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require 'ap'
require 'mail'

# String monkeypatch
# This is one of many possible "encoding problem" solutions. It's actually an intractable problem
# but you'd have to read "Gödel, Escher, Bach" to understand why...
class String
  def clean_utf8
    # self.force_encoding("UTF-8").encode("UTF-16BE", :invalid=>:replace, :replace=>"?").encode("UTF-8")
    unpack('C*').pack('U*') if !valid_encoding?

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

needs() {
  local bin="$1";
  shift;
  command -v "$bin" > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
    printf "%s is required but it's not installed or in PATH; %s\n" "$bin" "$*" 1>&2;
    return 1
  }
}

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javascript:(function(){var%20password;var%20regex=/^(?=.*[A-Z].*[A-Z])(?=.*[a-z].*[a-z])(?=.*\d.*\d)(?=.*[!@#$%^&*].*[!@#$%^&*]).{20,}$/;do{password=Array.from(crypto.getRandomValues(new%20Uint32Array(25)),%20x%20=>%20"ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789!@#$%^&*"[x%20%%2070]).join('');}while(!regex.test(password));alert(password);})()

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grandfather_gong() {
  function needs() {
    local bin=$1;
    shift;
    command -v $bin > /dev/null 2>&1 || {
      echo "I require $bin but it's not installed or in PATH; $*" 1>&2;
      return 1
    }
  }

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Twitter Account Owner Info

You

What can you tell me about the person who owns this twitter account? https://twitter.com/pmarreck

ChatGPT

The Twitter account @pmarreck is owned by Peter "Not an AI Doomer" Marreck. According to the description on his Twitter profile, Peter is a secular-humanist technologist. His interests include tech, Elixir (a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications), gaming, open source, Linux, Apple, biking, and sailing. He is also a United States Air Force (USAF) veteran. He uses the handle @pmarreck@genserver.social in addition to his Twitter handle. His professional background appears to be in software development, as he identifies himself as a software developer, programmer, and software engineer. He joined Twitter in August 2008​​.

You

Can you assess his personality from his tweets, replies and likes?

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Materialist Model's Potential Incompleteness

pmarreck>

Is there any evidence that the materialist model of the human body is incomplete?

ChatGPT4>

The materialist model of the human body, often referred to as physicalism or materialism in the context of philosophy of mind, is the view that everything that exists is no more than the sum of its physical parts. This includes the human body and mind. According to this view, all phenomena, including thoughts, feelings, and consciousness, are the result of physical processes and can be explained through the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology.

This model has been incredibly useful in scientific understanding and has led to many advances in medicine and psychology. However, it is not without its challenges and criticisms, some of which suggest that it may be incomplete:

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defmodule MathThatShouldHaveBeenInStockElixirAlready do
  def int_pow10(num, 0), do: num
  def int_pow10(num, pow) when pow > 0, do: int_pow10(10 * num, pow - 1)
end

defmodule NumbersToWords do

  alias MathThatShouldHaveBeenInStockElixirAlready, as: Math

  def parse(0), do: "zero"

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Peter R. Marreck

Port Washington, NY 11050
203.570.4096
peter@marreck.com

Education

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
B.A. Psychology, Computer Science (minor)

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Background: It has come to my attention that an abundance of baffling occurrences plague our universe.
Theory: A fundamental force exists, intricately intertwined with the rampant absurdity we witness.
Behold:

Introducing the latest particle, the ridiculon.
The ridiculon is the diligent messenger of the force of Ridiculosity.
Ridiculous things spew them at a rate directly proportional to the sheer ludicrousness or imbecility they possess, and these particles engage with matter through a cosmic dance known as universal ridiculosity thermalization, wherein stupidity yearns to disperse until it reaches an equitable distribution.
Ridiculons themselves are the noble steeds upon which ridiculosity gallantly spreads throughout the cosmos.
The more preposterous a thing, the more ridiculons it emits, and anything that survives the onslaught of nonscattering collisions with ridiculons becomes increasingly ridiculous each time such a collision transpires. Although the ridiculon is weightless whilst stationary, it acqui

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AWK Script for Quotes

You

I have a text file with a list of quotes (example excerpt below). Some of the lines are header lines for the section of quotes following, which begin with 3 or more hyphens. I want an awk script that selects a random non-header line, determines its header (the nearest line above it that starts with 3 or more hyphens), and then outputs the header and the line.

---- Characteristics of Innovative People ----
Iterate between abstract and concrete thinking.
Acknowledge the limits of your knowledge.
Step out of your comfort zone.