Lady @Lady@cat.family

if you are a writer who is puzzling over how to end your story, and your great idea is to have your protagonist have a life‐altering conversation which changes their perspective and resolves all the tensions currently present in the narrative

stop, please, and don’t

it does not work

@bx i think the difficulty is largely conceptual with the large number of terms of art in programming… for example with arrays, you have “push”, “pop”, “map”, etc which are all specific algorithms which won’t necessarily have an obvious translation in most languages… you can translate the words but it's not clear you mean the same thing

to someone who is making a new programming language, who is probably already familiar with the english words for those concepts, it is a lower conceptual barrier to just reuse the english names than to come up with a whole nother language for those kinds of operations (and expect people to learn it…)

and once they have committed to using english for those terms, using english for the rest of the standard library feels like the path of least resistance… i think this isn't necessary though; i think a good starting point might be a bilingual programming language which uses english for established algorithms but a different language for everything else

« As an example, if you have 1,000 motivated fans who would pay you $1,000 a year to purchase your music or your digital art, you’ve just earned a million dollars. » thanks but i don’t need NFTs to do that, i can just sell bath water

think i need to do better at remembering to tell the stories i actually want to tell

instead of getting sucked into bogs of shit i couldn’t care less about

or that i had more time

i wish writing didn't take so long

@alyssa europe is evidently currently experiencing a heat wave so lots of people on masto are making posts with advice to people unused to the heat

@alyssa i know there's more in the summer but europe has summer every year

my intuition is that it would be more important to tell europeans to wear sunscreen when they AREN'T in the middle of a heatwave because that's when they will be most likely to be outside at solar noon

does the temperature being higher actually increase the amount of UV radiation output by the sun or are people just conflating those two for some reason

kind of girl who spends the weekend fucking off and playing pokémon

this is not the last gasp of a dying party it is the culmination of 40 years of wins

trying to explain to people that no, just because we got gay marriage recently does not mean that the republicans were on a losing streak before trump

@KitRedgrave i am regrettably the dive deep type not the explore broadly type

@KitRedgrave considered, but every time i try i find myself turning the go stones into chess pawns mentally before the game is set

it's like showing someone a chessboard and being like “how do i proceed from here” and getting back “well generally when playing chess you want to balance pressuring your opponent and defending your king”

you don't have to tell me about splitting up action with context i have an entire aesthetic theory and annotation symbology honed precisely at solving this exact problem i promise i'm aware

help i asked for writing advice and everybody is replying like i've never written a story before

if only they had more courage, like the democrats