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I have consumed Too Much Cheese

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Neurodivergent people be like "wow, this game changed my life, exquisite gameplay, groundbreaking" and then they show you the game and it looks like this

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After some time flirting with the idea, finally got pulled into textmode and been loving it so far! Here's two of my first pieces, expect a few more in the near future^^

software: Playscii font: AtariAll

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A little bit of everything this time. Some more broken trees, interior decorations and some smaller improvements. I also improved the grass a bit!

As always your suggestions, feedback and critique is greatly appreciated!

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pink razer gaming laptop 🎀🖱⊹○ﾟ˖

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Art Nouveau vase from c. 1902, Germany

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Inside of you there are two Clouds

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🕸️💀💜👻🕸️

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suppose we have some functions f, g, h, ... a -> Maybe b. now let's write the "composition"

let y = f x case y of Just _ -> y Nothing -> g x

or in C++ it's like

std::optional<T> y = f(x); if(y){ return y; } else { return g(x); }

i.e. try to compute a value with f. if successful, return that value. if not, try g instead. we can obviously generalise this to any number of candidates f, g, h, ... but it gets unreadable. so I thought surely this is some monadic operation in the Maybe monad. I mean it's basically like OR with short-circuit evaluation where Nothing is falsy and Just _ is truthy. and it turns out in Haskell it's

f x <|> g x <|> h x <|> ... = msum fmap ($ x) [f, g, h, ...]

and thanks to lazy evaluation only as many functions are called as are needed. neat! in C++23 it'll be std::optional::or_else.

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The first simulated image of a black hole was calculated with an IBM 7040 computer using 1960 punch cards and hand-plotted by French astrophysicist Jean-Pierre Luminet in 1978.

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Cheese ball boba

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Is it fall yet? 🎃🍂🍁

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Some higher-ups in the university apparently looked up a list of "most commonly used programming languages" and found SQL at the top, so they are really pushing for it to be taught to all first year computer science students. They basically want it to be the main programming language we teach.

They also announced that they want us to teach PowerPoint in computer science.

I wish people who had no idea what computer science is wouldn't try to tell us how to teach it.