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This will create a proxy server in whatever your availability zone your VPC is in. For me, that's us-east-1b. For you, that may be something different. Steps 10+ should more or less work regardless of your provider since those steps cover the setup and configuration of TinyProxy.

1. Click the Launch Instance button.
2. Choose Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS (HVM), SSD Volume Type. This isn't strictly necessary. If you choose another OS, check its documentation for how to install new packages.
3. On the Choose an Instance Type screen, select t2.micro. It's Free Tier eligible.
4. Click the Next: ... buttons until you reach the Configure Security Group screen.
   • You may wish to reduce the amount of storage on the Add Storage screen. This is optional.
   • You may wish to add a tag on the Tag Instance screen. This is also optional.
5. On the Configure Security Group screen:

• Select Create a new security group.

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- #
from __future__ import unicode_literals

# --------------------------------------
# Now compatible with Pelican 4.0.x!
# --------------------------------------

# Added by me
import time

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/* 
Split an array into chunks and return an array
of these chunks.

With kudos to github.com/JudeQuintana

This is an update example for code I originally wrote 5+ years ago before
JavaScript took over the world.

Extending native objects like this is now considered a bad practice, so use

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<?php

function iso8601ToSeconds($input) {
  $duration = new DateInterval($input);
  $hours_to_seconds = $duration->h * 60 * 60;
  $minutes_to_seconds = $duration->i * 60;
  $seconds = $duration->s;
  return $hours_to_seconds + $minutes_to_seconds + $seconds;
}

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<?php

global $alpha_chunks;

# Initialize array
$alpha_chunks = array();

function chunkNames(&$value, $key, $letter) {
    global $alpha_chunks;

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const formatDate = ( dateStr ) => {
  let returned = '';
  if( 'Intl' in window ) {
    const dateObj = new Date( dateStr );
    const options = {
      month: 'long',
      timeZone: 'America/Los_Angeles',
      day: 'numeric',
      year: 'numeric'
    };

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Tested on macOS 11.3.1 with ffmpeg installed with homebrew

Use the h264_videotoolbox codec. -b:v is the bitrate flag. Using a higher
bitrate improves quality, but increases file size.

760k (include the k!) gives a nice balance between quality and file size.

ffmpeg -i input.gif -vcodec h264_videotoolbox -b:v 760k output.h264.mp4

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Partly pulled from the comments here: pycurl/pycurl#526

May also be a fix for this error:

ImportError: pycurl: libcurl link-time ssl backend (none/other) is different from compile-time ssl backend (openssl)

If you try to install PycURL and receive this error:

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function array_mode($$arr) {
  /*
  Count the frequency of occurrence of values in the array.
  This will make each duration value into a key, with its frequency as the
  value
  */
  $counts = array_count_values($$arr);

  /*
    Get all of the count values and find the unique values, then sort them,

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// Simple way to check whether a particular value is numeric. Saving it here so that I don't have to solve it twice.
const isNumeric = (value) => {
  return !Number.isNaN(parseFloat(value,10));
}