I wasn’t expecting to be sad in this thread but there it is. “I am the very model of a scientist Salarian…”

I’ve definitely caught myself writing cumTotal += value; in my code before.

Back in August '22, I weighed about 270 lbs @ 6’0 (122.5 kg, 183 cm). I realized this was dangerously unhealthy so I asked my doctor if there was any drug options for helping me change habits. As my insurance didn’t cover weight loss, the doc opted for Phentermine. It drastically cut my food cravings and with exercise I’ve been losing weight steadily since. Down to 215 lbs now and the physical benefits are great: no more constant GIRD, can bend over without discomfort, etc.

It is funny though, just finally barely breaking the obese barrier (30 bmi) and people say “and you still want to lose more weight??” My goal is 180.

Edit: As an aside, how fucked is it that insurance companies don’t cover weight loss; wouldn’t covering it reduce their costs over time?

Starsector is amazing, even though buying it on the website made me wonder if the storefront was made in the 90s.

It is - without the quiet zone, it makes detecting the locator pattern really difficult, especially in one’s looking for the 1:1:3:1:1 ratio.

Coincidentally, I do work on embedded devices, but as mentioned by ferret, most embedded stuff nowadays is (I think?) an Arm variant. Most all of the device code I write is C++ though; no need to get into assembly land unless clang screws something up, but that hasn’t happened yet thankfully. That said, in the future, this may change as we optimize certain imaging algorithms further.

Proficient: Rust, C++, Python, x86-64 ASM, SSE1 SIMD, C#, C, Javascript / Node.JS
Can get by: Java / JNI, Kotlin, Bash
Been a while: Perl, Haskell, Prolog, Labview, Lisp

An absolute classic that I watch every single time. Kamelåså!

You’ve just made an enemy for life!