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This is the personal site of Dominic Ricottone.
You can also find me on GitHub, GitLab, SourceHut, Bluesky, and LinkedIn.
Here are my most recent blog posts.
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Installing Arch Linux ARM on a Pinebook Pro, posted on 2025-06-02
A series of notes for future me, regarding the installation of Arch Linux ARM on a Pinebook Pro. First, installing a new OS.
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Madison, posted on 2025-05-05
I recently spent a long weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. This is a part of a larger effort I’m making this year to see more of the Midwest.
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Music File Metadata, posted on 2025-03-03
ffplay told me that my music files had invalid tags, so it was ignoring them. What gives! Well, I do recall reading that ID3 tags were meant only for MP3 files, but my workflow consisting of id3tag and id3info seemed to be working just fine for my FLAC files, too.
I occasionally post on Bluesky, mostly about concerts and music.
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They are Bonfire, an AC/DC cover band!
AC/DC themselves will of course be playing here in just 12 hours. I'm sure that playing the same venue on the same day is a pretty cool thing for a cover band to experience. (I will *not* be here for that show.)
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Now listening to:
whoever this is, while I wait for my wife to finish the Soldier Field 10
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Now listening to:
South Arcade, Savage Hands, Hot Milk, and Magnolia Park, all live at Concord Music Hall
My most listened to music of the last 30 days. See more on LastFM.
- In Sunder by Sub Urban
- Headlock by Imogen Heap
- Nope your too late i already died by wifiskeleton
- プロポーズ by 麻婆豆腐
- Perfect Fit by AFI
Articles from around the internet I would recommend reading.
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From: Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
Date: June 2, 2025
Subject: Pascal’s triangle, the Ramanujan principle, and what makes something look like a part of an ellipse or a part a parabola?
John Cook writes: The nth row of Pascal’s triangle contains the binomial coefficients C(n, r) for r ranging from 0 to n. For large n, if you print out the numbers in the nth row vertically in binary you can … Continue reading →
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From: Drezner’s World
Date: June 2, 2025
Subject: How Trump Is Failing Against Harvard
Or, how to make Harvard look sympathetic.
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From: Adarsh Badri
Date: June 1, 2025
Subject: How (Not) to Take Meaningful Break From PhD
It’s that time of the month when I provide an update on life and my PhD. And in this newsletter, I discuss how I tried to take a meaningful break from PhD. It’s been over a year since I started my PhD in IR in Brisbane, Australia. But, after a year of sta…
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