purplejacket / williams_defender_settings.txt

Last active April 16, 2023 05:24

Williams Defender Settings -- of particular interest are Functions 08, 17, 18, 19, 21: bonus ship level, free play, start difficulty, progressive difficulty, planet restore frequency

	BOOKKEEPING AND EVALUATION TOTALS (Functions 1-7)
	=================================================
	1. In game over mode, set switch to AUTO-UP and depress ADVANCE. The CRT
	indicates Function 1 and total left chute coins.
	2. Record audit totals and depress ADVANCE for functions 1-7. To review a
	total that has been advanced past, set switch to MANUAL-DOWN and depress
	ADVANCE. Functions are displayed one at a time as follows:-

	Function Total Description
	--------------------------------

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purplejacket / andrey_bovykin_undecidable_diophantine_equation.txt

Last active October 2, 2018 18:50

A diophantine equation that's formally undecidable. 125 symbols long. All variables are integers. Formulated by Andrey Bovykin and an associate. "Recent metamathematical wonders and the question of arithmetical realism" https://cast.itunes.uni-muenchen.de/vod/clips/N5l7c5S3Vm/quicktime.mp4 at the 40 minute mark.

	∀m ∃N ∀a,b ∃c,d,A,X ∀x,y ∃B,C,F ∀f,g ∃h,i,l,n,r,p,q
	x * (y + B - x) * (A + m + B - y)
	* [(((f - A)^2 + (g - 1)^2) * (f - B)^2 + (g - x)^2)
	* ((f - C)^2 + (g - y)^2 - h - 1)
	* (d * g * i + i - c + f)^2
	+ (f + h - d * g)^2
	+ (B + l + 1 - C)^2
	+ (C + n - N)^2
	+ (F + r - b * (B + C^2))^2
	+ (b * p * (B + C^2) + p - a + F)^2

purplejacket / molecular_weights.txt

Last active March 28, 2017 17:14

Weight of 1 mole of interesting atoms/molecules/other

	1 mole of X weighs ... (Avogadro's constant is 6.0221 x 10^23)

	hydrogen 1.00797 g
	carbon 12.0107 g
	iron 55.845 g
	cellulose 162.14 g C6H10O5
	uranium 238.02891 g
	ATP 507.18 g C10H16N5O13P3 Adenosine Triphosphate
	Buckeyball 720.66 g C60
	Botox 150000 g C6760H10447N1743O2010S32

purplejacket / tetris.bas

Created April 7, 2017 00:14

Tetris game circa 1996 - QuickBasic

	' QBASIC TETRIS PROGRAM
	' TYPE 'QBASIC TETRIS' AT THE DOS PROMPT TO RUN
	' ONCE IN QBASIC PRESS F5 TO START
	' TO QUIT FROM QBASIC TO DOS PRESS ALT-F THEN E
	' ORIGINALLY CREATED BY ALEXEY PAJITNOV

	' SHS Programming Class, Spring 1996, midd9354@uidaho.edu
	' AUTHORS:
	' Larry Cragun Kai Middleton Mary Tormey
	' Lyf Gildersleeve Dalton Paull Ryan Turner

purplejacket / nested_has.js

Created May 27, 2017 00:08

Does object x have a particular attribute (object property) either at the top level, or anywhere down the "has-a" object tree

	_ = require('lodash');
	x = {a: 1, b: {c: 2}, d: {e: 3, f: {g:4}}};

	function nestedHas(object, attrib) {
	if (_.has(object, attrib)) {
	return true;
	}
	for (let key in _.pickBy(object, _.isObject)) {
	if (nestedHas(object[key], attrib)) {
	return true;

purplejacket / mary_oliver_the_gift.txt

Created May 30, 2017 13:42

Poem by Mary Oliver about a Mockingbird who sang Mahler

	Mary Oliver: The Gift

	I wanted to thank the mockingbird for the vigor of his song.
	Every day he sang from the rim of the field, while I picked
	blueberries or just idled in the sun.
	Every day he came fluttering by to show me, and why not,
	the white blossoms in his wings.
	So one day I went there with a machine, and played some songs of
	Mahler.
	The mockingbird stopped singing, he came close and seemed

purplejacket / mongodb.service

Created June 23, 2017 21:49

A unit file to manage the MongoDB service -- for Ubuntu 16.04 -- to be located at /etc/systemd/system/mongodb.service -- from setup steps given at https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mongodb-on-ubuntu-16-04

	[Unit]
	Description=High-performance, schema-free document-oriented database
	After=network.target

	[Service]
	User=mongodb
	ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod --quiet --config /etc/mongod.conf

	[Install]
	WantedBy=multi-user.target

purplejacket / disable-transparent-hugepages.sh

Created June 23, 2017 22:18

mongodb init.d script to disable transparent huge pages -- from https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/transparent-huge-pages/

	#!/bin/bash
	### BEGIN INIT INFO
	# Provides: disable-transparent-hugepages
	# Required-Start: $local_fs
	# Required-Stop:
	# X-Start-Before: mongod mongodb-mms-automation-agent
	# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
	# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
	# Short-Description: Disable Linux transparent huge pages
	# Description: Disable Linux transparent huge pages, to improve

purplejacket / PS1_bashrc.sh

Last active June 24, 2017 05:02

Some colorized prompts - PS1 values - ANSI color escape sequences

	# skyportal-experiment
	PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[0;33m\]\u\[\033[1;37m\]@\[\033[0;34m\]\[\e[106m\]skyportal-experiment\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

	# skyportal-staging
	PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;33m\]\u\[\033[1;37m\]\[\e[100m\]@\[\033[0;34m\]\[\e[102m\]skyportal-staging\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

	# skyportal-production
	PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[0;33m\]\u\[\033[1;37m\]@\[\033[0;34m\]\[\e[106m\]skyportal-experiment\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\$ '

	# local machine

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