smarks.bsky.social
Java/JDK/OpenJDK developer, Oracle Corporation. The views expressed here are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Oracle. Mostly on @[email protected] ; formerly @stuartmarks on Twitter.
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We looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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Huh I watched one episode with the talking carrot (I think) and as a result I wrote off the entire series. Maybe I should revisit the early ones….
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There are soooooo many banger lines in this episode. Here’s mine:
“The commander is responsible for the lives of his crew, and for their deaths. Well, I should have died with mine.”
Devastating.
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I’m wondering if calling out the National Guard to quell the L.A. “riots” is intended to distract from the massive climb-down of having to return Abrego Garcia to the U.S. and how flimsy the charges against him are.
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Newsom may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.
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Newsom may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.
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People might also have different strategies in today's GPS nav world. I find that Google Maps over-optimizes based on e.g. traffic conditions. It might add 5 turns in order to save a 3 minutes -- a bad tradeoff if I'm somewhere unfamiliar. I look at the route and "optimize" it for fewer turns. 2/X
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I'd keep a cache of maps in the car covering places I was likely to go. Rarely, for a long car trip, we'd go to AAA and get them to assemble a "TripTik", a little booklet of maps covering our planned route. But yes it probably differed a lot among individuals. 1/
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Columbia may be behaving “nicely,” but have its NIH research grants been restored? If not, what’s the point of behaving “nicely”?
(Even if the grants had been restored — I don’t think they have been — it’s still probably a bad idea to behave “nicely.”)
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Train station sushi time?
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Nice!! I washed my car yesterday too, for the first time in months. ☺️
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I saw some great-looking sashimi in the grocery store, so I bought and took it home and cooked it. Tasted just like tuna.
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Back in the Olden Days when I would actually answer the phone when it rang, I once asked the caller whether this was a telemarketing call. He replied, “Oh, no, no, no, this isn’t a telemarketing call, it’s a courtesy call.”
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That Seagate drive gives you lifetime 2TB capacity all right —for the lifetime of the drive.
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Yeah the stuff they have at bitsavers is amazing!
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Heh I didn’t know you were a Mets fan. Looks like they won it though!! 🎉
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OMG I was able to find the documentation online. See p. 201 of this:
www.bitsavers.org/pdf/hp/2000T...
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An old HP timesharing system had commands SANCTIFY and DESECRATE. (No, not DEPRECATE.)
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Cool, right behind the visiting on-deck circle at Fenway! I watched a game at Fenway once -- A's at Sox -- from a similar location. The Sox beat my hometown team with a walkoff single in the bottom of the ninth. Couldn't be sad though because it was a helluva game.
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Cool! You’re ahead of Andy Borowitz, a funny parody of the news, and The Free Press, an unfunny parody of the news.
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🤪
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Excellent.
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What! No nerd jokes about self-signed Certs still being available?
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Try Arby’s Meat Mountain.
www.chowhound.com/1780387/arby...
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Nice rant!
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Way back in 1974, Ted Nelson coined the term “cybercrud” which he defined as “putting things over on people using computers.” (Computer Lib, p. 8) It’s not an exact match, but it’s close. Maybe it’s time to revive this word.
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☕️
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In principle I'm also old enough to remember, but I had to look it up anyway. I found the answer in this 2007 column from Paul Krugman! It's still operative.
archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...
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And that CACM editor was Nicklaus Wirth!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conside...
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See also this on “one entry, one exit”:
softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/118793
which in turn references EWD249, Dijkstra’s “Notes on Structured Programming”:
www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd02xx...
Maybe the answer to your original question is in here somewhere!
4/3
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Some info on these weird FORTRAN constructs can be found here:
fortranwiki.org/fortran/show...
3/END
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And while we’re at it, FORTRAN also had the ability to declare multiple entry points to a subroutine with the ENTRY statement. Thus a subroutine could have multiple entry points and multiple exit points! This led to the structured programming rule, “one entry, one exit.” 2/
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While we’re on the topic of weird control structures, it’s not a goto, but FORTRAN had the “Alternate RETURN” feature where a subroutine could return to somewhere other than the next statement after the CALL. (At least the other places were declared by the caller.) 1/