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Github provides no facility to do this via the UI. This is sad, because it would be extremely useful in order to draft something before publishing it. It would also be trivial for them to implement. Never mind; here's how to do it manually:

1. Get the "Clone this Gist" text from the left-hand side of the private Gist, e.g. https://gist.github.com/b9cc265982870c091a1e.git, and extract the ID b9cc265982870c091a1e.
2. Go to https://gist.github.com/ and create a dummy new public Gist.
3. Get the "Clone this Gist" text from the left-hand side, e.g. https://gist.github.com/8270253.git, and extract the ID 8270253.
4. git clone git@gist.github.com:b9cc265982870c091a1e tmp-dir && cd tmp-dir && git push -f git@gist.github.com:8270253.git

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PHP semantics

Motivation

PHP is usually included in the top five or six most popular programming languages, as measured by various metrics implemented by e.g. [Tiobe][], [LangPop][], [PYPL][], [lang-index][]. Alongside it sit C, Java, Obj-C, C++, C#, Javascript, and Python. All of these have a formal semantics or at least a rigorous specification.

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rename() {
  [ "$#" -ne 1 ] && echo "Usage: rename <file_path>" && return 1
  local temp_file=$(mktemp)
  echo "$1" > "$temp_file"
  "${EDITOR:-vi}" "$temp_file"
  local new_path=$(cat "$temp_file")
  mv "$1" "$new_path"
  echo "$new_path"
  rm "$temp_file"
}

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#!/bin/bash

# Usage:
#
#     sudo ./restore-file-from-package.sh <filepath>
#
# Restore a file from the package that provides it.
#
# Source: http://askubuntu.com/a/67028/30482

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import { PutObjectCommand, S3Client } from '@aws-sdk/client-s3';

const s3AccessKeyId = "Y64W56U7IE85W46JH";  // Generate key at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens
const s3SecretAccessKey = "y546wu7ie5u435y/7uei564sy5u6w57";
const s3Bucket = "foo";  // Assumes your Space is https://cloud.digitalocean.com/spaces/foo
const s3Region = "nyc3";  // Get this from "Endpoint" at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/spaces/foo/settings
const s3Endpoint = "https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com";  // From "Endpoint" at https://cloud.digitalocean.com/spaces/foo/settings, prepend 'https://'

const s3Client = new S3Client({

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$ curl -v https://unpkg.com/slate-react@0.66.7/dist/slate-react.js
*   Trying 2606:4700::6810:7eaf...
* TCP_NODELAY set
* Connected to unpkg.com (2606:4700::6810:7eaf) port 443 (#0)
* ALPN, offering h2
* ALPN, offering http/1.1
* successfully set certificate verify locations:
*   CAfile: /etc/ssl/cert.pem
  CApath: none
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS handshake, Client hello (1):

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import tensorflow as tf

try:
  # pydot-ng is a fork of pydot that is better maintained.
  import pydot_ng as pydot
except ImportError:
  # pydotplus is an improved version of pydot
  try:
    import pydotplus as pydot
  except ImportError:

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From https://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message4424714/pg1, so you don't have to create an account. Discussed on Twitter.

The George Floyd Ritual Part 2

Criminal acts of brutality, violence, and bloodshed occur every day. Let's ignore those tragedies, and keep the spotlight on George Floyd, who the Media compares to Malcolm X and MLK.

In a previous post, linked below, I showed how George Floyd’s death was a ritual. Now we need to go down another rabbit hole, to examine the Masonic element to his death.

The ritual lasted 8 minutes and 46 seconds do you know why? Before I reveal the hidden meaning, I have to lay the groundwork. Numerically, the digits add up to 18, which is 6+6+6. Others might look for a Bible code, like John 8:46 or something of that nature. I’ll let you think about it.

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// Open https://www.strava.com/routes/new, then copy/paste this code in the debug console.
// It should print results like this, showing that it can't find routes at the prime meridian:
//
// lng: -1.0, errCount: 0
// lng: -0.9, errCount: 0
// lng: -0.8, errCount: 1
// lng: -0.7, errCount: 0
// lng: -0.6, errCount: 0
// lng: -0.5, errCount: 0
// lng: -0.4, errCount: 0

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Having read a few proofs that the halting problem is undecidable, I found that they were quite inaccessible, or that they glossed over important details. To counter this, I've attempted to re-hash the proof using a familiar language, JavaScript, with numerous examples along the way.

This famous proof tells us that there is no general method to determine whether a program will finish running. To illustrate this, we can consider programs as JavaScript function calls, and ask whether it is possible to write a JavaScript function which will tell us