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Welcome to ANI In The Air, under the tent and around Baltimore. Your daily podcast briefing of all the goings ons, ins and rounds, what's an idea of Sudbury School.
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Today was, of course, Monday. I got a Millions Monday at the end of this. Thinking about something about lines of code.
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Anyway, let's see, we had our budget assembly on Sunday. That was, well, a unanimous vote on our budget.
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I like to think that I have created a very tight budget with a nice presentation and everybody was just so in awe of it that everything was cool.
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But, anyway, at the very least that was pleasant. I hope everybody had a great three day weekend.
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Our next day off will be Memorial Day at the end of May.
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And just as a reminder, we have an extra three weeks this year into June. June 25th is our final date.
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So just a little over two months left of this school year. And we are having a lot more people coming in.
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We had a pretty full house today. We had a visiting week last week that, because of the short week, overlapped with this.
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So we actually had four visiting students today. In addition to, I think, five or six people returning from being online.
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So that was all exciting and good.
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Let's see. This is should also say that yearbook pages are due by Friday.
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I presume if you're listening to this podcast, you're already on top of things. But in case you're not and you didn't know that, now you do.
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It's all in the Discord yearbook voice channel for what needs doing.
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So what else? Yeah, saw some Kaga ball playing, some swing in action, some biking, eating outside, running about, running inside the building.
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Still some virtual reality stuff going down in the basement.
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And, yeah.
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So things are happening around here. Even got some mulching. On Friday, our yard got mowed for the first time this year.
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Thanks to our lawn mower guy, Frank. You started with us when we bought the building.
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He was mowing the grass here for the people who owned it before. And I met him on the day we bought the building because he was mowing it that day.
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And he gave me his card. I called him up in the springtime and he's been doing it ever since. So we appreciate that.
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Really good guy. Who apparently avoided all the COVID stuff, but actually a couple of his customers actually did not survive COVID. So that's sad.
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Anyway, I guess we can move on to Millions Monday. So over the three day weekend, I did some programming.
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I have a second job and I was actually on break for that week, which was nice. So I didn't have too much going on.
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And so I actually got back to programming. My little project is, I think I mentioned it before, a little site called MathPibbles. And I'm about to be able to put up like 400 little pages on it. Just stub content.
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But once you have stubs, you can just go around and start filling it in. You know what I mean? It's getting that framework up and going. Can be difficult.
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So anyway, I thought I'd see how much lines of code gets coded. So I think maybe over those three days, I did maybe like 600 lines of code.
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I mean, it's not just code. It's also kind of comments and stuff. But, you know, I do something called literate programming. So the writing is part of the code anyway.
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So, yeah, so 600 lines of code over three days. So let's say 1000 lines of code over a week, you know, five day work week.
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And so in one year at that pace, you know, coding up every week, it would be 50,000 lines of code.
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Now, I can tell you that I've actually deleted a whole bunch of code that I wrote just this weekend because that was going in a direction I didn't want to go.
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So you try something and delete it and you try something new. And so that 50,000 is probably not what gets remained.
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You know, I'd probably say maybe you lose 10 percent at a time, but that can that time can rapidly progress.
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So I don't know. So I'm going to ignore the whole deletion thing and just like, you know, how much have you typed out?
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So 50,000 lines of code in a year. So over a career of, say, 40 years, that could easily be two million lines of code.
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And I think the Windows operating system, I'm not sure which one, maybe Windows 3.5 in the mid 90s was like a million lines of code, something like that.
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I feel like I heard. And so, yeah, let's see. Anyway, so how many coders are there? Well, so I don't know, just in America, there's like 300 and some million people.
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And I don't know. We even have one percent coders. Let's say we have one percent population doing code.
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Probably point one percent of you know, I'll go with point one percent of people who are just coding, which is basically really no one.
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I think anyone who who codes is involved in a lot of meetings and whatever and terribleness.
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But so I'll just go with point one percent. So that's. So three hundred million point one percent is three hundred thousand.
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Yeah. Yes. Lose three zeros. And so three hundred thousand people coding.
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And so in a year times I have 50000 lines of code. So that's when I'm going to start using my scientific notation.
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Three e five is three hundred thousand. And so that's three and five zeros. And then there's five and four zeros.
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So that's 15. And what did I say? Five and four. So 15 and then nine zeros, which sounds a lot like 15 billion.
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So 15 billion lines of code a year. Man, that's a lot of lines of code. I have no idea if that's actually correct, but.
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No, just a fanciful thought. All right. Hope you enjoyed that. I will see you when I see you.