E-scooter Nots

The question is should we get e-scooter for the van?

Requirements

• 10" tires
• Removable battery so we charge then inside the van.

Possibilities

• X7
• Levey

Places to Intervene In a System

(in increasing order of effectiveness)

9. Constants, parameters, numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards).
8. Regulating negative feedback loops.
7. Driving positive feedback loops.
6. Material flows and nodes of material intersection.
5. Information flows.
4. The rules of the system (incentives, punishments, constraints).
3. The distribution of power over the rules of the system.
2. The goals of the system.
1. The mindset or paradigm out of which the system — its goals, power structure, rules, its culture — arises.
By Donella Meadows - http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/

My Turn for Covid Vacine

The following came for the New York Times

Based on your risk profile, we believe you’re in line behind 118.5 million people across the United States.

When it comes to Connecticut, we think you’re behind 1.2 million others who are at higher risk in your state.

And in Litchfield County, you’re behind 56,500 others.

Possible Charties

Some where I saw that you should plan on giving 4% of your income.

• Feeding America - big all over the country but is supposed to be good.
• Direct Relief - another big organization but highly rated.
• The Nature Conservancy - not asefficient as the other two but a differnt kind of project.
• Maximum Impact Fund probably the best way to maximize what you give.

Default bracket mappings

By default, lh-brackets comes with a few ready-to-use mappings: * some are global and apply to all filetypes, * other are specialized for various filetypes: * C and C++ * HTML * Javascript * Markdown * Perl * Ruby * (La)TeX * VimL

The default mappings can be inhibited with the options (bpg):cb_no_default_brackets, g:cb_enable_default and g:cb_disable_default. See :h :Brackets-default.

Global mappings

The following mappings apply to all filetypes (unless specified otherwise, or specialized).

Notes:

• ¹ Not defined to avoid hijacking default vim key bindings.
• ² The visual mode mappings do not surround the current marker/placeholder selected, but trigger the INSERT-mode mappings instead.
• ³ No newline is inserted by default. However, hitting <cr> in the middle of a pair of curly-brackets will expand into {\n<cursor>\n}.
• ⁴ This mapping is neutralized for text filetypes – the list of text-filetypes is defined in lh#ft#is_text()
• «» represents a marker/placeholder, it may be expanded with other characters like <++> depending on your preferences.
• These mappings can be disabled from the .vimrc by setting g:cb_no_default_brackets to 1 (default: 0)

C and C++ mappings

See lh-cpp documentation for the complete mappings table.

The main differences from the global table are: * } jumps to the next non whitespace/newline character that is a } if g:cb_jump_over_newlines equals to 1 (default case). If you want to jump after the } only if it’s exactly right after the cursor, then set g:cb_jump_over_newlines to 0 in your .vimrc. See #26. When not jumping, } is simply inserted.

• In visual mode, <localleader>{ surrounds the selection with a pair of curly brackets (and newlines are introduced).
• <tt> is recognized as an opening bracket (I use it a lot to write Doxygen code instead of \c when I need to type several things).
• ; will try to close parenthesis – set (bpg):[{ft}_]semicolon_closes_bracket to 0 to inhibit this setting.
• <bs> take care of semi-colons after the closing curly-bracket – set (bpg):[{ft}_]semicolon_closes_bracket to 0 to inhibit this setting.

HTML mappings

The main differences from the global table are: * Typing < twice results in <, and <> results in >. * In visual mode, <localleader>< surrounds the selection with a pair of angle brackets.

Javascript mappings

The main differences from the global table are: * In visual mode, <localleader>{ surrounds the selection with a pair of curly brackets (and newlines are introduced).

Markdown mappings

New mappings are avaible.

Notes:

• ¹ Not defined to avoid hijacking default vim key bindings.
• ² The visual mode mappings do not surround the current marker/placeholder selected, but trigger the INSERT-mode mappings instead.
• ³ Within a pair of backquotes (code marker), formatting pairs are not expanded
• ⁴ Right after spaces at the beginning of the line, * is not expanded: it will serve to start a new point in a bullet-list.
• <bs> has been updated to handle the new pairs of brackets.

Perl mappings

The main differences from the global table are: * In visual mode, <localleader>{ surrounds the selection with a pair of curly brackets (and newlines are introduced). * In visual mode, <localleader>< surrounds the selection with a pair of angle brackets.

Ruby mappings

• In normal mode, <C-X>{ replace begin-end block by {-}, or the other way around.

(La)TeX mappings

New and specialized mappings are avaible.

Notes:

• ¹ Not defined to avoid hijacking default vim key bindings.
• ² The visual mode mappings do not surround the current marker/placeholder selected, but trigger the INSERT-mode mappings instead.
• In (La)TeX, <++> is used as a placeholder instead of «».

VimL mappings

New and specialized mappings are avaible.

Notes:

• ¹ Not defined to avoid hijacking default vim key bindings.
• ² The visual mode mappings do not surround the current marker/placeholder selected, but trigger the INSERT-mode mappings instead.
• ⁵ except after an if, a while, or within comments. Still this rule knowns an exception: within a string, or after a \, < is always converted to <>. Does not handle special characters like '< and '>
• ⁶ except for comments, and special attention is given when the cursor is within strings