“Don’t cry because it’s over; smile because it happened.”
~ Dr. Seuss
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 151)
Since my MCAS/MCAD symptoms got worse over the last few years, I’ve had several weird skin reactions to different things. This image shows a reaction I had to some tape after giving blood yesterday. The tape was on for about thirty minutes when I noticed it felt weird, and then I saw this when I took it off. It’s similar to another skin reaction I had to wearing a mala/bracelet back in March.
As a brief note, I knew that the sum function I wrote in my book on Scala and functional programming would return a wrong value if the sum of the integers in a list was greater than Int.MaxValue, and I was curious how the built-in sum method on lists handled the same problem. It turns out that it works in the same way.
So, if you need to sum a list of integers that may exceed Int.MaxValue, you might need to write a sum function that calculates and returns the sum as a Long. (The same is true for Float and Double.)
defenseone.com reports that the CIA has at least 137 AI “pilot projects” in the works.
Here’s a note by Ev Williams on Medium’s mission, five years in.
Sometimes I think working with LaTeX is like sitting at the controls of the Nebuchadnezzar in The Matrix.
The first snowfall in the Boulder/Lousiville/Broomfield, Colorado area is expected tonight and tomorrow.
In general I try to avoid swearing these days, but sometimes you just need to get your point across. Meditate, let it go ... forgiveness is good for your heart, and good for your soul.*
* Forgiveness doesn’t mean you should be a carpet for others to walk on.
(Sorry, I don’t know the original source of this image.)
One thing I learned about being a full-time, at-home writer: people don’t respect your time. It’s like, “You’re a writer? Haha, that’s funny. Why don’t you come over and help me paint my house? I’m counting on you.” That sort of thing.
On this day a few years ago, when I first moved to Colorado, I was living in two hotels and an apartment, a by-product of moving here from Alaska, with all of my belongings in my car. (Little did I know it, but I would move again a month later.)
Denver Broncos’ linebacker Von Miller helps out at a restaurant that’s been across the street from Texas A&M forever. (Image from this Twitter page.)
Summer, 2017: No telling what I was doing, but I just found my toothbrush with the silverware in the dishwasher.
Some time later: I realized that things like this were the result of uncontrolled mast cell activation disease (MCAS/MCAD).
“Sooner or later, we all go through a crucible ... Most believe there are two types of people who go into a crucible. The ones who become stronger from the experience and survive it, and the ones who die. But there’s a third type. The ones who learn to love the fire and choose to stay in their crucible because it’s easier to embrace the pain when it's all you know anymore.”
Sebastian Blood, Arrow
“It’s going well. It’s a difficult case, though, to give a man back his heart.”
A quote from the movie Michael
In case you missed the news, after that drawn-out legal battle about Java and Android, Oracle doesn’t want Java EE any more, and it was adopted by the Eclipse Foundation.
latimes.com has an interesting inside story of how the Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around “duet” came to be. According to the studio engineer, it wasn’t a duet at all.
“Real marriage is when two individuals share the same goals in life, and want to help each other attain those goals.”
~ Swami Satchidananda
While I’m on the treadmill, an extremely large, muscular guy walks into the fitness center. He looks at the big-screen television, which is currently playing a commercial, and then looks at me. “You watchin’ this?,” he asks forcefully.
As he turned to look at me, the show I was watching came back on. I catch my breath, point at the tv, and say, “The Princess Bride.”
He turns and looks back at the tv for a few moments. “Cool,” he says, and begins to lift some weights.
(a facebook post from this day in 2014)
I don’t know the original source of this image about “delegation” in computer programming (starring Inigo Montoya of The Princess Bride), but I like it.
