Justin Lloyd's Thinkering

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Pitiful accrual of assets

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I figured out long ago (about 4 years) that if I want to get ahead in life the last thing I want to set as a career goal is to work for someone else for 40 years just so I can get a pittance of a retirement.

Studying – Fundamentals of calculus

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This month I am studying “Fundamentals of calculus” and also “Tang-Soo Do Karate”

I figured I should brush up on my mathematics.

Hired a private tutor for four nights a week for two hours a night, for the next month, to help me with that.

And of course, my study of (Korean) karate continues with the 11th month of my Tang-Soo Do karate classes.

I am going to scale my karate back by an hour a day so that I can focus on the calculus.

Studying – Regular expressions

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This month I studying “Regular expressions.”

I’ve only tinkered with these (regular expressions) a little. I know what they are and how to use them.

Local community college is offering two week, part-time course in how to use them.

I am also continuing with my karate studies and am entering the 10th month of my Tang-Soo Do karate classes.

Driving me to distraction

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Self-driving cars are going to happen.

It is simply a matter of time.

Maybe 30 years from today for the first vehicles that are partially automated, that is, they can drive safely on private roads or roads that require a permit such as a motorway where the traffic is more predictable.

Perhaps 40 years from today for a significant number of self-driving, self-navigating vehicles on the roads.

And 50 years from today (at the outside) for almost all vehicles to be self-driving.

In 50 years vehicles that are non-self-driving will be an anomaly.

I voted the wrong way

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I voted.

Conservative.

And then I was down at the student’s union having a pint of cider with some acquaintances.

Who thought I was the scum of the Earth because I “voted the wrong way.”

They were unanimous in the belief that “It is people like me” (the ones exercising their democratic right to vote for whoever they choose too) “that is what is wrong with this country. If we had our way, (in a proper democracy) you wouldn’t be allowed to vote for the wrong candidate.”

That isn’t how democracy works you arseholes!

The biggest irony is that more than half of the people I spoke to (about 30 people), when I questioned them, said they hadn’t voted.

With the reasons given being about evenly split between “It’s not worth it, it won’t make a difference” and “I couldn’t be bothered.”

Fuck this country and fuck my generation for being so complacent.

Youth is wasted on me

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I’m going to be 20!

I still feel like I am 15-years old.

Then I hang out with some 15-year olds for a few hours.

And I think, “No, screw that! I’m 20.”

Serial entrepreneur

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I have found over my career that working on multiple projects (either simultaneously or serially) is a huge motivational force in my life.

I try very hard never to let myself get bogged down for endless years on one boring drudge project for someone else.

Launching multiple projects ensures that I see multiple successes in my career.

This is what motivates me to get out of bed every day.

Read – Learning C: Programming Graphics on the Amiga and Atari ST

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Today I finished reading “Learning C: Programming Graphics on the Amiga and Atari ST” by Compute! Publications Staff

I do not need to learn to program in C.

I do need to learn the graphics systems of my brand new Atari ST and the Amiga that will be on my desk by the end of this year.

Consumption of data

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Thirty years ago, in the first wave of computing, hardware was king.

Thirty years ago it was computer hardware and computing machinery that took over the world.

In the second wave of computing, software is king.

This is where we are now. “Software maketh the machine.”

And as I’ve said previously, “It’s the software, stupid.”

Software will change the world in ways we cannot yet imagine.

Thirty years from now, in the third wave of computing, data will be king.

There will be more value in the data and how we connect all of that data and manipulate the data than we can possibly imagine.

It is data that will change the world so dramatically that by the end of the 20th century there will be entire vistas of algorithms we will make use of that we cannot even contemplate at this time.

Today, in 1987, we have not yet created the software tools that will make the next generation of software tools that will come after that will then let us manipulate these vast sets of data.

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