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# I used this code within an IPython session to clean up all the missing ID3 tags from my MP3 collection.
# They had gone missing years ago when I down-sampled them to fit on an old phone, and then lost the originals.
# Fortunately I named the files themselves with the basic details (artist, date, title and so on) so it was possible to
# recover the tags... It sat on my to-do list for *years* but now I finally did it.

# I used the Python library "EyeD3" (get it?): https://pypi.python.org/pypi/eyeD3
# This requires Python 2.7, which has some interesting quirks for Unicode, a bit of a pain since I had named my MP3s
# with utf8 characters. What I've come up with *mostly* works.  When it doesn't I had to resort to manually editing (using 
# Clementine).

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qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor org.kde.kwin.Compositing.active

Gives you true or false depending on whether it is currently enabled or not

You can enable compositing by calling

qdbus org.kde.KWin /Compositor org.kde.kwin.Compositing.resume

and disable by calling

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import os
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
import pickle


PYTHON_DUMP_ENVIRON = """\
import sys
import os
import pickle

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# required utilities
required=(
	grep
	awk
	curl
	jq
)

missing=()

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Sonic Pi has an experimental, undocumented feature to support snippets, which autoexpand with the TAB key.

Here's the issue: sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi#587

Specifically, Sam's comment: sonic-pi-net/sonic-pi#587 (comment)

... [T]o play with it now (with the caveat that it all may drastically change) you just need to create a file with the contents of your snippet with an .sps extension in a directory somewhere on your machine. You might want to create a snippets directory for your own personal snippets. The name of the file doesn't matter. You then load all the snippets in a given directory with:

load_snippets("/path/to/snippets/dir")

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5 REM This is for Amstrad CPC Locomotive BASIC
10 CLS
20 WHILE 1>0
30   GRAPHICS PEN 15*RND
40   MOVE 640*RND,400*RND
50   DRAW 640*RND,400*RND
60 WEND

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live_loop :india do
  use_random_seed 4000
  16.times do
    sample "tabla_", choose
    sleep 0.125
  end
  sample "tabla_", choose
  sleep 0.125
  2.times do
    sample "tabla_", choose

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Whiskey Cream

Per batch (about 870ml)

• 1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee powder
• 1 cup (235 ml) thickened/whipping cream
• 1 (400 ml) can sweetened condensed milk
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

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Making a bootable USB on a Mac

1. hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o bootimage.img sourceimage.iso
2. diskutil list (look for the volume that's the same size as your USB device. It'll be "external".)
3. diskutil partitionDisk /dev/diskX 1 "Free Space" "unused" "100%" (use diskX from the list!)
4. sudo dd if=bootimage.img of=/dev/diskX bs=1m

original source

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freezenv() {
    FUNCDESC='Freeze the active Python Environment pip requirements.

This stores the requirements.txt in the active $VIRTUAL_ENV or $CONDA_PREFIX
directory, overwriting any existing requirements file.'

    if [[ -z ${VIRTUAL_ENV-$CONDA_PREFIX} ]] ; then
        error "$FUNCNAME: no active python or conda venv"
        return 1
    fi