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// I was really annoyed that I couldn't easily assert that a
// straightforward enum was being matched.  I'm sure there's a better
// way to do this but, hey, this is my first Rust macro.

macro_rules! assert_is_enum {
    ($left:expr, $right:path) => ({
        match &$left {
            left_val =>
                if let $right = *left_val { }
            else {

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

"""
Takes a filename as its required argument.  The file should contain
names from a sample list, one name per line.  It creates a Markov
chain of one, two, and three-letter character sequences, including
octothorpe-anchored sequences for the starts of names.  It then
generates 'n' random names, each using the probabistic distribution of
three-letter character sequences, to make names that match the
patterns fed in the original.

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# This file implements Brzozowski's parsing-with-derivatives (see:
# https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04695) with fairly simple and
# straightforward Python code.  This implementation is naive and
# subject to exponential memory growth in the worst case; in practice,
# average complexity is closer to linear.  This version recalculates
# derivatives every time they are needed; memoization, the first and
# most obvious optimization, is not implemented.
#

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#!/usr/bin/env nodejs

// ffoxsession is a little utility to dump the contents of your last
// known firefox session.  Works with 52 through 60 (so far).  Requires
// the lz4json utility (https://github.com/andikleen/lz4json), as
// Firefox uses some weird version of lz4 optimized for JSON data.

var fs = require("fs");
var os = require("os");

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; This is the "Write a Deque" exercise from SICP, section 3.3.
; 
; It took me THREE DAYS to get this right, and in the end, you know what
; really made the difference?  Doing it on paper.  Once I'd written out
; all the actions and in text described what I intended to do, this took
; less than an hour to put together.
; 
; This is my lesson: ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS describe the algorithm, no
; matter how simple, on paper first. ALWAYS explain it to your rubber
; duck first: https://selftaughtcoders.com/rubber-duck-debugging/

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#!/usr/bin/env python

# This is the current script I use to configure my laptop and my old
# desktop monitor.  My old monitor is an Acer H243, released in 2009,
# maximum resolution 1920x1200.  The laptop is crazy modern huge,
# 3840x2160.  This script picks out the identities of the monitors in
# xrandr, and their maximal resolutions, and then rescales the content
# so that the two monitors are displaying their best output.

# This code makes a lot of assumptions.  It assumes that your external

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

# GIT-RBAGO
#
# For any given git repository, this script will print out the
# (default) ten _most recently worked on_ branches, along with a
# fairly human-readable version of how long ago that was.
#
# Example:
#

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#!/usr/bin/env python3

# TUMBLON
#
# With Tumblr shutting down, I wanted to at least keep some semblance
# of the experience of Tumblr around.  Since I was able to download
# all of my tumblr blogs into separate local repos thanks to
# Beat Bolli's wonderful tumblr_backup tool
# (https://github.com/bbolli/tumblr-utils/blob/master/tumblr_backup.md),
# I just wanted it to spit out a few random images everyday I could

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{-# START_FILE package.yaml #-}
name:                {{name}}
version:             0.1.0.0

homepage:            https://github.com/{{github-username}}{{^github-username}}githubuser{{/github-username}}/{{name}}#readme
license:             MPL-2.0
license-file:        LICENSE.md
author:              {{author-name}}{{^author-name}}Author name here{{/author-name}}
maintainer:          {{author-email}}{{^author-email}}example@example.com{{/author-email}}
copyright:           {{copyright}}{{^copyright}}{{year}}{{^year}}2019{{/year}} {{author-name}}{{^author-name}}Author name here{{/author-name}}{{/copyright}}

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.PHONY: default help

default: help

help:   ## Print this help message
        @M=$$(perl -ne 'm/^((\w|-)*):.*##/ && print length($$1)."\n"' Makefile | \
                sort -nr | head -1) && \
                perl -ne "m/^((\w|-)*):.*##\s*(.*)/ && print(sprintf(\"%s: %s\t%s\n\", \$$1, \" \"x($$M-length(\$$1)), \$$3))" Makefile