From a New Yorker article about Quentin Tarantino: One of the many personal genres that Tarantino has made up is "hangout movies" -- movies whose plot and camerawork you may admire but whose primary attraction is the characters. A hangout movie is one that you watch over and over again, just to spend time with them. "Rio Bravo," one of Tarantino's favorite movies of all time (the two others are…
Every now and then people glom on to the fact that I spent a lot of time studying English Renaissance literature. Here are a couple of people discussion my dissertation, English Literary Anatomy, 1540-1621: Institution into Form (1993). The discussion gets the main observations about the literature, but kind of misses the point about how much I saw/see "institutions" as really the primary frame…
I'm going to be taking the CIPP/E exam on May 7 to valdiate my understanding of the European privacy regulations, GDPR. I've been working with the sample exam (which you have to purchase) from CIPP, but wanted more questions. So I wrote this prompt for Claude (3.7 Sonnet). The "OUTLINE" as given below is from the Body of Knowledge . In what's below, I'm only asking Claude to generate questions for…
Here are some notes about radio button and checkbox defaults for times when you need an affirmative answer. Affirmative choices The Nielsen/Norman Group (no relation) has an interesting article on radio buttons by Kara Pernice . Its advice is sound, but I want to note a case where there could perhaps be even more obviousness. The next time you design a radio button interface, I'd like to advise…
It's pretty cool that in many cases Rails migrations can reverse their action when you use the destroy command. For example: % rails generate model user name:string invoke active_record create db/migrate/20241204143118_create_users.rb create app/models/user.rb invoke test_unit create test/models/user_test.rb create test/fixtures/users.yml % rails destroy model user invoke active_record remove…
So I wanted to format some text whereby I specify a width and a utility fills and wraps the lines. Example input text: The output for `ls-files` is incredibly limited, right? That's because the typical use case is to list files of a certain type. You can do ls-files -c # show cached (tracked) ls-files -d # show unstaged deletions ls-files -u # show unmerged There is also an option -t that shows…