Today I learned about the vDSO on the Linux man page: vdso(7) — Linux manual page. It’s a facility for replacing syscalls with normal user-space function calls for things like getting the time of day for better performance.
I was watching PART 3 : All You Need To Know About SMD Capacitor Markings Codes To Fix Stuff and I discovered this web page for capacitor markings and codes.
Mail call!
Today in our household we are having 32x TongWei 415W solar panels installed on the roof.
When I signed up for distance education a decade or two ago they wouldn’t let me use my normal username ‘jj5’ (from memory at three characters it was too short) so I had to pick something else on the spot while I was signing up and in the heat of the moment I picked ‘sixsigma’, mostly as a bit of a joke.
In statistics sigma is the standard deviation, and six sigma with regard to a normal distribution is six standard deviations from the norm which is very very unlikely. It was just me being cute and not particularly humble but at the same time just tongue in cheek.
Anyway. The thing is that I think very very unlikely events/things are cool. Because when they happen they shake everything up. And today a very very unlikely thing happened to me, which in my whole life has never happened before, and will probably never happen ever again:
Today one of the blisters in the blister pack that my medicine comes in didn’t have a tablet in it!
I mean, wow, right? :)
