greyltc

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# run this on the remote terminal machine, as auser with sudo powers, probably through a remote ssh shell

# this will overwrite all the settings it touches

# the name of the user to run these commands as
TARGET_USER=jane

# we need an inlocked desktop session. we can either start a new autologin one or unlock an existing one

klingtnet

The instructions were tested on a Lenovo X1 Carbon 5th Gen (X1C5) on Arch Linux but should be applicable to other Lenovo models and Linux distributions.

BACKUP YOUR DATA! I created a bootable Ubuntu Image like this:

$ sudo sh -c 'curl --location --silent --fail "http://releases.ubuntu.com/18.04/ubuntu-18.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso" | pv > /dev/<your-usb-drive>'
# note that pv is only there to show progress, it is perfectly fine to redirect curl to the usb drive directly.

then I booted from this drive by pressing F12 on reboot and dumped my NVMe disk to an external hard drive like this:

rspeer

rgs

Falsehoods programmers believe about prices

1. You can store a price in a floating point variable.
2. All currencies are subdivided in 1/100th units (like US dollar/cents, euro/eurocents etc.).
3. All currencies are subdivided in decimal units (like dinar/fils)
4. All currencies currently in circulation are subdivided in decimal units. (to exclude shillings, pennies) (counter-example: MGA)
5. All currencies are subdivided. (counter-examples: KRW, COP, JPY... Or subdivisions can be deprecated.)
6. Prices can't have more precision than the smaller sub-unit of the currency. (e.g. gas prices)
7. For any currency you can have a price of 1. (ZWL)
8. Every country has its own currency. (EUR is the best example, but also Franc CFA, etc.)

pyglet-audio.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import pyglet

mp3 = "test.mp3"

source = pyglet.media.load(mp3)
player = pyglet.media.Player()
player.queue(source)
player.play()

almost

# Thomas Parslow http://almostobsolete.net
# Just a work in progress and adapted to what I need right now. 
# It does uploads (via a file-like object that you write to) and
# I've started on downloads. Needs the development version of Boto from Github.
#
# Example:
#
#     glacierconn = GlacierConnection(AWS_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY)
#     writer = GlacierWriter(glacierconn, GLACIER_VAULT)
#     writer.write(somedata)

zumbojo

# Simple bijective function
#   Basically encodes any integer into a base(n) string,
#     where n is ALPHABET.length.
#   Based on pseudocode from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/742013/how-to-code-a-url-shortener/742047#742047

ALPHABET =
  "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789".split(//)
  # make your own alphabet using:
  # (('a'..'z').to_a + ('A'..'Z').to_a + (0..9).to_a).shuffle.join

eculver

#! /bin/sh
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# SOME INFOS : fairly standard (debian) init script.
#                 Note that node doesn't create a PID file (hence --make-pidfile)
#                 has to be run in the background (hence --background)
#                 and NOT as root (hence --chuid)
#
# MORE INFOS :  INIT SCRIPT       http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit
#               INIT-INFO RULES   http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts
#               INSTALL/REMOVE    http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/28

robrighter

function traverse(obj,func, parent) {
  for (i in obj){
    func.apply(this,[i,obj[i],parent]);      
    if (obj[i] instanceof Object && !(obj[i] instanceof Array)) {
      traverse(obj[i],func, i);
    }
  }
}

function getPropertyRecursive(obj, property){

palfrey

#!/usr/bin/python

from urlgrab import Cache
from BeautifulSoup import MinimalSoup as BeautifulSoup
from re import compile
from os.path import exists, getsize, dirname, join
from urllib import urlretrieve, urlencode, quote
from sys import argv
import demjson
import zlib