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Activity for Karl Knechtel
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #296236 |
Post edited: Grammar: "various" expects a countable noun; "assorted" works with a collective/material noun. |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296236 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
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Combining manual and automatic folding in Vim I set up some custom logic in my `/.vimrc` to detect certain things that I want automatically folded in my Python code: ``` au FileType python setlocal foldmethod=expr au FileType python setlocal foldexpr=Custom() function Custom() " assorted custom folding logic... endfunction ```... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #296056 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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Can I prevent Vim from treating the end of a line as a separate valid cursor position? I've been trying to set up a system in Vim that lets me treat a document full of spaces like a "text canvas", by overwriting them via `R` and so forth. Basically, it creates a temporary file with 23 (to allow for the Vim status line) lines of 80 spaces (so I can "draw" in the last column) each, a... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #295541 |
My thinking was that I could have two panes in tmux, a bash pane and a python pane, and use the first to capture the second... ? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #295541 |
This sounds exactly like what I was looking for. Just out of curiousity, though, is it also possible to do this capture *from within* the initial tmux session? I would think the running tmux process has all the necessary information to do so.... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #295187 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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How can I capture (with forethought) the final on-screen text of a command onto the clipboard? As a motivating example, when I write documentation for Python code I like to be able to start up a quick REPL session, play around with the code, and then copy and paste what appears on screen into the documentation. This is straightforward enough with terminal mouse support, but I'd like to be ... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #294001 |
How might I go about researching "the official internal generic key codes" for a given platform, or the system API for the keyboard events? (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #293843 |
Because your answer boils down to "I have no idea what's going on, but I tried turning it off and on again and it started working again". That's definitionally not a reproducible problem that others can analyze.
As for migration, see e.g. https://meta.codidact.com/posts/277280/ if you haven't ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #294000 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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What's the protocol for keyboards to communicate which keys were pressed? For context, suppose I ask (on Linux) a process to report to me about the exact bytes I send it - say, with `xxd -`. I press the right arrow key on my keyboard, then Enter, then Ctrl-D (to signal the end of input, implicitly quitting the program). And I get: ``` 00000000: 1b5b 430a ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #292254 |
Have you tried serially enabling or disabling the privacy measures to see what triggers the issue? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291813 |
It was indeed Balena. I hadn't forgotten this; I just didn't consider that the specific software was relevant to the question - so I wanted to pose it more generally, and thus more relatably for others who might ask. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291318 |
I think that's worth writing up in an answer, actually. (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291875 |
I do know the existing internals of my PC pretty well. As it happens, I always had a small SSD, and bought a larger one at the end of 2021; the PSU was replaced somewhere around there as well. For the CPU upgrade I'm planning, I'd have to replace the motherboard (and RAM) anyway, as it's far too ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291813 | Initial revision | — | about 2 years ago |
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Can I "multi-etch" boot media? A couple of years ago when I installed Linux, I followed some instructions to get an "etching" tool to load an ISO onto removable media for a live boot - in my case, a 4GB microSD card. It worked fine; the ISO took up a bit more than half the available space, and by plugging it in to USB via an a... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291751 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Understanding integrated/low-end GPU performance for budget upgrades My current computer is about 10 years old. It suits my current needs well enough, but in the future I'd like to do a bit more, so I'm think about some budget upgrades for CPU, motherboard and memory. Generally I don't do the sort of "gaming" that would benefit, but I have an interest in video edi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #291319 |
It can especially be hard to remember, for example, that Microsoft owns GitHub now. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #291318 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Understanding OAuth(2) security: what's a realistic threat model? Suppose I want to use some functionality on `foo.com` which requires associating my activity with me specifically - for example, posting on a forum, or playing some games and having the site keep track of my wins and losses. Rather than creating a site-specific account or trying to track me by IP... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #290913 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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What are the security or privacy implications of browser clipboard events? For context, I use Firefox to browse the Web. Some time ago, I followed some security- and privacy-oriented advice for configuring Firefox, which recommended (among many other things) disabling the `dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled` setting. My understanding is that this prevents the browser ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #290098 |
I feel like there isn't a lot of point to trying to design this sort of thing up front or have a "vision" for it. New software releases are unpredictable, and organizing tags at that level of detail doesn't seem to accomplish much when there are still so few questions anyway. I definitely appreci... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289720 |
`fstab` says the Ext4 partition is using the default options. I have no idea what the imaging and un-imaging(?) process actually does, nor do I really know what's implemented by NTFS itself vs. Windows when it comes to Windows file permissions. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289720 |
They were executable-by-default when I did it - for example, double-clicking my old text files keeps giving me dialogs about the files being executable and asking whether I want to display or run them. But thinking about it more carefully, I "migrated" the partition by imaging it from an old driv... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289764 |
I was able to find an old seemingly related Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/5anoqn/whats_the_deal_with_kvm_switches_why_are_they_so/ It seems that HDMI-based switches are expensive because of a) the need for HDMI certification and b) the design requirement of simultaneou... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289728 |
Post edited: add another cross-site Meta link |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289660 |
In case you can't find an answer here, you might try the LibreOffice-specific help forum at https://ask.libreoffice.org/c/english/5 . Better yet, if you get an answer there, please write up a corresponding answer here (with appropriate credit/citations of course)! (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289465 |
Is this problem consistently reproducible? Sometimes Internet connections are just not *reliable*, and intermittently drop to a small fraction of their full speed. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289728 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289728 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Are non power users questions welcome in Power Users? The benefits of allowing "easy" questions The Software site already had an analogous discussion and the consensus came out fairly strongly in favour of accepting and answering beginner-level questions. I'm a strong proponent of this idea in general, especially for technically-oriented sites; s... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289727 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289727 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Closing "unclear" questions Understanding question closure The main point I want to make here applies to Codidact as a whole, and possibly even to every Q&A site like it, even theoretically. Closure and deletion, following the model that our Seniors Elaborated for us, are separate steps. This is a deliberate design choic... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289315 |
I think you're very right that the question is hand-wavy. I offered as much information as I could based on what I thought you were looking for, and then kept looking back at the question and thinking "this part is exactly what OP doesn't want and considers unnecessary hand-holding", then looking... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289720 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289720 |
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— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #289720 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Linux distro and documentation for a Windows power user wanting to become a Linux power user without spending a lifetime in the process? It's better to start in the shallow end Even the "friendliest" Linux distributions usually don't get in your way very much, or try to force you to do things in a specific way to the extent that Windows does. I'm using the Cinnamon edition of Linux Mint - I think it's easier to think of this... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #289388 |
The question seems to be asking about cloning a *drive*, not just the Windows installation. A "C Windows drive", alternately described as a "C SSD", most likely also includes at least the Program Files folder, and likely the Desktop and other "standard" folders (I'm guessing from OP's apparent le... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |