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This Too Shall Pass

“One day Solomon decided to humble Benaiah Ben Yehoyada, his most trusted minister. He said to him, “Benaiah, there is a certain ring that I want you to bring to me. I wish to wear it for Sukkot which gives you six months to find it.”

“If it exists anywhere on earth, your majesty,” replied Benaiah,

“I will find it and bring it to you, but what makes the ring so special?” “It has magic powers,” answered the king. “If a happy man looks at it, he becomes sad, and if a sad man looks at it, he becomes happy.” Solomon knew that no such ring existed in the world, but he wished to give his minister a little taste of humility.

Spring passed and then summer, and still Benaiah had no idea where he could find the ring. On the night before Sukkot, he decided to take a walk in one of the poorest quarters of Jerusalem. He passed by a merchant who had begun to set out the day’s wares on a shabby carpet. “Have you by any chance heard of a magic ring that makes the happy wearer forget his joy and the

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class rjson(object):
    """
    (with modifications) from:
    https://www.reddit.com/r/IPython/comments/34t4m7/lpt_print_json_in_collapsible_format_in_ipython/
    which in turn is leveraging http://caldwell.github.io/renderjson/
    """
    def __init__(self, json_data, open='🔽', close='🔺', level=1):
        if isinstance(json_data, dict):
            self.json_str = json.dumps(json_data)
        else:

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function ec-launch -d "launch new EC2 instance"
	set -l name ""
	set -l instancetype m5.4xlarge
	set -l disksize 100
	set -l ami ami-02df9ea15c1778c9c  # ubuntu 18.04
	set -l keyname alex-eu-west-1

	# parse arguments
	getopts $argv | while read -l key value
		switch $key

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channels:
  - conda-forge
dependencies:
  - python=3
  - pip
  # python libs
  - pytest
  - flake8
  - black
  - isort