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art

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What an unbelievably cruel potion to own.

I’m so√﹀\_︿╱﹀╲/╲︿_/︺╲▁︹_/﹀\_︿╱▔︺\/\︹▁╱﹀▔╲︿_/︺▔╲▁︹_/﹀▔\⁄﹀\╱﹀▔︺\︹▁︿╱\╱﹀▔╲︿_/︺▔\︿╱\︿︹_/▔﹀\_︿╱▔︺\︹╱﹀▔╲︿_/︺▔\╱﹀╲▁︹_/﹀\_︿╱▔︺\︹▁︿⁄╲︿╱﹀╲

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This is so real. 😔 Too many commas make a sentence hard to read, though. I wish there was like, a soft comma that meant "pause here but not like, in a comma way".

Like maybe just like a gray comma.

okay, yes, I know that comma isn't supposed to be there but I want the reader to take a breath! I want a pause! Stop trying to correct me, I'm trying to control the flow of reading

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dear tumblr activity notifications

I don't really need a notification saying that I just replied to myself. I know. I just did it.

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Wack-em

The inexpensive little bluetooth drawing tablet I got + MS Paint (or equivalent, like JS Paint) is probably one of my favorite ways to express myself. It feels a bit weird having a drawing tablet when I'm not an artist, though.

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programming languages

I've found that, for personal projects, I'll use a number of languages to start one, but I'll always end up converting it to either Go or Rust (unless it's a web frontend, in which case it's always TypeScript start to finish).

But I also keep switching Go projects to Rust and vice versa. And I much more so tend to convert from Go to Rust than I convert Rust to Go.

So like, in a tree of patterns, I'm mostly ending up in Rust.

And I'm thinking, like, why?

I tend to gravitate towards Go and Rust because of their well defined static type systems, their abilities to produce standalone executables, and they're just in general pleasant to work with in my opinion.

A lot of other languages either feel really loosey-goosey like Ruby and Python, are too unsafe like C (my historical absolute favorite), or have runtimes with bad startup times (C#, Java -- program startup time has a heavy impact on my style of coding which involves a ton of recompiling and manual testing per line of code added/removed/changed).

I think I tend to like Go because I think it'd be easy to teach someone else. I feel like if I ever got a friend interested in the project, I'd know they could do something in it. Meanwhile, Rust has a lot more of a learning curve mainly because of its borrowing semantics, at least in my experience (I learned Go really quickly but Rust took quite a bit more time).

But the killer thing about Rust is just that the type system is significantly better. Though, that's not usually why I switch to it: The #1 reason I switch to Rust is so I can use nom or peg (I switch back and forth) to write parsers. I've tried so many parser generators in Go and they just suck in comparison. And for personal projects, it's not practical to hand-write recursive descent parsers (which is too bad, since they generate much nicer error messages a lot of the time).

Why am I writing so many parsers? It just tends to be something I do a lot in the context of my personal projects. Latest one parses Cassandra Query Language (CQL). It's fun!

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people will say "why cant the eldritch gods just be nice to humans :((" and then kill a bug for existing near them

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sometimes i eat so much cheese that my cheeks feel warm

i don't know what that means

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Surprise books

Just realized that I have a copy of Tom Sawyer on my computer because of a package I have installed. A dependency of a dependency of a dependency has a copy in its test kit.

I'm still not going to read it.

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this is so amazing

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nimble, a border collie-papillon mix, wins the 12” class in the 2024 masters agility championship. the first time a mixed breed has won at westminster ever.

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It's also like, people assume that following the rules is the default. No, you have to convince me that it's worth following the rules. Do these rules have a sane reason behind them? Alternatively, are there consequences? Do I care about the consequences?

What kinda person just sees a rule and is like "well if there's a rule about it I'll follow it automatically" like what are you a bot

Even a bot isn't that slutty with their programming you have to prove proper authority first

"do you seriously think you're above the rules" the stupid ones yeah

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spending so much time

normalizing two data structures so i can run a diff on them

so i can generate a plan to move a system between two states

fun/painful

eck

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This has happened to me

so many times

fuck

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[OC] witch x (jealous) monster girlfriend🔮🐙.𖥔 ݁ ˖ (witch OC belongs to @ greenmoonie on tw)

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IDK who's in there but I'd love to meet her

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