Was listening to a recent Python podcast and some lady had done a talk somewhere about Python debugging…outside of print statements. She asked how many people used debugging and found not that many. I used PDB in Python many years ago. Although not for a long time, mainly because of debugging is so easy with …
Monthly Archives: August 2021
Linux PDF problem
These days, I rarely have a problem doing anything on Linux. However I had to fill out some legal documents. They were editable PDFs. I was able to fill them all out except one. Ocular reported that I needed a newer version of Adobe Reader. And also “This document has XFA forms, which are currently …
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Julia binary data gotcha!
One more time on this topic. After the following code runs, as expected the file is created of 128 (0-127) bytes in length! However that is not true if you increase the upper bounds of the for loop over 127. And the Invalid message never appears! fo=open(“binary.fil”, “w”)for i=0:127 local oneByte oneByte=Char(i) ln=length(oneByte) if ln>1 …
Julia binary EBCDIC data
This problem hit me a year ago and I kind of just pushed it aside. They say to step away from a problem for a while if you’re having problems solving it. In this case I stepped away for a year. And by step away I mean stepped away from Julia. Instead I switched to …
Change new GitLab userid
Just lowercase it like GitHub. Change Billb2050 to billb2050.
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GitHub/GitLab SSH keys
Anywho I got SSH working for both. Remote string… git@github.com:billb2050/project.gitorgit@gitlab.com:Billb2050/project.git For example… > git clone git@github.com:billb2050/toHerc.gitCloning into ‘toHerc’…Enter passphrase for key ‘/home/bill/.ssh/id_ed25519’: remote: Enumerating objects: 22, done.remote: Counting objects: 100% (22/22), done.remote: Compressing objects: 100% (18/18), done.Receiving objects: 100% (22/22), 4.39 KiB | 4.39 MiB/s, done.Resolving deltas: 100% (6/6), done.remote: Total 22 (delta 6), reused …
NFT’s
There are many thing’s I do not get and NFT’s are one of them. NFT means Non-Fungible Token. So, a regular digital token can get a fungus? But NFTs can’t? Why do people buy them? This article says Simply put, they buy original traceability, which leads to social prestige. Really? This article is about someone …
GitLab CLI usage
Trying to learn to use GitLab from the CLI. Following a video tutorial that isn’t much more than 2 months old. He creates a new project on gitlab.com and is shown on a web page git CLI commands, such as “git remote add origin…” that I don’t see. He doesn’t talk about SSH at all. …