Small blog of different stuff

Posted by death on Sept. 23, 2012, 9:09 p.m.

Going to split this into different paragraphs as i've got a few things from different topics to say.

Programming:

F*** yeah! I got a 93 on my C programming test. It's the first test in my programming course on C (or Xcode for Mac). So it was pretty easy but still. man it's surprising how all the concepts we're being taught i already know so well. GML has actually helped me understand programming way more than i thought. Still C syntax is scary… what a ridiculously strict way to code.

Human behavior:

One thing that i've noticed while posting at the GMC's religious topics, is just how dangerous human belief can be. People blindly follow things that are illogical, cannot be proven, have no evidence for and that have no possible benefit for practicing. Now modernly religion isn't as extreme as it used to be but it's brought about some of the worst events in all of the world's history.

I can't believe that people used to think that slavery was okay. It's just terrible to think about. Almost everyone thought it was okay to beat someone and force them to work to death with no pay. It's amazing a few good-hearted and smart humans were able to create a big enough movement to change the world! it's almost a miracle if you think about it. It's difficult as hell to convince somebody once the belief has settled in.

Look at Hitler, how the hell was someone able to convince a whole nation that killing all the Jews would be a good thing to do? It's horrifying what humans are capable of and it's equally horrifying just how stupid humans can get. Following blindly to their own death. that's what i see being a soldier on Hitler's side was like.

Comp project:

haven't been working on it. I got a big ass biology exam to study for. this shit is complicated as hell and cramming all this knowledge in is hard. It's too much useless information. i love learning concepts and interesting things about biology but schools try their best to bore you with memorizing how many electrons can be in the valence shell of x element. or other shit like … see? i already forgot!

It seems the human brain quickly dumps information it doesn't find useful or interesting. one reason why i hate the education system. learn a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with your major and that won't be useful to you or interesting for you.

anyway after the test on Tuesday i'll get back to the project. Should start working on more rooms i guess. the map system is going to be a pain with that side-scrolling style i have going.

Comments

ludamad 12 years, 3 months ago

sirxemic: That's ignoring that modern C requires return types (in the definition of F_OO).

Well, if you expand out the cryptic define, all thats left is a program with obscure variable names and logic. That much you'll get anywhere.

Cesque 12 years, 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure my problems with compiling a copy-pasted code had nothing to do with code itself, but as a semi-non-programmer, I am going to just go and blame the language for it. I don't remember what I was trying to do, but it was related to me trying to use XNA and the "hello world" code had obligatory classes in it.

Maybe I meant C#, not C? As a semi-non-programmer, I can't fucking remember.

sirxemic 12 years, 3 months ago

ludamad - my point was mostly the macro magic which can make your code beautifully obfuscated :P

death 12 years, 3 months ago

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I don't think it happened anywhere near like that.

Anyway, what I find creepy is how many ridiculous and scary idea are actually recent developments. American slavery? 17th century. Racism? 18th century.* Islamic terrorism? 19th century.
if you don't think it happened like that than please tell me why? if it's anything i hate, it's people opposing a statement but not saying why.

As for American slavery, well obviously you would consider it recent, America is a very young country. slavery else where has existed for thousands of years.

Cesque 12 years, 3 months ago

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if you don't think it happened like that than please tell me why? if it's anything i hate, it's people opposing a statement but not saying why.

The most influential argument against slavery throughout history had little to do with good heart - it was the fact that slavery was a threat to free trade and people's jobs.

Most countries which declared it illegal (including the Union states) were territories where it was non-existent anyway. Lincoln threw in the aim of abolishing slavery mostly as a way of getting support for the war (this Wikipedia page has a nice quote of his).

It's easy to Army A to give promises on what they'll do on territories of Army B if this leads to Army B being defeated. It's kind of like the US forces helping build infrastructure in Afghanistan.

I'm not saying slavery wasn't spoken against - it was - and I'm not saying that this didn't help get rid of it - it did - I'm saying that in humanity's shitty history, social change depends a lot on random opportunistic contexts.

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As for American slavery, well obviously you would consider it recent, America is a very young country. slavery else where has existed for thousands of years.

…and has become extinct, or even formally abolished, until colonial times. That's what I meant by "recent".

Who knows? Maybe we'll go back to slavery once we begin space exploration.

Rob 12 years, 3 months ago

Quote: Cesque
Maybe we'll go back to slavery once we begin space exploration.

I can't help but say this

"Astro nigga"

Toast 12 years, 3 months ago

Maybe if sentient robots count as slaves

The fucking robot revolution, it's comingg, mannn

JuurianChi 12 years, 3 months ago

Rob 12 years, 3 months ago

That analogy doesn't make much sense unless you've got some kind of OOP I've never heard of that is being modified while running. Unless of course the other guy subclassed Miku with a SlutMiku class and then started using that. Or if there were two constructors/any factory methods for invoking the class and he called the slut one while you called the normal one.

Miku OOP.