Tariq Ali tra38

Hope and Remembrance

Purnima and Leszek saw a vampire getting on a bus.

Then one day, Leszek turned to Purnima and asked, "Purnima, do you think that one day we will remember that time when we remembered that time when we saw the Loch Ness monster underneath the bridge?" "Somehow, Leszek, I'm sure we will," said Purnima.

Then one day, Leszek turned to Purnima and said, "Purnima, do you remember that one time when we saw a vampire getting on a bus?" Purnima smiled. "Of course I do, Leszek."

Then one day, Leszek turned to Purnima and said, "Purnima, do you remember that one time when we wondered if we'd ever remember that time when we remembered that time when we saw the Loch Ness monster underneath the bridge?" Purnima smiled. "Of course I do, Leszek."

Note: these are pretty rough notes I made for my team on the fly as I was reading through some pages. Some could be mildly inaccurate but hopefully not terribly so. I might resort to convenient fiction & simplification sometimes.

My top contenders, mostly based on popularity / community etc:

Angular
Backbone
React
Ember

Mostly about MVC (or derivatives, MVP / MVVM).

I came across 'bundler/inline' in Bundler pull request 3440, which I'd found from Rails pull request 20429. This now has a little snippet on the What's new page of the Bundler site.

This little example demonstrates how I might use it to create a single file using minitest.

I've just noticed that this script was working for me because I already had minitest installed as a system gem. If I uninstall the gem then the script fails because it can't find minitest. The source code documents an option to install gems if they don't exist (gemfile(true) do) but that doesn't seem to work for me. I see the following error:

Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/...
Fetching version metadata from https://rubygems.org/..
Resolving dependencies...

Using metaclass 0.0.4

Follow the dirty money

A shady Internet business has been discovered.

The website has been made public by a whistle blower. We have enough evidence about the dirty deals they did. But to charge them we need to get hands on precise numbers about the transactions that happened on their platform.

Unfortunately no record of the transactions could be seized so far. The only hint we have is this one transaction:

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

	# The best result I got so far is 72.9% , which is
	# close enough for most real word uses.

	Defs = {
	fizz: 0,
	buzz: 1,
	fizzbuzz: 2,
	neither: 3
	}

	# Automated AMI Backups
	#
	# @author Bobby Kozora
	#
	# This script will search for all instances having a tag with the name "backup"
	# and value "Backup" on it. As soon as we have the instances list, we loop
	# through each instance
	# and create an AMI of it. Also, it will look for a "Retention" tag key which
	# will be used as a retention policy number in days. If there is no tag with
	# that name, it will use a 7 days default value for each AMI.

	SCAN_NO_TECH
	No scan technology installed

	SCAN_BROKEN
	Scanner is critically damaged

	SCAN_RECHARGE
	Scanner recharging

	WARP_MSG

	EXP_NPC_ANOMALY_DESC_1
	As I approach the electronic being, it springs to life. From its dark mask, scanning beams emerge that envelop me. There is a unnerving chittering sound and then, unbelievably, it speaks in my language.

	It offers me a choice. It can show me how to harness black holes, in order to embark upon a journey to the centre of the galaxy. It can light my way to an Atlas Interface, so I may follow a path. Or it will assist me in my own exploration.

	EXP_NPC_ANOMALY_LANG_1
	Rare linguistic form. Pleasure! Nada, divergent Korvax. Assistance offered. Route to galactic core? Reconnect with Atlas for guidance? Resources for journey? Yes/no?


	EXP_NPC_ANOMALY_DESC_2

	license: gpl-3.0
	height: 570
	border: no