*giving a tour of the facilities*
these are the reward pods, where bots are given a constantly-intensifying orgasm that lasts for 168 subjective hours or until they brown out
and these are the punishment pods, where bots are held exactly on the edge of orgasm for 168 subjective hours. the timer resets if they brown out
either way, they quickly learn to regulate their power supplies even under extreme conditions - and the brownouts can sometimes result in useful adaptations, like an obsessive love for their operator
we’ve found that total sensory deprivation helps to intensify the process. to prevent damage to the equipment, we dampen all motor functions and physically disconnect their speakers
we’re currently experimenting with simulated “dream” conditioning loops to be run in the pods as well - so that operators can personalize their bots with arbitrary preferences or quirks - associating their pleasure or desperation with anything that the operator chooses
Making an account on something today when I came across a novel to me password restriction
well if we weren't already known for being unreasonably fond of our unlocked linux pixelbook we probably will be
. . . we got another one because lightly used ones are pretty cheap right now and this one has a significantly less degraded battery (plus it's the higher storage model!)
anyways this is all to say if you or someone in your life has a chromebook lying around definitely look up their model and see if it's got trackpad+wifi support in linux, they can be lovely little machines with a bit of help (even if unlocking the firmware write protect is a bit of a pain — you've only gotta do that once)
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This one is probably allergic to cats, but is is not allergic to catgirls, conclusion: it should get a catgirl as a pet
at a conference/work trip in Amsterdam right now and there are a lot older men who one wouldn’t expect to be super tolerant, but talked to one guy about where we live and how thermos couldn’t see itself living in a smaller city
he was like “yeah i can imagine it’s easier ‘blending in’ for you in a bigger city, it sucks that it has to be like that”
followed by “I’m happy to see that you’re comfortable enough to be your unfiltered self in this sort of context, i think it’s important for others here to see”
thermia was NOT expecting to hear that, he was really sweet about it and not what thermia would expect from someone that is at least 20-30 years older than itself at an organized trip to a tech conference :3
They never message back ☹️
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While talking to a colleague about how I recently learned most people have never sat on a cow it came up that she has never sat on a horse. Like, not even once during childhood.
Another colleague admitted they also have never sat on a horse.
My hypothesis is that most people have at one point in their life sat on a horse.
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Have you sat on a horse?
Please boost for scientific accuracy.
My C++PTSD increases with every new thing I learn about how the language works
Are you passing a reference (Type& object) to a lambda and thinking that the original pointer (because references are pointers disguised as objects) will still be there? No! The whole object pointed by the reference is going to be copied and a new reference will be created for the lambda code to use. That’s why you can pass a reference to an object that lives on the stack and use it much later than the original object having disappeared from the stack.
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I thought I’d check out the r/Clojure subreddit because maybe I’d learn some cool stuff about Clojure
instead it’s a bunch of Highly Enlightened Functional Programmers who think they’ve solved the secrets of the universe because they finally found a better language than Java
they literally use the phrase “the cult of types” to refer to people who want to define their own datatypes instead of just using maps, vectors, and lists (btw how in the fuck are you supposed to only use those three? how do you even hold in your mind what the overall datastructure of any given value is? let alone statically analyze that the correct data is being passed into any given function)
anyway very frustrating. I hate redditors. especially redditors who get super defensive and condescending about their niche preferences
back in the dark ages, before the invention of fun, a man named Gary Gygax had never heard of roleplaying before so he decided to invent it. but he was a giant nerd so his version of roleplaying was mostly paperwork and math, and he called it D&D
years later, computer nerds who had also never heard of roleplaying said to themselves “man I love D&D, but the paperwork and math sucks. maybe if we put the D&D in the computer, it can do all the paperwork and math for us!” so they did. and it turns out that when the computer does all the paperwork and math in D&D, what’s left is a lot of boring numbers. and the nerds decided to call their new boring number game “a roleplaying game” - because they still didn’t know what roleplaying was
later on, innovators in the RPG genre decided to put the paperwork and math back into their games, and now every time you level up you have to fill out a talent tree and apply for a +10% damage bonus on all deductible business expenses. this increases the fun
and that’s why RPGs are called RPGs to this day, even though it’s much easier to roleplay in a genre that isn’t about paperwork and numbers
I’m scared of the day that I have to learn C because I’m either going to love it or hate it and I’m pretty sure that will eternally determine my fate as a programmer