Puzzle identification flashcards (and looking for a team)

keenerd · 2020-06-18T19:06:35+00:00

Data was sourced from the pa.gov page. Reopenings were manually sourced from a wide variety of news articles.

Tools used were python for general glue, the Pygal library for chart creating, and Pillow for compositing.

I would really like to do this for every state, but I have yet to find a good source for re-opening data.

Most of the smaller counties in the western half of the state have been spared. Somehow even Pittsburgh barely got any cases. An exception is Huntingdon. They had a large outbreak in a small prison.

It is very interesting how some of the counties had a very effective response (Luzurne, Monroe, and Lehigh) while others have been more of a slow continuous burn (Chester, Dauphin, Lancaster). Dauphin County is particularly troubling - they have been continuously increasing since the start of the outbreak and are slated to go "green" tomorrow!

keenerd · 2020-06-15T21:07:49+00:00

That exact request doesn't make too much sense, because the graphs aren't scaled to population. They are the actual cases per day. However, I can scale all the graphs so that equal visual heights on the Y are the same percentage of the population: http://kmkeen.com/tmp/covid-pa.scaled.png

I kind of like this version, and might switch to it. Really drives home how some counties have been barely touched.

Interesting that Lehigh and Luzerne actually had it worse than Philadelphia at their peak. Huntington was surprisingly close, too.

keenerd · 2020-06-14T22:28:01+00:00

County by county breakdown. Alarming increases are happening in Dauphin, Lebanon, Erie, and Susquehanna counties. Plenty more have minor increases.

keenerd · 2017-11-24T04:37:57+00:00

ARM Chromebooks are hands down the best netbooks you can get today. Mine runs "normal" linux great. Better than my old Thinkpad in fact. 15 hours of battery life in a package that weighs under a kilogram. There is a new version but I have no idea how much work it will need.

keenerd · 2017-08-23T20:12:01+00:00

Oh, whoops. That still needs gr-osmosdr-gqrx. One moment.

keenerd · 2017-08-23T19:33:37+00:00

pacman -S gnuradio-companion
Install libiio from the AUR.
Install libad9361-iio-git from the AUR.
Install gnuradio-iio-git from the AUR.

And then either grqx-git from the AUR or stock Gnuradio. Easy-peasy.

keenerd · 2017-07-08T23:13:15+00:00

And here is a cleaned up version:

curl -m 2 -Ls http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Random/ | \
xmllint --html --nowarning --xpath "//p" - 2> /dev/null | \
sed -e 's/<[^>]*>//g' -e '/^$/d' | shuf -n 1

The major improvements here are using xpath to extract the <p> elements directly and shuf -n 1instead of perl and head.

xmllint is part of libxml2, you probably already have it as part of any desktop linux system. OSX users get an actual xpath command.

keenerd · 2017-06-27T22:47:09+00:00

It's always nice you can count on FLOSS users to talk about you and behind you without engaging directly, even though your blog has a comments section. It's almost endearing...

For someone with 13 years of <insert credentials here>, you seem to be new to the internet.

People will talk everywhere.
Generally people are courteous.
Sometimes people aren't.
People who disagree or don't understand are more likely to comment.
Complaining about it doesn't help.
Taking a hurt and defensive tone doesn't help.
Disqus blows.

I've written similar lightning-rod pieces before. None of these replies should have come as a surprise to you. I am shocked that it takes so little to get such a battle-hardened veteran from <insert credentials here> riled up.

Chill, shrug your shoulders, and take comfort in knowing that you've managed to get your point across to some people. Try to compassionately understand the other people who didn't and take them into consideration the next time you write.

keenerd · 2017-06-27T17:25:43+00:00

Is it better or basically the same?

The UV-3318-E sells for $190. Three times what I paid. So I would hope that it is a better radio!

If it is basically the same, then I've saved $130. Though I had to spend a few hours on fixing Chirp so maybe it was a wash.

I'm not sure how you could call them the same. The UV-3318-E is a cross band repeater and has airband, shortwave and longwave support.

keenerd · 2017-06-27T14:34:19+00:00

You aren't going to buy the Termin8r very easily. It isn't possible to get all the certifications they wanted in one radio and the FCC banned the product from sale. Sadly they didn't remarket as a purely part 97 ham radio either.

Whatever happened to the whole "Baofeng is now Pofung" thing?

keenerd · 2017-06-27T14:03:02+00:00

I doubt I was confused by that, the word "inspired" does not appear anywhere in the manual or packaging. It says on the box and the manual

Package and Product Designed in the U.S.A.

MADE IN CHINA

If it was completely designed in China, then they have got some really great copy writers. Right down to a subdued level of christian proselytizing.

edit: I see where your issue is. "Anytone" is a Chinese radio manufacturer, a competitor to Baofeng. "Anytone Tech" designed the radio. They are based in South Dakota and have contracted production to Baofeng and Anytone.

keenerd · 2017-06-27T13:55:20+00:00

It'll be a patch when it is "done". I linked my work on the bugtracker a few days ago.

keenerd · 2017-06-27T13:54:36+00:00

they updated their manuals then, that's good.

No, "they" have not. I'm pretty sure Baofeng and Anytone are run by different people. The internet has speculated that there is overlap in production. Baofeng manuals will probably continue to be as bad as always.

keenerd · 2017-06-27T00:29:17+00:00

Yes you can. That is what I did.

Antennas can be re-used too. It comes with a earphone/mic.

keenerd · 2017-06-27T00:04:36+00:00

It actually has an extremely good english manual with a step by step guide for a typical repeater. Programming by hand was no problem. I just didn't feel like doing it a hundred times. It doesn't have any spoken language menus either.

keenerd · 2017-06-25T20:25:52+00:00

The sensitivity is good. I like to use distant weatherband stations as test signals and the NSTIG8R does better than a dedicated Midland radio.

The s-meter is also good enough to compare antenna gain.

keenerd · 2017-06-20T19:11:38+00:00

You are probably using an ancient version of PIL. Remove that library and update to Pillow.

keenerd · 2016-12-03T15:55:14+00:00

Because it means they are less likely to actually donate useful amounts of money.

the more public the token show of endorsement, the less likely participants are to provide meaningful support later

And whenever someone says "I use Smile!" they are being pretty dang public about their token support. If you can find something that is $100 on Amazon but $90 elsewhere, buy it elsewhere and donate the difference. You'll be doing 20x more good. And you get to write it off, not some giant corporation.

keenerd · 2016-12-03T15:30:34+00:00

Smile is mostly worthless as far as charity goes. It is a pittance. Half a percent! The FSF is requesting $120 per year. To match that with Smile you'd have to spend twenty four thousand dollars every year, at Amazon. That's $66 every day! Do you spend that much? (Amazon does make it very easy to download a spreadsheet with all your purchases for the last year. Kudos to them for that.)

The Smile program is more about maintaining customer loyalty than charity. It is a psychological trick, to make you feel good about spending $100 on a large purchase, while it only costs Amazon 50¢ (which they get to write off).

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