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week 23, 2019

Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

In the afternoon I installed MySQL according to notes I had taken the previous time. When I ran

mysql_secure_installation

I discovered I had to use sudo. I thought I had forgotten to write this down. Next I tried to connect to the MySQL server as follows:

mysql -uroot -p

But I got an error: "ERROR 1698 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'". After some Googling I learnt that the security model in MySQL 5.7 has changed and that sudo is required if you want to login as user root.

The shy calico cat

In the evening my mother spotted a calico cat. I took my iPhone 5 and tried to take a few photos but the cat was very shy.

A shy calico cat
The shy calico cat playing peek-a-boo.

Finding a user's ID on macOS

If you want to know a users uid on macOS or OS X you can use the directory service command line utility as follows:

dscl . -read /Users/john UniqueID

Which reports in my case:

UniqueID: 501

Another option is to use:

ls -n /Users | grep john

Which, reports in my case

drwxr-xr-x+ 46 501  20   1564 May 31 21:26 john

Did Time Have A Beginning?

Did the Universe have a beginning, or a time before which nothing existed? Or did the Universe exist for an eternity, like an infinite line extending in both directions? Or, quite possibly, is our Universe cyclic like the circumference of a circle, where it repeats over and over indefinitely?

In the evening I read Did Time Have a Beginning by Ethan Siegel.

Relearning Matrices as Linear Functions

Many of us have probably encountered matrices at some point in math. They’re these tables with seemingly byzantine rules for combining them. Take the first element of the first row, first element of the first column, multiply them together, then add, then spin three times fast… And this is to say nothing for the rules of inverting.

Source: Relearning Matrices as Linear Functions by Dhruv Parthasarathy.

WWDC Apple Special Event

In the evening I watched the Apple special event. From what I've heard and seen I like where iOS, now iPadOS, on the iPad is going; features like desktop being the default in Safari for sites, Files app with access to USB flash drives, multiple windows of the same app, etc.

Now I just have to save up for a new iPad as my iPad Air 2 got stolen nearly a year ago while living in Mexico.