Poor Taste

I had to take my car for emissions testing again. I visited Air Care Colorado Fort Collins this time. It was mildly better than the Greeley location.

The Go Blog has a post titled Allocating on the Stack. The post makes the claim that programs compiled with Go v1.26 compiler, and using the v1.26 runtime can allocate backing store of slices on the stack under some circumstances.

Another quote attributed to Harry Millner that appears in a few places:

There are many paths to the top of the mountain but only one view

An investigation into the origins of the famous fortune cookie saying All progress occurs because people dare to be different led me to a dead end, and I missed these important points.

I was recently presented with a fairly puzzling ad image.

I got a fortune cookie slip of paper (twice!) that read:

All progress occurs because people dare to be different

I updated my self-relocating program for the 21^st Century.

GCC and Clang C compilers compile the new code with no warnings. the program no longer needs weird hacks like compiling with an executable stack.

During the midst of the COVID pandemic, I was in the habit of taking walks through my neighborhood.

I read a paper, Are We There Yet? The Jetsons and the City of the Future by Laura Broman. This paper appeared in Spectator, 43:1, Spring, 2023.

I wrote a Go program this morning. I thought of a super clever way to find the median of a sorted slice of float64 types. This clever way to do medians worked in the little program I wrote first, because I strictly follow Gall’s Law.