MichaelCurrie

name

clause-audit

description

A clause-by-clause self-editing pass that eliminates confused metaphors, misassigned predicates, inverted logic, and AI-tell sentence scaffolding. Use this skill ONLY when (a) the user explicitly requests it — asks for an audit, a clause check, "good writing," or complains about AI-sounding prose or mixed metaphors — or (b) the deliverable is final prose intended for publication or external readers, such as an essay, article, blog post, magazine feature, report, or manifesto. Do NOT apply it to chat answers, brainstorms, outlines, emails, summaries, notes, or intermediate drafts unless asked.

Clause Audit

Scope — run this only when it's warranted

The audit multiplies token cost roughly 8x and turns a 30-second response into minutes. Run it only when:

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Addendum: Legislative Pull Request

What follows are the specific text changes to Ontario statutes required to implement the proposals in https://michaelbcurrie.medium.com/a-modest-proposal-for-the-dead-88828530faa1.

An MPP would introduce these as a bill before the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. The responsible ministry is the Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery.

Design principle: These amendments achieve their goals primarily by removing restrictive text and broadening existing powers, rather than adding new machinery. The net effect is a shorter statute with broader utility.

Net changes: −50 words net across both statutes. ~280 words added, ~330 words removed. The biggest single cut is repealing s.51.1 (the lost document reporting section nobody uses), which alone removes ~200 words.

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# Install git-lfs
# (From https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/wiki/Installation)
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
curl -s https://packagecloud.io/install/repositories/github/git-lfs/script.deb.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt-get install git-lfs
git lfs install

# Add git-lfs to an existing repo

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#Drag-and-drop upload files, via JavaScript, to a simple Python 3 HTTP server

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Drop-in replacement for pandas.DataFrame methods for reading and writing to database:

    pandas.DataFrame.to_sql
    pandas.read_sql_table

For some reason the current (Jan 2023) implementation in Pandas
using sqlalchemy is really slow.  These methods are ~300x faster.

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def the_song_lyrics():
    while True:
         yield "This is the song that doesn't end"
         yield "Yes it goes on and on my friends"
         yield "Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was"
         yield "And they'll continue singing it forever, just because"

for lyric in the_song_lyrics():
    print(lyric)

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PEP-8 is a set of Python style recommendations. pep8 is a module that checks your .py file for violations. To make your Travis-CI build fail if you have any violations, you could add these lines to your .travis.yml:

before_install:
    - pip install pep8
    
script:
    # Run pep8 on all .py files in all subfolders
    # (I ignore "E402: module level import not at top of file"
    # because of use case sys.path.append('..'); import <module>)

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Connecting your local machine to an S3 bucket

Steps to get a file on your local machine uploaded to an AWS S3 bucket, and then downloaded and used in an AWS EC2 Ubuntu Instance. (In this case we do the reverse, but the process is similar)

STEP 1

Get security credentials to be able to use the AWS command line utility:

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# A script showing how to back up a MediaWiki server hosted on a remote Debian machine
# I run each line manually myself

# SUMMARY: Basically there are five things you should extract from the mediawiki server:
# 1. LocalSettings.php:   Get this from /var/www/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php
# 2. images.zip:          A zip file of /var/www/mediawiki/images which contains all the image data
# 3. dbdump20201011.sql:  A single .sql file which is a dump of every table in the /var/www/ MySQL mediawiki database,
#                         which you can create by running mysqldump
# 4. pedia_full_dump.xml: The content, by running php /var/www/mediawiki/maintenance/dumpBackup.php --full > pedia_full_dump.xml
# 5. mediawiki.zip:       A zip file of /var/www/mediawiki entirely (just in case we have other media or config stuff we need)

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Asset,Type,Asset Value,Debt,Net Value,Change vs 2015,Change,Stake,Latitude,Longitude,Notes
Trump Tower (New York City),Office and retail,471,100,371,-159,Down,1,40.768277,-73.981455,Opened 1983
1290 Avenue of the Americas (New York City),Office and retail,2310,950,408,-62,Down,0.3,40.768277,-73.981455,
Niketown (New York City),Office and retail,400,10,390,-52,Down,1,40.768277,-73.981455,Ground lease through 2079
40 Wall Street (New York City),Office and retail,501,156,345,-28,Down,1,40.768277,-73.981455,
Trump Park Avenue (New York City),Residential and retail,191,14.3,176.7,-27,Down,1,40.768277,-73.981455,"49,564 sq. ft. of condos; 27,467 sq. ft. of retail"
Trump Parc/Trump Parc East (New York City),Residential and retail,88,0,88,17,Up,1,40.768277,-73.981455,"11,750 sq. ft. of condos; 14,963 sq. feet of retail; 13,108 sq. ft. of garage"
"Trump International Hotel and Tower, Central Park West (New York City)","Hotel, condos and retail",38,0,38,21,Up,1,40.768277,-73.981455,
"Trump World Tower, 845 United Natio