I run pacman -Syu about once a week on my Arch Linux machines, to stay up-to-date, avoid security problems and generally stay at the bleeding edge of software revisions.

Today, I ran pacman -Syu on my Dell R530 server and it updated the PPP package.

Trouble ensued.

Under the Dragon’s Tail, by Maureen Jennings, 1998, McClelland and Stewart. ISBN 978-0-7710-9597-9

I used to try to do one dumb/weird hardware thing every year. One year, I used a Palm Pilot as a serial terminal for a Sun SPARCStation-10. Multiple serial cable adapters and gender changers involved.

My dumb hardware stunt for October 2024: 10 USB WiFi adapters on the same laptop.

My pet Roomba, Dobby, got himself stuck under the corner of an upholstered sofa. Again.

Daily Coding Problem: Problem #1790 [Easy]

Implement the function fib(n), which returns the n^th number in the Fibonacci sequence, using only O(1) space.

One of my kids passed along a logic problem.

Dead Lies Dreaming, © 2020 by Charles Stross, ISBN 978-1-250-26702-1, A Tordotcom Book. Published by Tom Doherty Associates.

Problem Statement

Given a list of words, find all pairs of unique indices such that the concatenation of the two words is a palindrome.

For example, given the list [“code”, “edoc”, “da”, “d”], return [(0, 1), (1, 0), (2, 3)].