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mdlbear On the whole not a bad week. Pretty good week? Anyway. The main
achievement was finding what to me was a very obscure bug in my hyperviewer graphics
demo. In retrospect it shouldn't have been that obscure; the fact that it
took me a week to find was probably because I'm too used to using
strongly-typed languages. Hint: when is x+1 not equal to
1+x? (Answer under the cut, in Monday's notes.)
The other thing I did this week (I only did two things? Sad.) was attend a workshop at the Seattle office of SCORE: "Growing a Consulting Business", presented by John Martinka. I spent a lot of the time feeling very much like a fish out of water, but I had a couple of encouraging conversations during the breaks that made me think that maybe I do have expertise that companies would pay for. Probably not big companies, but small businesses. Maybe. The biggest problem is my almost total lack of self-confidence.
It may be too late to help with my current financial crunch.
It was also given at 8:15am in downtown Seattle, which made for a l o n g day. Fortunately, I haven't been sleeping all that well lately (c.f. previous paragraph), so I was able to leave a little before 6am and get there on time. It does say something about the possibility of commuting. I could do it once a week if I had to, though.
One of the highlights of this week's linkspam is "How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language", which includes a reference to Kanef's song about it, The Eternal Flame. More Lisp links in Wednesday's notes.
This week's security links include some updates on the Facebook hack, plus this page in FB's help: scroll down to see if your account was affected. Mine wasn't, but...
1014Su * up 6:30ish; S=6:47; litter boxes (not always noted, but should be) @ Facebook’s 29 Million Hack Got Personal Data – FutureSin – Medium @ An Update on the Security Issue | Facebook Newsroom @ It’s Too Late to Stop Trusting Facebook – Member Feature Stories – Medium @ An important update about Facebook's recent security incident | Facebook Help -> scroll down to find out whether your FB account was impacted by the latest breach -> mine wasn't. $ I'm not budgeting enough for cat supplies, am I? Especially litter, which we go through a lot of. @ Drip - Fund your creative practice through the ongoing support of people who love your work. * PayPal button added to DW profile. * SL: bread, juice, raisins, peanuts, 2 oranges, 2 chicken, cream, beef (chuck roast), shrimp, spinach (salad), butternut squash, apples, english, ground beef, 2 cans flaky biscuit dough, x eggplant, tomato sauce, tomato paste, pasta (egg noodles), evap milk, condensed milk, stick butter, green onions, parsley, cat litter, * shrimp scampi for dinner * get ssavitzky.github.io looking better: different fonts, better set of sidebar links * email responding to questions from Signal 1015Mo * Up 5:15; S=6:21; dishes @ Why Nobel winner Donna Strickland didn’t have a Wikipedia page - Washington Post @ Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps | Linux Journal * Found the mysterious "simplex bug" in hyperviewer -- it turned out to be due to JS's "helpful" type coercion. The simplex's vertex count is dimensions + 1, and the UI returns a string from any input tag. If I'd used 1+dimensions I would never have noticed. :P When is x+1 != x*1? It also involves the overloading of + to mean both addition and string concatenation. @ The Last Bug (published in Datamation in the late 1960s) c.f. "Bugs" by S. Savitzky @ Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 1016Tu * up 6ish; W=199.8, S=6:08; * generic collection list layout; see ssavitzky.github.io/Articles * 9:15 leave for... * 10:15 Dr. Idjadi - WH Ortho in Coupeville * email: schedule technical interview with Signal! * DENTAL INSURANCE - AARP PPO Plan A; year up front, via AMEX https://www.deltadentalins.com/shopping/aarp/plan-options/8476306?issuerCode=AARP * 3-ish: CPAP supplies should be at Island Drug in Clinton ~2pm. * orange chicken. Involved coating small chicken pieces with egg and then cornstarch + flour, and frying them. Took over an hour. Suggested that from now on anything that involves dipping things in batter and frying them should be for C and V to do. % took two naproxen for my back. @ Getting Started with React – An Overview and Walkthrough – Tania Rascia has several good tutorials; (via Ko-fi) * music: Lily et. al. (C's request) A couple of transposed lines and words, but pretty decent as a performance. Left thumb a bit sore -- first time I've done thumb barres since I got the brace off. @ ‘Do Not Track’ Privacy Tool Doesn’t Do Anything 1017We * up 6ish; W=199.6, S=7:23; @ How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language f(Eli) The Roots of Lisp by Paul Graham (2002, PDF) Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (hugeass image dump for evidence) | Meme Research Discussion | Know Your Meme Lyrics: The Eternal Flame Beating the Averages Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP | Random Hacks * schedule interview with Signal - next available day is 1021Mo. 1pm. * Music lesson. -> reschedule Tu 4pm @ An Apology for the Internet — From the People Who Built It * first cut at business cards. Circle-cropping Freas headshot. Also made a flipped version for use on left-hand sidebars. % discovered when I went out after checking the app and seeing that Molly was unplugged that I'd parked it by the garage, then _forgot to plug it in_! : Call from the YD - she wants my music collection; I suggested bringing our archive disks to the wedding... I'll have to make sure there are compatible formats; I suspect ext4 probably won't work too well. % tried to go into the cats' room to work ha! Desti _would not_ leave my keyboard alone. I'll probably have to use the apartment. At least I was able to bring Raven up to date. But Nova has fallen behind... x norwescon memberships and hotel room -> can't afford 1018Th * up 5:15ish; W=201, S=6:22; : apparently I started setting up a bandcamp page for CC&S, and left it as a draft. WTF? masters are in /vv/users/steve/Albums/coffee/Master; the ones in Premaster probably have more resolution. I had flac at one point... in Rips, of course. Bingo. With track numbers and everything. The whole album directory is 28G. : The Perl version of pia is in /vv/users/Ricoh/CvsRoot/pia * signed up for Patreon. Needs a 1600x400 banner pic. Used Curio again, which probably isn't all that good an idea but it's what I have. Not finished with profile. % it's noon, and I've actually been busy. Bandcamp, Patreon, and a couple of others. Found an old incomplete profile on Bandcamp; started one on Patreon; looked at Fiverr and Ko-Fi (which is probably next) ! running scared At first I thought I hadn't opened my morning tabs, but I just didn't remember. : Desti has taken over my laptop. * feed fish on Thursdays * posted Thankful Thursday & converting (perl)pia to git, because I was curious how much perl was in it (relevant to job app at DDG) => somewhere north of 7,000. Of course, not all of that was me. * set up coffee tonight for early departure. Set alarms for 5, 5:15, 5:30 & C to ER for a plumbing change. It's been ~3weeks; started leaking yesterday : not going easily. % I've been staring at the DDG application all damned afternoon and I don't know why I can't write a damned cover letter. OK, it's _usually_ difficult, but this seems to be _unusually_ difficult. WTF? % worried about tomorrow. Woried about the whole idea of being a consultant. So far out of my comfort zone... So much stuff I don't know how to force myself to do... Well, we'll see, and at least I'll get a lunch out of it. And having trouble trying to figure out what expertise I have that any company would want to pay me a consutant's fee for. 1019Fr * up 4:15; W=199.6, S=5:24; * leave by (preferably before) 6am * 8:15 Growing a Consulting Business from 8:15 AM to 4:00 PM PDT Presented by John Martinka of Partner On-Call Network Greater Seattle SCORE, 2401 4th Ave, Suite #450 Seattle, WA 98121 http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=6znl8dcab&oeidk=a07efm4v59jd5b93719 -> very useful. A couple of encouraging conversations. * Nice visit with N (and j, and briefly G) afterward " QOTD: N: Carl Sandberg didn't know cats. " (after Bronx and Brooklyn went thundering by) 1020Sa * up 6:30ish; W=199.6, S=7:27; cat boxes * SL: jack cheese, TP, soy sauce, crushed red pepper, peanut oil, tofu, red wine vinegar, milk, brown sugar, garlic; benedryl, scrip for C : C managed to get her kindle fire's screen reader turned on on -- or rather Ticia did, by walking across the screen. I had to call tech support; it turns that when the screen reader is on you need to double-click buttons and use two fingers to swipe (both because touching something with one finger gets it read to you). * work on ss.g.io -- fix sidebar on mobile.
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Date: 2018-10-29 06:08 pm (UTC)I encourage you to keep swinging.
Im told that Javascript and Python are the 2 most sough after languages.
I know many people hate Python.
Im odd in that I LOVE python.