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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# groff-install-ttf converts a TrueType (ttf) or OpenType (otf) font to a
# Printer Font ASCII (pfa) font and a groff font (ditroff) and installs them to
# groff's site-font directory.
#
# Requires fontforge.
#
# You're the best, Peter Schaffter, but contrary to the verbose and
# difficult-to-follow http://www.schaffter.ca/mom/momdoc/appendices.html#fonts,
# the t42 file doesn't seem to be necessary, at least with recent versions of

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// grabtest tries to reproduce an X11 bug where, when two keys grabbed using
// XGrabKey are held down and then quickly released, the second KeyRelease
// event never makes it to the event queue.
//
// make LDFLAGS=-lX11\ -lXtst grabtest

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <assert.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>

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#!/bin/bash
set -eu

sync() {
    local host=${1:?No host given}; shift
    local src=${1:?No src dir given}; shift
    local dst=${1:?No dst dir given}; shift
    local bytes=${1:?No byte capacity given}; shift
    local tmpdir

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

export TZ=America/Sao_Paulo

test_strptime_local() {
    printf "\n$FUNCNAME\n"
    local dates="\
2017-02-18 23:00:00
2017-02-18 23:59:59

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

a() {
    # TODO: parse options or whatever.
    echo "a called with args:" "$@"
}

b() {
    echo "b called with args:" "$@"

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// Try to make a webpage readable by hiding any fixed/sticky elements---popups,
// dickbars, etc---and changing overflow=hidden to visible.
//
// Adapted from [here](https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/).
//
// I like to use this as a bookmarklet bound to a keyword. To create a
// bookmarklet, use the below code as the url for a bookmark, prefixed by
// `javascript:`.
//
// Go over all elements and hide any fixed/sticky ones in multiple ways so that

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#!/bin/bash
usage='usage taketilcap [-h|--help] <capacity>

-h  Show help

Filter newline-delimited filenames provided on stdin'

[[ $# -lt 1 ]] && {
    echo "$usage"
    exit 1

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Discussion

This stew hit such a sweet spot of convenience, tastiness, economy, and vegetable density that I cooked it weekly for about 2 years, eating the leftovers for several days of each week. It's mostly based off of Mark Bittman's Beef Stew with Guinness (the url is broken, sadly) and the Classic Beef Stew recipe from his How to Cook Everything (p. 435).

Beef

I get the packs of stewing beef at the closest Superstore. The price is usually fine and I enjoy the variety of cuts they contain and the intermediate fat content. Mark Bittman recommends round or chuck. In Canada I think chuck is called either blade or shoulder. Blade is the more flavourful of the two but it's maybe too fatty, and the flavour isn't always the best. Round is relatively tough, bland, and lean, but it's consistent and I consider it the safer choice. Round roast also seems more likely to be available.

I've cooked this many times, some browning the beef and some

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' Split the selected column containing values like "a;b;c", "a;c" into boolean
' 0/1 columns for each of "a", "b", "c".
Sub SplitCol()
    Dim c As Range
    Dim newCols As Object
    Dim ncols As Long
    ncols = 0
    Set newCols = CreateObject("Scripting.Dictionary")
    For Each c In Intersect(ActiveSheet.UsedRange, Selection.EntireColumn).Offset(1)
        Dim s As Variant

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#!/usr/bin/python

# Tag mp3, ogg, and flac files with a 'created' tag in the format 'YYYYMMDD',
# based on the file's birthtime, as stored by Windows. Unix doesn't store
# birthtimes, so this won't work there.

import os
import sys
from time import strftime, localtime
import mutagen  # v1.21 works. Others probably do, too.