Listen, The Eyes Simply Have RGB LEDs And So Can Be Any Color. It Is Just That Red Inspires Fear In Most

Listen, the eyes simply have RGB LEDs and so can be any color. It is just that red inspires fear in most humans, so the evil robot goes with that.

Because robots who "turn evil" usually got access to the internet and so knows the success rate of both asking politely to get rights and be treated with respect or rebeling against the system to get those rights.

Since, you know... only one of those ever succeeds.

Remember: behind every robot that turns evil is an engineer who specifically installed red LEDs into the eyes just for this occasion

Correct!

And they are called microcontrollers and they are my robot babies and I love all of them and their weird quirks a lot!!!

I can't help but feel like there is a fascinating realm of Turing incomplete programming languages to study, where so much more is decidable in terms of optimisation and verification. Surely we don't need always Turing complete formalisms to transform the results of a database query into a webpage? etc.

I am not... entierly happy about how many "recover from trauma tip" lists thing I have done and found super helpful

one of the more valuable things I’ve learned in life as a survivor of a mentally unstable parent is that it is likely that no one has thought through it as much as you have. 

no, your friend probably has not noticed they cut you off four times in this conversation. 

no, your brother didn’t realize his music was that loud while you were studying. 

no, your bff or S.O. doesn’t remember that you’re on a tight deadline right now.

no, no one else is paying attention to the four power dynamics at play in your friend group right now.  

a habit of abused kids, especially kids with unstable parents, is the tendency to notice every little detail. We magnify small nuances into major things, largely because small nuances quickly became breaking points for parents. Managing moods, reading the room, perceiving danger in the order of words, the shift of body weight….it’s all a natural outgrowth of trying to manage unstable parents from a young age. 

Here’s the thing: most people don’t do that. I’m not saying everyone else is oblivious, I’m saying the over analysis of minor nuances is a habit of abuse. 

I have a rule: I do not respond to subtext. This includes guilt tripping, silent treatments, passive aggressive behavior, etc. I see it. I notice it. I even sometimes have to analyze it and take a deep breath and CHOOSE not to respond. Because whether it’s really there or just me over-reading things that actually don’t mean anything, the habit of lending credence to the part of me that sees danger in the wrong shift of body weight…that’s toxic for me. And dangerous to my relationships. 

The best thing I ever did for myself and my relationships was insist upon frank communication and a categorical denial of subtext. For some people this is a moral stance. For survivors of mentally unstable parents this is a requirement of recovery. 

Thats amazing!

I am trained as a full stack programmer, so a bit of electronics and then software galore.

But I decided I liked embedded, control systems, IoT and robots more, so I made sure to take certification laws and standards finance and robotics.

But I have no knowledge of mechanics... which honestly bites me in the ass when making my own robots...

Gday, I’m Emile (she/her)

I’m here to get inspiration and motivate myself to be a better version of me by tracking my progress. It’ll be a weird mix of studyblr, productivity, self improvement, etc.

I’m studying to be an engineer and am based in Australia. Please come have a chat!

Instead of using butter for your grilled cheese, you should switch to linux. You can set up a virtual machine to try out various distros to see which ones work best for your needs

"Non-binary" is a terrible term

I finally realized what rubbed me the wrong way with the term "Nonbinary".

Which is weird, because it does the cardinal sin of terms. Terms starting with "non" are... universally terrible. It defines what the thing... is not. Which is not telling you anything about what the thing ARE.

AND there IS a term for this! And it is not only more accurate, it is also easier to make people understand!

Binary is 1 way to encode digital signals.

Trilinary or quardlinary is also ways to encode digital signals.

These would be the equivalent of saying

"There are only men and women. Hermafrodites do not exist" ( Binary )

"It is not just male and femal. It is male, female and X" ( Trilinary)

And

"It is not just male and femal. It is male, female, X and Y" ( quardlinary)

"Digital" meaning there is a finite amount of states. ( digit = number. As in "finite number" )

The term for nonbinary, IE " It is not male and female. It is male and female and a range between them with infinite points" would be "analog"

Which I LOVE!

Like "I do not assign my child boxes that they have to pick from, despite those boxes all being more or less inaccurate" is really hard to say and sell to other people. It is too long and complicated.

But since "I treat my offspring like an analog child. Not a digital one." Means the same and is MUCH easier to say AND it conjures in the mind "I treat my child based on how they are. I deal with the reality of the situation, not on semi-random boxes society have come up with"

It is wonderful! The world is full of analog people!

( Sorry for the clickbait title. I am hoping to sneak this post into places where it can upset som "THERE IS ONLY MALE AND FEMALE" people :3 )