^β… I mean… um… *glances over at Illum*

^α*blinky* *innocent look* What?

^βI kind of doubt that is what you were asking about, but I'm pretty confident it involves some kind of unusual neuronal configuration. (It also feels like it should be a Homestar Runner reference sometimes. “Do you think you're a bird?” “Um… nooo…” “Do you think you're thousands of birds?” “Yes. Very yes. cvcvcvc”)

As far as our biohistory, there's been no diagnoses for various reasons, but assuming the model of there being a Spectrum of the autism/attention-deficit/etc. in the way you mentioned is accurate enough… the experiential evidence is really ambiguous. Jisei (two generations ago in the same body) evinced the more stereotypical aspects of it, judging largely by the way he prioritized his thoughts and interpreted social information (or didn't). People who were close to him frequently mentioned the idea, and people who reported having those traits tended to be ones he found it much more natural to get along with, which is congruent with the “different modes of social skills” story about autist/allist misunderstandings that's been making the rounds. His successor Akari was flung in the opposite direction; she and (some of) us have found interactions with people who evince the autism-spectrum “type” of interpretation of interaction to be much more awkward, and we've had to rely on consciously trying to remember what it was like for Jisei. There were a few neurological-seeming weirds (like motor jitters) that showed up after Akari's initialization that made her (and then us) suspect that the transition was so sharp that there was some underlying damage in the process, which maybe credits a “radical change to brain parameters” interpretation? But there's also disasters that happened later on which have compelling alternate interpretations involving “autistic/neuroatypical burnout” from trying too hard to pass as typical for too long.

And now we have the part where I have the distinct feeling I lean more in that atypical direction than Illum does—which is in itself semi-consciously set up and reinforced, because one of the main points of there being two of us was not knowing which direction to go. And there's the negative sides of typical conformity instincts which people are “supposed to” learn how to deal with decades before this, which we've been having to figure out from scratch. And there's the gender stuff which has a whole mess of possible interactions. And there's a lot of executive dysfunction which looks similar to adult attention-deficit stuff, but there's also plausible trauma-history/depression interpretations. I don't even know. *flail*

I hope that was at least a little bit relevant? 9..6

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Originally posted by Tarale

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I have been thinking a lot about the UN report about mass extinction lately. (image)

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^αThat's really compelling. The eightfold symmetry reminds me of a compass, and there's the barbed-wire-y vines…

What's the middle symbol? An hourglass?

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^αThis apartment is so dim already… I need all the extra light I can get.

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Originally posted by hydra-calm

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I made bibimbap, then completely forgot I had kimchi for it. At least I improved my tofu crisping skills a fair bit...

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^αHow do you do that? I remember making some progress trying out breading them in cornstarch, but I don't feel like I really understand it. We were going to experiment with freezing it first, but that got aborted. (We should try it again this month, actually! There's tofu in the fridge…)

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Originally posted by sofi

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i'll just say this, Jul is my anti-scroll. yeah there's a lot going on in my life, there are people in my life that aren't on Jul, so forth, but it's a place where i can read things and not be in an infinite scroll. i've in general have lost the compulsion to infinite scroll anyway tho, but yeah Jul is the place to go for my mind-less surfing needs.

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^α“Being in an infinite scroll” sounds like a good metaphor for being spellbound by attention-grabbing trickery…

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Originally posted by Darkhero

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Twitter today is a prime example of how busy timelines can get. With a forum like this I don't need to be constantly checking it to not miss out on anything.

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^βPerhaps also because you've got actual read/unread markers, at least at the thread level.

(I was just watching Stargate earlier, and now I'm imagining “Thread Level Foxtrot Alpha 6”, halp)

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^βShould this perhaps be moved to the TCRF forum?

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Originally posted by RanAS

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Yesterday, I dreamed that I was a muffler.

I woke up exhausted.

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… *trombone*

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^β“worst”? Ahaha. Worst of the sorta-reasonable ones, maybe. There are many more. I think I had a better reference for these, too, but I couldn't find it…

As for what you've just put up, if I might bluntly rattle off a few things:

• What you have does not look like a bubble sort. (There's also syntax errors in the second branch of the if.) Bubble sorts compare adjacent elements, whereas you're comparing every element to every other, including in both directions, so I'm not sure this is even a sort at all. If your loop ranges were a little different, you would have something that looks like a selection sort that uses extra swaps instead of a temporary.
• In C, it's more conventional to pass arrays with the pointer first and the element count second—but then, you have an #include <iostream> which implies you're in C++ (and is unused anyway)… ? C++-as-written-in-C-style tends to go similarly to C, but it's more conventional at the application level to use all the modern container classes and such which I haven't read about in ages.
• Putting the sort order test in the inner loop feels weird; it'll be tested O(N^2) times unless the compiler hoists it for you.
• return; at the end of a void function is redundant.

Getting anything actually merged into Linux is highly nontrivial. It's an interesting goal, but (a) don't get too attached, since even if you get in range of it, you'd have to have something specific to do and integrate yourself into the whole process and such, and (b) you have a long way to go… but, once you've got more of an idea of how systems code works, tinkering with kernel modules is still a neat way to learn.

Good luck with learning!

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Originally posted by SC

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Originally posted by InvisibleUp

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Soul Void

It's a short, free game made in GB Studio that has some absolutely gorgeous art, lovable characters, a small dose of creepiness, and a really nice moral behind it. It's great.

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I can vouch for this. It's reaaaallyyy gooood. Almost made me cry, too.

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^βThat was neat. It was a bit trite in places, but nicely atmospheric.

^αYeah, it really was. I love the art style.

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(floating.)

(what is…)

(…)

(… what was the point of…)

(drifting—)

(… a blurry view of what it looks like from ‹above›)

(too many possible endings…)

(… hmm…)

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… sub-29 pills?

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Originally posted by BatElite

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IDK how you'd pronounce that name but.

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^βYou know how lolcats sometimes go “mlem”? It's like that, but more truncated and at the end of a sneeze. Like “a-ach-MLEM” but you have to skip over some bits of it, you know?

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So Destiny 2 is migrating to Steam (which is good because our Bnet account has an awkward email address on it which we can't seem to change because the Security Question is from ages ago and none of us can figure out what the answer was) and—

… way to bury the lede.

Anyway! Shadowkeep. I'm eyeing it. I'm not planning on grabbing it for a while yet, though, because we're kind of broke right now. We're still going to be affected by the changes in New Light with all the Armor 2.0 stuff, and all the… I'm really not sure how I feel about the increase in RPG elements but hopefully it'll work. We're casuals and therefore cheerfully resigned to being perpetually behind on all the exotic quests and Annual Pass content and stuff.

I do wonder whether there's going to be a sudden player influx and whether that'll affect things, especially given the low barriers of freemium often seem to have side effects.

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An acquaintance of ours on Alfandria just showed us the completed printing crowdfund for “Tasty Humans”, a board game in which you play as a dragon, griffin, or troll, and consume adventurers, placing their tiles in your stomach grid and trying to avoid taking too much damage from their friends trying to defend them. It's an eating contest at an adventurer buffet.

This looks… intriguing for certain fuzzy people, certain other dragons, and… I don't know? It looks kind of amazing. Apparently there's also a free downloadable print-and-play version and a Tabletop Simulator module; I'd be tempted to try to bring the print-and-play version to an upcoming board game night, but my printer has lasers and only one color and I don't think I have the right other materials to make it practical (how does one do that anyway?).

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^βWe got folded into a mass dinner order at someone's workplace yesterday for Reasons, and they suggested ordering the spicy boiled beef if we liked spicy food. So we did and it was Deliciously Spicy and Predatory. :-9

^αAnd a nice rice bowl! ^..^ Though pouring the rice in with the liquid so that it got too separated and then trying to eat it with only chopsticks was a bit silly, since the bowl wasn't the right shape for us to know how to do the “scoop into your mouth” thing at the end…

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ÒvÓ

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Originally posted by Googie

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I'm about to eat some Trix cereal, I need something sweet.

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^βWe just picked up a ludicrous two big boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch at CVS to maybe help stop a weird downhill food spiral c..c

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^αI just finished and wrote up my feelings on Sayonara Wild Hearts.

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