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#include <stdlib.h>
unsigned long utf8_strlen(unsigned char *s) {
unsigned long len = 0;
s--;
while (*++s) {
len += !(*s >> 7) || (*s >> 6);
}
return len;
}
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dpk / mk-darwin-x86_64.diff
Last active December 18, 2017 11:13
Patch file for mk-with-libs.tgz to enable installing and building mk from https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/unix/ on Mac OS. to apply: patch -p1 < mk-darwin-x86_64.diff
diff -rNu mk.old/libbio/Make.Darwin-x86_64 mk.new/libbio/Make.Darwin-x86_64
--- mk.old/libbio/Make.Darwin-x86_64 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100
+++ mk.new/libbio/Make.Darwin-x86_64 2017-12-18 11:33:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+CC=gcc
+CFLAGS+=-Wall -Wno-missing-braces -Wno-parentheses -Wno-switch -O2 -g -c -I. -I${PREFIX}/include
+O=o
+AR=ar
+ARFLAGS=rvc
+NAN=nan64.$O
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:isbn="tag:nonceword.org,2016:isbn">
<xsl:import href="util.xslt"/>
<xsl:import href="unformat.xslt"/>
<xsl:function name="isbn:format-13">
<xsl:param name="isbn"/>
<xsl:value-of select="string(isbn:format-13-internal($isbn))"/>
</xsl:function>
<xsl:function name="isbn:format-13-internal">
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE ISBNRangeMessage [
<!ELEMENT ISBNRangeMessage (MessageSource?, MessageSerialNumber?, MessageDate, EAN.UCCPrefixes, RegistrationGroups) >
<!ELEMENT MessageSource (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT MessageSerialNumber (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT MessageDate (#PCDATA) >
<!ELEMENT EAN.UCCPrefixes (EAN.UCC+) >
<!ELEMENT RegistrationGroups (Group+) >
<!ELEMENT EAN.UCC (Prefix, Agency, Rules) >
<!ELEMENT Group (Prefix, Agency, Rules) >
from itertools import islice
def possibilities(hostname):
hostname = hostname.lower().strip('.')
yield hostname
labels = hostname.split('.')
for suffix_i in range(1, len(labels)):
yield '*.' + '.'.join(labels[suffix_i:])
#!/bin/sh
# find a file by content from basically anywhere in your git history
# for when you think you lost something but hopefully not
(git stash list; git reflog) | awk '{print $1}' | xargs git grep "${@}"
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dpk / brexit.md
Created June 24, 2016 05:50
Brexit: A brief summary of the future, so people don’t keep asking me the same questions

The answer to any question you might have right now is, basically, ‘nobody knows’. This was not a referendum with a solid plan or piece of legislation behind it: the ‘European Union Referendum Act 2015’ just said there’ll be a vote on it, nothing more. The government wanted to remain in the EU, so the campaign for the Leave vote was campaigning based on pure speculation. And, of course, presented the most optimistic possible image and downplayed any suggestion of things going wrong after a Brexit vote as ‘scaremongering’.

Here’s the situation: assuming the referendum is implemented (according to the letter of the question, if not the spirit) it looks like we can either (a) stay in something to to with Europe, but break a lot of the promises the Leave camp made and ultimately end up with a worse deal than before; or (b) completely leave and trash our economy even further.

Door A

Behind Door A there are two options, which I’ll call Norway and Switzerland.

Norway involves leaving the European Union but st

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dpk / README.md
Last active September 20, 2015 17:10 — forked from mbostock/.block
Albers Equal-Area Conic
if (('devicePixelRatio' in window && window.devicePixelRatio >= 1.5) ||
('matchMedia' in window && window.matchMedia("(-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5), (min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5), (-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 3/2), (min-resolution: 1.5dppx)").matches))
{
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
var elements = document.getElementsByClassName('retina');
for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
var element = elements[i];
if (element.tagName !== 'IMG') continue;
var match = element.src.match(/^(.+)\.(.+?)$/);
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dpk / gist:a92d3ea83aa7142e3317
Created June 11, 2015 08:40
Restart frontmost application with AppleScript (revised version of my script from c. 2011)
tell application "System Events" to set _app to the name of the first process whose frontmost is true
tell application _app
quit
set _isRunning to true
repeat while (_isRunning)
delay 1
tell application "System Events"
set _isRunning to ((name of processes) contains _app)
end tell
end repeat