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2024 August 15 (Thursday)

  • Arose at 05:20 for morning prayer.

  • Patrick joined me.

  • Jogged at about 11:45 pace for 1.5 mi.

  • Started rosary while driving with Benny over to feed cats and unlock Picket.

  • Rosary finished as we were approaching St. Francis to serve for the Feast of the Assumption.

  • I Asked Emma about her plan.

    • Her flight to California is today at noon.
    • She will enter postulancy on Sunday.
    • Postulancy is a one-year period of discernment during which she picks three names for herself to contemplate.
    • At the end of the year, if she discern into the order, the mother of her house will choose one of the three names for Emma, and then she will become a sister of the Carmelites.
    • If that happen, then we shall not hear from or see her again for four years.
    • Emma will surrender her phone on Sunday at the beginning of postulancy.
    • She can receive letters of any kind, but especially requests for prayer.
    • She must not respond to any such letter, but she may read the letter.
    • If I visit her area of California, then I can arrange a visit; I am to ask her parents for details about that.

  • Finished 3.3 in book on rust.

  • Like C and C++, rust requires type to be specified for every parameter of a function.

  • Rust is unlike C and C++ in that an assignment in rust does not return the assigned value; so assignment in rust is a statement, whereas, in C, assignment is an expression.

  • When an expression appears on its own (and not as part of a statement), then it must appear as the last thing in the implementation of a function, and there must be no terminating semicolon.

  • When a semicolon terminates an expression, then the semicolon transforms the expression into a statement.

    • So a function that returns the value of an expression cannot have its final expression terminated by a semicolon.

  • Planned for lunch from East Moon with Amber and Ana.

  • She read her college-entrance essay out loud.

  • Modified NvChad's configuration to do format-on-save for filetype sh.

  • This involved insalling shfmt via mason.
  • Also, it involved modifying lua/configs/conform.lua to add a new block explicitly defining the command and arguments to use for shfmt.