My wife and me are returning teenagers, having a race to finish reading Harry Potter’s books. We feel almost childish.
Fun
That ackward time
That ackward time when you feel silly, dumb and dumber all the same time.
That is when you found another seemingly innocent one-liner that triggers an infinite recursion with stack exaustion and consequent crash of the app with something as simple as:
properties_upper: INTEGER is do Result := properties_upper-1 end
The silly aspect is that I already fixed another one like that.
if-not-true-then-false
I was looking to Install LibreOffice 5.1/5.0 on …CentOS, discovering this website: if-not-true-then-false.com
A genius. Who picked that name is a genius 🙂
Printers
Richard Stallman back in the late ’70 were compelled to start GNU project because he cannot hack the firmware of a prototype of a laser printer.
Fourty years later people using software libero still quarrel with printers. Me for example…. on the previous (Ubuntu) box I was able to smoothly use that printer. Now Centos keeps arguing that the printer has low black ink (true!) and that there’s no paper (wrong!).
The mysteries of software libero…. 🙂
When your machine memory starved the good old xterm is a blessing.
The good parts
I’m really doing it
Yes, I’m really doing it. Cloning Liberty eiffel repository into a virtual Microsoft Windows instance to help Petroo’s effort of porting GNU Liberty Eiffel to Windows, the same day its Desktop Market Share Drops Below 90%
Dumbest line of code, ever
properties_upper: INTEGER is do Result := properties_upper-1 end
See my commit of 7 January 2016.
Actually I commite that line on the previous 20 june, but I quite remember I wrote it in the middle of the night. I shall stop wasting time in early evening and stick to coding….
Today’s lesson
Never, ever say “I was never…” bacause Murphy’s law will soon take its toll
Lately I’ve written I was never stopped working by an upgrade.
Well, actually I wasn’t stopped but have you ever tried working on a box that keeps swapping and thrashing at your slightest action?
Who said Knight Rider?
Nvidia’s breakthrough is the autonomous vehicle automatically taught itself to drive by watching how a human drove.
I’ve just read Nvidia GPU-powered autonomous car teaches itself to see and steer | Network World coming from Slashdot.
“KITT, drive me home!”
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