Between the sheer weirdness of racket and my Professor's supervillian-level assignments in it (he cackles, people), I do not know if I will survive this. We are currently assigned to create a sort program for lists in racket, but cannot use any existing sort or filter functions, set!, or mean.

So BNF/EBNF is some sort of what, punishment for liking to code? This is hell. HELL. (Also, this refers to the class Programming Languages, not fandom)

My infatuation with Racket is really being tested by anonymous functions aka lambda. I am just not seeing the point, especially when it takes more lines of code to use an anonymous function than just defining the goddamn thing. Also, it's making my code look ridiculous.

So I think I'm falling in love with Racket. It is so fucking weird and really desperately needs someone to document it better (or like, at all, would examples kill them?) but here we are. I'm doing homework two assignments ahead because it's fun for me to feel like I'm coding with dream-logic.

TIL: creating an agnostic singleboard computer rack server that can take any* sbc is so much more ridiculously hard than I assumed, and I assumed it would be super ridiculous. Unless you want a Pi 5 Only or a Pi 4B/3 Only or a Pi 5 and 4B; then you're good to go. I love Pi's but THEY ARE NOT ALONE

I am having some complicated feelings about Racket. Like, I may love it BUT WHY ARE THERE NO VARIABLES? NO DEFINE AND LET DO NOT COUNT. And. It. Is. So. Linear. It's like a Mom who won't let you multitask. FUCK MY LIFE LAMBDA IS BACK There's something about it, though.

@mostlybree.kitrocha.com In case you're curious, we're going to be studying Racket, among others. Why is this significant? 1.4 of the Racket Guide: A Note to Readers With Lisp/Schema Experience. I know this is your fault, but I don't know how yet. Twenty-five years is a long game, but this is you.

This concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.

Wise advice: if you are planning dental work, get a good size squishmallow. Your jaw will thank you sooooo much.

Truly, the internet is like an all-ages, all-gender dive bar bathroom 😌

Initial surgery for dental implants done, I survived, but apparently super stressed my surgeon and his people by waking up several times and then again at the end when they were sewing up things. Not fun. Now the six month clock of NO CHEWING has begun. Yay?

So for various reasons, after well over twenty years, I'm considering not buying a Dell for my next upgrade. This is at least partially due to browsing Framework and experiencing something like a revelation. See, a friend sent me the site about twoish years ago and I LOVED EVERYTHING.

I start my first ever upper level class in three weeks, and I just realized after skimming the book that it's the one where you learn a programming language every week and have to write a program in it (or so the exercises at the end of each chapter seem to imply).

tfw you win the preorder wars and get a switch 2.

Mitch…McConnell…went over to the Democrats to pass this. My bingo card has attained sentience and is curled in the corner, weeping.

Due to being reminded of my media server panel, I'm also now reminded I want to create media server software that is designed for vids. I am eh with UI but the backend I can do tho dear God the work.

Test driving Jellyfin (and Embry) to prep for my media server panel has had an unexpected side effect: I really really like it (jellyfin). Lets see what I can do with this.

Got me tearing up first thing in the morning.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

books

Finally sat down to watch Dune Part II and dear God I wish I'd read spoilers first on how much it gutted the novel. I had no idea.

Happy new year!!!

most of the internet has concluded "bless your heart" is only ever sarcastic, but in its native/originating dialect it could not function as a condemnation without the genuine, sincere usage being common; it's only acceptable to condemn w/ in the native dialect because it HAS plausible deniability.

Occasionally the Bad Place still produces something good

Debate: should I watch Agatha All Along for the tenth time or Wolverine and Deadpool for the eighth? God, this is hard.

And I can't build myself a throne of skulls if I'm not allowed to commit murder and/or grave robbing. We all live with disappointment, you aren't special

After three months of my netgear router refusing to onboard to Insight (it was on it for over a year but started getting wonky, and two factory resets later, it refused), I got an all-dev Zoom debug session. My name was on a Jira ticket, even. It was pretty much identical to being at work.

Fall Semester OS Security (All Labs, All the Time) is done, grade A. My only real complaints are a.) I'd have loved either five or so more labs or deep-diving two, and b.) the Linux ones were incredibly easy. Which makes me suspect I may know Linux better than I thought.

It's one week until the end of the semester and time to procrastinate before tomorrow I work on studying for the stats final and finish my final project (group, thank God). I am rewatching Agatha All Along because that's what you do when you're stressed and feeling antisocial.

The Bear Conundrum (A Christmas Bear (and Assorted Christmas Mammal) Collective History) Part 1 It began with one bear: a gift from hwmitzy around 2003. He is The First Bear.

Unpacked the Christmas Bear (and Assorted Mammals) Collection for the first time since 2018. And..it's really a lot of bears (and assorted mammals). As in, we are at 95 Christmas Bears (and Assorted Mammals) and currently they are overrunning my living room and watching me.

Puppy love.

Just mainlined all the Deadpool movies and...what the fuck was that last one? WHY WAS IT SO GOOD? IT HAD NO RIGHT TO DO THAT. Do I have brain damage? I'm okay with that. Just...I did not expect to feel like I just speedballed my night way while trying to count severed Deadpool limbs. Many, btw.

Five weeks on Vyvanse (after sixteen years on Methylphenidate)...okay, I don't hate it. After a month on the 50 mg, last week my doctor moved me up to 70 mg, and okay, this could really work. It's much, much smoother than my old one; I don't go from zero to hyperfocus in less than an hour.

TFW in OS Security Class you download Microsoft Security Compliance Kit for the Windows Server/Windows 10 part of the lab and there's a spreadsheet with ALL THE SETTINGS and ALL THE REGKEYS and ALL THE DESCRIPTIONS and you start crying because WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

Maybe we were too hard on JJ Abrams for "Somehow Palpatine returned."

His Wee Highness is horribly neglected. Pictured: tragic victim of lack of pets due to human doing stupid homework.

It came across my dash just now. I know the law... :). www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

Why is Resident Alien so addicting?

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His Fierce Smallness wishes all to know he is horrifically neglected as he is not constantly being pet. Tragic

His highness Charleston would like everyone to know he is innocent of all charges.

Evil puppy holding me hostage. Send chicken flavored treats.

While in mid re-reading of Heyer's The Talisman Ring: I have got to do a top ten of hilarious Heyer scenes and/or plot lines on day.

That debate was like listening to a lawyer argue with an AI bot whose language dataset came exclusively from Creepypasta forums and 4Chan

Maybe the real plans were the concepts we made along the way..,

many are saying the moderators were biased against trump, with their insistence on turning on his microphone and letting him talk

i am not subscribing to my fuckin car to get map directions lol