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Posts by Karl Knechtel
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 ...
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...
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 tra...
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...
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 quest...
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 int...
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 fold...
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 f...
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, followi...
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 Wi...
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 memor...
