Catherine

C++, a language characterized by its reckoning with the design decisions of C++

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IOCCC winner code entry

This IOCCC winner entry (International Obfuscated C Code Contest) made me smile. The code draws the current moon phase to the console.

i wanted to see if i could do raycasting on an oscilloscope (i can)

meow!

plurality can be engineered too, including distributed cognition. i've done this several times with others

they had that too, briefly

*to

o/

i give you money because you're trans and haven't been an asshole for me personally yet

I am going to be accused of glorifying violence. and, no. that was never my intention. glory is for soldiers. glory is for people who will be remembered as the good guys. I will never glorify violence. what I do is something worse

YouTube video by Tyler Fever Fanpage Increasing the Speed of Robot #shorts

nsfw youtube.com/shorts/bO5_X...

yes, it's much lower on side effects than prazosin. terazosin even more so

yes. but those things alone wouldn't give me housing, healthcare, or disability support, all of which are entirely downstream of the internet for me

which is not a contradiction

yeah, prazosin was studied as a PTSD treatment for vets, doxazosin works very well too, terazosin kinda does but not as well

yeah, prazosin was studied as a PTSD treatment for vets, doxazosin works very well too, terazosin kinda does but not as well

xGlow Implant The implantable xGlow (not to be confused with the briefly offered xGLO, the most dangerous of things ever produced by Dangerous Things) is a resin-encapsulated, strontium aluminate polymer glow rod. ...

this really gets under my skin dangerousthings.com/product/xglo...

the point of the internet is survival

things catherine needs for happiness: 4 mg doxazosin bi-daily, apparently

(it's an alpha antagonist, fixes the bit where i can't fucking sleep or do anything at all besides looking for distractions)

it costs you absolutely nothing to not question yourself

i have a plush shark

it's been a day and the thing already feels like an extension of myself; and i never have to work around it

it does what it should, it's pleasant to interact with, it has good aesthetics, and it helps me understand books in a way paper doesn't (context sensitive dictionary lookup turns out to be really important for me)

using kobo forma with koreader makes me feel like i'm from the Star Trek future holding a powerful artifact

because a lot of people have nobody to talk to

because it's not going to be hostile or judgemental in response

(among other reasons)

happy mailing list membership reminder day

A four-panel comic. Title: Sea Creatures Arranged By Number of Butts. Panel 1 is labeled "zero butts" and shows a sponge with lots of question marks. Panel 2 is labeled "one butt" and shows a sea cucumber with an arrow pointing to its butt. Panel 3 is labeled "two butts" and shows a comb jelly with arrows showing its two anal pores. Panel 3 shows a terrifying horror label "so many butts" and a worm Ramisyllis multicaudata with tons and tons of butts.

Sorry to all those without a monobutt that I’ve offended

Figure from a paper with three cubes: a) A cube with a rectangular cube connected labels "mouth" and "anus" b) A cube with double the edge length The tube inside spirals around. c) Another cube with all linear dimensions doubled, including straight tube. Caption: Fig. 1. (a) Idealized model of an animal. (b) Model from (a) increased in size while keeping the gut surface : gut volume ratio constant. (c) Model from (a) increased in size with identical effects on the surface : volume ratio for the whole body and for the gut.

This is the idealized model of an animal. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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interviewer: explain a time that you dealt with a challenging client in a professional way

jana: I don't have clients. I am a housewife, of sorts. married to the sea

interviewer: no client experience, huh. a troublesome coworker, then

jana: the nudibranchs say very hurtful things to me, sometimes