Imogen

I do appreciate the idea behind "show us you understand the thingy from the lecture by doing it slightly differently" exam questions but god they need to have the stuff that's different in bold or something

on the other hand, witnesses in court room dramas are far too talkative. How can you reasonably swear to only tell the truth before making sure the judge believes in the correct theory of truth?!

That's a really interesting thing I never thought about. There's a weird kinda variance across time thing going on, changing a type to a supertype is fine iff the public API only exposes that type in arguments, and vice versa for return values. Strange!

I know someone like this who was surpised every time she got gendered correctly, she hadn't told these people yet so how could they possibly know??

well, the middle two connections are perfectly aligned and really, who needs more than two pins anyways?

update: lol it so was not worth it in any way lmao

can a system have a local maximum of entropy? Ive got no clue but always figured that it'd be a monotonic function

A small table with far, far too many cookies on it. There's 9 different kinds of cookies stacked in various boxes, dishes and plates. It all looks very tasty but oh so exhausting.

The same cookies but now mostly packed up in boxes and little baggies. They're labelled with the names of the most lovely people in the world.

Made some Christmas cookies!

spent most of the last couple days just between uni and the oven, but was pretty worth it in the end :3

Peak trans experience is people you're really not all that close with sending you the most casual of updates about their new vagina

went into it expecting the worst, was pleasantly surprised that the top couple of comments just were generic niceties aaaaaannnd then people began ranting about "the rust religion" and "llvm people"🤦‍♀️

Stalker sadly isn't very gay, but it is really amazing and I think the stuff that people tend to dislike about it also applies to angel's egg, so if that was a hit then Stalker should be good

ok this one's the worst so far

I simply avoid this by only interacting with languages where things never appear to make sense

And then when you do have to use it, its an immediate flag that you're probably using the array API in a bad way.

Of course, after the compilation it's still all just ints. My idea is just about turning the abstract API that arrays expose into something that pushes people towards a particular usage

If we then also make things like .first() and .last() methods on arrays, have search functions return the wrapped values, have the wrappers implement arithmetic, etc. we could imo get to a point where in "good" code you never actually see the wrapper class

so what if we actually just make that code really annoying to write? We could say that arrays aren't indexed by ints but by SomeAnnoyingIntWrapper and you'd always have to write

for i in range(len(my_list)):
func(my_list[SomeAnnoyingIntWrapper.LongConstructorName(I)])

So e.g. in Python you don't really want to write code like

for i in range(len(my_list)):
func(my_list[i])

but that code is more or less just as tempting to write compared to the better

for element in my_list:
func(element)

ok so this isn't super well thought out, but the general idea is that "good" array access usually isn't done via raw indexing but through some intermediate layer. Most often some kind of iteration protocol, first searching through the array and then using the resulting value, etc.

My real hot take is that array indices shouldn't start with either value or even be integers at all.

(they should be some Index "struct" that the compiler inlines, purely to make good array access like first/last and iterators much easier than unsafe indexing)

thanks :3 I'm really happy with how they turned out

Two crochet plushies sitting next to each other on an orange blanket. They're Hornet and the bell beast from Silksong. Hornet is a humanoid-ish figure with a long and flowing red cape that envelopes a black stick figure body. Her head is a long oval with two horns and her only facial features are two black eyes. The bell beast is a pillbug like creature with four eyes, a white mask and shell plates running along its body. It's much larger than hornet. They look happy and content relaxing on my couch before they head out towards their next adventure!

In this photo, the crochet hornet is riding on top of the bell beast. They're heading to the next fast travel point.

SHAAAW!

these are beautiful! Do you sell prints somewhere?

It took me several restaurant visits in the UK to realise that I didn't just pick the most specifically incompetent places imaginable, y'all just enjoy all your vegetables as quasi-smoothies?!

I am shocked that this didn't turn into an extremely self deprecating joke

his point always has been that people are reacting to the vibes about inflation, rather than inflation itself. that perfectly matches people talking about inflation in focus groups.

personally, I like them more on the front. Then it's visible when I'm looking in the mirror or when I'm wearing a jacket over it etc. But I can see how some people prefer it on the back too

I have no idea what VCL is, but that does look really cool! and it's fun how you can tell it's your article just by the writing style alone :3

urgh, fuck. I don't think I knew her much but it always just hurts to hear that people that touched my life in random little ways are gone and can't keep making the world a better place for everyone.

feels like brain seizures would be the kinda thing you'd want reasonably low error bars on, but who can really complain about +/- 1

it's so insane how much easier it would be to just have info infinitely better systems. But no, it's for a lot of people it's deeply important that we go out of our way to make things worse for others.