In hope to give my old phone a second life, I’ve decided to root. After some research I’ve picked KingoRoot and the rooting went smoothly. Except it turns out that it is spyware and shouldn’t be used. I don’t understand why this didn’t come up in my initial research. Should be the first result […]
AutoKey is a great piece of software. Still works although last updates are few years back. Since it allows python script embedding it is incredibly extensible. Due to google code migration the documentation is no longer easily available but here is a link to the last snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20160505114501/https://autokey.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/scripting/index.html Mailing group (still active): https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/autokey-users Favourite script […]
There are a lot of guides/stackoverflow questions related to installing Oracle Instant Client and ROracle on Linux. I had to combine multiple sources to get it working. The guide uses the as of writing current version 12.1, change the version numbers below if you live in the future. Here is the end-to-end process I took: […]
Here is a not so endearing quirk in R: you have a binary classification problem for which you build say a logistic regression model. In order to conveniently work with the data and straightforwardly interpret the coefficients I recommend: factorize your target variable set the levels of the factor so that the level you want to […]
If you need to just quickly check if two files are same you can use cksum instead of the usual sha*sum or md5sum. cksum is much faster. The prices is that it is not cryptographically safe: it is possible to intentionally construct collisions. However, for all non-adversarial situations this is totally fine and you gain significant speed […]
Today, I was reminded about a major gotcha in ggplot2 (by making the mistake). How do you set limits on plots with ggplot2? Most common is to do simply: The problem with this is that ggplot removes the data outside the range before any plot happens. This is fine quite often – say you are just doing […]
It’s your editor dammit! Recently there was reddit discussion about proper finger placement on the most basic chords – next/previous line: C-p and C-n. Whether you should use your pinky or switch to modal editing is besides the point. The point is very simple: don’t discount the option of aggressively rebind your most commonly used commands […]
There are a few tutorials on setting up org2blog with WordPress blogs, but many of them are outdated and don’t yet use use-package. Setup your .netrc Open (or create an empty) ~/.netrc file and save you credentials. The content of my file: # machine machine-name login some-login password some-password machine suboptimum login YOURNAME1 password PASSWORD1 […]
Step 1: Pretty Bullets You can use org-bullets to get nice bullet symbols such as these: Here is my setup: You can omit the org-bullets-bullet-list: the defaults look quite nice, too. If you need inspiration, you can find an exhaustive list of utf-8 symbols here. Step 2: Fancy Todo States You can make your […]
This is how to force UTF8 in Emacs in all possible context. Emacs is quite stubborn, but with this setup I haven’t run into trouble yet.
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