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#!/bin/bash
CURRENT_BRIGHTNESS=$(pkexec xfpm-power-backlight-helper --get-brightness)
MIN_BRIGHTNESS=0
MAX_BRIGHTNESS=$(pkexec xfpm-power-backlight-helper --get-max-brightness)
POSSIBLE_STEPS=16
STEP_AMOUNT=$((($MAX_BRIGHTNESS - $MIN_BRIGHTNESS) / $POSSIBLE_STEPS))

function set_brightness() {
  new_brightness=$1

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// On a twitter.com page in Chrome with a stream of Tweets (e.g., a timeline or
// a search results page), copy and paste the code below into a JS console.
// You'll get back a tab-delimited, newline-separated string (watch out, it'll
// be big) that you can copy and paste directly into Excel.

$('.js-stream-tweet').map(function(i, tweetElem) {
  var createdTimestamp = parseInt(tweetElem.querySelector('.js-short-timestamp').getAttribute('data-time-ms'), 10);

  return {
    created_at: new Date(createdTimestamp).toISOString(),

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Keynote: Lada Adamic, Facebook

Political news exposure

• Pew: Majority of millennials, Generation X get political news from Facebook (for Baby Boomers: local TV)

• Does this lead to a filter bubble or echo chamber?

• Why does Facebook want to do this research?

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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

I am transitioning GPG keys away from an old smartcard-generated key to a new
set of smartcard-stored subkeys over which I have more granular control.

There is no urgent reason for this transition other than the fact that my old
key is expiring, which makes this as convenient a time as any. My hope is that
I will be able to manage my key more effeciently going forward with this new
setup and new workflow.

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Your username on GitHub: myersjustinc Please publicly post the following Gist, and name it keybase.md:

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am myersjustinc on github.
• I am myersjustinc (https://keybase.io/myersjustinc) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is E696 5388 5DF6 B978 30A5 6723 DBCE 2CD7 D0E2 F991

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#!/bin/bash

# When you upgrade your Python installation in Homebrew, any virtualenvs that
# relied on that Python installation will stop working because of some broken
# symlinks.
#
# Stéphane Wirtel documented a solution:
# http://wirtel.be/posts/en/2014/07/29/fix_virtualenv_python_brew/
#
# This automates that for all virtualenvs installed with virtualenvwrapper

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class TabulaJava < Formula
  desc "Text extraction from PDFs, using command-line Tabula core"
  homepage "https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java"
  version "0.8.0"

  head "https://github.com/tabulapdf/tabula-java.git", :revision => "577916327edd480b81604b1df63a9a583b814f5c"

  depends_on "maven"

  def install

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• SSL issues when installing any gem, either using gem install or bundle install:

  • Replace the certs from rvm osx-ssl-certs with the ones from cURL:

    $ wget 'https://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem'
    $ cp cacert.pem /usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem
    $ sudo cp cacert.pem /etc/openssl/cert.pem
    

• Switching Ruby versions inside a Python virtualenv throws a warning such as:

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class Batik < Formula
  desc "Java-based toolkit for SVG images"
  homepage "https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/"
  url "https://associatedpress-datateam-automation.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/batik-bin-1.8.tar.gz"
  sha256 "424c59245471d1134c45d549c5cd995fa6444fa2c0f429cee26c193c049c5e21"

  bottle :unneeded

  def install
    libexec.install "lib", Dir["*.jar"]

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Remove Great Lakes and other water from Congressional districts shapefile

The problem

You want the most up-to-date shapefile of Congressional districts, but you don't want Michigan to be a giant blob.

(The Census Bureau offers some cartographic boundary shapefiles without this problem, but they aren't always the most current.)