Category: Computers
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Learning LilyPond
I have been a musician for over 30 years. During that time there were periods where I practiced up to 8 hours per day and performed several times per month. There were also periods in which I didn’t practice or perform for months or years. In the past year or so I have gotten back…
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The importance of the denominator and a nutrition experiment
High-protein diets have been popular for a good ten years or more. In the last year or so, there has been an explosion of high-protein products at the grocery store, e.g. “high-protein pudding” or “high-protein yogurt”, which my daughter has been gobbling up. Several weeks ago my son told me he wanted to try a…
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90% is often the perfect amount
It is spring time where I live, which besides chirping birds and blooming flowers means also spring cleaning. In particular, I have spent at 10-20 hours over the last several weeks cleaning the paths in our back yard. Over the winter months, when we don’t use it much, moss, algae, and weeds start to grow…
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Closures in PHPUnit dataProviders
Today I was working on a PHPUnit test at work for testing Elasticsearch. In this case, I wanted to make sure that the data that I was indexing was findable. Basically I wanted to run a search for a given query and check that the results were as expected. I wanted to run this search…
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BASH history and GNU screen
I can’t remember exactly when or where I learned this. I would guess sometime between 5 and 10 years ago, while I was working at Nuance Communications. I likely learned it from stackoverflow.com, though it is possible I learned it from a colleague. I have been using GNU screen on a nearly daily basis at…