Sarah Duve sarahduve

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

Word Choice

"Quietly" and Other Magic Adverbs

Meownica's packing list

I travel a lot so I'm down to like 30 minutes of packing per any kind of trip. I always bring one carry-on suitcase for any trips up to 2 weeks (that I never check in unless forced) -- I have an Away suitcase because it's got a built-in (removable) battery, and amazing wheels.

🚨

🆔Wallet & Passport
💧Travel water bottle
💳Travel credit cards (don't pay foreign currency fees!)
💳Insurance cards
💵Local currency you have
🚎Local public transport cards

Update: download the new Pokemon Go app - it fixes all of this. Download it, and reauth, and you should be set. The grant scopes and prompt are correct and visible now too! Now if only I could actually find a pikachu...

Pokemon tokens are requested with these understandable scopes:

openid
email
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email
https://www.google.com/accounts/OAuthLogin (this scope does much more than it appears. see update on the bottom for more info)

Disclaimer: The majority of this list was created pre-COVID. Many other organizations are likely hiring remote now.

System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
- Who is going to use it?
- How are they going to use it?

This list is based on aliases_spec.rb.

You can see also Module: RSpec::Matchers API.

matcher	aliased to	description
a_truthy_value	be_truthy	a truthy value
a_falsey_value	be_falsey	a falsey value
be_falsy	be_falsey	be falsy
a_falsy_value	be_falsey	a falsy value

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

	-- more info http://aaron-hoffman.blogspot.com/2017/02/iphone-text-message-sqlite-sql-query.html
	select
	m.rowid
	,coalesce(m.cache_roomnames, h.id) ThreadId
	,m.is_from_me IsFromMe
	,case when m.is_from_me = 1 then m.account
	else h.id end as FromPhoneNumber
	,case when m.is_from_me = 0 then m.account
	else coalesce(h2.id, h.id) end as ToPhoneNumber
	,m.service Service

	# Compiled source #
	###################
	*.com
	*.class
	*.dll
	*.exe
	*.o
	*.so

	# Packages #

	#!/bin/sh

	git rebase --interactive --autosquash \
	$(git merge-base $(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD) master)