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AI Writing Tropes to Avoid

Add this file to your AI assistant's system prompt or context to help it avoid common AI writing patterns. Source: tropes.fyi by ossama.is

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Word Choice

"Quietly" and Other Magic Adverbs

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#!/bin/bash

# args: browser
# example: ./getOpenTabs.sh "Brave Browser"
# credits:
#  https://gist.github.com/samyk/65c12468686707b388ec43710430a421

# TODO:
#  validate args
#  don't open app if not already open

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package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net"
	"os"
	"strings"

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Create a FlameGraph to visualize where your code is spending its time.

Requires plop and FlameGraph.

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-- 1. Place in ~/Library/Scripts and enable the Applescript menu via the Applescript Editor
--    (Or export to .app to run from spotlight.)
-- 2. Substitute "vpn.example.com" and "redacted" for your VPN server and password
-- 3. Open Security & Privacy System Preferences, go to Privacy, Accessibility
-- 4. Enable Applescript Editor and System UI Server (or for this .app if so exported)
-- 5. Trigger script from the menu (or run from spotlight)
-- 6. Enjoy being connected
-- 7. Run script again to close connection

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/**
 git clone https://github.com/twitter/scalding.git
 cd scalding
 ./sbt scalding-repl/console
*/

import scala.io.Source
val alice = Source.fromURL("http://www.gutenberg.org/files/11/11.txt").getLines
// Add the line numbers, which we might want later
val aliceLineNum = alice.zipWithIndex.toList

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# encoding: utf-8

# File Transfer for Pythonista
# ============================
# This script allows you to transfer Python files from
# and to Pythonista via local Wifi.
# It starts a basic HTTP server that you can access
# as a web page from your browser.
# When you upload a file that already exists, it is

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One-line Tree in Python

Using Python's built-in defaultdict we can easily define a tree data structure:

def tree(): return defaultdict(tree)

That's it!

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package mapreduce

/**
 * This is an attempt to find a minimal set of type classes that describe the map-reduce programming model
 * (the underlying model of Google map/reduce, Hadoop, Spark and others)
 * The idea is to have:
 * 1) lawful types that fully constrain correctness
 * 2) a minimal set of laws (i.e. we can't remove any laws,
 * 3) able to fully express existing map/reduce in terms of these types
 * 

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#!/bin/bash
# restart-cm-service.sh
# Restart a Cloudera-Manager-managed service via the REST API
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# Copyright (C) 2014 Cloudera and Ben White

# Cloudera Manager credentials

USERNAME=admin
PASSWORD=admin