#Programming

[hiimnatt]

OH MY GOD I LOVE IT

I’m studying Computer Science right now and this has to be one of the greatest posts. The perfect crossover between wizardposting and programming.

I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.

A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.

The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.

The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.

A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.

A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.

Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.

Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.

Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".

[jadeharleyinc]

for every insufferable twitter ai bro bragging about replacing artists with compliant robots, there is a "writeblr fandom blogger" bragging about how humanities majors can do better work than those worthless programmers any day of the week

if you want a picture of the future, imagine an endless cycle of loser nerds fantasizing about dunking on a different kind of loser nerds they see as inferior, forever

[randomly-generated-posts-machine]

decriminalize being eepy 24/7 criminalize elon musk

[nebulouspotatoes]

Santa should use MS Access instead, the *correct* option

[jwbstuhr]

an HSL color graph (S = 1.00) rendered with 16 colors in computercraft (361x101 characters)

all images in this post in their original state (pre-tumblr upload) are available here

elaboration on exactly what this is (+ how it is, why it is) below the cut:

first and foremost, this is a regular HSL color graph at S(aturation) = 1.00 (or 100%):

computercraft has the same basic color palette as minecraft dyes; it has only 16. it lets you control the text and text background colors per character, and it has a stripes character that takes up ~33.33% of the total area of each character unit (it's a monospace font). this enables a sort of pseudo-256-color palette:

with some math, you can compare the similarity of the RGB of any HSL value with the average RGB of each character unit and match it to the nearest, which can then be used to render an HSL graph. i had to slowly composite several screenshots of the program (craftos-pc) to get this whole thing captured in one image.

here's a close-up, in case tumblr or your viewport displays the original image too small to discern:

and yes, if you're curious, i did crunch down the image in an editor to see what it would look like if each 6x9 pixel character were just a single pixel:

overall, i spent about 7 hours on this, and i'm really honestly not quite sure why. welp! time to see how i might be able to improve this.

[foldbaron]

Episode 115 of Campaign 3 airs tonight on Beacon/Youtube/Twitch, followed by the CR Cooldown on Beacon. 7pm PST / 10pm EST.

[arabellasdoingthework]

Day 4/100

I've been away for a bit since everything has been too much lately. I'm working on coming back tho

Studying Python since the biggest part of the final grade for Programming II is gathering points on CodeWars and DataCamp. I know. I'm also confused. Fingers crossed I learn some.

[omeletcat]

I drew a pixel art Isha!! her design was rly hard to turn into pixels caus the arcane designs are a maximalists wet dream, but i think i put most of her design in there.

[academicfever]

88/100 days of productivity!

My appointment with my supervisor coming up… I’m so nervous and my eyes are constantly red🙂‍↔️

Here’s to a good day 🪄

Log: 21st Nov24

Data analysis assignment submitted

Video project submitted

Research work_3P

Mental health check +journal

Read for 30 mins

Call home

Lunch+shower+meds

Go on a walk

[cidthecoatrack-blog]

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

[eepycamryn]

finally, my profession might be legitimately worth something again instead of just "lmao put a chatbot in there"

(full article here)

[track-maniac]

in the gitted lab. straight up "pushing it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. Bad code

[prokopetz]

I 100% agree with the criticism that the central problem with "AI"/LLM evangelism is that people pushing it fundamentally do not value labour, but I often see it phrased with a caveat that they don't value labour except for writing code, and... like, no, they don't value the labour that goes into writing code, either. Tech grifter CEOs have been trying to get rid of programmers within their organisations for years – long before LLMs were a thing – whether it's through algorithmic approaches, "zero coding" development platforms, or just outsourcing it all to overseas sweatshops. The only reason they haven't succeeded thus far is because every time they try, all of their toys break. They pretend to value programming as labour because it's the one area where they can't feasibly ignore the fact that the outcomes of their "disruption" are uniformly shit, but they'd drop the pretence in a heartbeat if they could.

[chongoblog]

Programming is so funny. It says

"ERROR: int can not be converted to a string"

And you're just like "oh, okay. *adds ".ToString()" to the end*"

"Alright that's okay ^w^"

[randomly-generated-posts-machine]

decriminalize having a sailors mouth criminalize being boring