And that's how I ended up on mastodon

[errant@glaceon.social]

@elyn I bet we can in fact make this a hit toot

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@elyn
One of us! One of us! One of us!

[ozzelot@mstdn.social]

@elyn
Hi!

[elyn@tech.lgbt]

@ozzelot hello !!

[seabass@social.seabass.systems]

@elyn Welcome; hope you like it here

[elyn@tech.lgbt]

@seabass Thank you!

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@dzwiedziu @elyn

There are dozens of us. Dozens!

[elyn@tech.lgbt]

@pikesley @dzwiedziu That's so many more than a few!

[agturcz@circumstances.run]

@elyn Nice to see you there. I hope you'll stay for longer

[elyn@tech.lgbt]

@agturcz With people this interesting, how couldn't I?

[ben@mstdn.games]

@elyn Welcome to Mastodon! Come for the toots, stay for the company

[enigmavoice@mastodon.ml]

@elyn damn Mi-Go

@michaelgemar @aburka

[enigmavoice@mastodon.ml]

@elyn so, how do you like it here?

[ancoghlan@mastodon.social]

@elyn Python types:

"Everything's an object, right"

"OK, sure"

"So type, the type of types, is a subclass of object"

"OK, ..."

"And object, since it's a type, is an instance of type"

"... wat?"

(the amount of "lying to computers" involved in starting a Python interpreter is genuinely fun, for a given definition of "fun")

[elyn@tech.lgbt]

@ancoghlan that's insane

[elyn@tech.lgbt]

@ancoghlan I love that every last component that goes into making a computer do stuff is lying to every other component making the computer do stuff

[ancoghlan@mastodon.social]

@elyn Yeah, I advise folks to steer clear of the core type machinery implementation unless they actually *want* to stretch their brains into weird shapes in order to understand it. Lots of "this isn't quite true yet, but it will be true before it needs to be true, just trust us on that, computer".

I also love the fact that it is all completely *un*necessary knowledge for folks that just want to use Python without worrying about the fiddly details of how it works.

[vorboyvo@mstdn.isometry.group]

@elyn damn Architeuthis Flux was not wrong

[glasspusher@beige.party]

@elyn everyone has an origin story

[robparsons@mastodon.social]

@michaelgemar @elyn @aburka it is also possible to have fungi and like cats, though of course you may "have" fungi in the same way you "have" cats, ie you are their staff, so the question of ownership is at the very least complex.... I need to go and lie down.