aside from blueprint and brainstorm, the burglar joker is one of the most powerful jokers in balatro. it’s an econ joker, scoring joker, and a direct counter to two difficult boss blinds (water and needle). its effect is even copyable by blueprint/brainstorm. in the essay, i will
gf just called something i wrote “junji ito code” and i’ve never felt so flattered
its my life’s goal to write the most cursed things in every possible language – natural or programming
anyway i’m mad about c# because i’m running into a problem that has nothing to do with the language and is purely because i have no idea what im doing
“let’s add a sql-like duck-typed query dsl inside the language”
“we should add a keyword that just turns off type checking in our strongly typed language”
partial classes
@salad_bar_breath @jepyang taking turns driving while road tripping by cycling who is the kidnapper and the kidnapped
c# is the okayest language of all time. i don’t mean that it’s completely average in every way – more like it has the most ridiculous fucking design decisions that would occasionally make javascript blush
@rowan "yeah, I'm a public transit employee...what did I get paid?...I dunno, just the joy of listening to my girlfriend's delighted giggles coming from my trunk."
@ilobmirt hehehe! 💜 in c#, default parameters need to be a statically analyzable constant value; i assume this is probably to help ease static analysis and parsing efforts of the compiler when it comes to type checking and dealing with potential side effects from code
in javascript and python, you can do really cursed amazing things with default parameters
function sideEffect(value) {
console.log(value)
}
function someFunc(value, optionalValue = sideEffect(value)) {}
someFunc(1) // console prints '1'
@salad_bar_breath “public transit” - free, accessible transportation to ensure that all participants of society have equal access to all services
public transit - gf locking me in her trunk and kidnapping me because its hot
Everybody is all "public transit this" and "public transit that" until they want a hot femme to lock them up in her trunk
i realized last night that i never actually finished infodumping about obscure messaging / comm formats. acp127 based formats are pretty fun. i kinda wanna do a writeup on that