keepcarrot [she/her]

Humans like talking about themselves and relating their experiences to those they’re talking to.

I got a graphics card that somehow bricked hard drives. We went through a lot of hard drives before finding out this was the case. I don’t remember specifics

There is mushroom for research

Someone once paid me to poke them with a stick every time I caught them not doing their assignments. Offloading executive functioning onto someone else can work

Probably want it between the winter temperature and the current summer temperature, but genies are traditionally fickle and pounce on any ambiguity

“Completely different” when the two things are actually very similar

I wish I could be this confident about anything

Is linear algebra older than 0? Hang on (no, it is not, formalised in 17th century)

In my CS course, at least, it was treated as “engineering”, so we did both linear algebra and C programming. For everyone counting from 1 was more natural and the C method had to be taught a few times throughout the course (starting with java loops, which wasn’t used for malloc, OOP was probably the first unit anyone did for CS). As a habit it tended to stick even where we didn’t really use it (or in languages that don’t, e.g. lua), given how grueling C programming was and the other languages that were downstream of it.

I guess you could analogise things like saying “17th century” is 1600-1699 (first century is 0001 to 0099, I guess), in CS you are counting the very start of a thing (e.g. how many apple-widths to get to the first apple), vs the more common how many apples to have gotten the first apple. Or something, idk,

I’m drunk and avoiding housework, sorry

I’m not entirely sure what it means enough to give a summary.

The first usage that pops into my mind is when someone has said a silly joke regarding your situation and you want to acknowledge the joke but also move on quickly.

Second usage is someone has suggested something, you want to say you understand but you have a different opinion.

thonk

Is there a reason for the convention other than that’s how most people count? (Which is a perfectly fine reason, I’m just curious)

“Yeah nah” - Australian proverb

I’m old enough to remember reading about netiquette.

I can’t stop watching:

Tesla robot 2021 dance

I assume you allow everyone into your home, no questions asked? Maybe you do, but frankly most people at least vet their guests through a combination of social connections and history, and rarely is a place “entirely open” or “entirely closed”. Being excluded from a place because the gatekeepers of that place prefer the company of someone else who doesn’t like you is perfectly normal and ultimately they have to make a choice between you being at an event or their closer friend.

This isn’t to say I agree with every banning or exclusion, but it’s perfectly normal behaviour.

You are just a 5e hater.

Yes (though mostly a 3.5 hater, though hate is probably way too strong a word, more like a “I wish 80% of RPG players played something else”) (I haven’t played 5e, played a bunch of 4e)

Time to dust off my old timey prison outfit

I saw a numbat at the zoo. Very rare, almost extinct, pretty skittish so even if you do go to their exhibit they’re often hiding from everyone

Catfish

What, uh… what answers were you expecting in here, OP?

I remember my dad slapping me in the face for pronouncing “water” like an American. A bunch of odds and ends like that.

What did they say?