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LB: Google Translate sure is a Thing >.>;;;

(For context: Both strings are essentially the same; the left-hand string has the name アビー, and the right-hand string removes the vowel extender, so it's just アビ. They should be translated basically identically, but... they obviously aren't...)

It's so weird having code I write mostly from scratch work first try. ^w^

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re: ~ 

I'd rather they reached out to me, if it was still okay if I followed them. Even if that never happens...

I've learned that it's okay if you aren't friends with everybody, even if you wish you could be.

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There are some people who I followed at some point, who have either moved onto new accounts or softblocked me so I wasn't following them.

Every time I see them mentioned in my home timeline, I think about refollowing or seeing if I'm still blocked, but then I realize it probably isn't worth the effort...

future predictions 

future of air travel
- nobody goes on vacation anymore since everything is the same everywhere
- no business travel: everybodys quit their job bc jobs are bad
- planes can fly much faster since theres no people in them, not even pilots. constantly do loops

future of urban planning
- edible cities

future of fashion
- 3 new colors invented
- edible

future of politics
- quite political

future of computers
- faster
- slower
- illegal
- edible

future of the environment
- none

geocities.co.jp, the last living Geocities service, shuts down in 2020. Here's the timeline, as I understand it:

* March, 2019 - The ability to update existing pages and to create new pages ends.
* September 30, 2019 - All pages are taken offline. Site owners retain the ability to use FTP to download their site contents.
* March 31, 2000 - FTP access for downloading site contents is removed, and all data is deleted.

Source: watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/

reevaluate knowledge that seems obvious to you. make sure you have a really good grasp on why you're so certain of the things you're certain of. never stop asking questions. don't be afraid to ask the same question twice if you've forgotten the answer. and for fucksake, don't state opinions as facts

People often wonder why printers are so cantankerous but frankly any device that embeds pigmented runes in the remains of long-dead trees is going to be stricken by an ancient faerie curse from the start

dream, money, - 

Financial security is really, like ... the only thing I haven't ever had in my life. My parents were fairly poor and always in debt when I was growing up, and I was thousands of dollars in debt starting when I was 17. I literally don't know what it is like being debt-free and having a surplus of money, or even just having enough money that you can do almost anything you wanted...

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dream,~ 

I just had a dream where I had been given $40000 for some work I had posted online for free. I was in tears in my dream, and I woke up and realized it had made me cry in my sleep because my eyes were wet and stuck shut.

The original code only used this centering function for displaying street names, but hopefully I can rework it so any arbitrary line of large text can be centered. We'll see... ^.^

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Writing a function to center text, since the original function won't work with my new text format, or with a variable-width font...

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Okay, fixed that. (It was a string I had explicitly skipped before, because I didn't know where it was being used.)

Still lots of work to do before I can move on to something else...

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Awesome, rewriting everything that touched SearchDialogDefinitionForA fixed the corruption bug that was crashing games when AI characters said anything! ^w^

... aaaand I immediately found another corruption bug in a dialog window I didn't touch yet. >.<;;;

I don't even know how Konomi's face got corrupted...

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This Sunday 1:15 EST at Queerness and Games Conference 2018 I'm going to be giving a talk! It will be called "Making a Programming Language is Surprisingly Easy and Fun" and I will demo creating a scripting language from scratch and adding it to show how easy it can be. There will be streaming but I'm not sure what the URL is yet. qgcon.com/qgcon-2018/talks/mak

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