So have it has been a year that I'm using bike as mean of transportation in Montreal! This is a report / review of such an adventure, hopping these lines can be useful for anyone who is considering urban biking. Biking in the city has allowed me to explore better my …
When learning French, it is overwhelming the large quantity of homophones; and if you come from a language with few vowels (like Spanish with 5 vowels), the list of homophones gets "larger", because many of the vowels in French (in some variations, up to 17 vowels) can be easily confused …
Often, there is the need of generating a random RGB color for LEDs. The most common approach is to obtain a random value between 0 and 1 (or 0 and 255) for the Red, Green and Blue channels. RGB cube This approach, however, leads to dark and light colors which …
More a side project than a need, I wanted to control in Linux the fan modes (the relationship between temperature and fan speed) in my 2020 Gigabyte AORUS 15G KB, it should apply to similar models. The code for this project can be found in: https://github.com/rcassani/p37-ec-aorus15g …
Updated: The post-checkout hook the hook code below is intended to run only when changing branches, but it is invoked also when retrieving files from the index and rebasing. Thus these two cases need to be addressed in the code. See more details below. Often when working on experimental Git …
Updated: After receiving feedback on this post, I updated this post by adding at the end a similar map but using the driving times, rather than the Euclidean distances. Interactive maps: Minimum linear distance to a Costco and Minimum driving time to a Costco Once clarified the different meanings of …
