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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Responsive Design + Mobile First = Automated Layouts
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Text of Vladimir Putin’s Speech on Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Text of Zelensky’s Address to the Russian People (all Translated to English)
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Opening a Dozen Email Boxes? Use Mozilla Thunderbird (and Donate)
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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New “Yellow Peril” Fear Mongering Laws; Objectification; Newsom Vetoes AI Bill
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The Lotto and Voting Machine Meme is Bugging Me
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Computer Shopping
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The Current Effort to Deny Citizenship to Undocumented Immigrants or Spouses Has a Precedent
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The Size of Mayan Civilization Compared to the Size of Los Angeles, CA
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Crossword Puzzle Tool
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On Andrew Yang’s So-Called Human Centered Capitalism
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History of the annoying PC “beep”. It’s called a “bell”.
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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Orientalism: Music, Edward Said, 1 Year of the Israel-Gaza War
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Trump’s ICE War on Los Angeles
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Prompt Collection
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Civil Rights Unionism
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Meta-Assited WordPress Plugin: Corrections 4
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COVID-19 Hits Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities the Hardest; this Paper Has Lessons for All of Us
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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Lifehacks Here
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Libertarians on Immigration
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New COVID Vax; Oceans Overflowing; Tech Ain’t Fixing the Climate; 4Chan->GOP
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Los Angeles Typographical Union ITU 174 at Angelus Rosedale Cemetery
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Asian American Media Representation, Recommending Feminism
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Historic Palestinian Documents at the Lady Izdihar Archive
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Katsuo Carl Imakyure, in Los Angeles 1940
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Async PHP Libraries and Frameworks
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
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Draft: Unions Should Own LLM Models
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
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Fantasy Vernacular Architecture
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(a)political violence; Luigi Mangione’s Manifesto; Propaganda of the Deed
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Problems Importing CSV into Google Contacts
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Justice for the Roques