Does anyone else wish tmux were modal like vim, ie. without a "leader" key? My conf file has a ton of custom key bindings for window / pane management, and I'd love for them to go away or become simplified by simply dropping into a "window management mode". Likewise, I'd like the command mode to stay open until I close it. I have some scripted hacks to do this, but it's nowhere near what I'd expect from true modality.
One of these days I guess I could get around to writing a patch. This single feature is probably my most wanted for any software at the moment.
Yes! Probably my biggest workflow pipe dream since getting some fluency in vim is to be able to drop into an "outside mode". I've cobbled something vaguely modal together for bspwm with abuse of shkd, so a lot of the binds map similarly, but like your solution it's far from ideal.
As for "Why would you want this?" For me, the straightforward answer is "modes are modular". A core concept in vim is that your input can be thought of as a string describing the edit you wish to make, and modes help me keep that manageable in my head: I can first think about the mode I plan to enter, and then separately what I plan to do under the constraints of that mode. It's a little hard to explain, and I'm sure acolytes of other paradigms have their own philosophies, but it fits in really well to my workflow.
It's a subtle thing in the limited world of text editing, but I definitely miss the semantics whenever I leave it, whether to a terminal or a browser or whatever. So for me, it comes down to wanting to bring the cost of task switching closer to what it is in the editor.
"It's a little hard to explain, and I'm sure acolytes of other paradigms have their own philosophies"
Yes, yes they do[1]. Some people (not me) are vehemently, religiously opposed to "modes":
"To promote his preference, as of 2010, Tesler equipped his Subaru automobile with a personalized California license plate with the license number "NO MODES". Along with others, he has also been using the phrase "Don't Mode Me In" for years, as a rally cry to eliminate or reduce modes."
Maybe because I'm an emacs user, I find it pretty intuitive. As a ratpoison/conkeror/emacs/tmux user I often find myself juggling at least 4 sets of prefix keys. It works surprisingly well, I just made sure they are in different places on the keyboard, so that I don't mix them up.
Odd. I'd consider myself a 'power user', but I hardly ever find I have that need. Could you describe what you do when you're entering several command-mode lines in succession?
it would probably be a relatively easy change to make this happen with key tables (which are in git), you would only need to change it so there is a way to permanently enter a key table (at the moment the key table is only entered until a command is run from it)
I'm not a hypochondriac, I swear, but this really hits home. I have medically diagnosed ADHD; seemingly contrary to the disorder, I often find myself getting stuck daydreaming for hours. I honestly _enjoy_ it, and as a consequence of my incredibly realistic daydreams I never get bored. Seriously--I never get bored. It's like a dopamine rush I can turn on whenever I want. My stories are better than any movie because I'm actually _in_ them.
The walking in circles bit is just uncanny. My most creative thinking (or most vivid daydreams) happen when I'm doing exactly that. It's really weird (and I'm acutely conscious of how it must look), so I never let people catch me doing it. Something about walking in circles turns up the realism an order of magnitude.
I think this is highly related to my ADHD, and now I want to tell my doctor about it. I don't want to rid myself of this, but I do want to control it better.
I've also experienced this since childhood. Being an only child and having two working parents, I had to find something to amuse myself all day. My imagination ran wild and I was able to create entire universes in my head. But it was never a problem, I never felt bogged down by this imagination, rather I felt a compelling urge to continue developing it. Perhaps it's because I never considered it a "condition", but rather a gift that I was given that other children didn't seem to have. They were forced to derive amusement from others or external sources like video games or a television, things I still loved but didn't feel dependent on. I think this early urge to create things definitely spawned my interest in both music and programming.
I would urge anyone who also experiences this not to take the OP's advice, instead, learn to embrace the gift you've been given and learn to control it with your own willpower. It is possible. Keep your imagination in its place, and don't take drugs to diminish it.
I don't agree with you. This has been a problem for almost 15 years. I can't get stuff done. I can't focus. Music triggers it, and I can lose entire months just doing nothing but daydreaming. It's been a genuine problem.
Doctors thought it was ADHD, and it could have been. But the medication hasn't helped with not triggering it. I'm going to look into the medication stated in the article. But where I am, the doctors are stringent with prescribing things. Took a year to ADHD pills.
I can relate.
I got ADHD as well and while the medication helps me focus when I am working, it doesn't help with staying on task or even beginning.
It doesn't help not wasting an entire day just day dreaming about stupid action-packed shit either :-/.
Let me know if you ever find a medication or solution that works. My only trigger is music, nothing else.
I noticed the author wrote Fluvoxamine worked, I will see if my doctor would prescribe it.
ALSO WOW.... I thought I was alone. It never occurred to me that I should google this, I just naturally assumed i was alone in this. This is some crazy shit.
3. Or, my favorites and much more western-friendly versions of the same message of "just live in the now, accept the present as it is and work with it, instead of evading into dream-land":
...the other thing maybe that you're just meant to live a more action packed life than you actually do. If nothing works, forget the medication and just go join the military or find something else that can give you enough "action-packed shit"... the world is pretty "rough and wild" if you go out of your USA/UK/EU "walled garden" you know. Go volunteer for the red-cross or other humanitarian organization in a conflict-zone African country for example. Some people actually need this and just fantasizing about it instead of getting it is just sad and wasteful.
I am sorry for being on a tangent but how old were you when you were diagnosed? I am 20, and I am having real trouble staying focused on one task and can definitely relate to what you said.
I was also diagnosed with ADHD as a child and twice as a teenager. Today I don't believe in non-material diseases anymore, but the point stands that people like you and I have this thing in common with the prolific daydreaming.
It's unfortunate it's characterized nowadays as a disease. I enjoy it a lot, and sometimes whole afternoons go by where I was lost in a daydream. I never need to take books or anything anywhere to keep me entertained during dead times as I know I can barely choose what thoughts will engulf my mind next.
Have you looked into Jungian types? Without having an opinion as to its validity, I can say reading a thorough INTP description made me realize that this is really not a disease and some people are just more prone to being this way. I've learned to accept it (by doing my own research as for what this is) and now I'm happy without any meds whatsoever.
In some creative professions, "daydreaming" fuels work output. Richard Branson has written about his dyslexia and how his business empire is built on his creative and strategic strengths, while operational weaknesses are delegated.
The two can go together: https://www.google.com/#q=add+entrepreneur . One limitation of any label is that there are many sub-types within a labelled group of non-neurotypicals. The most important tool is a shared language to define common challenges and solution strategies.
I have never used Yahoo pipes, but I found IFTTT to be quite limited when I tried it earlier this year. There are no booleans, pipeline control, arguments, scheduling, reuse, etc. I know this tool wasn't written for me, but these are things that I would derive real value from.
I want visual tools at a level just above a scripting language, hosted on a managed platform I can largely ignore. An API for webhooks and oauth, 3rd party API support, triggers that can run custom javascript or python... I'd pay all the money for that.
I find this style wholly garish. Thank you for giving me the vocabulary to describe it.
Mid-century modernism is whimsical, busy, distracting. More than anything, it belongs to our grandparent's generation; it's an admission that we didn't reach the sought after future of robots and space travel.
I would take sleek lines and monochromatic shades over this any day. This is just my personal opinion, of course. I'm very cognizant of the fact that many people appreciate this style and find my own to be bland and drab.
>it's an admission that we didn't reach the sought after future of robots and space travel.
Sought after by whom?
It's not something people particularly want (heck, most people don't even care for sci-fi enough to have a couple TV channels and quality Hollywood genre movies made)...
I wasn't born in that era, yet I am immediately conscious of the style being described. I think this is owed to both the cultural preservation afforded by film and photography as well as the nostalgia of the previous generation (there are undoubtably a disproportionate number of films set during this period).
This is not how Type I hypersensitivity works. Epitope recognition is powered by a biological RNG (somatic hypermutation) and evolves at runtime via the process of somatic / V(D)J chain recombination. Your body learns to be allergic, perhaps due to a bad ashy vent (you got sick that one spring), under-stimulation (play outside!), or just plain bad luck. Unfortunately for all of us, the immune system has no concept of the innocuous nature of harmless antigens. It will continue to pick up bad habits until the day we die. But thankfully it also keeps the trillions of cells, leaky programming, our own broken and errant self, and other uninvited guests that would just as soon eat us at bay (bacteria, viruses, cancer, fungi, nematodes, ...).
No. I described at a high level just one of the mechanisms of adaptive immunity--one of the most incredible biological systems in my opinion. (Runtime metaheuristics search!) These are complex pathways that involve many genes.
If the system isn't working you probably won't live very long. And while there may be certain functional alleles that may increase odds of an initial false positive stimulation, by in large the entire class of failure known as "allergic reactions" is simply a result of how the system itself works. You don't really need to invoke genetic differences to see how it fails. This is why the hygiene hypothesis is so strong.
There are actually four major categories of hypersensitivity that involve different cell populations and signalling pathways (eg. why poison ivy allergy is different from pine allergy).
If you're interested, the Wikipedia articles aren't a bad read. I also recommend Janeway's Immunobiology as a great intro to the entire subject.
Wow, so many memories you've just unearthed. I haven't played a nomic-based game since I was a teenager.
My online friends and I had a series of mostly text-based nomic instances where we would creatively write and world build, but there was this one crazy performance art piece where we hacked a phpBB instance to grant every user admin privileges. The experiment was in relative harmony for a few days before the first rounds of deletes and IP bans. After one or two attempts to regain equilibrium, there were rampant impersonations, terrible javascript popup spam and redirect loops, and disappearing server files (the joys of using PHP prior to formal CS education and any form of engineering discipline...). Finally we acknowledged that the experiment had been a great success when all HTTP requests returned 500s--testament, at least in our minds, of the ultimate fate of mankind if ever given absolute and unlimited power.
Then there was that time we piped say yes to each other's terminals, somehow creating a pospositive feedback loop. Or those dotfiles that brought down the whole server... none of that stuff was very nomic related, but ah... teenage years.
The hosting company certainly loved us. :') I hope every one of them got a raise for having to deal with our endless support tickets as a result of our own foolish and stupid games.
my friends and i were briefly fascinated by nomic after reading hofstadter's column on it[0], but somehow never played an actual game. my favourite nomic fact is that long-running games have sent ambassadors to other nomic games :) i can't even picture what that would involve in practice, but i love the idea.
[0] collected in "metamagical themas", highly recommended.
Given the recent judicial president set for revenge porn cases, I feel we need a similarly harsh ruling for those found guilty of swatting. This is a crime that could easily result in the deaths of innocent victims, and the punishment needs to reflect that.
Doxing for the purposes of shaming wouldn't be bad to punish either. I don't want us to become a vengeful police state, but this kind of cowardly behavior makes me angry.
Aside from training the police, FBI, et al., how do we go about stopping this from happening more frequently?
> how do we go about stopping this from happening more frequently?
I suppose there's more to it than just better police procedures, but I'm gobsmacked every time I read about a police force breaking down a door, or even drawing a gun, based on nothing but an anonymous email or phone call. It smacks of a system that's never encountered bad inputs before.
In a way it's surprising that actual criminal gangs didn't catch onto this years ago, and start swatting their rivals.
> In a way it's surprising that actual criminal gangs didn't catch onto this years ago, and start swatting their rivals.
In England it used to be the case that many reports to "Crimestoppers" (an anonymous tip-off line) were from drug dealers informing on the competitors.
I find it interesting how much analysis has been given to the tone of cperciva's comment. There is an awful lot of this going around lately.
What is the goal commenters in such threads are pursuing? To correct a wrong or misunderstanding? To show someone as biased or bigoted (or to advocate the other way)? Who are we training, and what is it we are teaching? Could it be done a better way?
Is the error cperciva may have made large or small? Does it have an impact? If insignificant, why does so much effort need to be expended? Otherwise, why are there not articles to reference on the issue? (Or are there?)
To be completely blunt, this all seems incredibly passive aggressive to me. I'm not talking about sexism--again, I'm simply referring to all of the meta analysis on communication and tone.
I am honestly curious, and my questions are not for dramatic effect. Could this all be short-circuited by a "I doubt the OP meant to trivialize XYZ, [...]" and be done with it?
I'd suggest it's a case in point for why the principle of charity is so vital to useful communication.
The trouble is that people's standard for whether or not a post is awful (belittling/sexist/etc..) tends to be whether or not they feel it can plausibly be interpreted that way. This is the wrong standard - we should judge a post awful when there's no other way to interpret it.
I made what looked like to me as an obvious interpretation, and then others made the opposite interpretation and said theirs was the obvious one.
Some discussion about the words in the comment is thus nice, as it hopefully helps everyone to understand why both interpretations are valid (or in extreme cases, reach a consensus on a single interpretation). I find in particular jsnell comment interesting, as it let me know how much value I unconscious applied into the phrase "just another".
Does StatusPage do anything that this software doesn't? Just curious, because I was thinking about setting up some form of simple monitoring, but I haven't as of yet investigated any of the solutions in this space. (Forgive me for not checking their homepage; I'd honestly prefer some anecdotal opinion.)
If the two are on par feature-wise, I suppose it comes down to the cost savings of maintaining your own versus the time savings of outsourcing the problem to someone else. It might be nice just to forget about monitoring maintenance.
Considering statuspage.io is set up in redundant data centers and has all the bells and whistles that you need, building and maintaining your own seems less and less desirable to me.
One of these days I guess I could get around to writing a patch. This single feature is probably my most wanted for any software at the moment.