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"""Make Groups

# Problem

https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/7awlm1/

I am a teacher and every year we have overnight excursions where we have to
organize rooms for around 100 students however there are a number of
requirements when organise these rooms:

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Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

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# /etc/systemd/system/reboot.service
[Unit]
Description=Reboot Service

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/bin/systemctl --force reboot

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import sys

class Record(object):
    __slots__ = ()

    def __init__(self, *args):
        assert len(self.__slots__) == len(args)
        for field, value in zip(self.__slots__, args):
            setattr(self, field, value)

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"""Simple TCP Proxy

Receive connections on one port and forward them to another port.

Example:

    $ python3 -m http.server 8080     # Start an http server on port 8080
    $ python3 tcp_proxy.py 5000 8080  # Proxy port 5000 to 8080
    Open http://localhost:5000/ in Chrome

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"""Server-side I/O Performance in Python

Based on the article and discussion at:

https://www.toptal.com/back-end/server-side-io-performance-node-php-java-go

The code was posted at:

https://peabody.io/post/server-env-benchmarks/

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html {
    max-width: 70ch;
    padding: calc(1vmin + .5rem);
    margin-inline: auto;
    font-size: clamp(1em, 0.909em + 0.45vmin, 1.25em);
    font-family: system-ui;
}
body {
    line-height: 1.6;
}

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# Convert .m4v to .mp4

$ ffmpeg -i input.m4v -c:v libx264 -c:a aac output.mp4

# Convert .mp4 to .webm

$ ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 30 -b:v 0 -b:a 128k -c:a libopus output.webm

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from itertools import cycle, slice

fizz = cycle('', '', 'fizz')
buzz = cycle('', '', '', '', 'buzz')
pairs = zip(fizz, buzz)

for pair in slice(pairs, 30):
    print(' '.join(pair))

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Dotfiles Management

https://mitxela.com/projects/dotfiles_management

alias dotfiles='git --git-dir=/home/mx/.dotfiles --work-tree=/'

dotfiles config --local status.showUntrackedFiles no