20180106

Sat Jan 6 08:11:37 EST 2018 Slept from ten-thirty to seven-thirty. Woke briefly around one-thirty. High of nine degrees today. Goals: - Work on SpinMPC Done. - Chores (linens, laundry) Done. Changed sheets and towels, watered plants, washed a load of laundry. https://askubuntu.com/questions/194264/how-do-i-change-the-line-spacing-in-terminal > This has just been implemented in GNOME Terminal (and the underlying VTE terminal emulation library), and will be available in stable version 3.28 (VTE 0.52), to be released in March 2018, as a hidden setting. dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/cell-height-scale 1.5 dconf write /org/gnome/terminal/legacy/profiles:/:b1dcc9dd-5262-4d8d-a863-c897e6d979b9/cell-width-scale 1.2 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781479 Unfortunately, it hasn't hit Debian yet. Maybe I'll revisit urxvt. Man, unifying the Primary and Clipboard buffers with `autocutsel` has improved by experience more than expected! Hmm. Urxvt control-shift-hex Unicode entry doesn't work reliably when using CAPS remapped to control by `setxkbmap`. For example ctrl-shift-2014 doesn't work for — (em dash). Using the non-remapped control key works. I like the GTK ctrl-shift-u Unicode entry method better. Hmph. Urxvt doesn't seem to support proper scrolling in a secondary screen (i.e., scrolling content with the mouse wheel in vim or less). Overall, I like the VTE behavior, but I want more configuration options. I guess I'll probably stick with Gnome terminal, and be happy when the new VTE "cell-height" option hits Debian. Huh. It's possible to specify fractional font sizes in Gnome Terminal, and the spacing is a little more tolerable with some fractional sizes. "Ubuntu Mono" at 11.5 (points?) is tolerable. This is pretty good. I recognize a lot of things I've learned. > So you want to be a wizard? by Julie Evans. > Here's how I approach hard things and get better at programming! https://jvns.ca/wizard-zine.pdf Walked laps around the basement for ten minutes. https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/06/how-tier-2-cloud-vendors-banded-together-to-cope-with-spectre-and-meltdown/ > Earlier this week news broke of a pair of massive chip vulnerabilities dubbed Spectre and Meltdown (for an explainer see this post). We learned that the larger cloud vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been in touch with chip vendors and have been working behind the scenes to mitigate the vulnerabilities. But what about smaller cloud hosting vendors like Linode, OVH and Packet who were not in the inner circle? > Eventually six cloud providers — Scaleway, DigitalOcean, Packet, Vultur, Linode and OVH — formed a consortium of sorts to help one another and share information. In order to make the process more efficient, they started a Slack channel with CEOs, CTOs and engineers from the various companies sharing information and fixes as they became available. Lunch: chips, macaroni, coffee Dinner: sandwich, brownies

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