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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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