Any other comedian, if I don’t laugh at their jokes, it’s because they aren’t funny.
With Norm [Macdonald], if I don’t laugh at his jokes, it’s because I’m not funny.
― Darren W
Author: grant
How to start the Bitcoin Testnet node on macOS
This is how to start the Bitcoin Testnet node on macOS.
It creates an function btctestnet for convenience.
This configuration loads the txindex so I can lookup transaction information too.
btctestnet ()
{
open /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt.app --args -txindex=1 -testnet "$@"
}
Automatically open read-only files in View mode
When you open read-only files in Emacs, you probably won’t want to attempt to save them. Emacs will warn you if you try and help you deal with it. However, most of the time, it is interruptive to your flow to deal with it—most of the time, we never want to modify read-only files.
In that case, View mode will make it easier for you:
Toggle View mode, a minor mode for viewing text but not editing it.
When View mode is enabled, commands that do not change the buffer contents are available as usual. Kill commands save text but do not delete it from the buffer. Most other commands beep and tell the user that the buffer is read-only.
Enable it automatically with
(setq view-read-only t)
Via EmacsWiki!
What is better: vented or un-vented attics?
Fun introduction to the system model for ventilation and engineering design of attics.
Seriously.
Here you go.
How to get “Local Pickup Only” items delivered to you
Great listings on online auction sites are often “Local Pickup Only”. It would help to have a friend who lives there who can ship it to you. If you don’t, then, fortunately, you can hire one.
I haven’t tried it yet, but sites like TaskRabbit seem to be the way to get stuff picked up and delivered to you.
I wish I knew about this when that perfect Macintosh SE/30 got listed in Los Angeles!
Wisdom And Wonder’s RSS URL Is Changing: Please Update Now!
Here is the new RSS feed.
Please update before it is too late!
Forty-two of you won’t see any more posts unless you do.
Can you ever set your standards too low?
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
—Michelangelo
What dash should I use when attributing a quotation?
- Use an EM-DASH, which is this:
—- Not an EN-DASH, which is this:
– - Nor a HYPHEN-MINUS, which is this:
-
- Not an EN-DASH, which is this:
- Do not leave a space between the EM-DASH and the name.
For example:
Wisdom begins in wonder.
—Socrates
AppleCrate II: A New Apple II-Based Parallel Computer
Here is a High Performance Computing (HPC) system with sevente Apple II motherboards: one controller and sixteen nodes.
It is probably as great as you imagine.
A Hand-Held Mobile Computer Running Python
Here is a hand-held mobile computer running Python.
It does GRAPHING pretty well too!