I did a fresh install of Ubuntu 14.10 today with Cinnamon as a desktop and am pleased with the interface. I noticed something when scanning some documents in lineart mode, though: the resulting images had a ton of noise, noise that I did not see in scans prior to my upgrade. After snooping around the … Continue reading “Ubuntu Yielding Noisy Black/White Scans”
Something struck me as unexpected today while working in Python. I had a function to take a datetime object and convert it into epoch milliseconds: import datetime import time this_tz = ‘US/Eastern’ def get_epch_ms(dttm=datetime.datetime.now(pytz.timezone(this_tz))): # Returns milliseconds since epoch for datetime object passed. # If no argument is passed, uses *now* as time basis. # … Continue reading “Default Argument Value Does Not Refresh Between Function Calls”