About Casting, at least in the granddaddy of programming languages, C, just meant interpreting the value of a variable as if it was a different kind of variable. Important detail is that variables are actually just memory locations and the number of bytes that conform it. So if you have a variable x of type string that holds the letter A, and a variable y also of type string with the letter B, if you do

x+y

You get 'AB'. But if you cast the variables like this:

(int)x + (int)y

You get 131

To put it in words as you asked, you are saying "please add the values located at memory locations x and y, but treat the values found there as if they were numbers, and not the ASCII codes for letters (which is what I had originally told you was there)".

It's been almost 30 years since the last time I actually used this, so I might be recalling something wrong.

You're not alone.

No I think they've grasped that part pretty easily

We didn't. What could go wrong if we fail? Nothing? Cool. See you at the finish.

We could die? CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, BITCHES!!

Maybe you care too much about your own life. Try having no will to live.

I am joking. Mostly.

hmm, I have the same thing. But I do test a LOT and make backups on backups, tbh. Most of my time probably goes into that.

I'm autistic, a ton of things.

While I've become quite good at making friends, I am catastrophically bad at romance.

I've achieved one night stands here and there but whenever I get really into someone I end up acting like a nutcase due to anxiety/catastrophizing and I badly fumble. It feels like I can get someone hot that I don't relate too or a fem friend that I'm not attracted to and that's it and its agony.

I get that people remember stories and I don't. I have them in my short them "work memory" and others have them bleed to long term memory. That's great! When my 'cache clears' in a few months or years I don't feel sad I just feel.. enriched?

I no longer consider myself to be adept to judge stories. It's just like music. Others might feel strongly about some style but their likes are not yours and might be completely wrong.

This is not to patronize but to recognize your weakness and enjoy entertainment around it. I'm not a native speaker so I have hard time to convey my point but this is a skill to learn not a hardship to bang your head against. All the best :)

You should look into studying mathematics from a proofs point of view.

I do wonder if theres some sort of presentation bias or something. Ive only seen 2 homes that are worse than mine in my whole life, but I'm not sure people with unkept houses are big on having visitors.

It’s more 123 vs 123-456. In 3/4 the first of each triple is rhythmically always as strong, while in 6/8 the 1 is stronger than 4

Slippery/sliding/rolling things underfoot.

I wanted to learn how to skateboard when I was a kid. I tried for several weeks, with a friend trying to teach me. I got tired of hurting myself, and gave up.

I know people don't "grasp it easily", but most people eventually get the hang of it, and it doesn't seem to take them long.

Over the years I've tried roller skates, ice skates, and skiing. And, failed at all of them.

Swimming.

Swimming two lengths of the pool was a requirement for graduating high school. They got me a college student tutor. I tried and tried and never got good enough to pass. They let me slide, I suppose because they could see I was trying.

Sportzing generally has never been my thing. I learned to ride a bicycle without a problem, and I can throw and catch a frisbee. That's about it.

I'm convinced my legs are made of lead at this point.

You may note that I did mention that I have my mise en place before I start cooking. My struggle is entirely in your Step 1: Read the recipe. Making the recipe I can do, I cook and bake every day. Reading it is the struggle.

My ideal cookbook would look like python documentation: "This function step has these inputs and these outputs. Here is the typical use case."

Complex boss fights in video games. Multiple stages with precisely timed keypresses, being able to track multiple things simultaneously while also dealing with random changes, being able to do quick gear changes, etc. I don't know how the hell people do it.

For me, that kind of thing simply isn't fun and therefore isn't worth the effort.

Prosopagnosia?

Have you tried taking a dance class? I recently started one for the first time, it's nice. You'll be in a room full of people who also can't dance, which helped me a lot with my fear of dancing (poorly) in front of people.

Correct.

I mean...they do that already?

Every recipe I've seen will either be written "in a large bowl mix flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder." Meaning all of the ingredients you've portioned out. If the recipe calls for the same ingredient in more than one step, it will say so. "Mix 2 cups of flour, salt, baking soda and baking powder in a large bowl." Then it'll specify "add remaining flour" or "add 1 cup flour" in some later step. Some might also mention that in the ingredients list, like "1 1/3 cup sliced strawberries, 2/3 cup for cake, 2/3 cup for topping."

I just wish 99% of the web page around the recipe would fuck off. I want a ONE SENTENCE description of the dish as it might appear on a restaurant menu, the time to prep and cook, the yield/portion size, the parts list and procedure. I don't want a fake story of someone's travels or family life, I don't want a geography lecture, and if you're going to write a long form essay on the process a la the script for an episode of a cooking show, put that AFTER the recipe itself, not before. Let me see the damn parts list in the top mile or so of the page.

Personal space

Empathy

A sense of community

This is something I've noticed recently which is that a lot of piano pieces are metrically ambiguous because there is no rhythm instrument to anchor the downbeats. There are some songs which I interpret in a different time signature than the author and I don't think you should give the author's vision too much credence in this sense.

AHA.

Meaning, of course, Ad Hoc Abbreviations.

I've only learned to drive fairly recently so I still remember getting to the point where I'm sort of comfortable with manual shifting. There's two ways of doing it (that I know of). The simple way: Put it in first gear, then very slowly let the clutch go, don't touch any other pedal. You'll find some point where it engages and the car starts creeping forward. A bit further an you're out of the danger zone and can drive normally. Took me a bunch of tries but I'm reasonably fast with it now without fear of stalling the engine.

The other one is mostly the same idea, but you start accelerating pretty much right when it's engaging, without really waiting for creep happening. I've actually found that easier on some cars, but it's also a great way of creating interesting noises.

Mainly, having a sense of purpose.

Wait, so then what’s the difference between a bar and measure?!

I think I get it, so a whole note is 8 beats and there’s 6 to a measure, so the whole note carries on for two beats into the next measure, ya?

If its all a fake performance, perform the show well and find yourself in a better position to help more people do the same.

Yes, pretty much.

If a note is a letter and a measure is a word, then a bar is like a sentence. Typically 4 or more measures make up a bar, and they sometimes span more than one line. When you see a measure that ends with two vertical lines, that's the end of a bar.

This is car dependent, in my sisters fit the number was 2000, in my brz its like 1100 max. The no gas (on a flat surface) method generally just works

I have it the other way around. I recognize the fuck out of people and can never remember their names. I can be like "Oh yeah, that's the dude that so-and-so introduced me to at that BBQ in the park 10 years ago. It was cold that day for fall, he said he was good at the piano. His name? No fucking idea"

Like I can remember so many details about so many things. Names? In one ear and out the other. You could shake my hand and tell me your name and I wouldn't remember it after a 3 minute conversation. But I could repeat everything else about the conversation directly back to you.

Functional programming.

How the actual fuck? (gestures vaguely)

Sarcasm.

If I'm being honest, I definitely sleep better with the CPAP. But that mask is so fucking annoying I've given up on it. Blasts of air in my eyes at 2 am or waking up with the salty bottom of the mask in my mouth... I just couldn't do it anymore.

One time I told my friend who teaches macro economics that I found a math thing difficult. He answered "I also find math hard, especially when they mix numbers into it." and I had one of those "we are not the same"-moments.

sounds like RS bosses , its needless complicated for such a simply made game.

i think the problem is people ,when younger dont get much opportunity to learn how to swim, if you dont have access to a public or private pool often. im the same, but at the time they were letting people slide to graduation wihtout swimming, if you do an alternative.

some people are more intuitive than others at learning things. others have to take repeated pratices to make it work. im the latter.

i had pollinopsia for a short time in low light conditions, by an unknown cause. which also caued by RLS, and peripheral neuropathy. conveninetly happen after just one diphenhydramine pill.

A 3-way light switch circuit.

I'm curious if it's the whole shebang or there are some aspects you do okay with. Immutability, higher-order functions, partial application, recursion, closures, pattern matching, tacitness, etc. I can also recommend not starting with Haskell. It's a bit much.

The people who shop look like zombies and young families cannot afford to be paying the massive retail markups in malls. These people are all racking up credit card debts over a transient endorphin rush.

Meaning all of the ingredients you've portioned out.

That's fine for cooking, where I'll have it all in front of me, but doesn't help with reading. I just can't visualize it, or maybe I just can't remember it.

a geography lecture... long form essay on the process

See, that actually IS helpful to me, and probably why I prefer certain recipe websites to cookbooks.

Ah, that makes more sense. I have that problem too. I started trying to act like people renowned for their kindness, like Mr. Rogers, for example.

He says positive affirmations (wow, you're really smart), is patient when the other person is talking, gives them room to express their thoughts and feelings, asks them questions about themselves, and, most importantly, acknowledges that their feelings are real and difficult for them. I "practice" that with kids: "The dark must be very scary for you; that scrape must really hurt," usually followed by a hug if appropriate.

You're just agreeing with them about how they feel, and that lets them know that their feelings count, that their feelings matter to another human, and that mattering to other humans is what everyone needs to feel safe.

Also, never give advice until someone asks for it.
Never give an answer to questions no one asked.
"Smart man knows what the right thing to say is, wise man knows when not to say it"

Kindness is a muscle, and yours (ours) is weak. Exercise it to make it stronger. It will take time and practice. We got this.

Ding! You guessed right! :D

It's nearly impossible to stall a diesel engine with all the low end torque, I usually recommend people start there instead of with some weak four cylinder gas job.

I would have no friends if those were the only kind of people I could find to talk to.

Possibly related question: Are you one of those folks without a mind's eye? What's the space catholic term for it? aphantasia?

I actually spent some time thinking about this. I guess it's because I was a developer for 17 years before I ever heard about lambda calculus or functional programming, and it was really difficult for me to wrap my brain around it.

I like immutability, and discriminated unions, and I can handle monads, but a lot of the rest of it gets too far into the weeds for me. Writing a function that is just a single return statement that chains together a bunch of map and reduce calls just doesn't click for me.

"If it compiles, it works." Yeah, I've never found that to be true. And don't get me started on how you can't debug chained calls when something inevitably goes sideways.

Once I heard someone say "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors" I was officially out. No thanks. Not for me.