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    Fun Format Friday: Code is the fabric of life ☶ ask programming
    LenFalken avatar authored by LenFalken 5 months ago | 16 comments

We’ve learned to tap into the API of Life and now have the ability to do things like volume(universalCoordinates).spawn(h20)

What’re the first programs you’ll write and what are some longer term programs you’d like to write?

I may end FFF after today. It was fun.

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      Boojum avatar Boojum edited 5 months ago | link

      Undo/redo feature [P0]

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      icefox avatar icefox 5 months ago | link
      • step 1: spawn 50 kittens
      • step 2: panic
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        5d22b avatar 5d22b 5 months ago | link

        step 2: panic

        You panic, emotionally, or you make the universe panic!?

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          icefox avatar icefox edited 5 months ago | link

          Emotionally. There is no way in hell I can take care of 50 kittens responsibly, but I sure don’t want to just despawn them and let the Universal GC reclaim their adorable little kitten souls.

          Making the universe panic!() will hopefully be reserved for special occasions. Hopefully. (Do NOT give me the ability to terminate any process, let alone the universe’s.)

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      landon avatar landon 5 months ago | link

      pi = 3. It’s inconvenient to have to remember all those extra digits.

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        justinpombrio avatar justinpombrio 5 months ago | link

        Nooo! I know pi is listed as a “configuration variable”, but it shouldn’t be. Tons of laws only work if it has exactly the value it currently does. The whole simulation will break if you try to change it!

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          icefox avatar icefox 5 months ago | link

          Really? Have any good sources for which ones?

          …this is related to that whole sqrt(2) issue, isn’t it. Dammit I TOLD them that hack was a bad idea but nooooo, it won’t have any cascading effects, really! Next thing you know real numbers exist instead of just integers and you have to invent quantum physics to try to work around it…

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      tonnydourado avatar tonnydourado 5 months ago | link 
      from life import get_person
from life.skills import SocialSkills, MAX_LEVEL

me = get_person()
for skill in iter(SocialSkills):
    me.add_skill(skill, level=MAX_LEVEL)

del me.diseases["Crohn's"]
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      icefox avatar icefox 5 months ago | link

      I may end FFF after today. It was fun.

      Also, thank you for the effort! It has been fun. If I someday think of a list of similar questions, do you mind me (or someone) co-opting the format? No promises, but my gut reaction to FFF ending is “aw, someone should keep doing it”.

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        LenFalken avatar LenFalken 5 months ago | link

        You and anyone else is more than welcome and I will gladly participate in answering :)

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      thesnarky1 avatar thesnarky1 5 months ago | link

      fun_format_friday.expiration += 90.days

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      doug-moen avatar doug-moen 5 months ago | link

      If I could alter the nature of reality without any constraints, then I would like to make space, time and matter infinitely divisible. This would be handy for building computers more powerful than Turing machines, and would revolutionize what we can do with computers. Consider the possibilities if you can perform an infinite number of computations within a finite amount of time, or store an infinite amount of data within a finite volume!

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      l0b0 avatar l0b0 5 months ago | link

      dying.pain = 0

    9. Moonchild avatar Moonchild 5 months ago | link

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      coby avatar coby 5 months ago | link 
      HomoSapiens.config('ability.telekenesis', 1)
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      badtuple avatar badtuple 5 months ago | link

      How fast is life’s interpreter? 1 timeslice per timeslice? If I can run things faster than we experience them I’d love to have some kind of kanren-y search algorithm to search through possibilities for the series of decisions I need to achieve what I want.

      If not, I could really use some peanut butter fudge right now. I feel like much day-to-day use would be simple hedonism. Just gonna Skinner Box myself into a really weird universe with increasingly modified laws of physics because it’s fun. Sorry y’all are being subjected to my weather preferences and prank gravity inversions.

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      5d22b avatar 5d22b 5 months ago | link

      volume(universalCoordinates).spawn(h20)

      Do we have a way to access documentation on this API? Do we know what volume does or what h20 is?