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phlummox / translation-style.md
Last active April 16, 2024 16:20
"Problems of translation", by Douglas Hofstadter (from Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid)

Different Styles of Translating Novels

... Suppose you are translating a novel from Russian to English, and come across a sentence whose literal translation is, "She had a bowl of borscht." Now perhaps many of your readers will have no idea what borscht is. You could attempt to replace it by the "corresponding" item in their culture – thus, your translation might run, "She had a bowl of Campbell's soup." Now if you think this is a silly exaggeration, take a look at the first sentence of Dostoevsky's novel Crime and Punishment in Russian and then in a few different English translations. I happened to look at three different

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phlummox / delegate.c
Created July 26, 2023 13:57 — forked from rusek/delegate.c
Interpreter path relative to script location in shebang
/*
Helper program for resolving the path to the interpreter executable
relative to the script location in shebangs.
Sample usage:
#!/usr/bin/delegate ../my-virtualenv/bin/python
import sys
def main():
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phlummox / Makefile
Last active July 26, 2023 13:58
"relative executor" program
CFLAGS = -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -std=c11 -O2
rel: rel.o
rel.o:
clean:
-rm *.o rel
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phlummox / readability-bookmarklets.md
Last active July 9, 2023 08:04
(Mobile) readability bookmarklets

Looking for a bookmarklet which improves readability on mobile devices. Such bookmarklets are sometimes called "declutterers" or "simplifiers".

readable from tastefulwords.com is one of the best-known examples.

Here is a modified and customised version of it by @akaleeroy and others.

But I've found the Mozilla customization of it tends to work better: https://github.com/mozilla/readability.

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phlummox / Readable-Bookmarklet.md
Created July 9, 2023 07:13 — forked from akaleeroy/Readable-Bookmarklet.md
Readable Bookmarklet

Readable Bookmarklet

Bookmarklet Browser Enhancement Readability

Readable dark theme

rdbl.us

Readable is an application that helps you read more of the web. It reformats text — on any website — according to your exact specifications.

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phlummox / gist:062f8e3faf5524c881714daf5def44f7
Created May 1, 2023 05:40
Debug output of "vagrant up" of box generic/alpine310, version 4.2.16
This file has been truncated, but you can view the full file.
Script started on 2023-05-01 12:07:01+08:00 [TERM="xterm-256color" TTY="/dev/pts/6" COLUMNS="116" LINES="31"]
INFO global: Vagrant version: 2.3.4
INFO global: Ruby version: 2.7.6
INFO global: RubyGems version: 3.1.6
INFO global: VAGRANT_INSTALLER_VERSION="2"
INFO global: VAGRANT_INSTALLER_EMBEDDED_DIR="/mnt/data/opt/vagrant/embedded"
INFO global: VAGRANT_INSTALLER_ENV="1"
INFO global: VAGRANT_EXECUTABLE="/mnt/data/opt/vagrant/embedded/gems/2.3.4/gems/vagrant-2.3.4/bin/vagrant"
INFO global: VAGRANT_LOG="debug"
WARN global: resolv replacement has not been enabled!
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phlummox / emulator-install-using-avdmanager.md
Created February 7, 2023 12:01 — forked from mrk-han/emulator-install-using-avdmanager.md
Installing and creating Emulators with AVDMANAGER (For Continuous Integration Server or Local Use)

Install and Create Emulators using AVDMANAGER and SDKMANAGER

TL;DR

For an emulator that mimics a Pixel 5 Device with Google APIs and ARM architecture (for an M1/M2 Macbook):

  1. List All System Images Available for Download: sdkmanager --list | grep system-images

  2. Download Image: sdkmanager --install "system-images;android-30;google_atd;arm64-v8a"

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phlummox / new-python-project-with-tox-and-pytest.md
Created January 17, 2023 05:07 — forked from gene1wood/new-python-project-with-tox-and-pytest.md
Example of the directory structure, setup.py, tox.ini and pytest tests for a new python project

Directory structure

projectname/                 [1]
├── projectname              [2]
│   ├── __init__.py
├── README.md
├── setup.py
├── tests
│   └── test_projectname.py
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phlummox / firebase.tf
Created January 12, 2023 11:30 — forked from zebreus/firebase.tf
Terraform configuration for creating a firebase project with firestore, functions and storage
# firebase.tf https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Zebreus/906b8870e49586adfe8bd7bbff43f0a8/raw/firebase.tf
# Terraform configuration for creating a firebase project with firestore, functions and storage
# Unfinished
terraform {
required_providers {
google-beta = {
source = "hashicorp/google-beta"
version = "4.11.0"
}
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phlummox / programming-as-theory-building.md
Created December 28, 2022 12:43 — forked from onlurking/programming-as-theory-building.md
Programming as Theory Building - Peter Naur

Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur

Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct