I just had a realization about a point of confusion I’ve had with functional programming languages for a long time: sometimes, in functional programming, an entire value can represent an abstraction and you aren’t meant to know anything about its internals at all

in the languages that I’m used to:

• if you have a function, that signals that it’s an abstraction and you’re only meant to understand its inputs, its outputs, and its side effects
• if you have a class or object, that signals that it’s an abstraction and you’re only meant to understand its methods (as if they were functions), its publicly-accessible data, and roughly what data it’s representing internally
• if you have any other type of data, you’re meant to understand every detail of it, because it’s not an abstraction

but since functional programming doesn’t use classes, the abstractions go more like this:

• if you have a function, it’s the same as above (know side effects, inputs, outputs, everything else is abstracted)
• if you have certain data types (I’m not sure how you know which ones but there is probably a well-defined indicator) that signals an abstraction and you’re only meant to know what type it is (so you know which functions can operate on it) and roughly what its internal data represents
• otherwise, you should know everything about the data because it’s not abstracted

so that explains a lot lol. I was talking to a functional programmer about why they were sadistically (from my perspective) asking the caller to do a bunch of very complex function composition in order to use their public API, but from their perspective the function composition was an implementation detail and what was actually happening is that functions were being used to manipulate abstractions in a way that was probably very intuitive to them. and this distinction was completely lost on me at the time so I just got confused and frustrated

stuff like this has me thinking that the cultural differences between functional programmers and {mixed paradigm or OOP} programmers might be so extreme that you’d need a translation layer between functional code and OOP code in order for programmers on each side to use each others’ APIs. because even very fundamental things like “how do I recognize a black box when I see one?” are very different between them, and in a way that’s so implicit that they aren’t even aware that it’s a cultural difference

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@rebane2001/116123227412288110

This might genuinely be the most mind blowing thing I’ve ever seen.

People-first language is only suggested for things that are considered undesirable in our society. No one ever says we should use, for example, "a person with blondness” or "a person with overheight.”

The problem therefore isn't necessarily where we put certain words, but that those words (and the conditions associated with them) are seen negatively.

So no, saying “a person with obesity” will not solve weight stigma in our society.

id like to apologize to venite for complaining about its default dark mode

> LOOK

You are in a room. There are exits to the north and west. There is an armchair.

> SIT

You are sitting in an armchair in a room. There are exits to the north and west. A small black cat enters the room.

> TAKE CAT

You cannot take the cat.

> PET CAT

You pet the cat. It starts to purr.

> PET CAT

You pet the cat. It jumps onto the chair, purrs, and settles on your lap.

> N

You cannot go north. You are immobilised by a cat.

> STAND UP

You cannot stand up. You are immobilised by a cat.

> W

You cannot go west. You are immobilised by a cat.

> PET CAT

The cat purrs.

despite all these CWs I never felt triggered by the game and I’m very sensitive, so I hope it will be playable for a lot of y’all if you’re interested! I would love to give this game more notice and recognition because I loved it on every level, and it’s literally just $18 on Steam right now

if any of y’all like the newer Resident Evil games (like RE2 Remake or Resident Evil Village) I’d highly recommend giving Crisol: Theater of Idols a try

in fact if you just like puzzle-solving, exploration, and slow tactical combat I’d still highly recommend trying Crisol lol because it has a fantastic balance of all three

it’s a horror game though and there are a lot of CWs, so I’m going to make a second post with a link to the game as well as a list of CWs

@ilobmirt hehe, even with a ponytail I still get loose hairs all over me in the bath when I have long hair and it drives me crazy. but I did try that in the past!

unfortunately every time I tied a ponytail it always ended up as a low ponytail and I could never figure out how people get a nice medium-height ponytail lol

@kit oh - I didn’t even consider how a hat would effect things! yeah I bet that makes having long hair a lot better

what was so bad about having dreads though?

@kit I wish I could! T_T even if I tie it up, I have to undo that in the shower and it sticks to my body, and individual hairs end up sticking to my skin everywhere and it drives me crazy. also back when I had long hair, every single time I leaned forward the hair would be all over my face and I hated it lol

@theking it drives me absolutely crazy anytime it gets in my face and especially my mouth T_T and the absolute worst is when it sticks to my body in the shower

who would win:

the transfemme urge to have long flowy beautiful hair

vs.

the autistic urge to not have a long flowy sensory nightmare attached to my head at all times