@rydwolf somewhat related to the above, I just noticed one of my friends (whose pronouns I don't actually remember) put a GUID in the pronouns field of their Discord profile
> actually back when it got introduced i was trying to see if it had a length limit and just never changed since then
Lmao you know how instagram recommends you posts people you follow have liked? Yeah well it just recommended me a heatmap of compound curse words and the person who'd liked it was my teacher from last year lmao
Some of the combinations have been used zero times...I wonder if someone's beat me to the punch, or if I can still be the first person to call someone a "trumpnozzle"
@cairdcoinheringaahing So, update and feedback of what happened after giving a presentation on Code Golf to my friends:
There was an excellent moment in the presentation where, after presenting examples of Python/Haskell/Perl/etc. golfs, my next slide switched to "So we made golfing languages", and an actual groan of pain was emitted by one of my compsci friends
I went into a big tangent trying to explain Vyxal's fractional byte FizzBuzz, resulting in me never actually explaining how the program actually did FizzBuzz
I have converted 8 of my friends to now say it as "Vicks-all", not "Vike-sal"
I had to explain Game of Life, so that I could then explain the clock in GoL, so that I could then explain Tetris in GoL
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It's hard to miss these days - the Code of Conduct is about to change. It will emphasize the importance of using the correct pronoun when referring to a user in third person. This most often comes up in chat, and some users already have information about which...
I'm comfortable with any of they, he or she pronouns, but prefer them in that order (i.e. I prefer they more than he more than she). On the other hand, I'm not comfortable with neo-pronouns (things they ze or xe), so I list all those I'm comfortable with
The number of unlabeled rooted trees with n nodes is a fundamental sequence in graph theory and in discrete mathematics in general.
Some authors call these trees 'Polya trees'. The number of these trees is one of the 'core' sequences in the OEIS A000081.
A natural refinement of the enumeration as...
@Bbrk24 With the closest thing I have to an IRL friend group, I'm literally the only active member on the Discord server who has non-joke pronouns set and it drives me nuts 😭
Okay actually looking closer, one of them does have theirs just sitting in their bio instead of the actual designated pronoun field
But another one of them, who I at least used to be closest with, has hers set to "bird/up" after formerly using "nor/mal" 💀
AND SHE'S LITERALLY TRANS
And I knew her long before she started transitioning in any capacity, and she never explicitly came out to me or the group as a whole about anything or used anything available to her (like the damn pronoun field) to broadcast anything we might want to reference about her, so for a while it was just this incredibly frustrating game of guesswork where I had to mostly infer things from what her best friend would say and even he barely knew what was going on
I still don't 100% know if she's even comfortable being she/her'd 100% of the time and I have no idea how she actually describes her gender identity
All I know is I've heard everyone else she/her her without complaints, she has changed her name, she's invested to some extent in some trans issues and has been as long as I've known her, and the last time I saw her she had very full breasts
Ironic I feel so in the dark with her when she'd always be the one trying to start serious conversations... and I guess maybe it's kinda the group as a whole that's at fault, since there's very much a culture of pervasive irony, and it's not like I ever felt up to really participating in those...
Everything's just broken there and at this point I just lurk to get invited to a handful of get togethers per year and try to help the guy I'm closest with now with his depression/burnout
CMQ**/**CMP: I'm once again redoing the vyxal codepage (it's like a hobby at this point) and I'd like a codepage vibe check. Basically, does everything render properly (does it look like every row has 16 symbols) and are there any duplicated symbols?
@RubenVerg It's nice to be able to write out code directly into chat or GitHub or a CGCC comment or whatever
And basing the keyboard layout on external constraints forces you to be creative and limits overthinking. Plus, the INTL keyboard layout is standard enough that any characters in it are likely to have good font support
You're also just lucky to have an IRL friend group in the first place
I haven't even considered coming out to them because even though I know they'll be more or less accepting I also know they're going to be weird about it
Like at best I feel like I'd lose my pass to not engage these issues the Exact Same Way that they do
@rydwolf Bookmarklets are nice for this but also painful on mobile and somewhat failure-prone
@rydwolf ...but also Windows doesn't have an INTL layout that actually works for most Jelly characters anyways
One issue with the class is I don't think anyone knows how much experience anyone else in there has with this stuff, so he'll ask a question and everyone will be silent, and I can't tell if it's because it's actually hard for them, or if we all agree it's so easy we don't want to seem like a teacher's pet
Like I always assume it's the latter but then the other day it took like 10m for anyone to notice an obvious cache timing attack
I was chatting with another student before class the other day and mentioned I'm a first-year, and she assumed I meant first year of a master's program
...is anything where a memory address itself encodes secret information (beyond the size of a single cache line) vulnerable to a cache timing attack? Wow
I think I'm going to start just sitting in on one advanced CS/cybersec course every semester. I'd already been planning on doing it next semester with the complexity theory course, and this cybersec one is showing me that it's actually viable to do so
It took me weeks of planning 4-year-plans to even realize we had any infosec
I was like "this seems like a rather glaring omission"
apparently most of it falls under the Heinz (yes, that heinz) College of Information Systems, which falls under the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. So yeah, no wonder I didn't find it lmao
And most of the rest falls under CyLab and S3D which I think do graduate stuff mainly since I've never heard of them
@rydwolf Actually come to think of it I have talked to people before class a few times, so I guess I read "chatting" as implying an actual conversation somehow
And year has come up every single time
I guess it's reasonably unlikely that anyone would ever call me out on it if I just lie about being a senior as a fifth-year next year...?
But it also seems like those talks only happen in like the first week or so so I could just skip the first week of lectures entirely for any class where the room is too crowded to avoid people
I'm sure it happens but I don't think it's actually that big of a thing, maybe since so many of the STEM programs are structured so that you can't do them in 6 semesters 'cause of prereqs, and art people don't strike me as the graduate-early type
@UnrelatedString from what I could understand it's like not even fucking financial aid it's just a job they're allowed to pay you less than minimum wage for
@Bbrk24 I'm guessing it's mostly a distinction of how integrated it is into the university? I know mine has some kind of "experiential education" requirement for some majors somehow but most people mostly do internships over the summer that aren't through the university
turns out "subsidized" just means like "we pay the interest while you're in college" which is like what $20, given how little they'll actually lend you
And have had them for like a week but not moved forward with it yet because I need to sit down and re-do my entire FAFSA with updated information from my mom and stepdad
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