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sprayk··on Emacs and Vim
I really wanted to use Org-mode, but my vim muscle memory and lack of knowledge of keybindings to do useful things like copy/paste and move around with more than just arrow keys were preventing me from being productive. Finally got Evil installed and haven't looked back! Evil and Org-mode work great together.
sprayk··on Show HN: st – simple statistics from the command line
suckless' terminal emulator already uses the name st, though it's not quite popular enough to be in any major repos.

http://st.suckless.org/

sprayk··on Why Awk for AI? (1997)
Ah, so using python for stuff bash is usually used for. I thought OP meant writing python scripts to be used as components of bash scripts.

For _that_ type of python, I usually use the sh module[0]. It handles piping pretty well, especially if you use StringIO to deal with the pipes. Unfortunately, return code-based conditionals are nowhere as simple as || and && are in shell.

[0] http://amoffat.github.io/sh/

sprayk··on Why Awk for AI? (1997)
It has always pretty easy for me to read from and write to pipes in python, assuming you are talking about /std(out|in|err)/.

   from sys import stdin, stdout, stderr
   for n,line in enumerate(stdin):
      stdout.write(str(n) + '\n')
      stderr.write(line)
Is that the kind of reading and writing you are talking about?
sprayk··on The Liberator Pistol files removed by US DoD Trade Controls
The DoD in the title stands for "Directorate of Defence". It seems the text in the red banner at the top is incorrect.

DODTC deals with imports/exports of weapons/munitions. I guess it is technically "exporting munitions" if someone in another country downloads one of these files.

http://www.pmddtc.state.gov/index.html

sprayk··on Unreal Engine in JavaScript/HTML5 – Citadel demo
Looks cool, but crashed X w/ opensource radeon drivers.
sprayk··on _why's complete printer spool as one book [pdf]
I emailed _why once, asking him how I should cite his name in a highschool project I was working on. Here is his response:

  You can use my name (why the lucky stiff) and the date of
  publication (feb 16, 2004 - present) as frequently in your
  studies as you wish, so long as you keep your grade point
  average up and you diversify your elective credits with a
  broad portfolio of subjects.  I am specifically hoping you
  will bask in the study of 1930s Russian absurdist
  literature.  Oberiu is the name of the movement.

  I will never forget you.
Everything made sense after that, and the absurdist part of my world lit class that year.
sprayk··on Fully working DalvikVM on Xubuntu 12.04
What is the end goal of this effort? Running Android on GNU/Linux without a VM? Using Dalvik as a replacement for the usual JVM?
sprayk··on First Bitcoin ASIC, Delivered to Core Bitcoin Developer
I ended up on this page recently: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_hardware_comparison

Is this what you are looking for?

sprayk··on Rackspace accused of patent infringement for hosting Github
Would it actually be that simple? I can't imagine their lawyers would be lacking enough technically not to show the judge a phone or use a proxy.
sprayk··on Secure Shell chrome (killer) app
I believe this is the same terminal that replaces urxvt as the non-VT terminal in the newest version of ChromeOS (IE the one you access with Ctrl-Alt-T). I was worried when I switched to the dev channel on my Cr-48 and crosh opened in a new tab instead of a chromeless window.
sprayk··on GoDaddy Faces boycott over SOPA support
I had a few as well, switched them to gandi.net . All is well.
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