connor @notwa@cybre.space

#introductions hi, i'm connor.

i'm interested in #programming, #machinelearning #ai, #hacking, #reversing, learning and playing with math. i enjoy writing #cpp, #python, and #lua.

sometimes i hack #zelda games for the #n64, but more generally i follow wherever my interests take me. i tend to avoid big projects because of that. i ramble a lot about whatever i'm working on or learning about.

i've helped my sister raise a dozen pet #rats! i also love #tea, #cats, #anime, and #music.

ok, i'm going to make an effort to make a new† programming language because i'm finding the usual suspects to be lacking.

† more likely than not, something i've dabbled with previously, but never really sat down with

i have somehow never seen the uu format until today. i guess it really is old

"Tickle the RDRAM"

i could understand dropping it from the server-side but not supporting it on the client just seems like a bad idea

eh, i can't ssh into this device anymore. ssh complains about its supported methods for key exchanging.
don't tell me someone decided it wasn't secure and now i can't access this device through this method at all…

seeing random people on github with a thousand stars on their dotfiles just 'cause they wrote some blurb about it on another site is really silly

especially since my dreams aren't even pleasant the majority of the time…

i need to stop trying to investigate things within my dreams because it's all meaningless when i wake up. like it's not worth the mental exhaustion

toe's drumming style is so damn distinct

names are kinda inherently fake but there's still a thing in my head that tries to distinguish usernames from people names

tmw you think someone's username is a little play on words but it's actually their surname
(it's ok, my surname sounds fake as hell too)

this zelda stuff uses rtf files and i don't think i've used any rtf files since i used macs… i wonder if i would still find them useful

oh oops, the 21 i mentioned in the first post is assuming the dino spawned at level 150 (typically the max level)

so this also means ark dinos that spawn with a lot of bonus in one stat are probably suffering in at least one other instead of being objectively (im)perfect. also when you breed in ark, the offspring roll for their parent's stats for each stat and their level is determined from their sum instead of the other way around. idk if i'm crazy about the way either game handles it in the big picture but it's interesting to me.

you know pokemon have hidden IVs that give bonuses to their base stats? well ark has something similar with wild dinos except it gets exactly one of these points *for each level it spawned with.* the point is invested into one of seven stats chosen at random. but here's the thing; pokemon IVs are directly chosen uniformly from 0 to 31, whereas ark is more like a gaussian distrib centered around 21 per stat...

a simple way to go faster than light that does not work

i think a good first step would be to allow the compilation of simple single-files programs without requiring its own subdirectory and build tree and build script

i sorta wish rust wasn't so overkill for throwaway programs

"why don't you just use a linux distro where stuff actually works the way it's supposed to" idk stockholm syndrome i guess

MSYS2's iconv got downgraded to 1.xx at some point, for some reason, and i sorta wonder if this is related