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2012-2016 Honda CR-V Oil and Oil Filter Replacement

We did oil change today, at Edison Pep Boys (the one nearest to us in South Amboy was understaffed and they refused service, hence no Bubba meal). We ate at Penang Restaurant, drinks from Gongcha. They were supposed to get … Continue reading

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Logical operators for Boolean indexing in Pandas

Boolean Indexing - passing a series of list that satisfy the specified boolean condition. The operator &, | instead of AND, OR, are the only ones that work with boolean indexing here because it's an element-wise (like bit-wise operators) operator … Continue reading

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Python cgi-bin

Since Hostmonster (NYGC) cannot really catch up with the new Python, I could only do Python, the older version, via cgi-bin. And use PHP's exec('python test.py'); to do the trick. test.py's permission would have to be set to 755. I've … Continue reading

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Upgrading Python3 - For the Web (GoDaddy)

So there was Web Scraping with Python, but what I want is the other way around: Python to html. So the answer to that is DJANGO or FLASK, server side service. Hostmonster seems to be rather outdated with Python support; … Continue reading

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Rules with Shared Mailbox and How to turn 365 Group into a mailing list and using "Send As" delegation.

Turns out there are two kinds of Microsoft Office 365 Shared Mailbox: The one under Groups in 365 admin center, called Microsoft 365 group;And the one called Shared Mailbox in exchange admin center. To create rules for within Shared Mailbox, … Continue reading

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Python: ADD (+) vs. INPLACE_ADD (+=) vs. extend() for LIST

Today's Python series by Jake Gober led me to consider why there's difference between concatenate (+) two lists to the same variable and using the extend() function on the list. The answer is ADD (+) creates a new list, I … Continue reading

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Banker's Rounding

While briefing through this Python course by TIQC (very good course, very interactive, great professor Jake Gober), a question came up in the second video: Why is round(10.5) = 10? I'm not sure if the professor had the chance to … Continue reading

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Furnace Fix

This Morning Nadia said that the first floor is so cold and we realized later that the Furnace in the basement is not working. There's a great deal of Youtube video tutorials (This "Word of Advice TV" youtuber is very … Continue reading

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Moved from MetroPCS (Metro by T-Mobile) to T-Mobile

A couple of weeks ago, we finally did it. Couldn't stand the poor signal with Metro after they made the alleged upgrade in my area, and I lost signal all the time for more than two weeks. Their tech support … Continue reading

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Car Tire Punctured much lately

I believe it's at least the third time in this past year, yesterday (Thursday) when Nadia said the tire got punctured again, this time, on the new back tire, driver's side. I last parked the car in the free parking … Continue reading

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