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@user-1461
yes... I like tree shapes, you have to address them differently. Lots of
pointers, in my experience, which can be kinda fun.
I also like large heaps / soups of data that points to one-another. Structs
thrown in a pile with pointers to each other. It's great! So long as those
pointers can also point back, and you can properly trace how data flows through
the system... That's the hard part, I think.
trees though... You can start by just saving a "next / previous" with one or
both being arrays of pointers to the next or previous entries. Note: plural,
entries. That's the fun part - non-linear trees teehee
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║ ┌───────────────────────────┐ │
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║ └───────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ @user-1461 │
║ │
║ my issue is that I've never really had project-mates. Every time I try nobody │
║ will work with me. I applied to like, fifty different jobs, and nobody │
║ interviewed me! Sheesh, guess they don't want me. FIFTY JOBS. Entry level. │
║ Beginner programmer. │
║ │
║ ah well. I guess they confused someone who would work for 40,000$ per year with │
║ someone who was 1/3rd as useful as someone who *deserved* 120,000$ per │
║ year. │
║ │
║ I'd love to get experience. I'm sure I'd feel significantly differently with as │
║ much. Perhaps I'd even decide that programming professionally isn't for me, │
║ which would feel... quite defeating │
║ │
║ who can say. Not I, for I have not experienced it. Though I will say my time in │
║ hardware taught me that I'm *fragile* and can't work too much. Like a │
║ scalpel that dulls when used consistently, I am a scalpel that gets no │
║ practice... Is that really useful at all? who can say. Not I, for I have not │
║ experienced it. Though I do like writing logical machines. Laying out data. │
║ Picturing structures. │
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our economy is not tuned to how much we can work, but rather to the minimum we
need to recover.
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@user-570 @user-246
the technology to do this exists already. there is no reason to believe that it
must be a "far future" AI system. It would need human oversight, but it'll
happen.
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patriotism is not about the 4th of july.
it's about believing in the virtues they've told you.
trusting that they are working with their own arms.
and checking back every once in a while, to make sure it doesn't get... frayed.
*the constitution was supposed to be rewritten every 20 years*
they were trying to make the best out of a conflicted situation. As all writers
of constitutions often do. why would you need a document forcing yourself to
agree, if you are the only one who is there to agree with your self? it's
circular.
however, with companions, that worked with you to resolve your crisis (like the
13 colonies pitted against the global superpower of *great britain*,
aka the baddest fucker out there (also France, and the rest of them, like...
colonialism was a purely european sport.
but england was the best at it, and America finally kicked them to the ground.
Buncha jerks, charging taxes without representation.
...
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nobody seems to notice that the lady who lost her chickens is *new* at
raising them. That's why they got away.
it's an intentional community in the mountains set up as a pet project of the
princesses advisor. Also, it's under construction. Therefore it makes sense to
assume that she built her fence too low (which, just behind where she is
standing, is only tall enough to contain like... rabbits)
What am I referring to? Why, Kakariko of course.
[words that sound absolutely deranged to anyone who hasn't played The Legend of
Zelda]
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if I were Link, I'd listen *every* damn time Navi said *anything
at all* and I'd listen close
though he is just a kid so idk
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@user-138
ha even better
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There *absolutely is* a standard for normality. Humans have existed
for *so long* and our conditions have stayed fairly consistent. We had
good lives and most of us knew nothing but peace. Our modern era of the past
400 years or so is strange. Life changes between generations, and now it
changes year by year. Soon there will be no consistency at all, and that is
exciting and interesting. Not always in a good way. We'll see how it goes.
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I wrote a script which scrapes every issue of Nintendo Power from a neat and
cool archive.
please don't use it all at once`#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
sleep_duration=5
DIR="/home/ritz/documents/nintendo-power"
touch "${DIR}/download-bookmark"
bookmark=$(cat ${DIR}/download-bookmark)
for i in $(seq ${bookmark} 285);
do
echo "sleeping before downloading number ${i}"
sleep ${sleep_duration}
formatted_number=$(printf "%03d" ${i})
wget "https://myrient.erista.me/files/Miscellaneous/Nintendo Power Issues
1-285/Nintendo Power Issue ${formatted_number}.cbr"
rm ${DIR}/download-bookmark
touch ${DIR}/download-bookmark
echo ${i} >> ${DIR}/download-bookmark
done
`
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@user-1218
Ninja is such a cool first name, you should keep it
unless you like Havu better, but Havu strikes me as a really good middle name
too??
I'm debating changing my name so we'll see how that goes
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it fails after like 15 or 20 scrapes but I think that's just their scraping
policy. They don't have a robots.txt file that I could find. So... just run it,
then come back every 15 to 30 minutes and restart it until you're done.
Maybe I could increase the sleep duration? one sec lemme try that
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@user-1218
Stuff like that made me want to become a lawyer.
I didn't, because while I can memorize a D&D textbook I can't recall much
about legal rulings unless it has something to do with swords.
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I'm one of those weirdos who likes hot sauce more for the "sauce" than the "hot"
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@user-1218
OOOO I like that, it's very pretty to see with my eyeballs! And it sounds cute
too. 🥰
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║ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: uspol │ │
║ └──────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ You know how we select from amongst our number electors and representatives who │
║ vote on our behalf? │
║ │
║ Truly an excellent strategy in the era of instant communication, an aft-gone │
║ luxury that our ancient forebearers surely would have incorporated into their │
║ nationbuilding design, if they had had it. │
║ │
║ I can't help but wonder if it would be a useful strategy to "give" our votes to │
║ a representative who voted on our behalf. Most people *do not care and │
║ cannot possess the capacity to care* about voting, but if they gave their │
║ vote to someone they *trusted* who they had a *personal connection │
║ to* beyond party loyalty, then perhaps we could *mandate voting* │
║ │
║ I can't help but wonder what that would do to our electoral landscape. If │
║ voting is mandated, and as easy as pointing at someone and saying "yeah │
║ whatever she picks", then perhaps the old white grannies with quivering lower │
║ lips who stare with hatred whenever a black person walks past and chat with │
║ their gal pals at church wouldn't have as much power over us. │
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║ I wish my mouse-cursor would spin when I spun the mouse. In the span of a spin, │
║ a spun mouse would spin a full revolution or so before getting caught up in the │
║ wire. │
║ │
║ Maybe... to avoid that, the wire could be attached to a circular ring along the │
║ bottom of the mouse, below where it was held, and as the mouse was spun it │
║ would rotate to point the cable toward the back of the desk? Doesn't even have │
║ to be motorized, could just do it based on tension... │
║ │
║ I think, hardware wise, all you'd need for the 1st implementation would be a │
║ second laser on the bottom of the mouse - positioned with one near the point, │
║ and the other near the palm, to give it the greatest differential to measure. │
║ │
║ for the 2nd implementation you'd need the ring system mentioned earlier, which │
║ would require a connection to the non-mechanical components of the mouse (the │
║ laser and it's little processor) and I'm not sure how that would work with a │
║ movable connection point. │
║ │
║ Also... how do you prevent it from getting gummed up with food and junk?? │
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║ "uh, the question was *why do you want something like that*, not │
║ *how* you would implement it." │
║ │
║ oh. Um, well, isn't a spinnable mouse-cursor justification enough? │
║ │
║ "no, you need to explain what use-case this has. What kinds of problems could │
║ you solve with this technology that you couldn't before?" │
║ │
║ well, setting aside the potential for new input methods to games and the │
║ inherent satisfaction gained from spinning a mouse like a top when bored, I │
║ think it might give us a better option for horizontal scrolling. Like, │
║ 'horizontally scroll when a special mouse button is held down and the mouse is │
║ twisted a bit to the left/right' │
║ │
║ "so, like when you push the middle mouse and it lets you pan across large │
║ documents?" │
║ │
║ yes! Only instead of being able to go up AND down, it would just go left and │
║ right. │
║ │
║ "... huh?" │
║ │
║ oh I mean instead of up/down and left/right, it would just do left/right │
║ │
║ "... right" │
║ │
║ and left! │
║ │
║ "... yeah. and left. Uh, okay I'll see what I can do but budget's pretty tight, │
║ we might just lay you off." │
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scrolling through old nintendo power magazines I find games that I've never
even *heard of* from the times when I was playing games on those
systems.
Some of them even look pretty cool. This is the best magazine to ever exist,
fite me
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wow 90s advertising was intense
![an ad from Nintendo Power. on the left side of the screen, there's a solid red background (red the color of intensity, urgency, and vigor) which says in bold, black print: Christmas is coming. Beg early. Beg often. then, on the right, there are pictures of various nintendo games and systems with captions reading: N64 with Bonus Atomic Purple Controller - This one is definitely worth getting down on your knees. Brush up on your whimpering because these [Ocarina of Time and Rogue Squadron] are the holiday's hottest titles. Game Boy Color and new color games. Our advice? Grab onto mom's ankle and chant "Please, please, please." New Pokemon. Advanced groveling suggested. Donkey Kong Country 3 and Super Mario All Stars. Here's a tip: try and produce some tears before you start begging. Mothers can't resist them.](../media/eb324d7bfb5e642f.png "an ad from Nintendo Power. on the left side of the screen, there's a solid red background (red the color of intensity, urgency, and vigor) which says in bold, black print: Christmas is coming. Beg early. Beg often. then, on the right, there are pictures of various nintendo games and systems with captions reading: N64 with Bonus Atomic Purple Controller - This one is definitely worth getting down on your knees. Brush up on your whimpering because these [Ocarina of Time and Rogue Squadron] are the holiday's hottest titles. Game Boy Color and new color games. Our advice? Grab onto mom's ankle and chant \"Please, please, please.\" New Pokemon. Advanced groveling suggested. Donkey Kong Country 3 and Super Mario All Stars. Here's a tip: try and produce some tears before you start begging. Mothers can't resist them.")
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you've heard of an array of function pointers, yes,
but have you ever heard
of an array of GOTO labels?
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║ ┌────────────────────────────────┐ │
║ │ CW: politics-marxism-mentioned │ │
║ └────────────────────────────────┘ │
║ │
║ │
║ @user-1464 @cyborganism @GammaGames │
║ │
║ they aren't distractions no more than the artillery crew are a "distraction" to │
║ the infantry fight. │
║ │
║ but there is no war but the class war. │
║ │
║ they are *facets* of the class war. │
║ │
║ you're both right. everything you mentioned is important, AND their core thesis │
║ is true. │
║ │
║ if they *disregard* anti-racism, feminism, queer liberation, etc as │
║ *distractions* as you describe, then yes. they are narrow-minded │
║ bigots. │
║ │
║ but in my experience, the only people who say those things are teenagers, so. │
║ │
║ everyone has specialties. some can advocate for disability rights, queer and │
║ women's liberation, race issues, or any other number of worthy causes. They are │
║ fighting the class war even if they don't claim to be, for those are │
║ *classes* of people they are fighting for. (or against, if they're │
║ reactionary) │
║ │
║ the most dangerous class is the rich, the powerful, the insane. True │
║ psychopaths accrete power and they wield it against all others. They must be │
║ cast down for all. │
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can't believe Nintendo Power rated Super Smash Bros a 7.7
x.x
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I want to point out how for every game that released in a month, they had at
about 5 people playing it and averaged their scores.
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nothing you do on the internet will matter after the revolution. I don't care
how many backups you have, there's a zero percent chance that we'll be able to
figure out whose computer is whose after we've all moved around and given each
other names that don't correspond to the names of our family in states that we
lost.
it doesn't mean the internet is useless right now, it just means that you
should act as if you might not have it in the near future.
also, like... every computer has a password. which basically means that it's
useless unless you reflash it.
pain is temporary, and it is an excellent teacher. there will be pain, but...
we'll get over it.
don't give up. there are brighter things in our future than what we have today.
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omg it's like Black and White before Black and White was a thing!
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I love skywriting. it's so cool to see your words fade into dust after being
seen by everyone around.
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@user-1464 @cyborganism @GammaGames
I did see that post but I was mostly responding to you.
There's a particular category of "leftist" who, to put it gently, have a
greatly simplified view of the world in which "the only war is class war."
I wanted to explain how the viewpoint of "the only war is the class war" is
more developed, rather than simplified. I wanted to express that it takes
nuance to understand that all oppression is connected and is derived from the
same source - the corruption of power.
They regard social issues such as anti-racism, feminism, queer liberation as
distractions from the "true" cause of bringing about a new economic system -
unimportant at best, active interference invented by the ruling class at worst.
It's not true that those who believe in the class war disregard these things.
That's just not right to me.
Basically, they're narrow-minded bigots.
I was included in your first statement and I'm not a bigot so I wanted to stand
up for myself.
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Disasters and their consequences have been the circumstances for the entire
human race.
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║ │ it seems like many people think LLMs are good at boilerplate. but i │ │
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"reboost with content warning" would be quite nice 🥰
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