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So you need kill (or do something else to) something in Linux

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(Or, what if you can’t just click the bad thing with the skull until it dies?) Sometimes you need to kill something in Linux. Sometimes it makes sense to use some sort interactive process monitor, like the process table in Plasma’s System Monitor, or top or htop or bottom or some...

#pid #linux #terminal #commandline

on Feb 16

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Trials and Visions of Internet Relay Chat

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This was meant to be a shortish bit on a couple of points on a decent IRC set-up, including: some sort of persistence (a “bouncer” or the always-connected server) use with some sort of IRC client in Emacs some sort of reasonable mobile phone client It ended up longer than I...

on Mar 28

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Beautiful and Free Unicode Typefaces, for editor and printer (including a comparison of Latin Modern and Computer Modern Unicode)

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For my academic papers, I often need a typeface with a wide range of characters and diacritic combinations. Basic diacritics are supported by a wide range of fonts, but more specialised diacritics and particularly combinations of diacritics only work well in a handful of typefaces. I write my...

on Mar 20

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lambdacalculus

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on Feb 24

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C-c-c-conjecturing, and dealing with recursion in Emacs (more excursus)

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I’m not putting this in the lambda-calculus series, though it touches on issues from the last post in the series, but specifically issues of recursion. I was curious to go back and recall how The Little Schemer dealt with problems of recursion (and the Y Combinator (which we still...

on Feb 24

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Lambda Calculus and Lisp, part 2 (recursion excursion)

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From the previous entry in this series, one of the things of note in discussing the nature of the connections between LISP and (the) lambda calculus was John McCarthy’s concern about recursion and higher-order functions. A couple of excerpts from previous quotes from McCarthy on the...

on Feb 20

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Lambda Calculus and Lisp, part 1

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The first of a series of envisioned blog posts on lambda calculus, and Lisp. It’s unclear exactly where to start: there is a whole heap of interesting issues, both theoretical and in terms of concrete implementations, which tangle and interconnect. A particular application of lambda...

on Feb 18

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Using Emacs and Org-Roam/Org-Node on Android (with Termux Extra Keys)

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My main use of Emacs on Android (via Termux) is to be able to access and add to my Org-roam library of notes: to have access to a second brain while not at a proper computer. And this post is primarily about some Termux features which improve the experience for this use case. Trying to Cope with...

on Jan 31

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Guix, XIM, Emacs, Multi_key, Shft+SPC

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— Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about… <Multi_key>. — <Multi_key>? — Yeah. — Let me tell you about <Multi_key>…. "<Multi_key> is undefined" A bit out of order, but things tangle, a problem I’m having...

on Jan 22