Thursday, August 23, 2018

End Climate Silence

See a story that the media should connect to climate change? Contact: End Climate Silence

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

a defense of climate tragedy

Brilliant: A Defense of Climate Tragedy, or What the Scientists Got Wrong about “The Uninhabitable Earth” - by Genevieve Guenther.


Saturday, May 20, 2017

my .emacs favs

(menu-bar-mode nil)

(defun force-revert-buffer ()
  "Force revert of buffer"
  (interactive)
  (revert-buffer t t nil)
  (message "Reverted"))

(global-set-key [S-up] 'previous-error) ; shift and up-arrow
(global-set-key [S-down] 'next-error)   ; shift and down-arrow
(global-set-key "\C-cb" 'compile)
(global-set-key "\C-cd" 'delete-rectangle)
(global-set-key "\C-cr" 'force-revert-buffer) ; read what's on disk
(global-set-key "\C-cg" 'goto-line)
(global-unset-key "\C-xm")

(setq inhibit-startup-message t)

(setq visible-bell t)

(setq line-number-mode t)
(setq column-number-mode t)

(show-paren-mode t)

(auto-fill-mode -1)
(remove-hook 'text-mode-hook #'turn-on-auto-fill)

(setq-default indent-tabs-mode t)

(setq transient-mark-mode t)

; get a unified context diff with RCS mode:
(setq vc-rcs-diff-switches "-u")

; set colors for vc-diff to be like "git diff"
(custom-set-faces
 '(diff-added ((t (:foreground "SeaGreen" :weight bold))) 'now)
 '(diff-removed ((t (:foreground "Red" :weight bold))) 'now)
 )

(setq indent-tabs-mode t)

(defun set-linux-kernel-c-mode ()
  "C mode with adjusted defaults for use with the Linux kernel."
  (interactive)
  (c-set-style "linux")
  (setq indent-tabs-mode t)
  (message "Linux kernel C style"))

(add-hook 'c-mode-hook   'linux-kernel-mode)
(add-hook 'c++-mode-hook 'linux-kernel-mode)

;; tell emacs C/C++ mode to fill comments all the way to the end of the screen.
;; The default value for fill-column is 70.
(setq-default fill-column 79)

Friday, May 05, 2017

one ubuntu Linux kernel build/install recipe


MAKE_OPTS="-j`nproc`"

make $MAKE_OPTS
make $MAKE_OPTS modules
sudo make $MAKE_OPTS modules_install install

cd /boot
for v in $(ls vmlinuz-* | sed s/vmlinuz-//g); do
        sudo mkinitramfs -k -o initrd.img-$v $v
done
sudo update-grub
sudo reboot

Monday, May 01, 2017

bret stephens

An important petition: Tell The NY Times: do not enable Bret Stephens to promote climate denial at your paper.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

us states and gdp

us states and gdp

Thursday, October 21, 2010

vc questions

stupid questions vcs ask