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641I try to be very careful about CWing things. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible
I sometimes post NSFW/kinky/lewd things behind CWs. this should go without saying but if you're a minor please do not interact with anything lewd/NSFW that I post
I have very limited energy and am very shy so it might take me a long time to reply to messages sometimes, or I might not be able to reply at all. this is kind of an "output only" account for the most part, but I'm hopeful that I can change that over time
I sometimes use curly braces to {clearly show where a grammatical phrase begins and ends}, like that. you can think of them like parenthesis in code or math, except they operate on grammar instead
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Soblow Xaselgio 
Soblow@eldritch.cafe
... quick question.
I know some folks here hate the term "content".
I'm biased, because that's a word I have to use for work, and it fits the description I need of "several different kind of art pieces of various nature, including (but not limited to) art, video, stories, poems, animations..."
Do you prefer avoiding the term "content"? I'm interested in your options for replacements if so...
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Princess Serena Star ✨
Starcross@mk.absturztau.beFor those outside the US: Do radio stations in your country play Christmas music as you get into November and December?
What country?
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kasdeya
kasdeya@liese I love Lua omg. I immediately fell in love with its import system and how OOP works in the language. the 1-indexing and ~= meaning “not equals” and a few other things are pretty annoying though. but yeah I still absolutely love it just for how dead simple and easy-to-understand it is
I’ve actually never needed coroutines though hehe so I have no idea how they work or what they are. I’m guessing they’re somewhat similar to async/await in Python and JS though
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I love keeping up with new game releases and especially indie games, but omg I am so tired of all of these emotionally gripping story-oriented games - especially when the underlying gameplay looks fun. I’m not sure if this is becoming more of a trend over time but I feel like 80-90% of new games that I hear about are all story-oriented, and the remaining 10-20% are indie games that often don’t catch my interest at all
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kasdeya@liese omg yeah the underlying eldritch nature of Python is a big part of why I’m so interested in languages like Lisp or Lua that are built up from very simple pieces. because I have no fucking clue how certain parts of Python work and I’m scared to touch them hehe
and yeah - in the past I tried writing functional-style code in Python but unfortunately Python doesn’t like that very much hehe. its syntax feels pretty clumsy for doing that - for example it doesn’t even have a pipeline operator. if I do decide to experiment with functional languages again I might give F# a try since it sounds like it won’t force me to write everything in a pure and immutable way right off the bat, and that would be nice
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kasdeya@liese omgg Java scares me as a language lol. it feels like the OOP stuff that I love in Python but taken to a sadistic extreme where literally everything is probably some kind of bespoke class or object
maybe i just experienced early on some of the worst of what imperative languages had to offer, and so was in the right headspace to be very willing to try out this weird thing that seemed to have the potential to not be that 😅🫠
this is so interesting to me btw because I have a partner who is really into functional languages and I think the same is true of them. they started off learning some really nasty languages that they hated like C++, and after that they learned Erlang and Elixir and loved them and now they’re interested in learning Gleam too
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@esheep interesting! the “in” -> “out” pipeline way of thinking about it does make sense to me because I often write parts of my Python code that way when I’m able to break a problem down into discrete data-processing steps like that
I think I just get really disoriented in an environment where there’s no concept of classes or objects, because I don’t know how to find functions that are relevant to what I’m trying to accomplish. also function currying makes sense to me conceptually but the way it’s used in E.G. Haskell really hurts my brain lol, having to keep track of a bunch of lambda calculus in my head
and there are other things like that - like recursive functions can really hurt my brain if they have more than like 3 arguments, and especially if the arguments aren’t named things that make sense to me
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I’m starting to think that in order to really grok functional programming you need a certain kind of brain. the kind that doesn’t just understand math but enjoys doing it
and like I understand that the philosophy is to maximize the use of pure functions and to program declaratively. but I’m not sure if I’ll ever understand why certain people value those things so highly that they’d go out of their way to use languages that are designed to support them. especially the languages like Haskell that don’t support any other style of writing your code
I was hoping that trying functional languages would make this more clear to me but unfortunately I think all of my experience in imperative scripting languages is getting in the way, because every time I struggle to do something basic in E.G. Haskell all I can think about is how easy it would be to do in Python instead. but that’s because I’ve been using Python for 20 years and I’m very bad at math - so it’s not a fair comparison
at least to me as someone who was taught to hate math in school, it feels like programming a nontrivial function in a functional style gets arcane very quickly. it’s like you have to solve a difficult math problem in your head in order to figure out what code to write, and then when someone else reads it they have to re-solve the same math problem in their head in order to understand how your equation works. and I’m not sure if it’s supposed to feel like that or if that’s just me being bad at math again
maybe if someone is learning programming for the first time and they really grok math, it feels the other way around for them? like imperative code takes a lot of mental energy, but functional code is effortless to read?
I guess I feel like - if I was ever going to understand the appeal of functional programming - I would have by now. I’ve read so many “why learn this functional language?” chapters at the beginning of different books, that talk in vague terms about how the language is pure or elegant. but for me everything is so much harder in functional-land and I’m not sure if it’s supposed to be harder or if it’s actually easier for those who grok it
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Freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 
freeplay@wetdry.world
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Nat
nat@kind.social✨ Buy Nothing groups
✨ Clothing banks
✨ Thrift stores (look for their sale days)
✨ Facebook marketplace (set max price to 0 or a few bucks)
✨ Clothing swaps
✨ Yard sales / Estate sales
✨ Ask your community for what you need
You do NOT need to buy new clothes or holiday decor this week. You do NOT need to buy new, period!
What if you challenged yourself not to buy anything new for the rest of the year—and nothing at ALL during the national economic blackout from today thru December 2?
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Zelda 🎀
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