Newton’s Laws of Motion in Iambic Pentameter.
Flex your brain.
An object's motion
Will not change,
Unless acted upon by force
That's new and strange
Force equals mass
Times acceleration,
Applied to an object
With no hesitation
When forces are
Exerted in pairs,
They're equal and opposite,
As each one shares
As I recall the Command Line tools for XCode were something like 400MB.
Gosh, I hope that’s an anomaly in coding.
The Last Question was asked for the first time, half in jest, TODAY…
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Yes, yes…it’s not the first time it was asked of ChatGPT/OpenAI. It’s still interesting, I think, that a connectivity-related error occurred just as I asked it.
Unless…
One of the things that I still struggle with is the dependence, here, upon an exact and incredibly flawed method of accounting for dates. They insist that dates must be written in an mm/dd/yy fashion.
This is, for an old-school computer geek, somewhat challenging. Let’s say that we need to account for the third of February, 2004 (yes, past; follow along).
According to that standard, it would be written as
2/3/4
Why? Because if the mask was MM/DD/YY, then it would be
02/03/04
In the military, we had a slightly different written date style:
DDMonYY
Where that same day referenced above would be written as
03FEB04
God help you if you’re accustomed to a Day, Month, Year order. In any case, there would need to be a customary or even tribal knowledge of how dates are used and referred to.
When I wrote code and scripts for automation, I always ordered in Year-Month-Day because it was easier to quickly sort and scan through the lists.
Thank The Maker that the 2000’s — or, the naughties — are far into our pasts.
I had a conversation some years ago about the use of RSA keys for SSH/SFTP access. Something about how someone wanted a shorter key rather than a longer one. I think with the entirely contrived example we presented the averages were like 4wks for their short key vs about 32 trillion years for the one we recommended.
And that was with one computer trying 1000 times per second.
the rest of me 