Steak Two

Two updates to the earlier steak post. Earlier, I was getting a really low temperature on the meat thermometer I was using and I am pretty sure now that was because I was only dipping just the tip as opposed to basically burying the thermometer lengthwise. This time around I seem to be getting the expected temperature, above 130 F and even above 140 F, whereas before this temperature was not registering even though I had validated that it was working on some pie for instance....

January 7, 2021 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 1 min · 122 words · Michal Piekarczyk

notes on Git Internals Git Objects article

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 ....

December 13, 2020 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 2 min · 394 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Meritocracy Trap Book Summary

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....

December 12, 2020 · (updated November 3, 2024) · 11 min · 2264 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Easy Blog Posting ("My Noting Book")

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....

December 9, 2020 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 8 min · 1540 words · Michal Piekarczyk

Quick test drive this Mozilla/Baidu Deep Speech

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....

November 22, 2020 · (updated February 26, 2023) · 3 min · 607 words · Michal Piekarczyk