johnk
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Async PHP Libraries and Frameworks
I’m way behind on this trend, or non-trend as the case may be. I’m catching up, and these are notes for July 2024.
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Fruit Updates
An update of the project status. I’ve been busy health issues, and been going into a slow mode. June 2 Updates I checked the ume on May 27, and this was the ongoing status. The two bleach-treated batches were moldy, and the one that cleaned off better was less moldy. So neither overcame their mold.…
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Alcohol Didn’t Fix the Mold
I pulled out the plums from the batch that I tried to “cure” with alcohol, called 3rd 2. It was soaked in weak sake that had been diluted a bit, and then salted, and it was way too hard. The alcohol killed off too much of the plum, and left it unable to ripen. I’m…
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Prunus Mume, lost in translation
All over the web, there are people asking what to do with umeboshi, or the green fruit, prunus mume, aka, ume, aka Japanese plum, aka xi muoi, aka, maesil, aka Korean green plum, aka muoi, aka mume. Here in the San Gabriel Valley, nearly everyone eats something connected to this plant. Mexicans use chamoy sauce,…
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Umeboshi and Maesil Rot
I opened up the two pressing vessels and repacked them into jars. One was seven days old, and the other was six days old. They both had some moldy plums, so I pulled the moldy ones. The mold problem wasn’t that serious. It was very little bread mold, and small spots of black mold. So,…
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Umeboshi Misadventures
We had a big crop of ume this year – only around 10-15 pounds, but that’s good to me. Here are the results so far. My mom and I clashed over how to do this. She was of the “press large batches”, don’t clean too much, and salt enough school of thought. I’m of the…
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
This is a fork of https://greasyfork.org/users/8668, modified to work with a platform I’m working for. It adds a small Play button next to links to audio. To use it, you load the page, and then wait several seconds. This is required because the page loads in parts and may take more than a couple seconds…
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Online Editors with Compilers for Different Computer Languages
Online code editors with compilers are a great way to learn a computer language without going through the hassles of installing it on your computer. You can code anywhere you can bring up a web browser. https://www.programiz.com/c-programming/online-compiler/ https://www.onlinegdb.com/ https://www.tutorialspoint.com/compile_c_online.php https://onecompiler.com/c/ https://www.w3schools.com/c/c_compiler.php https://www.jdoodle.com/ https://replit.com/~ https://godbolt.org/
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Machine Learning Notes
DALL-E Ramesh, et. al, Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generationhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.12092.pdf https://openai.com/research/dall-e Harvard CS50 Artificial Intelligence 2020 Course videos Deep Learning Garden: machine learning vs deep learning scikit-learn Python Natural Language Toolkit Meta Llama2 My Machine Learning blog posts at Externaldocuments.
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
I had a lot of problems importing a list from AirTable into Google Contacts.
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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January 2018 Links
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Down the Rabbit Hole: Traditionalism, Nationalism, Falun Gong, Shen Yun
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Tech Bazillionaires Paid for Anti-Unhoused Anti-Camping Law in San Francisco in 2016
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Inventing Black and White
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Mass Narcolepsy
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DALL-E and Commas that Matter, “young people fighting the war on drugs”, SFW->NSFW
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Selected Posts from Facebook from January 2020
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Civil Comment about the Civil War
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Jimmy Dore Coddles Fascists
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California Proposition 1, 2018
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How Long Does SARS-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) Last on Surfaces
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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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70% of Project Homekey Vacant; Chinatown Tenant Wins; Affordable Housing
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Misunderstanding the Purpose of the Model Minority
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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1966 Denial of a Conditional Use for 11339 Dronfield, Pacoima, for Yoshito R. and Michiko Matsuda
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Repairing Earpad on M98 Headset
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Exiting Amazon (Again)
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Study Page for Feasibility and Strategy
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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Replacing the Washers in an Old 1960s Price Pfister Two-Faucet Shower
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About This Blog
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ChatGPT Polemics with Style
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Crossplatform Keyboard Mappings for MacOS, GNOME, and Windows
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Beauty Calculator Results show AI Training Bias
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Getting Off of Big Tech
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
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Google Shuts off Ads on Ukraine War Content, Demonetizing Political Pages
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Statement from Montanans for Immigrant Justice and Missoula Rises re: Trump’s Pending Executive Order to Stop Separating Families
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Magic Folder to Convert DOC and OpenOffice to PDF