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%
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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….
Fun, Mood
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?
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The more I work in the construction industry the more I’m deeply disgusted.
Mood
Corporate anniversaries bring bad luck
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paolo@rigel:/var/log$ grep -e “sda” -e FAILED kern.log|wc -l
552!
May I suggest to add a new spare disk in the RAID array?
And a proper backup policy of root filesystem too?
Fun, Mood
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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Dad, may I play?
Dad, may I play with your computer?
And I have to move to the humble, smallish and slow old eeepc.
At least I’m lucky enough of using vim and tmux so I don’t have to really stop. Just detach the session and reattach it into a new ssh connection.
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Proficient with….
I was naïvely opening Linkedin when I saw this telling people I’m able to use “Microsoft Office” would attract up to 15% more views? Really, are they serious? I’ve been a proud user of StarOffice then OpenOffice then LibreOffice since… forever, or better since it was still called StarOffice… Yes, I’ve used Microsoft Office and…
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I’ve been tweaking a little “Tutorial tour – Liberty Eiffel Wiki“
After having been extensively using WordPress and Markdown for a while the syntax of MediaWiki feels almost alien…