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What do you guys (and girls and enbies) think of me?

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I'd be able to read you better if you posted more often. No pressure, though. If I just force my brain to come up with something, prefacing that I don't know you well:

You're definitely passionate about the things you care about, but you seem reasonable enough. I wouldn't have an answer to half the things you say (politics is hard), but you seem reasonable enough. You're mildly and apologetically abrasive, and I don't mean anything negative by that. It's more a personality trait than a necessarily bad thing at your level. I'm not a grudge-holder by any means, so I'm likely biasing positively here. Furry, yes, but "*shrug*" is my response.

I think that's all I can think of about you. I think I may be projecting, hence why it possibly looks like I'm throwing stones in a glass house.

Development of my game is going nowhere, I am having the coder's equivalent of writer's block.

I think that's just called "coder's block", but now I'm thinking of the blocks that codecs work in, so it "helpfully" disambiguates in my mind to "the (en/dec)coder's block", which is confusing me.

While this isn't a Sad, a related confusion occurs whenever y'all use "Vec", because that's both referring to "Vector" (the person), and "vector" (the math/programming concept). Every time I see code like:

fn hold_my_vec<T>(_: Vec<T>) {}

fn main() {
    let v = vec![2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17];
    hold_my_vec(v);
    let element = v.get(3);

    println!("I got this element from the vector: {:?}", element);
}
No, that won't compile. Borrow checker and all that. But the thing that's getting me is that each time "vec" is used here, my brain is trying to disambiguate between Vector the person and "vector" the math concept. I'm doing double-takes each time I see Rust code that uses vector data types. I think it's pretty entertaining to think "did Vector sneak into someone's Rust?" for a few seconds, so I'm not stopping any of you.

I got sad today. It's a transient sadness in a steady signal of happiness, but a sad nonetheless. I'm more-or-less transcribing my feelings here for reference because I (as always) think there's some deeper meaning to it that I'm not getting.

I think the thing that triggered it this time is that I'm fucking lonely. Like, I have no physical friends, none that I can legitimately call "friends", none that I can legitimately trust enough to qualify them as "friends" rather than just "acquaintances". Bay12, you're wonderful people, but I guess it's just not the same. I have my own arguments against the concept, but I don't believe them well enough, it seems.

Then at some point, I expressed this feeling that I cannot be loved, that my work is not good enough for that. This time, the brain listened somewhat to reason. I reasoned with myself that no, external measures of validation are themselves not valid enough to measure self-worth. I'd accept the null hypothesis. The fact I don't have IRL friends is tangential to my self-perception of self-worth. I can choose that. Even if the idea was valid, the counterpoint to that would be, "If I'm trash, then I'm somebody's treasure."

I took a walk after taking one of many naps throughout my day (I blame the meds, but I did wake up at 4), and I realized that to transcribe it here, I feel the need to censor and omit many details. I may be on the side of oversharing, but there are certain details that I'm hesitant to reveal. I don't know if it's internalized whatever that I need to eradicate, if it's my desire for privacy and/or the inherent paranoia that does still influence me despite my best efforts. Am I wrong for doing so?

the raspberry man?

Depends - what is the code for?  Is it just for doing something for an audience of yourself, or is it code that is controlling machines? Is it code that is controlling the financial system?  Medical records?  Is it just a game or something?

Dumb stuff. It automates the process of pushing images through an audio codec and seeing what happens, which is 4 difficult and error-prone FFmpeg commands. It's nothing mission-critical, if that's what you're asking. More something I made to alleviate the tedium of typing in 4 commands in sequence.

It's a common genre of code: code made to automate menial tasks. I'm pretty sure that's the second kind of code people write while learning a programming language in their own time, the first being the "Hello World" program and variations on it.

Added an addendum to (Ab)using Lossy Audio Compression to Databend Images, Automated image to audio 'bending.

Apparently, there is a market for digital originals: The "First" image.

The "first" image... I guess? It's one of those things where it kinda breaks down when you have perfect replication instructions, no? The idea of an "original" for something that can be so easily replicated (I even gave detailed instructions!) is a bit odd.

Then again, Paulstretch is the one thing that isn't predicable. It produces roughly the same "thing" each time, but it's random where all the colors will end up. Case in point, these two. Same image, two Paulstretch invocations.





The SHA256 sums of the originals are:

a9a659adbd91d679bc4055bcb4e517e7229b8ed0282981e02d0ca4199c7540b22fdbfd2d7fa0e3c7b5ce9e71071a0a4becf664906b0a57591cee97cfc0149181
They're not the same file.

Is it a good idea to write code by the seat of your pants? Whenever I need to automate some tedious task in a Python script, I just write out the commands needed, write the code-ified versions (+ variables), and only then do I actually decide on the structure of how to use the script. I do have an idea of what I need to do, but it's not fully defined at the start of the writing process.

e: also I'm now imagining engravings bad enough they leak syndrome material or otherwise infect things nearby

if that's not a thing yet, it needs to be

Dude, that should be a thing in evil biomes. That would make those places way more dangerous. I'd extend it further and suggest that all negative-quality items produced in evil biomes do this, just to make the early game in evil biomes so much harder.