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  Thread: What do your usernames mean?
Post: RE: What do your usernames mean?
It's actually a semi-funny story. TL;DR: It was given to me. The story goes like this: I love Star Wars, and always thought the Sith were way more interesting than the Jedi. Villains in general are m...
 darthlukan 72 56,697 11-08-2017, 03:38 PM
  Thread: Your dream project
Post: RE: Your dream project
I've been reading through Window Manager docs and trying to write one myself for a while. Every time I get some headway, I scrap it and start over, never satisfied with my garbage C skills. I want to ...
 darthlukan Programming On Unix 25 21,003 26-07-2017, 02:43 PM
  Thread: People complaining about your tiny font
Post: RE: People complaining about your tiny font
When people ask me about my small font size I just say "I'm far-sighted and smaller fonts simulate distance for me." Whether it's true or not doesn't matter, they leave me alone. I am far-sighted and ...
 darthlukan Desktop Customization & Workflow 21 17,982 02-06-2017, 06:04 PM
  Thread: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
Post: RE: Your Latest Workflow Improvement
A small thing I did recently that has made things a tiny bit easier on myself is to use ZSH's Vi mode. I spend most of my time at work in various vim sessions with several shells open for performing v...
 darthlukan Desktop Customization & Workflow 163 134,374 03-05-2017, 12:39 PM
  Thread: cd script
Post: RE: cd script
Remove `exec bash` from the script and set an alias for your script that looks like: `alias uni=". script_name.sh"`. Note the "." in the alias, "." is an alias for `source` which imports code to the s...
 darthlukan 6 7,084 03-05-2017, 12:19 PM
  Thread: hello
Post: RE: hello
Welcome to the club!
 darthlukan 8 6,717 07-04-2017, 08:41 PM
  Thread: Stance on programming languages
Post: RE: Stance on programming languages
At work? The best tool for the job. A lot of people say that but never provide their criteria, so here are the major points I consider in order to determine whether or not a language is the best tool ...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 20 19,424 07-04-2017, 12:51 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
At the job? Designing and building an industrial VR (simulator) platform for my employer (a startup in Orange County, CA). At home? I'm finally starting to have a little time to myself, so I've been ...
 darthlukan Programming On Unix 414 303,647 23-03-2017, 10:41 PM
  Thread: keybase.io - users thread!
Post: RE: keybase.io - users thread!
https://keybase.io/briantomlinson I have 23 invites if anyone needs one :)
 darthlukan Off topic 33 27,887 15-03-2017, 11:18 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
(29-11-2015, 10:00 AM)ninjacharlie Wrote: (28-11-2015, 11:29 AM)darthlukan Wrote: I'm working on a horror/psychological thriller video game :) [Image: http://i.imgur.com/OQQiRVO.png] Which engine...
 darthlukan Programming On Unix 414 303,647 16-12-2015, 10:35 AM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
I'm working on a horror/psychological thriller video game :) [Image: http://i.imgur.com/OQQiRVO.png]
 darthlukan Programming On Unix 414 303,647 28-11-2015, 11:29 AM
  Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
@dsplayer14 awk
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 173 137,585 16-11-2015, 05:08 PM
  Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
@z3bra - You are correct :)
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 173 137,585 16-11-2015, 01:09 PM
  Thread: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
Post: RE: The Guess What I'm Talking About Game
I'm useless on my own what I produce is pointed away all of the time... ... usually to a file few will ever use my arguments Who am I?
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 173 137,585 16-11-2015, 12:53 PM
  Thread: Favorite Terminal Applications
Post: RE: Favorite Terminal Applications
music: mpd + mpc video: mpv file Manager: coreutils irc client: weechat terminal emulator: rxvt-unicode system monitor: htop text editor: vim screenshot: scrot torrent client: rtorrent image viewer: f...
 darthlukan BSD 115 88,265 07-11-2015, 08:02 AM
  Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
@Wildfyr - ALSA requires dmix / software mixing to handle multiple audio streams at once. I'll load up my .asoundrc after work so you can see how I had to set it up (based on info from the Arch Wiki)....
 darthlukan Desktop Customization & Workflow 33 25,061 29-10-2015, 08:13 AM
  Thread: Audio and music on Unix
Post: RE: Audio and music on Unix
I keep it simple: ALSA + mpd + mpc. I've no need for other stuff so I haven't dug into other sound options for over a decade.
 darthlukan Desktop Customization & Workflow 33 25,061 24-10-2015, 07:02 AM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
(20-10-2015, 12:18 PM)z3bra Wrote: pass(1) accept the -c flag to copy the password using xclip (hard dependency), but it should be easy to write (or find) a wayland based equivalent for use in sailf...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,339 21-10-2015, 02:31 AM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
(20-10-2015, 02:05 AM)venam Wrote: This seems like an awesome way to get rid of GUI password managers. @venam - Yeah, I like it. I'm currently in the process of thinking about a script or two that w...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,339 20-10-2015, 02:28 AM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
Dear UNIX Diary, Today I decided to perform some due diligence on the LastPass / LogMeIn debacle and discovered that it would really be in my best interests to use something else. Enter "pass: The s...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,339 19-10-2015, 02:10 PM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
@pranomostro - I think of it as an abomination that I only use because it happens to be a requisite for the bulk of the projects that my employer has me working on. Using any of the many other languag...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,339 16-10-2015, 02:29 AM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
Dear Unix diary, I've always wanted to learn more C so that I'm not a danger to any system I try to compile code for, but I lacked the motivation to dig deeper until recently. What changed? I wanted...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,339 15-10-2015, 04:44 PM
  Thread: What are you working on?
Post: RE: What are you working on?
I'm slowly working on a project generator tool called Progeny as well as some customization of the scripts included in wmutils that I keep in my dotfiles repo. Those are the two "big" ones so far as p...
 darthlukan Programming On Unix 414 303,647 09-10-2015, 07:23 AM
  Thread: hey
Post: RE: hey
echo "Welcome\!" > @schisma && exit
 darthlukan 12 8,383 08-10-2015, 07:10 PM
  Thread: Let's see your githubs, and let's get forkin'
Post: RE: Let's see your githubs, and let's get forkin'
Here's to necroing long-dead threads: my Github profile.
 darthlukan Community & Forums Related Discussions 29 19,537 07-10-2015, 02:53 PM
  Thread: UNIX Diary
Post: RE: UNIX Diary
Dear UNIX diary, Today I learned enough sed and awk to be slightly more than just dangerous. I know that this feeling of unstoppable-ness is premature since I will most-likely cause more harm than g...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 188 178,339 05-10-2015, 03:03 PM
  Thread: Post your website
Post: RE: Post your website
@dkeg - I'll get with the project leads about that, I think we're almost ready to go public :)
 darthlukan The WWW 127 119,557 05-10-2015, 08:35 AM
  Thread: Post your website
Post: RE: Post your website
Here's mine. It's nothing special, I have it pretty much just as a simple "About Me" page.
 darthlukan The WWW 127 119,557 04-10-2015, 04:56 PM
  Thread: Kill one, marry one, fuck one - Unix edition
Post: RE: Kill one, marry one, fuck one - Unix edition
Kill: Windows Marry: CRUX Fuck: CRUX I'm faithful that way. :)
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 46 35,539 04-10-2015, 04:53 PM
  Thread: Jobs general
Post: RE: Jobs general
@ashen - I like it a lot and it does require a lot of "out of the box" thinking. There's a scene in a movie (Apollo 13, I think) where the scientists on the ground are sitting in a room full of equip...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 27 44,015 04-10-2015, 04:52 PM
  Thread: Your PROMPT
Post: RE: Your PROMPT
Here's to necroing threads :P My current (zsh) prompt: [Image: http://i.imgur.com/5jHNAX3.png] Explanation: The green "dotted box" represents the user, because the user (dot) lives within a boxed-i...
 darthlukan Desktop Customization & Workflow 49 39,504 04-10-2015, 09:53 AM
  Thread: How Important Do You Think Math Is To Programming?
Post: RE: How Important Do You Think Math Is To Programm...
Like @xero said, being able to setup the equation is more important, but if you know how to setup the equation, then you know the steps needed to solve the problem in the first place (you're just slow...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 12 11,751 29-09-2015, 01:22 PM
  Thread: Balancing a busy life: help me
Post: RE: Balancing a busy life: help me
One thing that I did when I was in school was seriously evaluate how it is that I learn most effectively. I noticed that the homework for subjects that used to be "easy" for me were taking up a ton o...
 darthlukan Off topic 6 6,035 25-09-2015, 03:22 PM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
(23-09-2015, 12:58 PM)venam Wrote: I think there's something wrong with your colors, they're not the same all over the place. Yeah, I'm working on that still, this is just the current state of thing...
 darthlukan Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,076,581 24-09-2015, 02:19 AM
  Thread: Unix screen-shots thread!
Post: RE: Unix screen-shots thread!
Hail Hydra! dotfiles
 darthlukan Desktop Customization & Workflow 1,739 2,076,581 23-09-2015, 12:31 PM
  Thread: What phone are you using?
Post: RE: What phone are you using?
I use a Jolla Phone with Sailfish OS 2.0. It's basically a Linux distro on a barely-mid-range-specced phone. Here's an imgur album of screenshots taken a few minutes ago
 darthlukan Hardware talk 48 40,769 21-09-2015, 04:32 PM
  Thread: Post your ringtone
Post: RE: Post your ringtone
@z3bra - I switched from Android and haven't looked back. There's plenty of things missing so far as native apps, but it has good enough Android support that if I REALLY need something, I can just in...
 darthlukan Off topic 15 11,472 21-09-2015, 04:21 PM
  Thread: Post your ringtone
Post: RE: Post your ringtone
I am using the default ringtone for Sailfish OS since I have a Jolla phone (Sailfish OS 2.0 is AWESOME!): Jolla Music Ringtone
 darthlukan Off topic 15 11,472 21-09-2015, 12:11 PM
  Thread: How old are you?
Post: RE: How old are you?
@075 At your age, my wife and I started dating, two years later we were married (and still are) :)
 darthlukan Off topic 120 84,526 17-09-2015, 04:36 PM
  Thread: Battlestations!
Post: RE: Battlestations!
Hail Hydra! [Image: http://i.imgur.com/d5InVwS.jpg]
 darthlukan Desktop Customization & Workflow 256 230,213 17-09-2015, 03:11 PM
  Thread: Downtime
Post: RE: Downtime
I was freaking out earlier like "Did I break it? Was it all just a dream? How did I get addicted so quickly!?!" :)
 darthlukan Community & Forums Related Discussions 11 8,633 17-09-2015, 03:04 PM
  Thread: How old are you?
Post: RE: How old are you?
31, I'll be 32 next year. I had to confirm that with my wife, she remembers ages better than I do. To me, age becomes irrelevant after 18, hence why I easily forget how old I am. /ramble
 darthlukan Off topic 120 84,526 17-09-2015, 03:03 PM
  Thread: Show us your terminal
Post: RE: Show us your terminal
Super minimal. Since I use ZSH's pushd and popd so much, I always know where I am, which means I don't need to know if I'm in a source repo or not either (my old prompt was "agnoster" from oh-my-zsh)....
 darthlukan Desktop Customization & Workflow 38 34,083 15-09-2015, 03:34 PM
  Thread: Jobs general
Post: RE: Jobs general
I'm a Software Engineer for a Norwegian tech company. My formal title is "Digital og Web Utvikler" (Digital and Web Developer). I do enjoy my job very much. My focus is integration, so most of my day...
 darthlukan Psychology, Philosophy, and Licenses 27 44,015 15-09-2015, 01:23 PM
  Thread: Tips for a *nix python cli
Post: RE: Tips for a *nix python cli
Yeah, there is an assumption that while you're executing via cli, you're working in something that makes sense to receive a notification, like a WM. I use that snippet when I run background jobs that ...
 darthlukan Programming On Unix 11 10,871 15-09-2015, 10:29 AM