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The greatest period in all American history
Maybe there never was before, and never will again be such a moment for fresh changes in the American Government. The Republican party has just won control of the Executive, Legislative, Judicial branches and of the press. (There is no meaningful non-Conservative Fourth Estate. There is nothing but X, Joe Rogan, Fox and Breitbart. While ( Read more... ) -
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Happy 20th Birthday, LiveJournal! 🐐🎂🎉 -
My feed URL has changed
If anyone here follows my personal blog with a feed reader, you'll have to change the feed URL manually. The old URL can't redirect to the new one.
This is the new feed URL: https://david.dlma.com/blog/atom/1
(The difference is the https, not http.)
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Progress on my Google+ and LJ backups
Since Google is going to shut down Google+, I decided it was time to really make a home for my LiveJournal backup and my Google+ backup.
Working on them has been very nostalgic, even moreso for LiveJournal. I have really fond memories of my conversations with my LiveJournal friends. Love you guys so much! Always will.
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In Case of Link-Rot
If anything should happen to this journal, a backup of it should eventually appear at this location.
I don't expect or plan for anything to happen to this journal, of course! But it's always good to have a contingency plan.
Theoretically, if something did happen to this journal, you're reading this from the Google cache of the page or on the ( Read more... ) -
Getting Shit Done
I came across an old LifeHacker article Get Shit Done Blocks Distracting Web Sites So You Can Do As the Name Instructs, that mentions a productivity script, get-shit-done. So I went to the github repository only to discover that the Python script was no longer functional. I didn't have permission to fix the script at the site, so here's a quick ( Read more... ) -
Fifth Grade Homework - Nine digit pandigital prime number
Yesterday my daughter in the fifth grade got the following homework assignment "arrange the digits one through nine into a nine-digit prime number." (Note, since zero wasn't included, it's not really a pandigital number ( Read more... ) -
Prepopulating lists with objects in Python
Dear self,
Never admit to the world you lost a couple of hours thinking that the following line created a list of objects.
l = [Obj()] * n
It doesn't. It creates a list of references to one object.
What you meant to write was this:
l = [Obj() for _ in range(n)]
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David and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Today was to be errand day. But an out-of-town family member needed to drop by so his young daughter could take naps and play with my kids while he was stuck in the neighborhood on business. That was OK, I just wouldn't run quite so many errands then.
The credit card company (for our only credit card) emailed me to verify that the last few ( Read more... ) -
Transparency vs. Anonymity
Namesake.com released an infographic that was brilliantly designed. It's informative, addresses a hotly contested issue, has plenty of high value keywords, some statistics and - the biggest reason for getting mentioned here - is wrong.
Their Transparency vs. Anonymity infographic provides the following two rationales:
For Transparency, Mark ( Read more... )