2023-10-31

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 08:10

@masukomi @CynAq @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe @actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe My group had Time Blindness as a -5 or -20 depending on severity, with the severe version requiring per-turn IQ checks to avoid losing actions in combat.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 08:53

@masukomi @CynAq @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe @actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe that’s why we had the severity split. The lesser version was just an extreme quirk that impacted social obligations but not survival stuff.

The extreme version was our friend Derek. But yeah it could’ve been addressed by existing disadvantages. We were just having some fun with the game system.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 10:04

Always fun to see how much of my customary workflow I can set up without admin permissions. Constraints can be a boost to creativity.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 11:07

It’s weird how there are few noises harder to tune out than somebody trying to be quiet.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 11:38

@IamMrsGeek Oh it wasn’t you, you were making normal polite-level noise. ‘Twas the others trying to be quiet little hobbits while they made food except they’re not quiet little hobbits.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 11:49

Appreciate the reminder from cohost that I paid for an annual subscription and it renews in a few days.

(cancel subscription to unused service)

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 13:33

@onelson If my budget was more relaxed I might’ve done the same, but with first payday a few weeks away I had to be reasonable.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 14:28

The Serverless Web application framework has been downloaded over 164,000,000 times, but with CI/CD pipelines being what they are these days that could mean ten applications.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 20:44

my python’s starting to look like sql

may want to lay off the list comprehensions a bit

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:04

who am i kidding

my list comprehensions aren’t looking like sql

they’re looking like perl but clumsy and without sigil roadmaps

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:16

@genehack I find list comprehensions (or a good map grep sort @_ dance) are the readable choice for simpler cases, or cases that can be abstracted sufficiently that they look simple to the uninformed observer.

But when it starts getting chunky, for loops may be a better option. As is questioning your life decisions in general.

I think I’m straddling that fence right now.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:18

@genehack (screenshot right while I was in the middle of a clarity edit, so there’s a dangling variable name in there)

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:35

@genehack gotta have the code where you let your hair down and do the things that you’d make a stern note about if you saw it in someone’s PR.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 21:39

@genehack oh and the extra hidden fun there is that’s pseudo-Hungarian. notes_path is a Path object and note_paths is a list of Path objects.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 22:15

@lmorchard I’ve had Steam open for a few days and haven’t managed any game more compelling than Simon’s Cat on the iPad.

OTOH I’ve been writing a lot of code, so maybe my brain just wants its entertainment elsewhere right now.

hackers.town: 2023-10-31 Tue 22:34

Bouncy Dog got game. The game is called Being Cute.

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