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Wed Jun 21 07:55:43 EDT 2017 Slept from eleven to seven without waking. Sunny today. High of seventy-eight. Work: - Free disk space on Gab Done. - Mentor Rachel about use of trouble tickets Done. - Start to clean Wilmar data for Yardi A bit. http://www.tested.com/tech/457440-theoretical-vs-actual-bandwidth-pci-express-and-thunderbolt/ Thai for lunch. Twenty-minute walk. Saw a couple of butterflies and a couple of dragonflies. Saw a dad teaching his daughter to ride a bike. http://bad.network/historical-my-first-openbsd-hackathon.html > On the first night most of the hackathon attendees end up at the bar for food and beer, and I'm sitting next to Theo de Raadt, the founder of OpenBSD. At some point during the evening, he's telling me about all of these "crazy" ideas he has about randomizing libraries, and protections that can be done in ld.so. (ld.so is the part of the OS that loads the libraries your program needs. It's, uh, kinda important.) Theo is encouraging me to help implement some of these ideas! At some point I tell Theo "I'm just a porter, I don't know C." Theo responds with "It isn't hard, I'll have Dale (Rahn) show you how ld.so works, and you can do it." I was hoping that all of this would be forgotten by the next day, but sure enough Dale comes by. "Hey, are you Peter? Theo wanted me to show you how ld.so works." Home: - Golang something A bit. Half-hour walk after I got home, through the neighborhood west of here, Beverly Park, and the little woods behind Huntley. Saw little white butterflies, a cardinal, a woodchuck, a red-winged blackbird, a chipmunk, morning doves, and what I think was a Lycaena hyllus butterfly. I looked at various translations of Thucydides. I find myself most comfortable with the Penguin Wagner, although I keep Strassler's edition of Crawley at hand. Breakfast: carrots, spinach, tomatoes, peanut butter toast, coffee Lunch: curry noodles Dinner: skipped

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