Fri Jan 12 09:31:04 EST 2018

Slept from eleven to six-thirty without waking.

Spent a few minutes this morning wiping down the kitchen and bathroom counters.

High of thirty-four, but falling through the day.
We're supposed to get two inches of snow today.

Work:
- Work on MECS
  Done.

https://github.com/DATA-DOG/go-sqlmock

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/microcode-update
> Microcode updates can be loaded onto the CPU by firmware (usually called BIOS even on computers that technically have UEFI firmware instead of old-style BIOS) or by the operating system. Microcode updates do not persist across reboot, so in the case of a dual-boot system, if the microcode update isn't delivered via BIOS, both operating systems have to provide the update.
> On Debian-based distributions, including Ubuntu, microcode updates for Intel processors are provided by the intel-microcode package and microcode updates for AMD processors are provided by the amd64-microcode package.

https://wiki.debian.org/Microcode
> Processor microcode is akin to processor firmware. The kernel is able to update the processor's firmware without the need to update it via a BIOS update. A microcode update is kept in volatile memory, thus the BIOS/UEFI or kernel updates the microcode during every boot.
> The BIOS (or UEFI) updates the CPU microcode during boot, however most of the time either the motherboard vendor won't issue frequent BIOS/UEFI updates, or the user won't install such updates. For these reasons, the system processor is likely to be running with outdated microcode on a vast number of systems.
> Stable point-releases and oldstable point-releases are done every 2-4 months. This can be a long time to wait for a microcode update that would fix an issue that afflicts your particular system.
> An alternative is possible: microcode update packages are first uploaded to non-free unstable, and if no issues are reported, will eventually migrate into non-free testing. Backports of the packages in testing will then be uploaded to stable-backports (currently stretch-backports) and to oldstable-backports-sloppy (currently jessie-backports-sloppy).

Home:
- Write a utility to compare xterm colors, build a color palette

Left work on-time-enough to get home before it was absolutely, completely dark.
Took a fifteen-minute walk.
Cold and windy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16129882
Programming Notes for Professionals books
http://goalkicker.com/

Lunch: coffee, gyro
Dinner: pizza