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Aaand after a short downtime we start again! Today I will be reviewing again all the basics of Python OOP and playing with some game theory by programming a simple simulator, having open the PEP 8 — Style Guide, and focusing on not bottoming-out my keyboard keys.

Python

• Ankify import random and randInt(x, y)
• This is how __init__ and inheritance work in Python.

Scratchbox/stack

• How does the apropos thing work? Do I need to create a database for it? I think it worked out of the box before.
  • I needed to run mandb as root, and apparently need to do it every time a enew man page is added

Scratchbox/stack

• Why does Telegram open files in different programs than Telegram? Look again into xdg and the different mechanisms for this.
• I should try to make a Rührei sometime.
• And at this point I think I should remove the ‘purely technical’ part from the blog description, since until now there was more cooking than solved technical problems.
  • DONE
• I should buy a garment steamer! Dampfglätter

DNB and typing

• d3b 43% Thu 31 Jan 2019 08:36:05 AM CET

• d3b 36% Thu 31 Jan 2019 08:40:41 AM CET

• 87 WPM 97.2%

• 96 WPM 98.7%

• 101 WPM 98.5%

Bash

Updated my timer script, now it outputs the time when the timer was set along with the reminder.

tm() {
    local N="$1"; shift
  (utimer -c > ~/s/sounds/outbash $N && mpg123 -q ~/s/sounds/tib.mp3  &
      zenity --info --title="Time's Up" --text="${*:-BING} \n\n $(date +'%H:%M:%S %d/%m')")
}

\n for the newline, $() to insert command output in variable (though if I understand right backticks would have also worked), and date’s format because I will probably remember the year.

EDIT Doesn’t output the date when the timer was set, only when executed :C Need to move it to its own variable, I gues TODO for tomorrow. EDIT2 DONE!

tm() {
    local DATE=$(date +'%H:%M:%S %d/%m')
    local N="$1"; shift
  (utimer -c > ~/s/sounds/outbash $N && mpg123 -q ~/s/sounds/tib.mp3  &
      zenity --info --title="Time's Up" --text="${*:-BING} \n\n $DATE")
}

Python

The googletrans python module uses Google Translate’s web api to translate text. Look extremely useful, I should make a small CLI script for this. I seem to translate random stuff quite often.

Deutsch

• der ZAhler — whoever pays. Der ZÄhler — counter.

Quotes

Good ol’ alternative productivity. Getting lots of stuff done, but nothing important. Reddit

Digitaltechnik exam finished!

Here’s a really nice burndown about the states of every single project in the history of humanity:

{:height=“500px”}.

Typing

https://www.typingclub.com/sportal/program-3/328.play has a Dvorak layout!

Scratchbox/stack

• it would be interesting to make a static structure for these entries. And then make a template for them, with the right name/date/…
  • DONE! Made a script for this.

Interesting stuff for later

Stenography! With plover and this tutorial. It’s what I was trying to do but much much better on so many levels. The world is a really fascinating place. Installed plover, I will definitely play with it later. “Steno Hero” also exists.

Random / news

I discovered https://hckrnews.com/, its “top-10%” setting is awesome.

Scratchbox/stack

• Finally learn English apostrophes
• It would also be interesting sometime later to analyze the words used in these entries

Quotes

I feel like being obsessed with anything automatically makes it unattainable. It’s like the universe saying, “ you’re not behaving in a healthy way so you have not earned it being yours.” Its a handy way to keep myself in check. (Reddit.

German

Finally figure out the Unterschied between the words Unterschied u. Unterschiedlichkeit From this German StackExchange answer:

• Anders
  • Only word that works alone, without saying different from what
  • Der Hund is anders; der andere Hund.
• Unterschiedlich
  • An important but small attribute that makes things different that you want to accentuate:
    • Wuffi und Kläffi sind unterschiedlich. Sie unterscheiden sich an den Ohren: Wuffi hat Stehohren, Kläffi hat Schlappohren.
• Verschieden
  • Just different, without any specifics.
    • Natürlich sind Kläffi und Törti verschieden! Es sind schließlich verschiedene Rassen!

Not from dict.cc, but from my intuition:

• die Unterschiedlichkeit – the difference in a more abstract meaning.
• der Unterschied – the difference – especially one in particular.

Mechanical keyboards

Here are tips on how to improve ergonomics for better typing speed and comfort. TL;DR raise my wrists and lower my table/keyboard till I get a >90C angle.

Today I’ll get my mechanical keyboard <3

Deutsch

• Finally figure out bzw.

Scratchbox/stack

• Should I find a way to synchronize all my stacks? TG+T+Jekyll+…
  • Probably not
• Vim – add a way to delete things without it going to the y-regester
  • "_d does this through the black hole register!

Scratchbox/stack

• More ideas for xkb fun:
  • In vim, make nice shortcuts for usual things I use based on the mod/alt key or the Alt+F2
    • DONE
• Why did the .html file extension survive better than .htm, but the same didn’t happen for .jpeg?

Sport

I will be doing the Stronglifts 5x5 program in February! Should also read this. And follow the drink a lot of milk calorie gain thing.

Timewarrior

• For tasks with parentheses, they need to be escaped \(like this \), so that they don’t conflict with zsh.
  • Speaking of which, what do they conflict with?
• I should finally remember that it’s shorten @1 20min for timew, and 20m for utimer. I think it’d be easier to fix utimer than timew – I need to make them identical either way. I guess hypothetical TODO for later.

Scratchbox/stack

• I should learn the names of the German letters: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsches_Alphabet#Benennung_der_Buchstaben.
• Learn bash/zsh parentheses – what do they do exactly.
• I could make a specific i3wm-config for when I want to do Deep Work in Cal Newport’s meaning of the word? With different background and only two workspaces or something like this. Bonus points if I can switch to it dynamically.
• T add the dynamic font size change perl addon to urxvt
• I should make two different kinds of Scratchboxes – the ones which are time-sensitive and ones that are not.
  • And I should learn to ignore thoughts which are inconsequential and not with no chance to ever be acted on.
• Add to my timer the ability to do “tm 15:00” or something.

Deutsch

• der Pfad - die Pfade -> trails/paths
  • abseits ausgetretener Pfade – off the beaten track
  • TODO Ankify this
• Not Synchronizität, Synchronität. (at least in Schaltungstechnik).

Reading

• Isaac Asimov - The last question. Just wow. Just wow.

Taskwarrior

Added never-ending tasks like cleaning as the first numbers, so I can still track the time. To give them ids 1 and 2 etc., I moved them to the top of ~/.task/pending.data. I might consider making a patch so that it’s less of ahack? Or – even better – just scripts that interface with timewarrior with taskwarrior out of the picture completely?

Jupyter/markdown

• Bulletpoints are one asterisk
  • sub-bullet-points are +

* Bulletpoints are one asterisk
    * sub-bullet-points are <tab>+*

Scratchbox/stack

• I should make a better way to track repetitive tasks like cleaning with timewarrior. A bash script, prolly? Like track cl or sth similar.
• Create a day when I go through the scratchbox and paste it somewhere - let’s make it to a particular page on this DTB, and let’s make it wednesday.
  • but ideally recheck it once a day
• Add to my statusline on the big screen the output of timew for th ecurrent “Tracking”.
  • DONE
• Add a zsh command to make it easier to create new Jekyll posts, with correctly formatted name and content. I’m surprised that I have not found anything similar, it’s prolly there, but I haven’t looked enough.
  • DONE!
• Fix dates in all posts – the ones inside the header, not the name
  • DONE!
• add tags for not-work and deep-work to Taskwarrior, to better track time for clean work and various cleaning/social/lunch/whatever stuff.
• Calendar – add the symbols in a maximally configurable way instead of directly into tikz-kalender.cls
  • DONE ?
• How does \ifdate work inside tikz calendar, it’s like a globally defined command? Interesting I didn’t get that before.

German

• die Zahnbürste

Read 200+ pages of “Zen and the Art of Motocycle Mainenance” and drew a nice picture. After that went to Leipzig.

Resume

Added the new experience I forgot to add; very glad I could keep it still one page long.

TODO: Possibly change the template to make it less hack-y.

DNB

Scratchbox/stack

• T P.HP Find something to do with the Scratchbox at the end of each day? All three of them
• T h.it Add my vim spellcheck files with my custom words also to my dotfiles repo.
• T connect https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lastprognose with its English article about Load Forecasting;
• add aliases for zsh and basic taskwarrior tasks. t 123 start -> tws 123

Latex

\& istead of &, like with \%.

German

Again spellchecking everything, later will anki-fy this.

• Abschlüss -> Abschluss
• Nationale Technische Universität „Kiewer Polytechnisches Institut Ihor Sikorskyj“
• interdisziplinär
• Load Forecasting -> Lastprognose

PDF

Pdfunite is part of poppler. pdfunite in-1.pdf in-2.pdf in-n.pdf out.pdf

Vim

Decided to map my insert mode things to +whatever, started with this suboptimal way to insert the date: imap <F2>d <esc>:put =strftime('%c')<cr>kJA

Python

For progress bars:

from tqdm import tqdm
for i in tqdm(my_list):

Productivity

A match made in heaven. http://www.infinitelooper.com/ is my new favourite website.

Zsh

Added alias for anki-vim as av.