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Soapbox - Wikipedia - A soapbox is a raised platform which one stands on to make an impromptu speech, often about a political subject. The term originates from the days when speakers would elevate themselves by standing on a wooden crate originally used for shipment of soap or other dry goods from a manufacturer to a retail store.

Random / Interesting

Playlist (Psilocybin for depression, Imperial College London, version 1.3) by Mendel Kaelen | Mixcloud

Random / interesting / ety / History is happening

Trending Words

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Haha.

Numpy reading from text and discarding comments

numpy.genfromtxt — NumPy v1.18 Manual - lines starting with “#” get discarded by default.

Random / Interesting

I really need to sort out where do I put my links, my short-form descriptions of links, my ideas, longer-form things if any.

I need to focus on “being happy” again; I know what to do, how to do it, and objectively - I have time for this.

All of the white people who joined Indian tribes loved it and refused to go back to white civilization. All the Indians who joined white civilization hated it and did everything they could to go back to their previous tribal lives. ¹

The Happiness Lab is relevant.

I need to synthesize this all in one nice post or article or work on progress or whatever.

Random / interesting

Sai - Essays: Meditation & energy work techniques

“It’s simple but not easy”

Intellij Idea / vim plugin / easymotion

You can write raw SVGs into HTML!

Just wow, I had no idea you could do that:

<b>Hi!</b>

<svg>
<line x1="0" y1="0" x2="10" y2="10" stroke="black"></line>
<rect x="0" y="0" width="10" height="10"></rect>
<circle cx="5" cy="5" r="5"></circle>
<ellipse cx="10" cy="5" rx="10" ry="5"></ellipse>
<polygon points="0,0 10,5 20,0 20,20 10,15 0,20"></polygon>
<polyline points="0,0 10,5 20,0 20,20 10,15 0,20" stroke="black"></polyline>
<path d="M65,10 a50,25 0 1,0 50,25"></path>
</svg>

(Found here: An introduction to d3.js in 10 basic examples)

English

I rest my case | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary: - “what just happened proves my point” - said by lawyers in a law court when they have finished the explanation of their case

Taskwarrior

For weird stuff like symbols hard to escape and deleting annotations or whatever, the edit command exists that opens vim and makes everything very easy.

numpy getting started

The Basics of NumPy Arrays | Python Data Science Handbook is a nice refresher on the numpy basics.

German

grundlegend | Übersetzung Englisch-Deutsch is ‘basic’. I was confusing it with gründlich | Übersetzung Englisch-Deutsch, which is closer to ’exhaustive’

Python unzip

To do the reverse of zip(), the way is list(zip(*previously_zipped_data))

Hypermodern python

Hypermodern Python · Claudio Jolowicz It has basics on how to write/run/publish a Python app in 2020, which is nice. Uses poetry and stuff. I don’t have much knowledge in such things. But next project I do will use some of the ways described in there, there’s no consensus on how to do it right but what’s described there is much better than nothing.

Project idea

Yet another nice unfinished project! I need something to unite flashcards and actual study material. I see something that gets markdown flashcards as input, and generates (via genanki¹?) actual flashcards to be imported into anki, but also (with pandoc?) nice readable latex/HTML thinges in column (a la “The little schemer”) form to review it better and/or print.

This is something I really miss now, since anki_import has some issues but I don’t want to learn perl to fix them. And I’d need the column format output.

qutebrowser bindings with specifying mode

Added this to config.py:

config.unbind('<Shift-Escape>', mode='passthrough')
config.bind('<Ctrl-Shift-Escape>', 'leave-mode', mode='passthrough')

Now I can use <Shift+Escape> in vim-mode of Jupyter Notebook! It’s used to go from insert mode inside a cell to operate on the cells themselves. I missed this. Additionally my bindings of “Ctrl” as “Escape” when clicked fast seem to work also inside other bindings! As in <Shift-fastCtrl> works as <Shift-Escape>. Wow.

Random / youtube-dl

Youtube-dl can download video from Reddit! Such as will she fall? (tutorial link in comment) : animation

Python backslashes and raw strings

Why can’t Python’s raw string literals end with a single backslash? - Stack Overflow - raw strings are not that raw and can’t end in a single backslash.

New vim highlight rules for markdown files

fun! SetBackslash()
    syn region mys matchgroup=ignore start=/^\s*\\/ end=/$/ oneline
    hi link mys EndOfBuffer
endfu

fun! SetQuestions()
    syn region dash matchgroup=ignore start=/^\s*\\+/ end=/$/ oneline
    hi link dash Statement
endfu

" fun! SetQuestions()
"     syn match mys /^\s*+.*$/
"     hi link mys Keyword
" endfu
autocmd filetype markdown :call SetBackslash()
autocmd filetype markdown :call SetQuestions()

Vim increase/decrease number under cursor

Ctrl+a increases the number under the cursor,
Ctrl+x decreases the number under the cursor.

Interesting / Random

• The Top 12 Fake Apologies – And What Makes for an Authentic Apology

• Кот Максим который, когда слышит записанные звуки котят, начинает их искать (Зум-квиз-радость)

English

An Ermine, aka Stoat, is the thing Lady with an Ermine holds.

{:width=“50%”}.

Can you hotlink images from wikipedia?

Yes.

Hotlinking is allowed from Wikimedia servers, but not generally recommended: this is because anyone could change, vandalise, rename or delete a hotlinked image. ¹

First found in The Trouble with Tribbles which I found through Voltaire - The Trouble with Tribbles (Song Only) - YouTube

Vim easymotion

Changed the default <Leader><Leader> mapping to s, that I never use, now everything is much easier!

Intellij Idea vim plugin

The * thing to search for word under cursor also works!

Random / Quotes

“Шредингеров кот” (с) Андрей