[This post began its life as a comment on one of PZ’s posts, but I couldn’t figure out how to insert an image.]
My late mother inherited my maternal grandmother’s engagement/wedding ring; and now it’s mine.
Grandpa was a poor farmer in Higbee, Missouri when they married over a century ago, and the ring is probably not worth a lot of money, but I think it’s pretty and old-fashioned. It should probably stay in the family.
OK, I think the Java Rational class that I mentioned before is ready for prime time. That’s not to say that it’s actually useful for anything; but it was something to do for lulz over the holidays. 😎
[doc, code, the Boost license]
Can anybody think of more features that it should have?
Mike the Mad Biologist reminds us of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
If I were a member of the House or the Senate, I’d introduce a bill to remove the disability and see whether it gets a two-thirds majority in both houses. That probably wouldn’t stop Trump because, even if the bill failed, we’d still need a finding that Trump engaged in insurrection or gave aid or comfort to those who did. It would likely make the news, however; and that would be fun. 😎
I’m estranged from my extended family because they’re mostly Trumpistas, and I have no desire to be the crazy uncle who shows up when there’s food; but I’m a fairly extreme introvert, so that’s actually OK with me.
It’s possible for me to get bored, however; so just for lulz, I decided to translate my rational number into Java.
I haven’t done any Java work since I retired, and so I don’t have javac on either the Windows or Linux partition on my home computer. It’s probably out there somewhere on the VPS that I rent, but I haven’t found it yet. The result is that, as I write this, the code hasn’t even been compiled, let alone tested; and we know how that can go.
If anybody out there might actually find this useful, would you care to be my tester? 😎 You’ll find the current version of the source in this ZIP archive.
Update: 2024-12-26 20:00−6:00: OK, I found javac on my VPS and, after fixing a bunch of stupid mistakes, got a clean compile. For the sake of my sanity, I’ve added the requirement that the one-argument Rational(double) not be passed a subnormal value; and I’ve put the new documentation and the ZIP file containing the new source at the links above. Now for some testing…
Update: 2024-12-28 09:00−6:00: I found some bugs just by desk checking the code some more, and I reorganized the documentation a bit. OK, now for some testing…
Update: 2024-12-30 20:30−6:00: OK, I think it’s done.
One thing that I’ve found striking is that, although there have probably been numerous deaths by gunshot in New York over the last few weeks, exactly one is all over the news. Indeed, it was the lead story on NBC Nightly News tonight, beating out Assad’s overthrow in Syria which came in second. And it’s not just the corporate media: although PBS News Hour had Syria as the lead story, apprehending the likely killer got second place with about ten minutes of air time.
What’s so special about this particular murder? The only thing that I can see is that the victim was one of the oligarchs.
Here’s a late addition to the support of Julia Serano’s post, and probably a boring one as well since others have already said it better than I, and I really have nothing to add.
But I do want to go on record as supporting LGBTQ+ rights which strikes be as just basic human decency.
(I also agree with others that we’re stuck with voting for politicians in the Democratic wing of the Oligarch party, but we should express our displeasure whenever we can at having no better choice.)