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Living Room / Re: What, if anything, has IMPROVED for you as a result of the pandemic?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 19, 2020, 08:43 PM »

I'm not a second class citizen working from home.

(then again, they also decided that now would be a good time to send us new windows 10 laptops, locked down so that we're not admin as devs and change the AD, so ... meh.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 19, 2020, 04:32 PM »

Tag syntax isn't standard markdown is it?

-Dormouse (October 19, 2020, 04:06 PM)

I guess not official markdown- but then there's a lot on markdown that's not official.  But I've seen it pretty uniformly done with hashtags indented in order to differentiate between those and headings.

I'm in two minds over extending markdown. As far as I can tell it's been standard practice for a long time and it's the only way to add functions elegantly. otoh it's a pita when apps disagree.
I find some standard markdown with two syntaxes for the same thing distinctly kludgy and some looks like poor design choices - but they're what we have, like qwerty and MS shortcuts.

Obsidian has just introduced block references. By definition that's another markdown extension.
For my money, old markdown has no way of coping with the new PKM uses and so those apps have to adopt their own usage. Preferably with some sort of tacit agreement, in the end, about what those extensions will be.
I prefer [[ ]], so I'm pleased it's becoming a standard, even if it hasn't broken through to editors yet. Editors won't understand other extensions, but that doesn't really matter because they probably won't have that functionality either, and if they decide to add it they will presumably go with the syntax that's been newly established.

-Dormouse (October 19, 2020, 04:06 PM)

I know that I've seen other implementations where they add references that are pseudo markup in order to get around this.  I've seen it in YAML headers where they have a part that's separate from the markup that provides file context.  But I can see how it's the same idea.  I guess the fact that this is inline is what really drew my attention to it negatively.  The one problem I've run across dealing with [[]] is how spaces and other things are represented- have a conflict in my VS code extensions that I just deal with that when I create them by clicking on the link to a new file (something that I love, by the way) two files get created- one with spaces, and one with - replacing the space.  One is also all lowercase, and the other cased as the label is.  I suppose it's not that big of a deal since I haven't done anything to try to figure out what extension is creating the lowercased and dashed file- I just delete it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 19, 2020, 12:58 PM »

I see.  But I still see it as inescapable.  All the tools out there are doing something to deal with links, tags, etc.

-superboyac (October 19, 2020, 12:16 PM)

Are they?  I haven't seen anything of that nature (other than [[]] which is becoming ubiquitous) in any of the solutions that I've tried.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 19, 2020, 11:31 AM »

It's not proprietary.  This guy is furthest from that as possible.  The triple bracket is simply an optional functional workaround to match better than luhrman's method of branching topics.  I think all the zettel software have certain workarounds, I don't think you can escape it.

-superboyac (October 19, 2020, 01:40 AM)

Proprietary might be the wrong term; It's a feature that is their specific implementation, so locks you in as you have a feature that you get used to using.  You can get locked into something more obviously by having your files held hostage by their system or the file format be something that is unable to be used elsewhere.  But a more insidious one is to enhance the format with features that are not usable in other software.  I dislike these because when that format is used in other software, it is obvious that there is something missing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 18, 2020, 10:29 PM »

But not sure if I'd want to be done with *even more brackets*. 😄 I already find double brackets annoying enough. But yeah, I like the root idea.

-JavaJones (October 18, 2020, 06:24 PM)

Agreed.  And I'm not really keen on adding features by changing the plain text document markup in ways that are proprietary to a certain set of tools.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 17, 2020, 10:10 PM »

they have a features filter so you can quickly find a most appropriate software for you:
https://www.noteapps.info/features

-panzer (October 11, 2020, 01:39 AM)

Problem is that they're wrong or misleading. They have Obsidian up now so I could just read to see how bad it is. Even by the standards of internet reviews, I'd regard it as a very shoddy job.

-Dormouse (October 17, 2020, 06:32 PM)

Totally agreed.  Didn't even have to look far to see how far afield they went on some of their evaluations.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Location of settings for FARR?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 17, 2020, 10:07 PM »

FARR and Everything are not the same type of program.  And a lot of FARR's conventions are because it is a program from an era before Windows had solidified its conventions for a lot of things.  But there's space for many different types of tools for many different types of users, so if Everything does what you want, then that's good.

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Living Room / Re: Studios can now own movie theaters

« Last post by wraith808 on October 17, 2020, 09:51 PM »

Hopefully not.  But the combination of the ruling and the pandemic doesn't look good...

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Living Room / Studios can now own movie theaters

« Last post by wraith808 on October 17, 2020, 01:20 PM »

This ruling hasn't been widely reported, and is only tangetial to things here, but I thought it worth discussing.

There Are No More Laws Preventing Studios from Owning Movie Theaters. Now What?

For more than 70 years, most big movie studios have been banned from owning movie theaters thanks to a ruling in a federal antitrust case. That's no longer true.

The Paramount consent decrees were established by a landmark Supreme Court ruling in 1948 in U.S. v. Paramount Pictures. The decrees banned major studios of the day from owning and operating movie theaters. Last Friday, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York ended the decrees, according to court documents.

More at the link.  Note that this happened just recently.  Not bad timing at all, right?

One of the quotes from the article:

"The 77-year-long law has allowed movie theater chains to build a wealth of screens across the country ... and if studios wanted to compete with those numbers, they have a lot of catching up to do," DiGaetano says.

"I don't think there's a lot of real estate for movie theater operations out there," he adds. "I'm not gonna say we're over-screened but there are a lot of screens out there."

Yes, there are a lot of screens out there.  And with the news out of Regal and AMC, they will be ripe for the taking.

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Living Room / Re: Software tycoon charged over biggest alleged tax evasion scheme in US history

« Last post by wraith808 on October 17, 2020, 12:03 AM »

The sadder part of this is that the person that ratted on him was the one that at the Morehouse commencement said that he was going to pay off a lot of students' debts.  It's unknown as that was charitable donations if it is going to be able to be honored.

https://news.yahoo.c...d-pay-204500089.html

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Location of settings for FARR?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 16, 2020, 11:57 PM »

Is there any way I can permanently change the location of these settings? I have some folders I use for settings used in multiple apps

-dordabis (October 16, 2020, 10:54 PM)

Not from my look at the options, though Mouser could tell you for sure.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Location of settings for FARR?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 16, 2020, 06:44 AM »

I think it's in C:\Users\[UserName]\Documents\DonationCoder\FindAndRunRobot.  This would also depend on it not being the portable version; since you didn't immediately see it in the directory, I'm pretty sure this is correct.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Show IP Address from domain name

« Last post by wraith808 on October 15, 2020, 02:28 PM »

You could make a simple GUI for it, (see PoshGUI), but the code will blow out past 13 lines

-4wd (October 15, 2020, 02:17 AM)

Not if you just output it to a grid

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Living Room / Re: Gadget WEEKENDS

« Last post by wraith808 on October 14, 2020, 07:48 PM »

Not a weekend, but a new gadget.  I joined the Kickstarter for the Suunlu Filadryer S1.  It's a storage and filament drying solution all in one.  Why do you need to dry your filament?  Have you had a spool that worked well out of the box, but over time, you've had problems with it?  In some cases, this can be because the uncured material can absorb humidity.  How much really depends on your environment.  There are other ways of drying your filament, but there's a point in temperature where the filament will start to soften (the same thing that your hot end does), and I'm not adventurous enough to try to walk that line in something like an oven.

Today I got it in- I haven't had a chance to try it, but figured I'd post my unboxing videos.



Some reviews from other sources.

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Living Room / Re: Animal Friends thread

« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2020, 03:27 PM »

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 47: October 2nd-5th, 2020

« Last post by wraith808 on October 07, 2020, 07:45 AM »

Congrats, Deo!

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Living Room / Re: Where would you go to hire someone to make a logo and/or video intro for you?

« Last post by wraith808 on October 07, 2020, 07:43 AM »

Looks like fiverr might be the way to go.

-mouser (October 07, 2020, 05:50 AM)

I wouldn't use Fiverr personally.  It undervalues talent and speeds the race to the LCD in artistic talent.  I've had to get logos done a couple of time, and I've used Deviant Art, ArtStation, and (in my case) RPG communities to find the talent.  You pay more, but it's a living wage for the work being done.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 06, 2020, 08:59 AM »

  I'll have to try that.  I've been using either/or.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 06, 2020, 08:31 AM »

So they're just munged together?  i.e. This Is My Topic ######.md?

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2020, 03:51 PM »

Do you sync the MD files to neuron or Github?  And does the github repo have to be public?

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2020, 12:21 PM »

Ideally, I want Neuron but with ability to just sync md files like pico.  You can do it, but i think only with github. 
If that guy would release his website code, Andy Matsuchashik, then that would be cool too.
Just trying to get an auto-published markdown site, with a dark theme, single column.  that's all.

-superboyac (October 03, 2020, 08:03 PM)

I think from this quote, dumped Pico.  His ideal seemed to have been Neuron, and he got it to work.

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: Incipitor

« Last post by wraith808 on October 04, 2020, 12:19 AM »

It's not windows S mode.  It's that they're removing our admin privileges.  I might be able to install things as a non-admin if they don't need the privileges, but they will also probably be scanning to see what's installed if the past is any indication.  So because of that, can you make it completely non-intrusive if need be?  I might be able to access HKCU, but I'm not counting on it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2021 / Re: Incipitor

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2020, 10:57 PM »

This sounds really useful!  Especially since they're taking away my ability to install things on the new laptop they're sending me 

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2020, 07:02 PM »

Pico theming is pretty complicated.  I'm currently using Skull on my site, and really like it.  I tried pure for a while, and it's not bad, but skull was more to my liking.  Ohters I tried, were clutter, dimension, notepaper (example), and story (example).

I was seriously thinking that NotePaper was going to be it- I had it up and running on a different site.  But I found the concepts of the theme constrained how I published, and didn't really like it.  But you're right, because of the use of twig, it's a bit more complicated that it seems, even if a lot more powerful because of it.  Once you get it down, it's pretty easy, though.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 47: October 2nd-5th, 2020

« Last post by wraith808 on October 03, 2020, 04:20 PM »