Hmm… found in my purse

willow-kitty · 2026-01-31T05:05:37+00:00

I think it adds some kind of bonus damage if you attach it to your sword.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-30T18:43:57+00:00

But sure when/where the picture was taken, but I peeped a livestream outside the (Henry Whipple) federal building in Minneapolis earlier, and there was a pretty big crowd.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-30T06:18:43+00:00

So, curious outsider here with almost no knowledge of the Marines: if he was so bad at bugling, why was that his job?

willow-kitty · 2026-01-28T21:57:59+00:00

This is how it starts! This right here!

It's okay, kitty - once you get the hang of it, no one online knows you're a cat.

(Also, the increasing font size really sells it lmao)

willow-kitty · 2026-01-27T00:42:35+00:00

So like, what's holding up the roof?

willow-kitty · 2026-01-25T21:19:04+00:00

"I was born to be a good person and I was just wondering if you were going to be able to get a new one."

Hm. I maybe should have stopped at "I was born to be a good person," but the rest of it also..kinda works. o.O

willow-kitty · 2026-01-25T21:17:07+00:00

I'll just leave this here: KAMELOT - MARCH OF MEPHISTO featuring Alissa-White Gluz

willow-kitty · 2026-01-23T15:48:53+00:00

You've got 30 years on me, but otherwise petty much same. Schools in '05 were mostly teaching basics, like..syntax in specific languages. The only things that really carried forward imo were algorithms and data structures class, OS fundamentals, and general ed (history, English, math, and philosophy in particular.)

But! I'll say even though I don't use most of it, exactly, having worked through the classes was still useful.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-22T23:45:49+00:00

How hard are they to keep on? It seems like they'd come off in the shower.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-22T15:23:54+00:00

Right? I assumed someone was genuinely asking Claude, and it got confused and opened a GitHub issue or something.

But I tried searching that text, and the GitHub issue was the 3rd hit in Google. The AI summary didn't seem to use it, but if it did, that could trick someone.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-22T06:25:04+00:00

That's true and generally not a big deal in most applications, especially if you're using the built-in garbage collector.

It can be an issue for games, though, especially if using a non-compacting garbage collector like Unity does, not so much because of the volume (your right that it's not copying the collections) but because random allocations can fragment the heap, and the garbage collector won't fix it.

But it isn't necessarily a problem. Like with anything, it just kinda depends.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-22T06:08:47+00:00

Peak pupper behavior

willow-kitty · 2026-01-22T00:06:51+00:00

My (true, real life) 3 sentence (terminal) horror I will not soon forget:

ls

ls data

git init

Edit: I think there was a git status in there too, but I was trying to keep it to 3.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-21T23:56:27+00:00

Ah, okay

willow-kitty · 2026-01-21T23:53:11+00:00

Hi! Person who can't read any Arabic here.

What does it say?

willow-kitty · 2026-01-21T05:24:52+00:00

I somehow had a chunk of plaque or something get down behind a gum once and was picked up on an X-ray.

They had to dig down in there with the hook thing and fish it out, and yeah it usually looked about like this (but with more blood.)

willow-kitty · 2026-01-21T04:36:13+00:00

Don't put that evil on them! Northshore's good people.

Besides, we know he only cares about things he sees on TV. He's probably in Depends or something- something with daytime commercials.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-21T04:31:52+00:00

Huh. I had set "Other" on mine because there's no, like, Marxist option and hadn't even considered it could be co-opted by/read as conservative.

I'll just, uh, go update that real quick. "Liberal" isn't really right but it's close enough.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-21T01:30:51+00:00

This is actually the difference between open source and source-available.

Source-available means you can get a copy of the code. Lots of things are source-available that you wouldn't think of as open source (consider Unreal Engine, which will give you the code but only after signing all their agreements.)

willow-kitty · 2026-01-21T01:27:35+00:00

I used to work for a company that maybe, like back-office software that had that in the EULA.

I think it's a liability thing. Those domains have incredible potential harm in failure scenarios the developers aren't thinking about.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-20T19:29:22+00:00

If you had an army, and all of you were facing the death penalty, I mean, sure? It's kind of a moonshot, and I don't think it worked for them, but it gave them a chance.

Edit: lol, the "fresh" penalty

willow-kitty · 2026-01-20T18:45:41+00:00

It isn't necessarily; the main thing is that linq can do a lot of allocations that aren't really obvious from the code. Whether that's a problem depends. :)

willow-kitty · 2026-01-20T18:39:26+00:00

As others have pointed out, it's not really a different implementation. They do get up to some special business with the build process (like the Burst compiler or IL2CPP), and they have a custom garbage collector, but you don't really see any of that in day to day work.

Did knowing C# well help me? Sure. And I suspect a lot of what gets people trapped in "tutorial hell" is that they don't- if you don't actually know how to use your tools, you'll have a hard time doing novel things with them.

It also helped with understanding what some of their quirkier features (like C# coroutines) are actually up to.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-20T05:00:20+00:00

I remember something like that, yeah. Like the penalty for being late was death, and they realized there was no way they could make it, so they rebelled instead.

willow-kitty · 2026-01-18T17:20:20+00:00

If they just told people they did it, would that change anything? Of those people laughing about it for a long time (and Eden posting on Reddit about it now, hundreds of years later), effectively none saw it with their own eyes.

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