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An excellent and concise explanation of why the First Amendment, and freedom of speech more broadly and more generally, matters to me: Much of the Court’s opinion is devoted to deprecating th…| Where's Walden?
I’ve blogged about surprising bits of the C++ object model before, and I’m back with more. Executive summary: Don’t use mozilla::PodZero or mozilla::PodArrayZero. Modern C++ provides better alternatives that don’t presume that writing all zeroes will always correctly initialize the given type. Use constructors, in-class member initializers, and functions like std::fill to zero member fields. […]| Where's Walden?
Sitting cool at mile 444 right now. I was aiming to be at the Sierras by June 19 or 27, but the snow course I signed up for then got canceled, so I’m in no rush. Might slow down for particular recommended attractions, but otherwise the plan is consistent 20+-mile days.| Where's Walden?
Every year’s PCT is different. The path routinely changes, mostly as fresh trail is built to replace substandard trail (or no trail at all, if the prior trail was a road walk). But the reason for an ever-shifting PCT, even within hiking seasons, should be obvious to any California resident: fires. The 2013 Mountain Fire […]| Where's Walden?
Four days in, 77mi so far, at Julian overnight. Longest waterless stretch was 17.8mi, but I did end up only drinking the water I started with on the first 20mi day, so I suppose it was as if it were a 20mi waterless stretch, even if water was plentiful. (That said, this year was so […]| Where's Walden?
I tend to take either relatively brief vacations (a day or two at a time) or very long ones. Brief vacations serve specific purposes, so they only mentally recharge me a little. Only long vacations let me set my head straight. Recent long vacations have been: 2008: thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, over nearly five months; […]| Where's Walden?
While doing a couple recent reviews, I’ve read lots of code trying to solve the same general problem. Some code wants to store an object of some type (more rarely, an object from among several types), but it can’t do so yet. Some series of operations must occur first: a data structure needing to be […]| Where's Walden?
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own […]| Where's Walden?
My old laptop’s wifi went on the fritz, so I got a new Lenovo P50. Fedora 23 wouldn’t work with the Skylake architecture, so I had to jump headfirst into the Fedora 24 beta. I’ve since hit one new issue: Yubikeys wouldn’t work for FIDO U2F authentication. Logging into a site using a Yubikey (inserting […]| Where's Walden?
April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson (Or three hundred and sixty-five, this year.)| Where's Walden?
An excellent and concise explanation of why the First Amendment, and freedom of speech more broadly and more generally, matters to me: Much of the Court’s opinion is devoted to deprecating th…| Where's Walden?
