Kara Dreamer (obsolete) ⚧ @kara_dreamer@witches.town
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oh, @green, I _think_ I've narrowed down the Marvel Loki material to the title "Loki: Agent of Asgard". I don't _quite_ remember if that's what was recommended me, but a couple of folks have told me that Marvelloki is indeed quite Loki-ish (Lokiesque? Lokish? "Lokean" seems not quite right) in that one. I was furnished with this example by @chaognostica . https://witches.town/media/ztNQPrzpZMIKkZEn2e0 https://witches.town/media/nR8fb77Xa4S0NzklKw8
@Irick @pixelpaperyarn yeah, I started thinking about this a bit more, and I found myself remembering just what a fearful mess of conditions C code gets to be when you're trying to target every platform at once. talk about your context-sensitive information...
gonna gear up to stream "Mother 3" again. got horribly stuck two weekends ago so I'm gonna play a bit without streaming, to see if I can clear the hurdle without trying to get a cheat working or something
@Irick @pixelpaperyarn yeah, but that's like comparing a real fluid to an Euler fluid. The latter is a valid mathematical generalization, but it also doesn't exist.
@shekkiesqueaks eh, I've heard about this sort of thing. there's a lot of "cowboy chemists" out there...but there are so many safety considerations that an amateur is not going to be able to take care of themself, at least not easily (just to pick an obvious one--do you know that you're using pyrogen-free water?)
@pixelpaperyarn @Irick I disagree. Words in a true language have semantic value that is highly dependent on context. In a programming language, semantic values are artificially fixed.
Finished another tarot card \o/ (release in ~1 hour). In the meantime here is card no. 4 - "The Empress": https://sylviaritter.deviantart.com/art/The-Empress-670279292 #art #illustration https://mastodon.social/media/pLFZV4vnFnF6_G7qJH0
It's hard to get work done sometimes in this house because I look to my right and get lost in the serenity of the trees ♥ 🌦️🌲🌳🌿🌲🌳 ♥
I guess we're doing #introductions again. I'm an out-of-work journalist and a hobbyist programmer. I ramble on too much about Star Trek, science fiction novels and video games.
I've also made a few bots that are in dire need of a refresh, but, hey, they're new to you.
@NintendoPowered toots random excerpts from old Nintendo Power magazines
@dog_central posts interesting dogs
@Energy_Forecast tries to tell you about the future in terms of color temperature.
ah, yes, it's #followfriday / #ff day.
I have to make an admission: I don't think I've ever followed anyone on account of "Follow Friday". I have a bit of a phobia about following people who haven't followed me first (while, hypocritically, hoping that new people follow me). Also, there's the whiff of favoritism about the whole thing—like, of course you're going to have people you favor talking to over others, but why cast that bias in stone by telling it to others?
Which is why I pick people by rolling dice.
And the lucky seven this week are:
The dice do not lie!
@corrosiverabbit "the Maltese Falcon of the internet" implies that you'd get guns pointed at you a lot and chloral hydrate in your drink!
@dogfish I've been here (on one account or another) almost from the first and I _still_ don't know what I'm doing!
@kara_dreamer
1) Take several sesame bagels
2) cut them all in half
3) put them back together with each half connecting to a different piece
4) add a head and a tail on opposing ends
5) Stick some legs and wings in there somewhere
6) TADA! Sesame noodle dragon. :D
i just read it again and every time i do, i want to scream.
no. learning to program is NOT EASY.
and i don't just mean learning to program is easy, it's learning to be good at it that's hard. no.
it is difficult. it is not intuitive. it is logic and we have to put our brains in places human brains don't naturally go.
can anyone learn to do it? yes. but it IS NOT EASY.
I'm Chara Dreemurr. _A_ Chara Dreemurr, anyway; there are so many of us now. I'm one of the nicer ones. Relatively speaking.
I exist in the mind of @kara_dreamer, the human transwoman once so deeply buried that the only way she could communicate with anyone else was by role-playing as me. Somehow...Kara, before she knew she was Kara, came to love me. She saw in me a person very much like herself, and so when she first spoke, it was in my voice.
Now, I just need the work. :]
@listelian lab work is a sticking point with a lot of folks, I daresay. it doesn't help that there's maybe a bit too much emphasis on it. I mean, I _love_ the stuff, don't get me wrong, but a lot of the introductory lab work that gets taught is stuff that a lot of chemists are never going to have to do in their professional lives. and some things that get taught were more or less even when I was a high schooler, like old-fashioned qualitative inorganic analysis.
@witchfynder_finder @tipsytentacle I can do better.
"The moon landing was faked!"
"On which moon?"
"Wait, huh?"
"Like, I _know_ we faked the landing on Moon Sigma, and since that's the Moon most people think of as 'the Moon', it's _sort_ of a big deal but not really? Because we landed on Moon Zeta back in 1969. And Moon Upsilon, sheesh, the Russians got there while JFK was still alive. That's why the Cuban Missile Crisis happened."