London shoutout! UCL is unwilling to set up a Mastodon account now, but they say that if there's lots of UCL presence here already it will nudge them in this direction. If you're at UCL or know someone who is, and you're on here, please reply to this to let us know! Current chief plotters: @sellathechemist , me and maybe more)

ericsfraga,

@helenczerski @sellathechemist @helenczerski

#UCL #Mastodon #Universities

I'm here and have been for some time! I would love to see UCL here.

masukomi, (edited ) to emacs
@masukomi@connectified.com avatar

[EDIT: help acquired. Details in replies]

#emacs geeks. A while ago i added something to my config that turned all characters after the 80th column red. I desperately want to turn this off in org-mode (or off entirely) but i can NOT figure out wtf is doing it.

I've looked for all the things SO answers have suggested, but I'm getting nowhere.

Help Please?

Config is here https://github.com/masukomi/masuconfigs/blob/master/.doom.d/config.el

ericsfraga,

@masukomi
whitespace mode?

ericsfraga,

@masukomi
Quoting from https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WhiteSpace:

lines whose have columns beyond ‘whitespace-line-column’ are highlighted via faces.

kyonshi, to bbs
@kyonshi@dice.camp avatar

set up a on my spare , and it works!

Mostly. I am still trying to get it to work with , and I still need to get email working.

I'm not sure why I should have a BBS in the first place, but there you go.

It mostly is actually intended as a server for groups. And it largely works. I can USE it as a server. I just can't pull any new articles from other servers right now, which makes this somewhat less than ideal.

ericsfraga,

@lextenebris @kensanata @kyonshi I also did my time in the coal mines of USENET (love that expression)! So long ago, in fact, that I was using USENET before the major hierarhy upheaval, when groups changed from net.comp, net.singles, and net.jokes to comp., soc., etc. ;-)

The tools we had were and continue to be excellent for the volumes you can get in newsgroups. I only use gnus now but I remember tin, nn, slrn, and others.

ericsfraga,

@kyonshi Can you recommend good #ttrpg newsgroups?

Hope you get your #nntp server going fully!

daviwil, (edited ) to random
@daviwil@fosstodon.org avatar

If a technical book was free to read on the web under a Creative Commons license, would you still buy a digital copy if it were made available in other formats? (Think PDF, ePub, Info, etc)

ericsfraga,

@daviwil
I did this (see my profile). People do buy other formats even if a free version is available on the Web.

CuriousMagpie, to bookstodon
@CuriousMagpie@wandering.shop avatar

I tried reading Consider Phlebas by Iain Banks but couldn’t get more than a few pages in to it. It got great reviews so it’s just not my cup of tea 🫖.
Instead I started The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi and am liking it so far.
#amreading @bookstodon

ericsfraga,

@CuriousMagpie @bookstodon

#amreading

I also failed to get into Consider Phlebas. Have up after 20-30 pages, IIRC. Too many books in my TBR pile to worry about it.

Currently mostly reading short stories & novellas from a number of SF magazines.

hl, to emacs
@hl@social.lol avatar

At work I have to do a lot of development in an on browser based IDE, which means no nice #emacs movement shortcuts like I'm used to, and moving around the code is painfully slow. The IDE does support #vi movements though, which I've been trying as a 'better than nothing' solution, and yeah, it's still hard. I don't think I'll ever get used to the logic of: if "h" is left/back, then "j" is down, and not up. Arghhh.

ericsfraga,

@hl Not that it will help but the logic was that C-h was backspace so h moves left and C-j was linefeed so j moves down. Doesn't, of course, explain k and l... 🤪
#emacs #vi

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

publicvoit, to random
@publicvoit@graz.social avatar

This spontaneous holiday project was the reason why I didn't work on most of the projects I actually planned for this week: re-arranging my by rotating it 90 degrees and completely re-doing with some longer cables. Had to put both speakers on desk.

Now, I'm much more flexible with my desk orientation.

Furthermore, it's now according to regulations with the window at the side and not behind monitors as before. 🤓

Still waiting for the new chair. 😔

Desk from behind with some extra cables hanging around for occasional working with additional hardware on the desk.
The back of my computer with its cable management and the somewhat chaotic cable management at the back of my desk.

ericsfraga,

@publicvoit Looks good!

I'm always amazed at how many people have monitors in front of windows. I would have a splitting headache within minutes. And I prefer to ponder things by looking out the window without being able to see the monitors. 😀

ericsfraga, to random

Lecture by #CoryDoctorow about to start.

mike, to random
@mike@fosstodon.org avatar

Happy Pi Day everybody!

Today is auspicious for another reason. 30 years ago today, in 1994, Linus Torvalds released the 1.0 version of Linux. Of course Linux had been available since the fall of 1991, but to me there's just something defining about a 1.0 release.

ericsfraga,

@mike But, for me, version 0.99pl12 will live in my memory forever as being the version that made it possible to use my PC properly for the first time! 🙂

Happy (USA) π day.

fox, to orgmode

With an Org-mode code block, is it possible to define a caption to be added on top of the result ?

#OrgMode
#Emacs

ericsfraga,

@fox What kind of result?

If you name your src block, you can add a #+caption: line before the named results generated by the evaluation of the src block.

#OrgMode #Emacs

boo_, to emacs
@boo_@im-in.space avatar

Switched from #straight to #elpaca in my #emacs configuration and I love the speed increase. The switch was relatively painless. Just had to make sure the latest elpaca was installed with elpaca-update and change around some stuff to actually load in the correct order, due to elpaca's asynchronous loading. Now, package loading is a much smaller part of the startup time compared to reading all my org-roam files 😄

ericsfraga,

@boo_ Interesting. I did not know that the different package managers had different performance. The performance aspect is not really an issue for me as #Emacs is my window manager and I only restart when I have to (maybe once very few weeks). However, how do the different managers compare in terms of, say, ease of use? I have never tried anything beyond the default package manager.

jtr, to emacs
@jtr@fosstodon.org avatar

Less org-mode, more Outlook? Why!?

I still love org-mode, and I still use it every day. I just realized there's one more area it doesn't work well for me.

#emacs #orgmode #outlook

https://taonaw.com/2024/01/03/less-orgmode-more.html

ericsfraga,

@jtr I feel your pain! 🙁 I still live in Emacs but having to deal with Outlook calendars for work is messy. I've resorted to sending calendar invites to myself from #Emacs (via gnus) and download the Outlook calendar to org using cron every 15 minutes. This way I have both the #orgmode agenda while at the desk and Outlook on the phone (when using a phone without keyboard as otherwise I simply use Emacs).

ericsfraga, to emacs

I am so proud of myself 🙂: I have just used for the first time ever and, drum roll, it worked! Did it via the command line as for some reason I get lost sometimes using in even though magit is fantastic for the usual activities.

ericsfraga, to london

New #Brompton cockpit with crossbar to be able to mount my camera and lights easily and, more importantly, aim them directly forward and not canted! Works very well. Testing out in night commute ride in #London.

#BikeTooter #UKCycling #cycling

ericsfraga, to emacs

Going slightly crazy. I updated and built from , which I hadn't done since last September. All kinds of weird behaviour. 🤔 In particular, I can no longer start up Emacs as my window manager (). Dies during initialization and --debug-init makes no difference. 😟 Serious debugging called for, I guess.

Luckily, I have as my backup and simply using Emacs full screen is almost as good as exwm... but not quite.

ericsfraga, to animals

Cat in the window. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

ericsfraga, to random

Borrowed the first book of the new year: The Space Between Us by Doug Johnstone. First of many for the year.

#bookstodon #library

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