Old man yelling at clouds

[cheaphalloweencostume]

*asks a question* *gets an answer* “im not reading that”

[cheaphalloweencostume]

i love that it’s a carefully worded, well-written, non-inflammatory answer too. which asker wouldn’t know because they won’t read it. i love website

[electronicintrovert]

The infuriating part to me is that reading a well thought out response to something you posted is probably step 1 to showing kindness online.

[electronicintrovert]

I think I was wrong about solving random math problems being the main difference between C and Python tutorials. The biggest difference is that Python tutorials all seem to assume a 4th grade reading level while everything for C is clearly aimed at college students.

[great-and-small]

Yeah okay there are like 11 species of heron native to the USA and yes fine I’ve only managed to spot 10 of those species. You might think I’m bitter about that one species evading me but I’m not. I’m actually the Least Bittern person about it in the entire world

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[electronicintrovert]

So far, so good.

I figured building my own fetch utility would be a good place to start learning C on Linux, and it was.

If only I could find more uninterrupted time.

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[ramapani-blog]

[electronicintrovert]

To put it in terms the average Tumblr user can understand, the difference in interacting with Linux in C vs. Python feels like the difference between using a condom and not.

[analog-delight]

Oh my god calling myself a lesbian isn't fucking shoving myself into a box. No amount of anarchism is going to make me attracted to men

[analog-delight]

The destruction of the white supremacist cishetero patriarchy is not going to make me any less of a dyke. Your stupid fuckin' stateless utopia is not going to change my sexuality.

[analog-delight]

In your perfect world where we don't have labels I'm still not going to be attracted to (nor will I desire sexual advances from) men, and I deserve a way to communicate that.

[electronicintrovert]

In a perfect world, labels would come without prejudice.

[electronicintrovert]

Learning C has done more to increase my love for Linux than I can adequately express.

It makes poking around the system so much fun, and the man pages make it easy.

And it just feels so much more natural than subprocess or os.system in Python.

Strings would be nice, though.

[electronicintrovert]

People putting on Elvis at work make me want to listen to Public Enemy at high volume.

[electronicintrovert]

My feelings about Ai are complicated, but I think this Ronny Chieng quote perfectly articulates my feelings about the fundamental problem with how humanity is currently deciding to use it.

"AI is just going to end up making mediocre people dumberl" - Ronny Chieng

Finding exoplanets that were previously undetectable is great; using it to reply to emails that you "read" without even proofreading the result is not.

Maybe we could even use it to save ourselves.

[downton-not-downtown-smh]

what about blorbhov from my complicated russian novel though

[judasconcrete-deactivated202306]

blorbeaux from my nilihist french plays

[sprachgefuehle]

blorbón from my weird latin american magical realist novels

[hearteyedraccoon]

blorbug from my kafkaesque short stories

[unscharf-an-den-raendern]

von blorbow from my german sturm und drang novel

[dichterfuerstin]

Don Blorbo from my opera

[toomanystoryideas]

błórbżo from my polish poetry

[velociraptrix]

blorbocles from my ancient greek epics

[amarguerite]

Mr. Blorby from my Jane Austen novels

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

Blorbio from my early modern plays

[electronicintrovert]

B----- from my Edgar Allan Poe collection.

[electronicintrovert]

When I decided to teach myself Python, my choice was between that or C.

Unfortunate hardware failure and inadequate backups mean I lost some of my learning projects.

Now that I've decided to pick up C again in order to reimplement the interesting bits I wanted to keep, it has shown me that I made the right call initially, but for weirdly cultural reasons.

I enjoy good reference documentation as much as the next person, but sometimes, a good tutorial explaining concepts is helpful, too.

With Python, you can expect the tutorials to be too simple and to need to look at the API for details.

In C, it appears that even simple tutorials insist on doing things in random mathy ways for fun.

I'm not exactly mad about it, but it does make me wonder if the "old-school" style turns people off from learning it as much as the "limitations" of not being object-oriented.

Now excuse me while I go and dereference this pointer.

<SIGNAL LOST>

[fawnpalmer]

quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog

[animentality]

[foone]

BTW, just to make sure everyone knows, this isn't just some internet rando commenting on her observations on the internet.

They are an Assistant Professor of Media Industries at New York University and literally just finished writing The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal, a book on the history of the computer industry in the 70s.

This tweet isn't just an observation, it's the result of years of research and study. And it's absolutely true.

[effiecalvin]

I have this idea for a video game called Are You Out There? where two players control two different alien civilizations and the goal of the game is to invent spaceflight and then manage to find one another in a ginormous universe. You can try to leave signs for each other to find, or send out probes and radio waves, or colonize many systems so you're a bigger target, but its hard because the universe is really big.

Idk just a thought.