16 Apr
2025
16 Apr
'25
9:59 p.m.
I just upgraded on my X1 carbon.
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
17 Apr
17 Apr
5:26 a.m.
I am surprised that no one is making any "The answer is 42" jokes. Ho
hum.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 02:59:40PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
I just upgraded on my X1 carbon.
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
6:07 a.m.
Ugh, it seems that there is no Java 1.8, 11, or 17 in Fedora 42, or at
least that I can find.
Hmmm.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 10:26:59PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
I am surprised that no one is making any "The
answer is 42" jokes. Ho
hum.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 02:59:40PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
I just upgraded on my X1 carbon.
--
Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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6:37 a.m.
It turns out that Fedora moved the OpenJDK older versions into a
different repository.
https://adoptium.net/installation/linux/
Brian
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 11:07:04PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
Ugh, it seems that there is no Java 1.8, 11, or 17 in
Fedora 42, or at
least that I can find.
Hmmm.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 10:26:59PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
I am surprised that no one is making any
"The answer is 42" jokes. Ho
hum.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 02:59:40PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
--
Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
_______________________________________________
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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4:02 p.m.
That's because the answer really is 101010.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 10:26:59PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
I am surprised that no one is making any "The
answer is 42" jokes. Ho
hum.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 02:59:40PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
I just upgraded on my X1 carbon.
--
Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
_______________________________________________
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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8:34 p.m.
yay!
Better than the byte code used in Java!
0xC001BABE
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 09:02:04AM -0700, Gary wrote:
That's because the answer really is 101010.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 10:26:59PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
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Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
I am surprised that no one is making any
"The answer is 42" jokes. Ho
hum.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 02:59:40PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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8:36 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 01:34:46PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
yay!
Better than the byte code used in Java!
0xC001BABE
I suspect java developers watched "Weird Science" one too many times!
Or, better yet.
0xCAFEBABE
How
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 09:02:04AM -0700, Gary wrote:
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Brian Lavender
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
That's because the answer really is 101010.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 10:26:59PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
--
Brian Lavender
https://www.brie.com/brian/
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
_______________________________________________
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To unsubscribe send an email to lug-nuts-leave(a)bigbrie.com I am surprised that no one is making any
"The answer is 42" jokes. Ho
hum.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 02:59:40PM -0700, Brian E. Lavender wrote:
_______________________________________________
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other
way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
Professor C. A. R. Hoare
The 1980 Turing award lecture
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