There’s an older programming job interview question:
Given a string of round, curly, and square open and closing brackets, return whether the brackets are balanced (well-formed).
For example, given the string “([])”, you should return true.
Given the string “([)]” or “((()”, you should return false.
I read a blog post titled The golden ratio as a number base. It had an interesting statement:
According to Zeckendorf’s Theorem, every positive integer can be represented in a unique way as a sum of distinct, non-consecutive Fibonacci numbers.
In September of 2020, I still subscribed to the Denver Post, Denver’s only remaining daily newspaper. I got the Wednesday and Sunday editions in paper because I’m a dinosaur. It’s just more fun to read the funnies on paper. I started to read the Letters to the Editor and editorial pages.
Conquest of the Moon (Viking Press, 1953, Wernher von Braun, Willy Ley, Fred Whipple) describes a lunar expedition that could be accomplished with the technology of 1950. It’s the second of three books that explore the implications of Project Mars.
During the midst of the COVID pandemic, I was in the habit of taking walks through my neighborhood.
I commute from northern Colorado to Denver, mostly on I-25 between US-34 and the Park avenue exit. I have been noting hazardous material placards since 2025-04-24. Here’s what I’ve seen.
I read a paper, Oxygen and animal evolution: Did a rise of atmospheric oxygen trigger the origin of animals? by Daniel B. Mills and Donald E. Canfield, BioEssays, Volume 36 (12) - Dec 1, 2014
I can’t find a good, free, PDF of this one, mateys.
Today I reached a personal best while spotting hazmat placards.
UN 3328, Radioactive material, Type B (U) package, fissile.
I’ve decided to stop sinning, and give up buying lottery tickets. That means this post is calendar 2025 lottery winnings summary.
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I ran pacman -Syu on my Bosgame brand “Ecolite Series” E2 mini-PC,
as one does on the weekend.
I got a very strange message upon rebooting:
symbol grub_is_using_legacy_shim_lock_protocol not found
