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Random Learnings #12 FOLLOWUP

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-26baseball, California, history, learnings, sports, United States

Original post: https://scottsosna.com/2023/09/26/random-learnings-12/ According to this nytimes.com article, (paywall, a different free version here) a bill may be introduced in California's state assembly to give reparations to families of people…

DSL Validations: Operators

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-24software, work

Operators provide a value for validating properties as a single unit: think of a multi-part conditional check in an if statement. The most obvious operators are logical AND (&&) and…

Civilian Casualties

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-23Europe, Russia

Image: Vyacheslav Prokofyev/picture alliance/dpa/TASS While the Crocus City Hall was still burning, speculations had begun about who was responsible: Russians whom blame Putin for the death of Alexei Navalny; protesters…

Audi Crooks

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-23basketball, Iowa, sports, United States

Friday night, Iowa State's Audi Crooks scored 40 points, leading Iowa State to a comeback 93-86 win over Maryland in the first round of the 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.…

DSL Validations: Child Properties

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-21software, work

Note: This is part 2 of (an expected) 4 part series. Part 1 is found at DSL Validations: Properties. Part 1 introduced the concept of property validators, providing the building…

DSL Validations: Properties

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-21software, work

Note: This is post 1 of (an expected) 4 part series. Links to future posts will be added here when published. Whether you aware of it or not, you likely…

Analog Time in a Digital World

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-20family, family history, old fogey

My daughter is teaching her sons/my grandsons how to tell time on an analog clock after realizing they had no idea what the hands on a clock meant. I'm not…

Those Were The Days?!?

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-19old fogey, software, technology, work

Biology insists and common sense says that I've started to become that old fogey I use to laugh at in my younger days. ... THIRD YORKSHIREMAN:Well, of course, we had…

Meandering Thoughts #20

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-19basketball, meandering thoughts, sports

My name Scott Sosna is not common, largely because Sosna is not very common in the US: the only other person I know of is a financial advisor in New…

Random Learnings #26

By Scott Sosna 2024-03-19basketball, learnings, sports

In the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament, the first two rounds are hosted by top-four regional seeds. Though not guaranteed, the home court advantage does increase teams' chances of making it…