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0) Read 2 books so far ( Shoe Dog, The Happiest Man on Earth ) and on to third one ( Dare to Lead )
1) Learning a programming language that I may never use ( Rust. Just out of curiocity. )
2) Need to do some certification that work will ask for next year. This is on todo list. May get to it in next few days.
3) On call support for work while everyone is on leave. So far only couple of support issues from clients so going well in that regard.
How are you all coping this holiday season ?
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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virang_21 wrote: Learning a programming language that I may never use ( Rust. Just out of curiocity. )
I was doing the same thing with Go. 
Go is an interesting language and the book I am reading[^] has Brian W. Kernighan (of C fame[^]) as one of the authors. It's interesting to see him with a new language after all these years.
How do you like Rust? I plan on reading a book on it in the near future.
What book did you read?
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raddevus wrote: How do you like Rust?
So far it feels like any other language with its own naming convention for most of the things. Same same but different (like library is called crate, compiler is called Cargo, something that looks like .NET namesapce is called trait ). Easy to grasp coming from programming background.
raddevus wrote: What book did you read?
Just their online manual.
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Quote: lift my spirits and increase my concentration.
Strange! When I lift a glass of spirits my concentration goes to hell! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I've been re-reading Harry Potter. 
And trying to write up a little documentation of my vintage (camera) lens collection.
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Interesting, if you write them and make public i would love to read. I'm an avid amateur photographer.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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More of an inventory.
These are all Asahi Super-Takumars, if you're interested.
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Looks like they're Pentax lenses?
Never heard of them, I've had nikons for many years.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Ah, well move up to Pentax.
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Too much invested to trade and too old to be retrained.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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I started learning rust and I learned just enough to realize I would never use it.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Covid hasn't interfered with my plans, but another lockdown has wrecked tennis and fitness training for the next month. The last time it happened, I got a fair bit of code written. My tennis pro's sons are probably going a bit stir crazy, so I got them memberships to chess.com for Christmas.
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Greg Utas wrote: Covid hasn't interfered with my plans
Greg Utas wrote: lockdown has wrecked tennis and fitness training for the next month
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My tennis pro, fitness trainer, and I would all carry on despite COVID, but control freaks have wrecked that.
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What holiday plans?
Most Israelis celebrate the Jewish new year, which falls in September or October of the civil calendar. Some celebrate the civil new year, mostly those of Soviet extraction ("Novi God"). It isn't an official holiday here.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm retired. We don't get holidays.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I intend to spend this holiday weekend putting my side-by-side (Teryx4) back together. Decided to remove and replace/upgrade all of the suspension components, and add much larger tires. What a task...
I recently started book seven of The Wheel of Time (A Crown of Swords) which I intend to read on as well. A very nice high fantasy series spanning 14 books. Worth a read if fantasy is your thing.
I'll probably finish up Horizon Zero Dawn on PC too. Been slowly working on 100% completion on it and the expansion. One of my top ten favorite games of all time.
Finally, put in some work on a Xamarin app I've been working with this last year. So much left to do.
Oh, and some Mario Kart on the Switch with the kids.
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Monolith appears in Woodstock cornfield... and disappears a couple of days later.
(Daily Freeman, 28th December, 2020)
Someone had a lot of fun with this one...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Alas:
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Google "Hide my a$$" ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'm kind of a genius with these new Forum Reactions. 
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Well, it works for me in Israel.
TL;DR version: Someone placed a wooden replica of the 2001: A Space Odyssey monolith in a field over Christmas, disappearing it on Sunday.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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