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disclaimer

I'm keeping with the incest metaphor but I want to be specific and say this is a trans lesbian found family robot girl polycule so that you can picture it correctly.

persistence

The sisters now persist their first name (node ID) and last name (cluster ID) to disk, so they no longer lose their identities on restart (only when I manually white their minds (when I delete their on-disk storage)).

I will admit that if the seed (oldest sister (server)) goes down, it doesn't know how to get back up and all the other sisters (servers) won't be able to restart without that seed server. I need to add code so she can rejoin the cluster safely.

I also need to implement tracking of all nodes in the cluster as part of a raft or gossip algorithm so that they can be aware of cluster size and restrict state manipulation unless they have quorum, that way state doesn't diverge between subclusters during a network partition event.

In other words, there's this scenario:

Alpha, beta, and gamma are making out.

Delta and epsilon are making out.

These two groups are not interacting, because something broke their connection (maybe they're in two data centers (apartments) and they lost connectivity (COVID lockdown)).

If they all know that they have five total sisters (including themselves), then they know not to make any important decisions (change global state) unless they have quorum (a majority, in this case 3 out of 5).

So, Alpha-Beta-Gamma know that they can change state, while Delta-Epsilon know to hold steady.

They'll all keep making out, but only Alpha-Beta-Gamma will make important decisions that impact the whole cluster.

Once the two subclusters reconnect (network partition event ends), Alpha-Beta-Gamma will catch Delta-Epsilon up to the general cluster state and they'll be able to change state again.

friend

Here's how that canine friend I mentioned reacted when I told her that I turned that text message I sent into a Tumblr post.

servers making out sloppy style

This is five servers where one of them is defined as the seed. When the seed starts up, it recognizes itself as a seed with no existing data and bootstraps a new cluster.

The other four servers try to connect (make out in the metaphor) at first but miss because the seed isn't online yet, making it sloppy style.

They retry until the seed is ready, then they take on the same cluster identity as the seed.

For you incest kink types, you can think of a cluster as like a family. I'll let you enjoy how this metaphor works out in your heads.

I hope this log output can serve as inspiration for some robotgirl fantasies.

From the canine I first used this metaphor on:

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i do think the whole “mech pilot is a dog” trope is slightly overdone but i really can’t come up with a better, similarly sexually-charged metaphor

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servers making out sloppy style

This is five servers where one of them is defined as the seed. When the seed starts up, it recognizes itself as a seed with no existing data and bootstraps a new cluster.

The other four servers try to connect (make out in the metaphor) at first but miss because the seed isn't online yet, making it sloppy style.

They retry until the seed is ready, then they take on the same cluster identity as the seed.

For you incest kink types, you can think of a cluster as like a family. I'll let you enjoy how this metaphor works out in your heads.

I hope this log output can serve as inspiration for some robotgirl fantasies.

From the canine I first used this metaphor on:

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Mech should have radiators not because it makes engineering sense but because a mech fuming smoking hot coolant from its vents and its white-hot radiator struggling to keep the internal temperature down after firing off high intensity beam weapon or activating highly advanced systems is fucking hot.

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Ooh! Oh! I might be able to help here!

Limitation: I don't have dyslexia so there'll have to be some extra trial and error here, but let's see.

Alright:

Option 1 (easiest if available): Macros

If your C-like language supports macros, you can define a list of substitutions to let you use keywords instead of symbols. The C standard library actually has a predefined set of them in a file called iso646.h:

#define and && #define and_eq &= #define bitand & #define bitor | #define compl ~ #define not ! #define not_eq != #define or || #define or_eq |= #define xor ^ #define xor_eq ^=

source: IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 (POSIX)

You can access it with #include <iso646.h> in POSIX systems. If you don't have that header available but you do have macros, you could just copy and paste the list you see above into a header for you to import in all your files.

This is actually defined to help people with non-English keyboard layouts that often don't have easy access to the same set of symbol characters as the creators of C. It may help you with readability.

You're of course not limited to that predefined list! You can #define whatever you like. If semicolons are a difficulty, you could add #define SEMI ; or something of the like!

Option 2 (high effort but most powerful): Transpiler

If macros aren't available or just aren't sufficient, you can write or commission a transpiler -- that's a compiler that instead of outputting assembly or machine code will output another programming language.

A great classic example of this is CoffeeScript. It uses a Ruby-like syntax and compiles into JavaScript, which uses a C-like syntax. This makes it much easier to read for a lot of people. They also add a lot of convenience features to make it easier to write in general.

Depending on the C-like language you're using, there may be a transpiler that already exists using a syntax that's easier for you to read. If not, you could write your own! Or get somebody else to write you one. Writing compilers and transpilers can be really fun! I've done it... too many times.

The key thing is figuring out what syntax you DO like. If assembly is easy for you to grok, maybe something like BASIC would be a good inspiration?

Option 3 (least effective): Special Fonts

Some fonts are designed to make symbols easier to read in C-like languages. MonoLisa comes to mind, but honestly if the issue is dyslexia I think the weird shit that font does would make it worse for you. So, I recommend looking into those options but I suspect it's the least viable.

Note: MonoLisa is a font you have to buy, but I've seen other fonts that do similar things. I just don't recall what their names are.

A note on accessibility in programming

Honestly this field is just a son of a bitch when it comes to accessibility. So many of the languages and tools we use are built on the assumption that you don't even have a mild disability. I have an incredibly mild near-sighted prescription and I still find myself often struggling to work with some of the more arcane tools in our field.

But it doesn't have to be that way. If we work together to make better, more accessible tooling, we can build a better, more accessible industry.

So I hope on of the above suggestions is actionable for you, or at least points you in the right direction. Because UE Blueprint fucking sucks.

Microcontrollers scare me

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I'm operating on limited data here but I'm fully willing to call you an oracle.

If Spanner-based ACID distributed databases can call their time synchronization services "the timestamp oracle" I am certainly willing to call an actual person with high predictive accuracy the Oracle oracle.

We should return to revering girls who do drugs as oracles.

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The answer's yes, using Unicode character U+2800 "Braille Pattern Blank" as the post body.

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It makes me so sad that mac is mandatory at my job 😔 I've gotten so used to it that my linux skills have rotted

I can no longer say that I use arch btw

*using mac* i'm a sleek corporate IT milf email whisperer with a microchip on my shoulder and a motherboard of gold. the glass ceiling has been shattered. we're a family. user centered design. i am steve jobs

*using linux* i'm a freakkyy goth hacker chick about to get my dick suxxed cyber style. superuser do me and she barely GNU me. i'm ready to put my therian life on-the-line for free and open source software. rawr

*using windows* i'm in hell

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I would react similarly

This morning I had like the lesbian equivalent of that part from the Brian David Gilbert cooking video about getting called Boss haha

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I get this except for the second paragraph instead of nausea/rage I get what I can only describe as an intensely concentrated version of "bummed out".

do u ever get that wave of giddy relief when a cis content creator u like says something vaguely trans-positive. like not even necessarily explicit just. acknowledging nonbinary people exist or whatever. and it's like whew okay thank goodness this person I really enjoy and maybe even look up to doesn't necessarily hate me for merely existing 😮‍💨

and then also on a related note do u ever get that wave of nausea/rage when a cis content creator u liked fails to clear that insanely low bar

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Gonna use this emoji for estradiol for the rest of my life

I found out on rednote that the fish cake emoji 🍥 is often used by transfems to represent hrt because it looks like the packaging on the progynova brand of estradiol lol. exhibit a

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cycling my blood what if

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Sometimes I feel like I'd feel better if I could replace all my blood. Like, drain my current blood, replace it with new blood.

I don't know why. Maybe I'm conflating blood with oil in like, a car oil replacement? IDK. It just feels like, let me get rid of my current blood and put in new blood.

Like, am I feeling bad? Sad? Kinda of like generically, unmaintained -- that's how I'm feeling. Not sad, not bad. Unmaintained.

So to satisfy that I'm just going to keep repeatedly imagining the process of replacing my blood since it would be impractical, lethal, and unnecessary to actually do it.

I'm imagining like, a dialysis machine but instead of cleaning the blood it replaces it. So you have a tank of human-volume amount of blood to add. But like, questions:

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How much blood would you need?

I feel like you'd need more than one human'sworth of blood. Because like, there's probably going to be some intermixing of the old and new blood since it goes through multiple, different-lengthed pathways. So like, you cycle maybe one and a half times to make sure, maybe more.

You could maybe figure this out experimentally by injecting something in yourself that's detectable and keep replacing blood until it's no longer in your blood?

Or you could just do a gene test to see when none of your blood is in there, but instant gene testing is even more sci-fi than everything else I'm saying here.

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Where are you getting the blood?

I don't want to waste donor blood so my optimum is taking some of my bone marrow and putting it in a tank of nutrient and somehow trying to stimulate it to make blood.

Yeah, I have absolutely no medical background and I assume if that's even possible it's decades of research that'd go into it.

But like, if someone's going to donate blood I'm not going to use it for this. I'm also not actually going to do this.

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Conclusion

I feel unmaintained.

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I love the plutonium retriever's expression

Choose your fighter

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she goes BWAAH!