#fundamentals of python

[bizarrocloudy]

I'm taking a programming class, and there was this chapter about converting between number systems, and I

[12neonlit-stage]

I go by no pronouns but not as in my name, more so like my pronouns are an undefined variable in shell coding

[unopenablebox]

i think it's immoral for me to buy earmuffs and i also think it's immoral for me to have a wedding and unfortunately i'm currently failing to distinguish these or figure out if either is true

[amalgamationillustration]

Finished design for the Eastern Serix, which I made using the Fundamentals Of Creature Design book. I really recommend picking it up if you want to really challenge yourself on really researching and having several passes at creating fictional creatures and really thinking about how and where it would live, feed, walk/swim/fly, breed, sleep. Really useful stuff to practice and full of great examples and references.

I wanted a tree dwelling hunter, so i tried to combine traits from a Fossa, Emerald Tree Boa, and a created gecko, I also threw in some inspiration from lemurs and frilled lizards.

The Eastern Serix is nocturnal and hunts mice and small birds, it uses its long, bristly tail to suspend its body from branches and releases when it wants to drop onto unsuspecting prey below. It then wraps its tail around them and the bristly fur stands on end and sticks into the prey, holding in place like thousands of tiny needles. It is then able to unhinge its jaw and swallow prey whole. The striped fur along its neck can be extended to form a frill to scare off predators.

[vvelegrin]

a little ambitious today. i have an arabic reading/conversation group that i'm going to try out, and i've been doing little bits of python on and off all morning (in between sleeping and icing my stupid head; i'm going to be soooo motivated and smart and beautiful if and when we ever figure out how to deal with the fact that autoimmunity is literally making my brain stupid). might meet with a few friends later, but we'll see how i feel after arabic group, i might gently pass away after that. god knows that trying to figure out the fucking syntax of functions is actually stealing the life force from my body.

i had a support group yesterday (and then crashed most of the day after it) and got a couple of good tips for dealing with insurance and doctors for ivig from someone who might have the same diagnosis as me? so that is heartening. gonna deal with that in the next two to four business days or whatever.

[nit2023]

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[diptisinghblog]

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[webmethodology]

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[nyxbird]

i used codecademy to learn python, but i already had a bit of a background with js. i'm not entirely sure how good it is for cpp (i think i just kind of learned it through like. osmosis). anyway it'll be kind of difficult at first but it (for me at least) ends up being really freeing

If anyone has any c++ tutorials please send them to me. It's my first language and it's so hard to understand because of the way it's bring presented in class.

It's literally a problem solving class now with no help or input from other students or professors so you don't know it's wrong until you get a 0 for it for turning it in

I need major help like bad

[nostalgebraist]

Seeing a lot of python hate on the dash today... fight me guys. I love python. I am a smoothbrained python enjoyer and I will not apologize for it

Python has multiple noteworthy virtues, but the most important one is that you can accomplish stuff extremely fast in it if you know what you are doing.

This property is invaluable when you're doing anything that resembles science, because

Most of the things you do are just not gonna work out, and you don't want to waste any time "designing" them "correctly." You can always go back later and give that kind of treatment to the rare idea that actually deserves it.

Many of your problems will be downstream from the limitations in how well you can "see" things (high-dimensional datasets, etc.) that humans aren't naturally equipped to engage with. You will be asking lots and lots of weirdly shaped, one-off questions, all the time, and the faster they get answered the better. Ideally you should be able to get into a flow state where you barely remember that you're technically "coding" on a "computer" -- you feel like you're just looking at something, from an angle of your choice, and then another.

You will not completely understand the domain/problem you're working on, at the outset. Any model you express of it, in code, will be a snapshot of a bad, incomplete mental model you'll eventually grow to hate, unless you're able to (cheaply) discard it and move on. These things should be fast to write, fast to modify, and not overburdened by doctrinaire formal baggage or a scale-insensitive need to chase down tiny performance gains. You can afford to wait 5 seconds occasionally if it'll save you hours or days every time your mental map of reality shifts.

The flipside of this is that it is also extremely (and infamously) easy to be a bad python programmer.

In python doing the obvious thing usually just works, which means you can get away with not knowing why it works and usually make it through OK. Yes, this is cringe or whatever, fine. But by the same token, if you do know what the right thing to do is, that thing is probably very concise and pretty-looking and transparent, because someone explicitly thought to design things that way. What helps (or enables) script kiddies can also be valuable to power users; it's not like there's some fundamental reason the interests of these two groups cannot ever align.

[whereserpentswalk]

Humans are fundamentally rare in the multiverse. There are likely well over 2000 billion humans in the multiverse, but that means nothing when there are far more multiverses then there are humans, much less human civilization. There are a few pockets, but if you go to most habitable universes you'll find nobody is there, and if there is someone there they're mostly surrounded by nobody. And where there are humans sometimes they've changed themselves into things that aren't really human anymore.

For example, you'll end up in a universe that's a flat endless plane, covered in lush rainforests. And you'll hear that there's a human civilization of 14 million people there. But then you'll see that in the heart of that human civilization is a great city of about ten million people. And that great city is an amazing place, a civilization with countless great things, thousands of years of history, and multiple distinct cultures and ethnic groups living there. But then you realize that the majority of the humans in that universe live in one city. And then you learn that two million people outside the city live a day's drive from the city, most of them near one of the rivers intersecting the city. And beyond that there's an infinite plane, larger then humanity's first planet, and it has only two million to populate it, most of them so isolated they'll never know a multiverse, or even other humans, exist. Most of this "human inhabited" universe is continent sized stretches of forest no human has ever been, where only pythons the size of whales, eusocial monkeys, venomous tree cats, wolves that hunt by echolocation, and other such creatures lay. And with how far it is from any other human inhabited plane it is, they'll likely never know other humans exist in any sense other then vaugly knowing their origins.

Back when humanity's home universe wasn't lost, people thought the idea of empty land was a dream, that they could be the ones to populate it. But now there's so much of it, that it's useless trying to inhabit it all.

There's humans who've adapted harshly to their planes. For example, there's a universe where everything is filled with a poison gas. But it's where humans ended up, so they attempted by wearing skin tight rubber suits and gas masks while outside. After countless generations of multiple humans civilizations and nations existing in that plane, humans have entirely lost their skin there. At least they don't have skin like most people do, it's like it's all a sensitive second layer not meant to ever be exposed, sof moist and hairless. They don't need to eat when they inject nutrients, so their jaws have fused together, and their digestive system is gone. And since they have goggles on at all times no eyelids are needed. They wouldn't consider a human without their protective suit to even be naked, they'd consider them to be flayed. They only ever take off their suits when they grow out of one, or when they take on the painful burden of reproducing with eachother. They're all fine with how things work, none of them like the idea of having proper skin again. And the few times they've interacted with humans from other dimensions they treat them as one would a civilization of walking skeletons.

Sometimes things become incredibly strange just from how colonization happens is an example of humans who ended up on a near perfect copy of humanity's hone universe, but who lost a lot of their initial population and had to resort to unorthodox means to repopulate. They reproduced through artificial wombs, mixing DNA through blood instead of through natrual reproduction. And because of this they lost the ability to reproduce naturally through generations of evolution. For thousands of years, and countless civilizations and countries, they've been entirely sexless. The genes that cause them to develope secondary sex characteristics never trigger, and their genitals are basically nothing but holes for them to urinate through. Even the part of their arm where blood is drawn has naturally thinner skin and no pain receptors. They think of sex as just something animals do, and they find the idea that humans from other universes do it completely disgusting, like seeing a human with the traits of a wild animal.

There's also examples of humans who don't lose their bodies but they do lose their culture. For example, there's a group of humans who ended up on a plane of endless forests, inhabited by countless insectiod creatures, with several sapient species between them. The humans didn't have any land to take, so they became a middle man minority for most of the major civilizations there. There are no human kings or republics, no human armies, no humans cities. Humans there are a loose diaspora, with a culture that's built in the shadows of other creatures empires. The time since they had their own plane, and their own sovereign civilizations, is so long gone it seems strange to think of. They're entirely a people defined by serving other species, sometimes they're rich merchants and allies to the state, sometimes they're poor and destitute, sometimes they're equal and partially assimilated, but they are by their definition part of a greater whole. And most of them live without ever thinking of their species as one that can even have its own nations and cities.

There are ones which went the other way. For example on a cold and desolate plane, there's a human civilization that got sentient machines to do all their labor for them. On this plane every human is nobility, and infact their word for human and their word for lord is the same thing. There are no humans who aren't part of the ruling class, with countless sapient robots as their subjects. Some humans there won't even see another human outside of their family unless they're doing diplomacy with other noble houses. Of course, if a human loses their wealth, they're no longer considered humans, just being one of the countless robot subjects. And if a machine gains enough resources to be given a noble title, then they're considered human. There is no way that that society comprehends humanity without comprehending its ruling caste.

We've even found a few very far planes where humans have been stranded and forgotten they were from anywhere else. For example there's a colony vessel that became standed on a universe that's mostly a weightless void, but has a few habitable orbs. They luckily found an orb with the closest equivalent life to their homeworld, but by the time they got there they reverted to the stone age. They fought off the local demihumans that they later named the denisovans and neanderthals, but by the time they had technology to understand their history they just assumed they evolved from the local demihuman lines. They're at a high level of technology now, with some very interesting cold weather adaptations (including the unique trait of colored hair) but they don't seem to know about humanity's history at all. Wish them luck out there, it's very cold, and very lonely in this multiverse, mabye they're happiest to think it's as small as it is for them.

[queer-ragnelle]

Arthurian screen adaptations on a competency scale of theme comprehension through transformative works as it intersects with recognizability and cultural resonance.

Paint By Numbers Arthuriana

Watered down content designed to pander to a wide audience with surface level understanding of the legends. Thoughtless changes made in the interest of mass appeal and profit. Disrespectful to the history and themes of the original. Misogynistic and racist.

First Knight (1995)

Quest For Camelot (1998)

BBC Merlin (2008-12)

The Winter King (2023)

Arthurian Wiki + Other Media = Good?

Adds shallow interpretations of Arthurian elements or characters to an existing IP in an attempt to capitalize on both markets. Misinterprets or simply doesn't care about the history and themes which makes Arthuriana resonate. Misogynistic and racist.

Fate Series (2004-now)

Shrek the Third (2007)

Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)

Scooby Doo the Sword and the Scoob (2021)

Make It Your Own (Affectionate)

Reimagined Arthuriana in a way which transforms the legends into a fresh story, genre, tone, culture, or all four while maintaining the core characters, themes, subjects, values, and appeal to long-time Arthurian enthusiasts. Respects and uplifts women and minorities.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

Excalibur (1981)

Knightriders (1981)

Shadow of the Raven (1988)

New Adventures of a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988)

Who Even Is That?

Utilizes a character name while failing to realize the character's potential or outright slanders them and the others around them. Drastically worsens the source material narratively and through poor characterization. Misrepresents the original. Misogynistic and racist.

The Black Knight (1954)

Guinevere (1994)

King Arthur (2004)

Perceval (2007)

"Arthurian" Coat of Paint

Stories so abstract they butcher or scarcely resemble the source material. Fundamental misrepresentation of the Arthuriana. Disrespectful to the history and themes of the original. Misogynistic and racist.

The Fisher King (1991)

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)

Netflix Cursed (2020)

The Green Knight (2021)

[vintagetvstars]

Terry Jones Vs. Alan Alda

Propaganda

Terry Jones - (Monty Python's Flying Circus, Do Not Adjust Your Set) - I wish I could tell you all in a few sentences just how handsome, funny, intelligent, kind and soft-spoken Terry Jones was. How passionate he was about the things he loved, lacing his interests (like e.g. history) throughout all the projects he was working on. How he was supposedly always laughing and giggling when writing and reading out sketches. How he admired the art of silent movies/Buster Keaton and was obsessed with writing poems as a child. How he was described as a wonderful friend and a little as if he carried his own world around with him. But there is simply too much to tell and I adore him too much to pick the best facts, so this will have to do

Alan Alda - (M*A*S*H) - He is both the saddest wettest little meow meow and your kindly grandfather and your favourite eccentric uncle (mom's side). Somehow it works. Passionate Democrat, feminist, great writer, he and his books are hilarious. Did a cartwheel when he won an Emmy! How he met his wife is the best meet cute of the last two centuries, and they've now been married over 60 years!!!

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Alan Alda:

he’s just so good in MASH

he put so much bisexuality into hawkeye i think it fundamentally changed me when i was little and watching mash for the first time. anyway do we all know the story about how he met his wife when they were at a party together and they were the only two people eating the cake that fell on the floor and he fell in love with her over her laugh. i just think hes neat :) i love when theres a strange looking man. also feel it necessary to say that the guy that wrote the book mash was based on wrote himself as hawkeye and HATED alda's hawkeye bc he displayed his morals too much (alda had it in his contract for the show that every episode had to have an operating room scene bc otherwise you arent backdropping the fact that war is Not fun. actually. he almost didnt take the role bc he thought a war comedy would make too much light of the horrors)

please please please use this picture of him, he's so hot in it

His comedic delivery in MASH...

The story of how he met his wife is charming and sweet, and they've now been married 65 years

Just look at him. He's the most beautiful man I've ever seen but also he's completely average. He's got a weak jawlines and a round face and these big soft eyes and he's just so beautiful. He's capable of playing a silly charismatic sitcom protagonist in one scene, and a jaded army surgeon haunted by the deaths he's witnessed in the next. He's so hot that my dad once told me he decided to apply to medical school because of how much he was attracted to Hawkeye Pierce. That's literally how I learned that my father was bisexual.

He's also just a really great dude? He's been outspoken about his political beliefs for a long time, and has always been strongly and vocally anti-war, pro-feminist, and pro lgbt. He served a tour in the Korean war, and his experiences there informed his performance in the show. He (and honestly the entire cast, but especially him) really just soared above and beyond the standard for comedies of the day.

He's so funny and his eyes are pretty

He loves and is a champion of science (Source).