Reading https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects (pandars3) $ echo 'test content' | git hash-object -w --stdin d670460b4b4aece5915caf5c68d12f560a9fe3e4 I tried that and oh hah so -w tells git hash-object to actually add that hash to my git key value store database hmm.. lets see if i can find it .. (pandars3) $ file .git/objects/d6/70460b4b4aece5915caf5c68d12f560a9fe3e4 .git/objects/d6/70460b4b4aece5915caf5c68d12f560a9fe3e4: VAX COFF executable not stripped - version 737 Ah indeed. ok binary though. hmm but apparently this is actual data.. (pandars3) $ ls -lh ....

Meritocracy Trap Summary I Read this after hearing an interview with Daniel Markovits initially. (2020-08-23 to 2020-12-12) The Book in Three Sentences Meritocracy replaced direct inheritance style aristocracy after the post World War II baby boomers overwhelmed colleges–forcing them to create the SAT to deal with admissions–and has been snowballing a self reinforcing selection process that has been undoing the middle class ever since. The elite make bank slogging gnarly hours more than by stereotypical capital gains loop holes and “the rest” work fewer hours, involuntarily left out of the economy....

For my EasyBlogPosting project.. Testing out the Dropbox API.. 2020-12-09 trying this out Per here … pip install dropbox Went w/ that Getting Started page Through that page, I created a new test app for myself. Using the API explorer … I hit Get Token .. https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize?response_type=token&client_id=xxxxxxxxx&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fdropbox.github.io%2Fdropbox-api-v2-explorer%2F&state=file_requests_list!39%2B%2Bxxxxxxxx&token_access_type=online& That generated a token and I used https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-api-v2-explorer/#files_list_folder and I was able to see actual folders in my account. That’s cool except I thought I had chosen something like ‘single folder access’ so I’m slightly confused why I can see the other folders....

Summary Ok managed to get DeepSpeech to run, but the output for my voice maybe does not translate to any text that makes sense hahaha. But it was pretty funny to read the interpretation. My recording was in m4a so I had to change over to wav first ffmpeg is good for m4a to wav conversion but my ffmpeg is having some issues. (deep3) $ ffmpeg dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openssl/lib/libssl....

This is a summary of “The Mundanity of Excellence: An Ethnographic Report on Stratification and Olympic Swimmers” by Daniel F. Chambliss. In three sentences The author has spent a lot of time reporting on all levels of swimming competition and writes about observations about the differences between them. The differences in abilities of different levels of competition are not because of quantitative differences like “more training” but qualitative differences like using a flip turn instead of just touching the wall and turning around....