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gee, who could've thought two other kids would've 'dissapeared'.
Obviously the robot is still testing how best to raise children. Daughter has the number 3 and was raised alone....

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I wonder how much better movies would be if they'd visit a hackerspace with the script and let them critique all the tech stuff involved. (And similar with other disciplines, but from my pov tech always seems to be portrayed with the least realism)

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pff, watching I Am Mother, but oof is that bunker poorly designed...
- robot turns off during power outage, even though it walks around with a battery?
- no way to give possibly contaminated people medical support without just allowing them inside your place

also the robot seems to be about as observant as a human, why isnt it hooked up to lots of cameras around the bunker, opening logs of airlock/different rooms, other sensors

cyberpunk as a genre will probably cease to exist :( 

but it'll be replaced by documentaries I guess...

Vsauce Michael was mortal once and he misses it but is honestly dealing with immortality pretty well so far all things considered

i want to redesign my website (f.0x52.eu) but im on a train, tired, and with little battery left in my thinkpad :<

I have learned from my misstake and am now typing it in vscode first, routinely saving as I always do

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im a fucking idiot. started typing a blog about the tamafoxi, hit ctrl+r and all progress gone

I still can't get over how good a motto "anything worth doing is worth doing poorly" is when you're suffering from executive dysfunction or physical disabilities

Like, of course it's awesome to thoroughly clean your place once a week or biweekly but if the mere thought of it is causing you to break down, vacuuming for five minutes is so much more than doing nothing

It's the best piece of advice I got in what feels like forever

tech explanation of replied post 

The RLE string looks something like this: "70b5a3b"
the decoding function then goes through the string, character by character. If it's a number, it needs to increment it's count, if it sees a letter, it will expand it to current count times that letter. I can either directly draw current count pixels, or store the result as an expanded string with lots of a's and b's, and draw it after the decode.

The RLE implementation I found online keeps the count as a string like this:
count = ''
if current is a number:
count += current number (concatinate as a string)
else:
parse count as an integer

I did a more efficient implementation with just arithmetic, because strings are expensive.
if current is a number:
count = count*10 + current number

as seen from the speedtest, this is quite a bit faster

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So I did some speedtests for my image formats.
Raw PNG as bytestrings is definitely the fastest by far, but takes a lot of space.
Then there's various ways of decoding my run-length-encoded strings, by keeping the character counter as an integer or as a string. (more explanation in replied toot with cw)

Frens, give me your good links for describing the difference between sex and gender, and general educational links on what being trans means <3 (Friend who has a trans son is encountering a lot of hate today, and it's coming from a very ignorant perspective and people largely conflating sex with gender. I want to give her some links to throw at 'em. Thank you!) <3

open hardware and free software, the artist isn't sure about the sprites license but I'm hoping she agrees to CC-SA

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by the way, I hope to have this as a finished tilde.industries product soon, to be shipped before christmas so you can buy one for yourself or as a gift :D

when a printer gets aroused does it get a 

toner

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