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Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them

TL;DR

You can take the same source code package that Ubuntu uses to build jq, compile it again, and realize 90% better performance.

Setting

I use jq for processing GeoJSON files and other open data offered in JSON format. Today I am working with a 500MB GeoJSON file that contains the Alameda County Assessor's parcel map. I want to run a query that prints the city for every parcel worth more than a threshold amount. The program is

Python relative imports in AWS Lambda fail with attempted relative import with no known parent package

The Problem

In AWS Lambda if I attempt an explicit relative import like this

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├── lambda_file.py
└── example.py

The definitive guide to power optimization of your Dell XPS 13 (9370) 2018 with Intel GPU and 16GB of RAM.

Power optimization

Install tlp and powertop.

apt install tlp powertop

Google Public NTP [AS15169]:

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time1.google.com

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UPDATE: This gist is now deprecated, please visit The Gender Dysphoria Bible for the latest version of this document.

This is a compilation of report medical transition changes, collected from testimonials of trans women from various discussion forums and chat rooms, backed up by my own experiences.

Note that this is a list of possible changes. There is no guarentee that a person on HRT will experience all of these. As always, your milage may vary.

Changes connected to reduction of Testosterone:

Reduction in general body odor and change in the smell of ones sweat. Many report gaining a sweet smell.
Skin softens and becomes thinner.

How to compress PDF using ghostscript

As a developer, it bothers me when someone sends me a large pdf file compared to the number of pages. Recently, I recieved a 12MB scanned document for just one letter-sized page... so I got to googlin, like I usually do, and found ghostscript!

to learn more abot ghostscript (gs): https://www.ghostscript.com/

What we are interested in, is the gs command line tool, which provides many options for manipulating PDF, but we are interested in compressign those large PDF's into small yet legible documents.

credit goes to this answer on askubuntu forum: https://askubuntu.com/questions/3382/reduce-filesize-of-a-scanned-pdf/3387#3387?newreg=bceddef8bc334e5b88bbfd17a6e7c4f9

Alternative naming schemes for AWS regions

Purpose

The intent is to define terse, standards-supported names for AWS regions.

Schemes

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Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites

Spurred by recent events (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8244700), this is a quick set of jotted-down thoughts about the state of "Semantic" Versioning, and why we should be fighting the good fight against it.

For a long time in the history of software, version numbers indicated the relative progress and change in a given piece of software. A major release (1.x.x) was major, a minor release (x.1.x) was minor, and a patch release was just a small patch. You could evaluate a given piece of software by name + version, and get a feeling for how far away version 2.0.1 was from version 2.8.0.

But Semantic Versioning (henceforth, SemVer), as specified at http://semver.org/, changes this to prioritize a mechanistic understanding of a codebase over a human one. Any "breaking" change to the software must be accompanied with a new major version number. It's alright for robots, but bad for us.

SemVer tries to compress a huge amount of information — the nature of the change, the percentage of users that wil

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	const authentication = require('feathers-authentication');
	const jwt = require('feathers-authentication-jwt');
	const local = require('feathers-authentication-local');
	const oauth2 = require('feathers-authentication-oauth2');
	const GithubStrategy = require('passport-github');
	// Bring in the oauth-handler
	const makeHandler = require('./oauth-handler');