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{
    "quotes": [
        "Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to\npredict the future is to invent it.\n-- Alan Kay\n", 
        "Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it)\nin programming.\n-- Donald Knuth\n", 
        "Lisp has jokingly been called \"the most intelligent way to misuse a\ncomputer\". I think that description is a great compliment because it\ntransmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our\nmost gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts.\n-- Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10\n", 
        "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people\nalways do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can\nbecome great.\n-- Mark Twain\n", 
        "What Paul does, and does very well, is to take ideas and concepts that\nare beautiful in the abstract, and brings them down to a real world\nlevel. That's a rare talent to find in writing these days.\n-- Jeff \"hemos\" Bates, D

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Fix WSL2 eating RAM

Make a .wslconfig file in your C:\Users\username folder. In this file you can set mulitple parameters, see following options:

[wsl2]
kernel=              # An absolute Windows path to a custom Linux kernel.
memory=              # How much memory to assign to the WSL2 VM.
processors= # How many processors to assign to the WSL2 VM.

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List top 5 directories eating up disk space in your current working directory, human-readable format

du -hs * | sort -rh | head -5

Explained

1. du command: Estimate file space usage.
2. -h : Print sizes in human-readable format (e.g. 1.5G).
3. -s : Display only a total for each argument.
4. sort command : sort lines of text files.

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% ssh -T git@github.com

ssh: connect to host github.com port 22: Operation timed out

% vi ~/.ssh/config

add the following to the config file

# allows git ssh

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VS Code fails to update

If VS Code doesn't update correctly once it restarts (with auto-updates enabled), it may be quarantined by macOS.

Option 1:

• Move Code out of Downloads and into the Applications folder.

If option 1 doesn't work & fix VS Code's failed update

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download the extension called background, extension ID: shalldie.background, on VS code.

This is what it will look like:

Copy the following inside your settings.json:

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sequenceDiagram;
Alice ->> Bob: Hello Bob, how are you?;
Bob-->>John: How about you John?;
Bob--x Alice: I am good thanks!;
Bob-x John: I am good thanks!;
Note right of John: Bob thinks a long<br/>long time, so long<br/>that the text does<br/>not fit on a row.;

Bob-->Alice: Checking with John...;
Alice-&gt;John: Yes... John, how are you?;

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function binary_search(x, sorted_collection, low = 0, high = null) {
  // x is target
  // sorted_collection I will assume is always sorted in ascending numerical order AND starting from 1
  // low is the start index
  // high is the end index
  if (high === null) {
    high = sorted_collection.length; // using .length will return 1 index higher as arrays start with a 0 index, not 1
  } else if (high < 0) {
    throw new RangeError("High index out of range");
  }

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function binary_search(x, sorted_collection, low = 0, high = null) {
  // x is target
  // sorted_collection I will assume is always sorted in ascending numerical order AND starting from 1, due to the test cases
  // low is the start index
  // high is the end index
  // initialise high to the last index of the array if it's not provided
  if (high === null) {
    high = sorted_collection.length - 1; // setting high as highest index, which start from 0 not 1 (hence the -1)
  } else if (high < 0) {
    throw new RangeError("High index out of range");

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for (let i = 1; i <= 100; i++) {
  let numString;
  switch (i) {
    case 1:
      numString = "one";
      break;
    case 2:
      numString = "two";
      break;
    case 3: