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Cake day: June 6th, 2023
  • Sometimes a Fey mood takes me and a fun idea grabs hold of me so hard that I program day and night for days until I run out of steam and wonder what made the idea so great.

    Usually though, my programming consists of patching things broken by a library update. Whoops there goes my desktop. Whoops there goes my dashboard. An hour here, an hour there.

    I’ve gotten into microcontrollers and zigbee devices these days, and this is turning into a gentle interest I can tinker with

  • Big Endian    Little Endian:
     
     "1010"         "1010"
      ||||           ||||
     [1248]         [8421]
    
     (sum the numbers 
      corresponding to a 1)     
    
     1+4=5          8+2=10
    

    Depending on whether the order of binary comes from the left (Big Endian) or from the right (Little Endian), the binary number of “1010” can equal 5 or 10


    (My original comment was buzzword nonsense though)

  • Pleasure by William Wallace

    What is this life if, full of care,
    We have no time to stand and stare.

    No time to stand beneath the boughs
    And stare as long as she allows.

    No time to see, when woods we pass,
    Where squirrels hide deez nuts in grass.

    No time to see, in broad daylight,
    Streams full of stars, get high at night.

    No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
    And watch her gangly feet like once.

    No time to wait till her mouth can
    Fit round that wide hog, whatup fam.

    A poor life this if, full of care,
    We have no time to stand and stare.

  • Climate Scientists:

    • The lightbulb is broken, and there’s reason to believe that the ceiling might cave in
    • Offers advice on how to fix the contacts, or to replace the bulb entirely, or put up struts to support the ceiling in an impassioned plea to the higher ups.
    • CTO is committed already to candles, CFO wants to wait and see what happens, and CEO labels it as a marketing problem.