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astrum/isaac • he/they • adult • bi • usa

[cannibalchicken]

[cumonangelxo]

i will play a song on repeat until it’s sick of me

[sreegs]

working on software is like "we need you to crawl in there and rewire the house without anyone noticing. also the last guy used the plumbing to carry some of the electricity so while you're in there don't touch it if it still works"

[magi-official]

Ironclad? 1000 year old regenerating zombie warrior.

Silent? 1000 year old unaging huntress whos only now slowly dying

Regent? 1000 year old alien sculpted out of the stars.

Defect? 1000 year old at minimum construct with self repairing mechanisms.

Necrobinder? 26 year old woman who happens to be a skeleton.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[acerby]

Shit I would do if I was a Stand user

[cosmonautroger]

[thestuffedalligator]

I’m going to level with you. I have listened to The Devil Went Down to Georgia for most of my life. We were a country music household, this was a staple of my childhood along with Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, and that one Chipmunks country album.

I have no idea what “Fire on the mountain run boys run/The Devil's in the house of the rising sun/Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough/Granny does your dog bite no child no” means and at this point I’m too scared to ask.

[dementian]

For once I can be of assistance.

Each of the lyrics comes from an old-time hickory song for fiddles, and is a lyric from that corresponding song.

"Fire on the Mountain" --> "Fire on the Mountain, run boys run"

Fire On The Mountain - Fiddle Player POV

"The House of the Rising Sun" --> "The Devil's in the house of the rising sun"

House of the Rising Sun

"Ida Red" --> "Chicken in the bread pan peckin' out dough"

Ida Red - Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys

"Granny Will Your Dog Bite" --> "Granny does your dog bite? 'No child, no'."

FTC #149 Granny Will Your Dog Bite

And for your furthered education, The Mountain Whipporwill.

Mountain Whippoorwill (aka How Hillbilly Jim Won the Great Fiddler's Prize)

[impossiblepackage]

this is the key part of the song, that a lot of people miss. people have this misconception that the contest between Johnny and The Devil is about who is the better fiddle player. but it isn't. its about who is the better fiddler.

in a time before things like radios and record players, every time you heard music was because there was somebody in the room with you playing an instrument. and many, many, many social events involved dancing, which requires music. so, if you're planning any kind of gathering in the american south or appalachia, you need to find a fiddler. and the fiddler's job is to play music that everybody knows and likes and can dance to.

the mistake The Devil makes in his bet with Johnny is that he misinterprets the contest as being about technical ability, so he has this big flashy song. he plays fast and impressively with a band of demons playing unfamiliar instruments in unfamiliar rhythms. he's definitely more skilled at playing than Johnny, and thinks he has it in the bag.

but Johnny wins because the contest is about being the best fiddler. the song uses these lines mentioned above as a shorthand for saying that Johnny is playing these songs. Johnny launches into a set of the most popular songs, played well, and that's what gives him his big win. A good fiddler knows all the hits, and can read the room to know what to play next. The Devil loses because he completely fails to read the room, and doesn't know the right songs.

[jame7t]

tumblr is like an abandoned space station & you all are the thing in the vents

[foxmulders]

it’s crazy how much you can read if you read

[orochislayer]

Positive affirmations:

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

I shall cut down all who stand in my way

[gaynaegis]

Looking forward//thinking backward

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

I fucking love my bitter pill! Not even hard to swallow!

[orthoscheme]

these brownies seem a little strong

[orthoscheme]

well if i have any complaints i can just call potassium about it but im too meek so i wont

[halcyoncyrus]

there is a fictional man in my brain and I will never be free

[localapparently]

yoo han and kim things.. doodles for soul repair

[frogcroaks]

my "i love my mind horse that wants me dead" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

[frogcroaks]

All good questions, let me clarify the nature of the mind horse:

The mind horse is the manifestation of ambition and subsequent humbling of an artist seeking to tackle a larger project or learn a new medium.

The mind horse is not a predator, rather she compels people to aim higher, but will not pick them up if they fail. She is a guide that will not save you if you get in trouble. This often comes with the metaphorical Killing Of The Artist — the feeling of frustration and defeat and inadequacy that you may face when you follow the mind horse.

The mind horse cannot force you to do anything but she will tempt you with a beautiful journey and the feeling of wind hitting your face as you run alongside her.

No, i took an oath to follow wherever she leads me even if i trip and fall. She may not help me get back up, but she never runs away

She's very orange and very cute

I hope this helps you to understand a bit more about the mind horse.

[yokowan]

dealing with code written by scientists who are bad at programming? obnoxious at worst. generally simple enough that you're better off rewriting most of it.

dealing with code written by scientists who are good at programming? absolutely terrifying. you are presented with a hundred thousand lines of python code written by someone who has no formal training and whose first programming experience was teaching themselves fortran 77 on an old mainframe computer. not a single good practice convention is followed. unreadable syntax tricks you've never seen before are used to save like two or three lines here and there. there are absolutely arcane performance optimizations that have never been seen outside of like one paper published in the 90s and make the program like 5% faster. there's also freshman CS student level optimizations that they completely missed. there is basically no documentation. you are left to learn how it works with the source code and a dozen examples which have maybe three or four comments between them. good luck. may god save your soul.

[aurorafxo]

i just have to throw my hat in the ring that the research project I'm currently working on can be summed up as 'every variable name is a sentence'.

[yokowan]

tedious, but preferable to every variable name being something like a, which is a completely different variable from A and _a and all of them are globals

[sunspotpony]

@earsandtailsarefeet @thepioden

[thepioden]

The worst one I've got was when I inherited a project to finish, as the previous grad student who was working on it had left. The code was brutally sparse, efficient, full of lambdas (which I hate), and single-letter variables. It was very well commented (I assume), but all the comments were all written in Mandarin Chinese.