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This is the handout of a lecture on immortality that I gave at Hofstra University on March 5th, 2007

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Some Fortran String Gotchas

Author: Michael Goerz [email protected]
Date: Oct 20, 2008

I ran into some problems the other day from a misunderstanding about how passing strings works in fortran.

Consider the following program:

implicit none

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Creating an ISO image on MacOS X

Author: Michael Goerz [email protected]
Date: July 6, 2009

1. Insert your CD/DVD. Check that MacOS has mounted it in as a Volume (It will appear on the Desktop).

2. Identify which device the CD/DVD is.

This is the trickiest part of the whole procedure. First, use drutil to get some comprehensive information about your CD/DVD

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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Convert a word (doc/docx) file to markdown"""
import sys
import os
import subprocess


SOFFICE = r'/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice'
PANDOC = r'pandoc'

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import click

codepoint_hex = click.prompt("Enter a unicode codepoint (hex) for a known character")
encoded_bytes = click.prompt("Enter the bytes corresponding to the same character in an unknown encoding, in hex")
encoded_bytes = bytearray.fromhex(encoded_bytes)

codepoint_dec =  int(codepoint_hex, 16)
unicode_char =  chr(codepoint_dec)
click.echo("The unicode characters is: %s" % unicode_char)

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class MyNewClass(object):
    a = 1 # class attribute
    def __init__(self):
        self.b = 1 # instance attribute
    def get_a_via_instance(self):
        return self.a
    def get_a_via_class(self):
        return self.__class__.a # = MyNewClass.a

class MyOldClass():