stkptr

they/them (name is stack pointer)

[bigsmallworld]

Finnish problems only: the brand telling you your candy is going to be SUPER salty when in reality they’re not salty AT ALL

0/5 vitunmoinen pettymys

[iateallthewoodsorrel]

Everytime someone uses “he or she” to refer to a hypothetical person or person of unknown gender instead of they/them they are required to pay all nonbinary people 5 million dollars i am fed up

[stkptr]

meow

who... are you??

[questionable-enby-passing-advice]

if you've accidentally left your glass of cold milk out overnight and now it's room temperature, throw it in the microwave and mix some cocoa powder into it to turn it into hot chocolate 😎

(OOC Note: PLEASE DO NOT. If you leave milk out overnight, it will solidify and be gross and you should NOT drink milk you left out overnight.)

[stkptr]

Milk shouldn't solidify overnight unless you added or caught lactobacillus culture. It is unsafe, though.

[stkptr]

nice gender tag you got there, ten trillion thirst trap bots upon ye

[stkptr]

Hello nonbinary person you see the gender thing you are saying is harmful it's actually not that deep and you shouldn't even think about it because it really doesn't matter and you should stop making a big deal out of it since you're acting like super weird

[myzanilred]

This config parser is the equivalent of a bailing bucket made entirely of duct tape: It's not pretty, and might have a couple glaring flaws, but it's perfectly functional. Which is somewhat surprising, as I just slapped it together with a few hours of work, without any kind of testing. I made a couple of stupid errors, but once they were fixed, it just worked.

[stkptr]

Secretly, all practical parsers are poorly taped together monsters.

[1d-cellular-automata]

Interesting variation in pattern when starting from states other than 1

[1d-cellular-automata]

This is an experimental automaton I just made, probably a one-off since it doesn't really produce many interesting patterns.

EDIT: there was a mistake in the code, using modulo 9 in all cases meant state 9 will never emerge. Fixing it later...

Here's how it works: The state of each cell determines the size of the neighborhood it will look at. State 0 looks at itself and the cell directly to the right (state 0 can't have neighborhood size 0 or no cells could be born). State 1 looks at itself and the next two cells, state 2 itself and the next three cells, and so on. To determine the next state, sum all the cells in the neighborhood, divide by 9 and keep the remainder.

Here's what it looks like:

It looks mostly green because I used yellow, yellow-geeen and green as states and they all sort of blend together.

I ran it again, this time color coding for even and odd, but still (almost) no patterns emerged:

Maybe I'll play around with this if I can think of a way to make it a little more interesting

[otesunki]

[stkptr]

Why do people assume there's a simple explanation for any given subject in a field? Well I do know, they don't respect the field as a discipline, but I've seen it for basically every field. And the lack of explanation is often used as a gotcha for how the field is illegitimate.

Feminism? It's going nowhere because the big words take too much explanation.

Physics? All a sham because the quantum stuff is difficult to reason about.

Programming? Boy's club because you can't explain what a long jump is without going into detail about the stack and execution context.

Fields are not at fault just because they require prerequisite knowledge. They also do not owe you personally an explain-it-like-I'm-five crash course. Is layman targeted education useful? Yes, but there are topics which are fundamentally out of reach of someone who lacks any knowledge of a field.

Sometimes you just need to learn before you can learn.

[hamsterscooter]

whatever!

[stkptr]

I can't believe bigotry is something enforced by a society and not an innate property of marginalized people.

[stkptr]

There's this person (TheListeningHandAgain) on the Wikipedia talk page for Veronika (the cow who uses tools to scratch herself) who's INCREDIBLY persistent with alleging the videos are AI generated and the peer reviewed paper is a hoax.

[therebelcaptain]

i know there's a lot of terrible things happening in the world right now but why are we not talking about baby globe, wikipedia's mascot for their 25th anniversary???? i mean look at HER

[stkptr]

I'm creating a NEW DESIGN LANGUAGE!! My philosophy is simple: HIDE ALL ACTIVE AREAS!!!! Do NOT outline the boundaries of where something can be clicked or tapped. INSTEAD: just have an icon which blends into the background and have the active area be like a circle or something. IMPORTANT NOTE: make sure all active areas are different sizes!! That way we can keep the user guessing ^_^

PROS: all of them

CONS: none

[beatrice-is-missing]

"Mother lover"