If you want to make a backup copy (an ISO image) of a CD or DVD on a MacOS system using the Unix dd command at the Mac Terminal command line, I’ll demonstrate the process in this tutorial.
Assuming that you’re using an external CD/DVD drive, the first step is to connect your drive to your computer, and then insert a CD or DVD. If you insert a movie or music CD and an application automatically starts playing, quit that application.
A few days ago I ran into a woman who seemed very stressed out. I had a conversation with her that went like this:
Me: You seem to be feeling a lot of stress, may I ask why?
Her: Yada yada yada ... I’m trying to save my marriage! (Said loudly, with a lot of emotion.) (She starts crying.)
Me: Why?
Her: What?
Me: For as long as I’ve known you, you’ve said that you’re not happy, and now you seem very stressed out. So I’m wondering why you’re trying to save your marriage?
Her: ...
I thought it was a simple question — I thought she might say that she still loved the guy — but it turns out she had no answer for it.
She was crying, and tired of crying, so we talked about something else for a while. Then out of the blue she said, “I think I’m trying to save it because I always thought it was the right thing to do. Or maybe I never wanted to be divorced. But those aren’t very good reasons, are they? He really is a mean, selfish jerk, and he’s making my life miserable.”
These are my notes from the book, Jony Ive, The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, by Leander Kahney. They may not make sense if you haven’t read the book yourself, but they’re the notes from the book I want to remember.
As I’ve written about before, I assumed that Apple’s Jonathan Ive had his hands full with the completion of the design of Apple Park, and that was affecting the design and quality of Apple’s recent product offerings. This quote comes from bloomberg.com: “With the completion of Apple Park, Apple’s design leaders and teams are again reporting directly to Jony Ive, who remains focused purely on design,” Amy Bessette, a company spokeswoman, said Friday in a statement.
fool.com has this blog post about the projected growth of various robot markets.
I like the cover so much, I’m now up to three copies of Functional Programming, Simplified.
A little more seriously, I’ll be reviewing the third proof tonight. If all goes well, the book will be available on Amazon.com this weekend.
The Republicans open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for drilling, led by Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski. Image from this oilprice.com story.
December 8th is recognized as the day of Buddha’s enlightenment. Tonight that makes me think of this scene from Haven. :) (I’ll meditate more tomorrow.)
Meanwhile, in Fairbanks, Alaska ... the ArcticCam shows snow on the roads. Temps are 24/30, freezing rain is likely.
“Bring your mind to one point and wait for grace.”
~ from one of my favorite Ram Dass books, Polishing the Mirror, this is something that Maharaji told Ram Dass
I came across this unusual looking cloud formation on the drive back to Colorado yesterday (December 6, 2017).
I haven’t tried it yet, but Pants is a build system that supports Scala and Java projects (and other languages).
The beginning of this story about Lakers’ coach Luke Walton has a few discussions about meditation and a mindfulness app.
Another good tweet from Brian Greene: “Special Relativity tells us that nothing can travel through space faster than the speed of light, but this does not constrain the speed at which space itself expands. Galaxies can — and do — move apart at faster than light speed.”
This is the second proof of the print/paperback version of Functional Programming, Simplified. It should be ready for release by December 10, 2017.
This morning I was thinking about something that I want to accomplish, and as I thought about it a voice in my brain said, “You can’t just wish for it, you have to put in the work.” That seems like good advice in general.
Amazon AWS is bringing AI and deep learning to the masses with their SageMaker and DeepLens projects. itworld.com has a story about it here.
I haven’t read it yet, but I just added Category Theory for Programmers to my “need to read” list.
