Jaime Herazo B. jherazob

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"Scar Tissues Make Relationships Wear Out"

04/26/2103. From a lecture by Professor John Ousterhout at Stanford, class CS142.

This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it's hard both for personal relationships and for business relationships. And to me, it's pretty amazing that two people can stay married for 25 years without killing each other.

[Laughter]

> But honestly, most professional relationships don't last anywhere near that long. The best bands always seem to break up after 2 or 3 years. And business partnerships fall apart, and there's all these problems in these relationships that just don't last. So, why is that? Well, in my view, it’s relationships don't fail because there some single catastrophic event to destroy them, although often there is a single catastrophic event around the the end of the relation

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the FFmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

Basic conversion

LastPass Pwned Passwords checker

This is a script for checking if any of the passwords you have stored in LastPass have been exposed through previous data breaches.

To use the script you need to have Python 3 installed and you need a CSV export of your LastPass vault. The export can be generated from the LastPass CLI with:

lpass export > lastpass.csv

or can be extracted with the browser plugin by going to the LastPass icon → More Options → Advanced → Export → LastPass CSV File (note that I did have problems getting this to work).

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name SCP Name Display
	// @namespace http://reddit.com/u/undergroundmonorail
	// @version 1.4
	// @description Show a skip's name in the title of its page
	// @match ://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-
	// @match ://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-
	// @match *://www.scp-wiki.net/random:random-scp
	// @match *://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/random:random-scp
	// @grant GM_xmlhttpRequest

	from vapoursynth import core

	__version__ = "1.1.0"


	def nnedi3_rpow2(clip, rfactor=2, width=None, height=None, correct_shift=True,
	kernel="spline36", nsize=0, nns=3, qual=None, etype=None, pscrn=None,
	opt=True, int16_prescreener=None, int16_predictor=None, exp=None, upsizer=None):
	"""nnedi3_rpow2 is for enlarging images by powers of 2.

	import os
	import pickle
	import warnings

	import numpy as np
	import pandas as pd
	from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
	from tensorflow.keras.callbacks import EarlyStopping
	from tensorflow.keras.layers import Dense
	from tensorflow.keras.layers import Dropout