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Living Room / Re: 3D Printing - General Discussion
« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2020, 04:56 PM »
So you've never really posted your thoughts about your printer.  We've seen the results, but not your thoughts.  How do you like it?  How would you compare it to that printer I linked above?  Any tips or tricks that you've learned that would be good for a beginner?
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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2020, 04:54 PM »
@wraith808, thanks. Are you using hackmd? Looks nice.
-Nod5 (May 27, 2020, 02:36 PM)

Yes, quite a bit.  So much so that I pay for it.  I'm writing my book in it (it has a book type layout), and I thought reading this thread the autolinking feature would be nice for this system.
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Living Room / 3D Printing - General Discussion
« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2020, 01:49 PM »
So, I'm getting into this sometime soon.  I figured I'd make a thread for people to discuss their own forays into it, and collect some knowledge.

A few videos I started with to see Resin vs Filament (I've decided to go filament- toxic waste as a material doesn't appeal to me)









Some of those are old, but all went into the selection of filament for my printer selection.

I've also decided on a printer- I really should have gotten it while Amazon had it in stock, but decided to wait.  Hopefully it won't be too long.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08346QY9K/

Sovol SV01 3D Printer

My reasons for waiting
1. I don't have the models that I want yet
2. The person that's been helping me the most on it said that it was up priced $60 right now on Amazon (probably because a lot of people are buying them being at home with time on their hands).
3. I need to get the Silent board too, and wasn't ready to spent even more yet.
4. The things that I want to print haven't been released yet, so was hoping it would be back in stock by the time that I had the STL files.

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2020, 01:31 PM »
Alternate link for the above which doesn't rely on Medium's pay gate:

https://stoweboyd.co...ttelkasten-in-typora

After reading that, I'd think that if you can get around the need for having editable markdown, https://hackmd.io would be stellar for this!
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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten
« Last post by wraith808 on May 27, 2020, 10:56 AM »
I'm not sure about document structuring.  What I do see is that the cursor position on the preview would have to be fed back to the hidden markdown document.  The commands and text would always only work on the markdown document. I  don't see why it couldn't work in theory but I doubt there's enough processing power on most Android machines to do it in real time. There's already a noticeable lag in preview update and adding the fro to the to would kill it.

Very nice to hear that there are other people with the same wish because it feels totally against this bit of the zeitgeist.
-Dormouse (May 27, 2020, 02:00 AM)

If you want to be able to edit in the preview, Texts does just that, which is the reason that I don't use it.  I like to have my hands on the actual text of the document, but this software does it WYSIWYG and the backing file is just Markdown.  I was going to show some examples, but I can't run it right now :(

welcome_to_texts.png
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Affinity offers 90-day free trial/50% discount on all software
« Last post by wraith808 on May 21, 2020, 06:53 PM »
If you have questions on Publisher, start a thread and I'll chime in if I can help.  My designs are rather simplistic, so not sure of my depth of knowledge.  But I can try.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Affinity offers 90-day free trial/50% discount on all software
« Last post by wraith808 on May 20, 2020, 10:50 PM »
Oh yeah... mine was nowhere near that sluggish.  I'm on 1.8.3
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Affinity offers 90-day free trial/50% discount on all software
« Last post by wraith808 on May 20, 2020, 07:59 PM »
I've just never used those strokes, though I've used the vector brush and it's been fine for me.  I just tried switching the brush, and my results were similar to yours- so it seems to have to do with the custom brushes on the vector brush.  It seems that it's trying replicate fluid movement in the brush the whole extent of the stroke.  Not sure why they'd even do that- no paint brush I've seen alters the far end of the line as it's painting the end of the stroke.  The stranger thing is that it does the same thing no matter the brush type!  It really makes no sense in the case of a pencil to do that.

But I've had it since before Christmas- I use it basically to create book covers and composite artwork, and it's been fine for that.  I guess it really depends on your use case.
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Living Room / Re: Doordash and Pizza Arbitrage - Unloading capital cannons on customer acquisition
« Last post by wraith808 on May 19, 2020, 06:11 PM »
And the sad thing is, any company who tries to build a sustainable business model can't get a foot in the door because the customers will just say (for example), "why would I pay $24 for that pizza from you when I can get it for $16 from another company [which won't be around in a few years because they're not sustainable]?"

So in the end, neither model is sustainable in practice.
-Deozaan (May 19, 2020, 04:28 PM)

I once read where a speaker asked the question "If you could increase dividends at the cost of your company going out of business would you do that over healthy growth."  The question that he got in return was, "How much increase?"

At the end of the day, Companies will often(always?) try increasingly big – and risky – deals to push up growth rates and short term shareholder value.
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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« Last post by wraith808 on May 19, 2020, 06:05 PM »
I've seen it both ways. (Problem Is Between Keyboard and Chair)
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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor
« Last post by wraith808 on May 19, 2020, 01:09 PM »
PIBKAC error.
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Task Manager "Lite"
« Last post by wraith808 on May 16, 2020, 11:56 PM »
I cheated.  I'd had to do something like this a while ago, so had the code sitting around.  Just needed to clean it up!
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Post New Requests Here / Re: Idea: Task Manager "Lite"
« Last post by wraith808 on May 16, 2020, 09:38 PM »
Save to a .ps1 file and run

Code: PowerShell [Select]
  1. #Process Killer - allows the user to kill their own processes
  2.  
  3. #1. Initalize list of processes to exclude
  4. $processesToExclude = @(
  5.     'conhost', 'dwm', 'explorer', 'rundll32', 'taskhost'
  6. )
  7.  
  8. #2. Get the processes and add the list of processes and owners to the ownerList.
  9. $ownerList = @{}
  10. $procs = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Process
  11. ForEach($proc in $procs){$ownerList[$proc.Handle] = $proc.GetOwner().user}
  12.  
  13. #3. Create the master process list from the information retrieved above
  14. $masterProcessList = Get-Process | select processname,Description,Id,@{l="Owner";e={$ownerList[$_.id.tostring()]}}
  15.  
  16. #4. Filter out the processes for the current user
  17. $processList = @()
  18. ForEach($currentProcess in $masterProcessList)
  19. {
  20.     If($currentProcess.Owner -eq $env:USERNAME)
  21.     {
  22.         $processList += $currentProcess
  23.     }
  24. }
  25.  
  26. #5. Show interface with list of processes minus the ones we want to exclude
  27. $processList | Where{$_.ProcessName -notin $processesToExclude} | Out-GridView -Title 'Process Killer - Select the process that you want to kill. Select multiple with the Ctrl or Shift key.' -PassThru | ForEach{Stop-Process -id $_.Id}
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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!
« Last post by wraith808 on May 15, 2020, 09:12 AM »
they just created CommonMark which is a semi-standard
-wraith808 (May 14, 2020, 08:23 PM)
But it's not a standard, and not even the most common flavour from what I've seen. And it shows that a developer can hit a problem and just add an extension to deal with it.

I believe that the underlying problem is that markdown is not plain text. It's the old ram in a lambswool coat. Plain text is just text. When you start including display instructions, it stops being plain whatever symbols you use to add the instructions.

My own preference is always to keep text as text with display instructions separately.
-Dormouse (May 15, 2020, 08:03 AM)


Again, it's not a standard because of the stink around its genesis.  And I'd personally disagree on that point of separating the text from the markup- I've actually not seen it done totally separate in a way that makes even a modicum of sense.
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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!
« Last post by wraith808 on May 14, 2020, 08:23 PM »
There are already extensions to Markdown- that's the reason for the CommonMark fiasco.  They wanted to standardize so that people could know that this version of Markdown was the supported version.  That was shot down by the creator in a passive-aggressive fashion.  So they just created CommonMark which is a semi-standard.  From what I saw in there, they're using the CommonMark short link annotation standard now.

From https://www.srid.ca/5b963b1c.html

Simplified linking syntax #59
Several users requested that the syntax for linking to zettels be simplified. To that extent, Neuron now supports the following style of links:

* This is a link to a zettel: <5b963b1c>.
* It will automatically expand to the Zettel title
  that is linked in the web interface.
In short, to link to a zettel whose ID is “5b963b1c”, you only need to wrap it inside angle brackets. We are not using any special syntax here; this is what is known as Autolinks in the commomark spec. Neuron simply leverages existing linking syntax to allow you to link to zettels; and the Neuron renderer can automtically fill in the zettel title, and other metadata, during rendering stage.

Emphasis mine.  The github issue is https://github.com/srid/neuron/issues/59.  It references the syntax that you're referring to- they use this instead, so that's outdated.
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General Software Discussion / Re: some useful but less-known software. share your list!!!
« Last post by wraith808 on May 14, 2020, 01:49 PM »
Are they custom?  I thought that they were using the commonmark spec? And it only works on MacOS and *nix so not a consideration for me, though it looks nifty.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced
« Last post by wraith808 on May 13, 2020, 04:08 PM »
It does tell you that Microsoft is having a lot of trouble fixing Win10 at this time.
-Arizona Hot (May 13, 2020, 10:39 AM)

That wasn't my takeaway from that article...
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC Access Violation when selecting node that opens PDF
« Last post by wraith808 on May 13, 2020, 10:38 AM »
Question- what is that network node?
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LaunchBar Commander / Re: LBC Access Violation when selecting node that opens PDF
« Last post by wraith808 on May 12, 2020, 11:21 PM »
Where do you have LBC installed?
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DC Gamer Club / Re: Ludum Dare 46: April 17th-20th, 2020
« Last post by wraith808 on May 12, 2020, 11:19 PM »
Congrats!  Well deserved- I liked it a lot!
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Living Room / Keybase bought by Zoom
« Last post by wraith808 on May 08, 2020, 03:25 PM »
Oh well... have to decide if this is going to mean that I uninstall it or not.

https://keybase.io/b...g/keybase-joins-zoom
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General Software Discussion / Re: WikiWord Linking in MS Word
« Last post by wraith808 on May 08, 2020, 02:27 PM »
I'd like to use AsciiDoc, but after trying for a while, missed my tools that I use, so am back to Markdown.
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General Software Discussion / Re: WikiWord Linking in MS Word
« Last post by wraith808 on May 03, 2020, 02:20 PM »
a better way to manage my texts and research
-m9833 (May 03, 2020, 12:08 AM)

I am a HUGE fan of Markdown and use Joplin extensively for this purpose.  Think "Markdown Evernote" and you have it.

https://joplinapp.org/

-skwire (May 03, 2020, 07:19 AM)


Thanks for this!  I've tried a few, but this one has syncing which the others haven't so perhaps this will be my endgame!
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General Software Discussion / Re: Brave: A new browser with built-in adblock and payment solutions
« Last post by wraith808 on May 03, 2020, 02:04 PM »
 :Thmbsup:
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Living Room / Re: Pandemic Quarantine DonationCoder Zoom Meet and Greet May 2nd
« Last post by wraith808 on May 02, 2020, 09:16 PM »
Well that was quite an experience.. We had 300 hard core donationcoder members show up for an amazing debate.
And we gave away some great prizes -- two new cars and $500k in cash prizes.
-mouser (May 02, 2020, 04:49 PM)

Sarcasm much?  ;D
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