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[EuchreJack]

I found this...
Best minute of ATHF
Actually meant to post it elsewhere, which I am doing now, lol

[None]

put LED lights along my bicycle tires

put a new glarus bicycle bell on the handlebars - it even has a matching color scheme

found a bicycle seat cushion thing that wraps around the existing seat so i won't bruise my ass so bad

lubed it up, no more squeaking

bike's still coming out to less than a hundred bucks total to have acquired, fixed, and put all my personalizing touches on

thrifting is really good in denver

[pisskop]

Ran a half-marathon today with a couple of friends. Not only did I finish but I did surprisingly well compared to what I was expecting, clocking in at 2:12 overall. Makes me happy that I'm in such a good shape despite spending a bunch of time basically human pretzeling in front of the PC.

Whats less fun is the bloody pain in my legs and knees tho :V

212 is a great time!!  Thats, like, 9 1/2 min miles!  grats, Im hoping to really nail back down and get back within striking range of that time

[Rolan7]

The little turd I'm catsitting demanded belly rubs.  He's forgiven for waking me up at 5:25AM again this morning for breakfast.  He has a lovely purr, too.

[Great Order]

God forbid you do something mean to him though.

[MaxTheFox]

I'm finishing up the ending to Stardust Marathon!

This feels at once... nervous but at the same time very liberating because I can do anything and not worry about writing myself into a corner.

Ch.31 is done, and the epilogue is mostly done... all I have to do is edit the last chapter which is around 8k words.

At first I thought it was weird to have the final chapter be so big but first off I didn't want to risk messing up the ending, and second of all, well, TV shows often have feature-length episodes as finales, so why not books with long chapters?

[EuchreJack]

It's not uncommon for the "last chapter" in a book to broken up into two chapters due to length.

Look at what they do with movie adaptions of book series. You get Final Book Part 1 and Final Book Part 2.

[MaxTheFox]

I didn't see any decent places to split it at.
The ending of my hard sci-fi space opera is released! The finale of a lengthy and harrowing journey. More than 3 times longer than the usual chapters are; I wanted to wrap everything up neatly. Most of it is the intense final space battle. What happens after? Might not be what you expect!

Thank you for reading!
Next up I'll fix my first book... the first book is very, very janky, needs a bit of editing. The quality in Marathon is more consistent.

[scriver]

Congratulations! You've done something very achieveous!

I hope you keep the unedited version of your first book around. In time you may come to treasure the jankiness!

[McTraveller]

That feeling when you've written a fairly complicated piece of software, and it compiles, and you've already done some bug-crushing, and then when you link up two features together to see if the whole thing works, and it does!

Specifically in this case, a fairly complicated data structure that can be done in RAM or in a File, and the File portion actually works "first time!" Especially since my program crashed due to a stupid bug, after committing to file. And then when I fixed that one, and reloaded the file - all my data was intact!

Spoiler: Public Service Announcement (click to show/hide)

I'm convinced this is because I made the file abstraction stuff generic and tested it independently of the data structures.  Then I made the data structure stuff and tested it.  So when linked together... success!

I'm a strong advocate of disciplined, modular development. Not just with software, but with pretty much any "engineering" discipline.

Spoiler: Because I don't want to dig up the programmer() thread (click to show/hide)

I'm pretty proud of this, as I have been working on it for a while. It's nothing earth-shattering, but it's my implementation!

Basically I rolled my own platform-independent (as in, uses only C99 standard functions, nothing OS-specific) virtual-memory-like system, so you can allocate and free memory and have it transparently file-backed. It takes a little bookkeeping on the user side, but any code that uses it requires no changes to distinguish between file-backed and non-file-backed versions.  Essentially you get serialization for free, if you want it.

The data structure I implemented is a radix tree with arbitrary length keys (so long as they are multiples of 8 bits) with 64 bit data.  Tree has full get/set/delete function, plus (which is better than a hash table!) forward and reverse in-order traversal.

The file-optional memory management code is only about 900 lines (including headers and comments), and the dictionary code is 2500 lines (including headers and comments; also the dictionary code has quite a bit of "utility" code that I could separate out, like printing the entire structure, which isn't strictly needed for functionality).

[EuchreJack]

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison for orchestrating FTX fraud
... they still refer to him as a "guru" in the title, unfortunately. But he's got 25 years in prison to think about that.

[Great Order]

Ever since I started transitioning, expanding my wardrobe and clothes shopping has been significantly more enjoyable. It's weird, knowing that I've spent my whole life hating it because I've been shopping for clothes with male fashion in mind.

Anyways, I should have realised I was trans due to having the fashion sense of a very stereotypical lesbian.

EDIT: The evolutionary biology data's been manipulated! I worked out what to do in Rstudio! Now the easy bit, the write up. It's late, I won't get a good grade on the assignment (Or module as a whole), but it's. Fucking. Over! Mostly.

Very much a module to survive, not to get a good grade in. With luck I won't have that lecturer next year.

EDIT2: Internet guys came over, internet's more stable now and we've gone from 500KB/s to 6.5MB/s. An 13-fold increase is absolutely a win in my books! Thank God for line-of-site broadband.

EDIT3: Childhood hedgehog stuffie's been found, I'm super fucking stoked.

[ArchAIngel]

Trying to feed a post-surgery doggo pills teaches you things you never knew about her. She's stopped falling for "put the pill in pepperoni" so we had to figure out another method, which ended up "slather it in peanut butter". That worked!

It also taught us that she belches a LOT after she eats peanut butter. Like. Damn, girl, I'm happy you're taking your pills, but you sound like someone kicked a clown in the balls.

[Eric Blank]

Butter or peanut butter work for our dog too.


A bird flew into my window a while ago, was knocked out and breathing badly for a while there, but stood up when I was going to put her down. I just checked on her and she flew away as soon as she saw me. So that's good! Hopefully she recovers fully

The other bird that chased her into the window never came back to bother her at least.

[MCreeper]

When I opened the window, outside, for once, smelled as flowers, not as one of amazingly diverse kinds of smoke.