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Normalize volume level with PulseAudio and simultaneous output

This should work conceptually on any Linux OS with PulseAudio but these particular instructions are for Ubuntu. There are two major reasons for using simultaneous output. The first is self-evident - we can output to say a bluetooth headset and wired headphones at the same time to enable two people to watch a movie with headphones on a single computer. The second reason is a sort of a convenience for setup. We know the simultaneous sink name so the default.pa config would work without modification so long as simultaneous output is enabled. If we were to set this up without that, we'd have to customize the config with our specific device sink name. That's totally doable but personally I always setup simultaneous output. That's why I haven't described the alternative in this gist.

	from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand

	from rq.registry import FailedJobRegistry
	from django_rq.queues import get_queue
	from django_rq.utils import get_jobs


	class Command(BaseCommand):
	help = 'Delete failed jobs from Django RQ.'

	[
	{
	"date": "Mon Jan 23 13:03:00 2017 -0800",
	"message": "Recommended by Django https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/databases/#setting-sql-mode",
	"title": "SET sql_mode='STRICT_TRANS_TABLES';",
	"hash": "a395f401c9a6d3e8602b80ecc729d736da871f46",
	"author": "Simon Willison <simonw@example.com>"
	},
	{
	"date": "Mon Jan 23 11:37:38 2017 -0800",

	#!/bin/bash
	# file: ttfb.sh
	# curl command to check the time to first byte
	# usage
	# 1. ./ttfb.sh "https://google.com"
	# 2. seq 10 \| xargs -Iz ./ttfb.sh "https://google.com"

	curl -o /dev/null \
	-H 'Cache-Control: no-cache' \
	-s \