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Sat Feb 25 07:12:34 EST 2017
Slept from eleven to seven without waking.
Cloudy with a high of thirty-nine today.
- Send email to group about D&D next weekend
Done.
Sounds like we're on for Saturday at Ed's place.
- Check batteries in thermostat and smoke detectors
Done.
- Golang practice
Done.
Implementing `cat` has been a pretty good exercise.
- Write up Not Sendmail notes
No.
Ha.
https://psmag.com/on-the-milo-bus-with-the-lost-boys-of-americas-new-right-629a77e87986#.gur7gxn9m
> I’m left in the company of the Lost Boys, and I find myself feeling rather as I did half a lifetime ago, when I was the only girl in my Dungeons and Dragons group, and the mere fact of being a real living female made me not much less miraculous than a real living unicorn. _Will it be friends with us? What should we feed it? Do you think if we’re really nice to it, it’ll give us a ride? Don’t be stupid, Brendan, those things are dangerous. Offer it a beer and don’t blink._
Cross-platform inotify-like library for Go:
https://fsnotify.org/
Too bad FreeBSD doesn't have a file-watching mechanism, except, sort of, kqueue.
Vacuumed, watered plants, tidied, wiped down the kitchen and bathroom counters.
Wait, the Go "flag" package doesn't support multiple flags?!
Like, this works:
ls -l -h -a
...but this doesn't:
ls -lha
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/2096
> There is a real reason: we want to be able to forget about the historical mistake that is the distinction between - and --.
Maybe so, but they're violating the expectations of every BSD or linux user.
Harumph.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9206782
https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoGetoptProblem
Alternatives:
https://github.com/urfave/cli
https://github.com/jessevdk/go-flags
It's windy this afternoon.
Snow! Haven't had snow in a while.
Breakfast: coffee, macaronni
Lunch: skipped
Dinner: pizza
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