20220305

Open PDF files in vim-nox under Crostini (Chromebook/ChromeOs Debian)

Method 1 - good for VimWiki or plain text Zettelkasten using pdftotext (pdf -> txt)

Procedure
Put one of the following mappings in your vimrc:

:command! -complete=file -nargs=1 Rpdf :r !pdftotext -nopgbrk <q-args> -

Run with 
:tabnew
:Rpdf example.pdf

Method 2 use chrome browser as default application but has side effect of error
Run :term 
$ xdg-open ./<filename>.pdf

20220208

Tiny Core Linux 13 Released: Needs Just 46MB of RAM, 50MB of Disk

Drink tea and coffee

Get Rusted

"The Rust Programming Language
by Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols, with contributions from the Rust Community

This version of the text assumes you're using Rust 1.55 or later with edition="2018" in Cargo.toml of all projects to use Rust 2018 Edition idioms. See the "Installation" section of Chapter 1 to install or update Rust, and see the new Appendix E for information on editions."

20220129

Turning back time with epigenetic clocks

The finding that injury recapitulates ageing in epigenetic clock assays, Sinclair says, "points to a universal stress response that is beneficial because it tries to help the cells survive, but ultimately leads to ageing".

eh, I'll skip the growth hormone and diabetes meds and stay on plant based calorie restriction and TaiChi 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00077-8