Professor Cooldad @dconley@witches.town
Social Justice Bard. They pronouns, Mx. if you must use an honorific. Not as gay as the rest of y’all but I do my best.
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the clothes are new, though
This was one of my bears when I was a kid. My daughter has claimed it as one of her babies.
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Aw heck, I look like I'm cosplaying Queer Paul Ryan
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masculinity has been cancelled sorry, please proceed as usual thanks
@typhlosion wait have you done the Synacor Challenge
I'm biased because I work there and am friends with the guy who made it, but it's fun and interesting (and I haven't even finished!), and "setting registers to a known state" eventually comes in handy for $reasons so it reminded me
Joined Adafruit's Discord channel. Was told that I needed to take my chatter to #offtopic...
1. Sorry for assuming "#general" was a place for chatter
2. If any of your channels has topics that would have been clearer
3. Even assuming it's for "general electronics", I posted a YouTube video OF SOMETHING BUILT WITH CIRCUITS, in reply to something someone else had said earlier
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The mod was nice about it, and I'll take overmoderation over under-. But, again, sigh.
Check out stuff like APRS for an example of an actual data transmission protocol done over radio waves
Okay follow up idea, binary pairs:
00: break
01: dot
10: dash
(And to reiterate, this has certainly been done 20+ years ago in a much better fashion. Reinventing the wheel for giggles. That doesn't mean I don't like feedback! Just don't think I consider any of this to be an ~important discovery~)
@dconley problem with morse<->binary (as I understand it) is that morse actually has 2 dimensions to it: on/off, and length. - could be 1 and . could be 0, but then you'd have no way to indicate a break, so you can't distinguish letters.
@dconley Well, why no use binary directly, can even be ~compatible with morse code:
0 -
1 .
Is there a (weak) encryption mode using Morse code? Message -> Morse -> 0 for dot 1 for dash -> base 10 version of the number. Or hex if you're feeling frisky.
It would need a leading 1, I guess, for messages that start with a dot. And is probably not particularly efficient. But could be an interesting puzzle in a treasure hunt/escape room type thing.
god okay I just remembered this so
remember that unicorn frappe Starbucks was promoting a few months ago? it was pretty much universally hated by every starbucks employee I know (I know a surprising amount) b/c it was dumb to make and apparently it gave people the idea that there was a whole line of secret mythical creature-themed drinks that the baristas just weren't telling them about. the silver lining was that my friend had a woman drive up to their drive-through window and order a bad dragon frappe while her teenage son in the passenger seat just looked mortified.
The great part about only going to my therapist once a month is all the wacky shit I can get up to in the meantime. Preview of my next session:
"How have you been?"
"I'm taking the exam to become a ham radio technician tonight"
"You're interested in ham radio?"
"Well I'm going to need it if I'm going to launch a balloon into the atmosphere"
"???"
"The Dungeon Master is dead. The DM remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? What dice must we roll to save ourselves? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become masters of dungeons simply to appear worthy of it?" - Nietzsche, 12th level rogue
When people sing the "what's your girlfriend's first name?" verse of the happy birthday song, do poly people have to go through the whole list?