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not a poster, i just play one on the internet irb(me):420> inspect - queer of gender (they/zir/she) - 🏳️‍⚧️🐣 2025-04-25 ♀️💉 2025-06-23 - bisexual? idrk - autistically into software/interfaces/language/radio - 240,000hrs of uptime 18+ please
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in addition to shrimps is bugs, humans is bugs
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Arthritis®, #1 in joint pain!
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do you know how much pain i’d have been spared if someone was like “hey have you considered you’re an trans enby? you don’t have to be hyper femme, you can be a masc dyke!” so much pain
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im holding out hope its "just life" *simpson pointing to bart* so far, and I'll be like 60 or something and 👁️know
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im cooked then
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this thread reminds me specifically of the question i posed at the end of this post, lol
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at least im on the part of the timeline dictated by biology and not my own desicionmaking and im just alllloooooong for the ride again :)
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i've been in waiting mode for like a decade a least, hey what's a few more months
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alt: "c'mon, do something" says skinny dude poking nothing with a stick
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we do a little phase shifting :)
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$ head -c1 /dev/random
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two more for the blocklist imho. doing a "what do we hate about ourselves" thread never goes well and invites the worst kind of discussion
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Circuit: 80% loaded, no bubbly, no fun, but more safe i suppose
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why u bully (/lh)
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im fiiine, im extremely normal about electricity
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the sigh of relief i breathe when my neighbor's AC finishes its job 😌
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"sir, a second cat has hit the thread"
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i stand down, a like has been distributed, i yield
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im not dignifying this objective falsehood with a like :D
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🚫 me wanting to own a cat for companionship and recreation 🧠 me wanting to own a cat for internet clout reasons
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oh sorry im dum dum found it
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did i miss a post from you with your cat??
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ah I am forgetting about inline editor errors 😅, im showing how specced in I am to "well just run it and see"
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re: metaprogramming/dynamicsm benefits, for this I'd say the benefit is pretty indirect. it means that a savvy gem developers can implement an API that has this almost-reads-like-english quality to it, that less dynamic languages would unintentionally roadblock
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this is like rule 1 of the internet i think
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very frequently I am doing "crunch this messy data into a clean data structure" or "generate algorithmically a pattern from seed data" or combinations of this, which plays to ruby's strengths (heavily inspired by perl). some SE is well suited to this data-in/data-out style, others not so much
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also, if your problem would allow you to do something like `rustc 'foo.rs' && ./foo` in order to test, then the distinction between compile time and runtime failures dissappears. I find myself coding this way anyways, but this could very well be style specific or even domain specific
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(hopefully i'm not evangelizing too much) my typical workflow with ruby using `irb` to noodle on an idea, so I get immediate feedback, then apply that research to an .rb script. Then when editing an .rb script I add some code at the end to call method(s) i'm working on to get feedback there