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var when = {
    /**
     * Convert Dateish to js Date
     * @param  mixed string|Date dateish date-like string for Date constructor
     * @return Date js Date or null
     */
    its: function(dateish) {
        if (!dateish) {
            return null;
        }

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//  main.m
//  creategif
//
//  Created by Kevin Meaney on 21/10/2013.

// I've briefly blogged about it here:
// http://blog.yvs.eu.com/2013/10/creating-gif-animations-using-coreimagequartz
// The following code is all that is all the code needed for a creating a command line tool to generate
// a gif animation from image files. 
// The main limitation with this code is that apart from the frame delay time of 0.1 second, every

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# Couldn't get this running on any Ubuntu instances.
# Today I used AWS CentOS Linux 7 x86_64 HVM EBS 1602-b7ee8a69-ee97-4a49-9e68-afaee216db2e-ami-d7e1d2bd.3 (ami-6d1c2007)

# install dependencies
sudo yum install perl perl-DBI expect wget nano

# download binaries for centos 7
wget https://downloads.mariadb.com/enterprise/htxx-hpee/mariadb-columnstore/1.0.0/mariadb-columnstore-1.0.0-centos7.x86_64.rpm.tar.gz

# extract

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/**
 * An improvement to this would be linear or eponential increase of wait ms
 * with a threshold to give up...
 *
 */
async function getTaggings(bucket, key, wait) {
    let params = {
        Bucket: bucket,
        Key: key
    };

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/**
 * Was "Get domain name without subdomains using JavaScript?" on StackOverflow
 * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9752963/get-domain-name-without-subdomains-using-javascript
 */

const tests = {
  'www.sidanmor.com':             'sidanmor.com',
  'exemple.com':                  'exemple.com',
  'argos.co.uk':                  'argos.co.uk',
  'www.civilwar.museum':          'civilwar.museum',

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// console.log(bitmagic("b[1010]d[3,2]h[02,2]"));
// console.log(bitmagic("b[10]d[1,2]h[0A]"));

/**
 * Bitmagic the Freewheelin' bitmiser
 * 
 * Use any combination of bits, numbers or hex and output a nice-lookin' byte
 * 
 * Usage: b[binary]d[decimal,padding?]h[hex,padding?]
 *

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wpa_supplicant Mesh Problem Reference

This is a living document to track the failure of wpa_supplicant.

"NetworkManager switches to the worse one of two APs all the time"

Thanks, so I've looked into this now, and it indeed some to be an issue with wpa_supplicant: In its decision logic whether to roam between APs it basically uses estimated bandwith as first priority (https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/wpa_supplicant/events.c#n1927), so if another AP can do ht40 while the current one only has ht20, it will switch to the other one while (pretty much) ignoring how bad the signal quality is. ref

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Vultr Block Storage for MySQL

datadir + tmpdir on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

I had a somewhat ephemeral use-case for mysql server but due to some heavy indexes (and tmp dir usage) the disk kept running out of room on smallish instances.

How to run

• Create your Block Storage and Vultr instance in the same region
• Under Block Storage settings, "attach" to your instance.