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  • Obsidian Notes

    I’m using Obsidian, a lot, to read and edit Markdown files, partly for all this LLM practice. This is a document of tips and troubleshooting. Symptoms: tried to open a vault in a folder that has restricted permissions. The vault starts to open, but you get an “EACCESS permission denied” error. You cannot remove it…

  • Reading the California Law Section Hierarchy

    —References: https://saclaw.org/resource_library/reading-citations/ https://www.library.ca.gov/law/online-research/leginfo/ https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov https://libguides.law.ucla.edu/californiastatutes/codes Author: John Kawakami, Public Domain—My comments are prefixed by #.A subsection’s position in the hierarchy of sections can be determined by the style of numbering used:# on laws retrieved from https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov, the parts up to ARTICLE are generally in the header area of the pageCODE CATEGORY (i.e. GOV) TITLE 1.…

  • Cost to Send a Big Package

    I had this 7 pound rice cooker, but it was bulky. The packaging costs were stunning. External box – a Lowes heavy duty box that I had to cut down: ~$6 Internal box – U-Haul book box (12x12x12), but I also bought a Small box, because I wasn’t sure if the smaller box was big…

  • Garbanzo Bean Natto and Hummus

    Made chick peas into natto, and then made that into hummus. Natto Soak a bag of garbanzos/chick peas overnight. Boil the chick peas gently until fully cooked, around 90 minutes. Dump in a pack of natto, defrosted. Stir into the beans well, and then put it into an oven with only the pilot light on.…

  • SGV and the Citrus Fruit Disease Huanglongbing HLB

    These are resources from the Citrus Disease Prevention website. Map Since it was hard to tell where the quarantine boundaries were, I took a screenshot of Google maps, and then combined with with the map above. (I did this by scaling one image, and matching the coastlines.) As you can see, nearly the entire San…

  • Recovering Data from an Netgear SC101 NAS

    I haven’t been able to do it. The short version is, I had a good conversation with Thaura (aka Qwen) and it said the NAS uses a proprietary format, and requires software installed to use it. https://thaura.ai/?share=2aa94050-af42-4a00-95cc-8b4776ef65c4 Why? Because it doesn’t have a file system. The CS101 presents the disk as a block device over…

  • Archive Creation Scripts

    I’m playing with some ideas, rearranging them, and trying to create a structure that can be broken up into parts, shared over Bittorrent, and reconstructed without too much pain.

  • Overview of Bloomberg QuickTake

    I bought this from the library several years ago, and found it during cleaning/disposing, and decided to study its design and writing. After all, we could benefit from professional guidance – but since we cannot afford it, we can reverse-engineer/reverse-design a billionaire’s publication. Since I’m not of the “Bloomberg class”, and not interested in capital,…

  • TRON: Whatever, Nevermind

    Some GenX humor, because there isn’t any other kind I can do. This firey one, I did during the Lineage fire in Los Angeles. It’s supposed to be about battery storage systems and data centers, and global warming. I guess it works for frozen food burning and industrial zoning adjacent to working class communities, too.…

  • Install Dell Inspiron BIOS update A12 for Linux Users (who deleted Windows)

    I wanted to update the BIOS, but this was made difficult because I deleted Windows from the laptop. Here’s a recipe that worked. Why These Two Systems? Older BIOS updaters were DOS programs, and could be run through an OS like FreeDOS. This updater requires a Windows 32-bit environment to run. The computer had weird…