Sherclod Holmes @wallhackio@cat.family

I do find fad-chasing in programming languages annoying but I will admit that Java's Stream API is actually pretty good for what it is

It's certainly a lot better than the nightmare that is C++ lambdas

@aescling I found the Super Bunnyhop video funny because one of my first reactions in my first two hours of playing Outer Wilds was "omg the physics are actually kinda realistic what a spectacular demonstration of planetary physics the people who made this clearly understand and love physics" and I was just geeking out about it the whole time

@The_T @aescling interpreting quantum mechanics as unseeded randomness of the universe is a funny interpretation of things

@prplecake I have been cooking with chickpeas more often lately and would very much like know about this "deviled chickpea bite" recipe 🥺

@lapis sounds like something that would be in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-ZYBv3qzN8

@lapis sorry to hear about your headache. i just finished my second cup and coffee and am now working on a web page that will allow people to generate my stardew math plots

here is a sneak preview of what it looks like so far:

@lapis good morning lapis from six hours ago

@The_T @aescling This is a difficult thing to explain in plain English. I will try my best. In Quantum Mechanics, the mathematical description of things is fundamentally probabilistic. Like, you might have a situation where a particle has a 50% of behaving one way, a 25% chance of behaving another way, and 25% of behaving in some third way.

Which way the particle behaves is determined when you observe the particle.

So interesting things can happen when you mathematically model two particles, which we will call particle A and particle B. Suppose that they each will blast off in one of two directions, and each particle must blast off in opposite directions to conserve momentum.

Well, when you mathematically model particle A, you might find that it has a 50% chance of moving left and a 50% chance of moving right. Since momentum must be conserved we would also say that particle B has a 50% chance of moving left and a 50% chance of moving right.

But when you actually observe particle A in reality, only one of its two possibilities occurred. And once you observe A, you know exactly how B must have moved because of the conservation of momentum. We describe particles which behave this way as being "entangled."

@aescling Super Bunnyhop released a video about how Outer Wilds could be used as an educational tool about planetary physics (which is correct)

So I made a comment to the video pointing out that the concept of "Quantum Entanglement" as described in the game is completely different from the actual physical phenomenon of the same name. I felt this was important because if we were going to have people thinking Outer Wilds could be used to demonstrate physics, we should also have people be aware of what it gets "wrong".

And the lead dev of the game responded to my comment basically saying "yeah you're right, my bad"

the current highlight of my life is when one of the Outer Wilds devs responded to one of my youtube comments

@murz oh I was interested in trying your game you mentioned the other day

apparently it is objectively less optimal to play stardew valley on a touchscreen lol

@coriander there is also a breeding mechanic and with excessive, laborious grinding you can create extremely rare white slimes which drop diamonds 100% of the time when killed

@coriander okay I looked it up. once you start a slime ranch slimes in your ranch will drop slime every day. that slime can be given to some craftable item which creates "slime eggs" that sell for genuinely great profit

for all my hater energy i direct onto c++ i will make one concession, which is that RAII is Good, Actually and it is a shame that other languages don't steal it

@coriander apparently its quite profitable if you know what you are doing but i am Unaware of how to slime

@vaporeon_ @aescling english, like C++, is a nonsense language invented by hacks

@vaporeon_ @aescling yes

@vaporeon_ @aescling "function" is slang for any social gathering.

cat wrote "a pier" which sounds she commanded you to "appear"

so i made a pun where it sounds like i say the word "appear" to materialize at any social gathering, like im a wizard casting a spell

@aescling @vaporeon_ me when i appear at the function