Asklemmy

I can actually, and I mean like actually, rock a pair of circle lens sunglasses

I can cook better than at least half the people I know (and im being humble). I can cook nearly anything, with the capability to pull complex recipies off in the first go. My only limitations are ingredient availablity.

some people are bakers, some cooks. Im both. Im not great at cake decorating though, but it'll taste great at least

No.

My mother in law said I'm a really good dad. Like not even on father's day, just like randomly once.

Im actually really happy with me personally lately. I still have a lot in life that could be better, but im alive, healthy, and living as my truest self. Everything else will come eventually. I recently started planning for my future for the first time in my life. Its weird. I never thought id live past 25, let alone want to.

• I make a great vegan ice cream that is loved by many non-vegans.
• I beat depression and anxiety.
• I have a fun job that pays well and I'm good at it.

Last week I was told that my dog's trainer said I was the best client she's ever worked with. The man that works at the front desk said he randomly asked her one day who the best client she's worked with was and apparently with zero hesitation she said my name. I'm quite proud of that, because I worked really hard when I had my dog in training to make sure I was doing everything I could to make it, and us, successful. This trainer has worked with thousands of dogs and owners over the years so to have the distinction of being her best client is quite a pleasant surprise. I was determined to turn my crazy excitable COVID puppy into a well behaved dog I could take anywhere, and we succeeded. It was a lot of work, but worth it, and I'm proud of both the results, and the fact that apparently our trainer was impressed too. ☺️

I’m always a little surprised when I look into the population MMR distribution for games I play a lot. I’m often in like the top 5% or better in the kind of games I play a lot. But… I suck at them. I don’t feel like I know what I’m doing and when I look at streamers who are actually good at the game, it’s not like they’re just a more refined version of me, it’s like they’re playing a different game.

So I like to describe myself as being “the top of the trash heap.”

I'm incredibly humble.

The horrors persist, but so do I.

My body is a machine that turns Vietnamese supermarkets into Mexican food for my lovely wife. I do not feel pain, or remorse, or pity, & I cannot be stopped unless I am killed.

I wanted to learn hardware design by designing a basic risc-v processor, ben eater style, kind of like a 1970s minicomputer, with expansion slots for new isa extensions and CSRs. But obviously using real breadboards for experimentation would be too slow when designing a 32 bit processor. I had never touched an hdl before.

So I sat down and started writing my own simulator and netlist generation dsl from scratch. It only works at the gate level, no behavioral synthesis, but flexible enough to write components modelling, for example, 74 series chips. It does vhdl-like delta cycle simulation using 8-valued logic, but without vhdl's signal forwarding footgun.

I then implemented an rv32i processor with full m-mode support, and a risc-v emulator in rom to trap and silently emulate any missing extension instructions. When a new expansion board is plugged in, those instructions are simply not trapped and are accelerated in hardware.

I then learned just enough systemverilog to faithfully transliterate the generated netlist into structural verilog, and it actually synthesized and worked perfectly on an fpga.

I am now in the process of very slowly designing boards to hopefully one day manage to build the whole thing out of discrete 74hc series logic

When I do have the energy, I'm a pretty good cook. Also I'm managing to grow things outside. Not like. Well. But they went from seeds to fruit which is the only thing I really wanted.

I've gotten better at teaching roller (and inline) skating. Yesterday I passed a certification as a "Level 2" instructor.

My actual skill level is kinda intermediate. At the skate school where I teach, many of the other instructors can skate circles around me, but I'm doing ok for someone who never touched skates until my 30s and is otherwise a very unathletic overweight computer geek.

I can speak in a British accent!

(Happy Birthday Mel Brooks!)

I'm great at getting dogs to trust me. I work at an animal shelter and we have a ton of strays, neglect, and abuse cases that get brought into our shelter (only a few shelters in our podunk county). These animals are usually fearful and greatly distrusting of people, especially men. I get these dogs to trust me and not be so fearful fairly quickly, and in the short time I've been working here I've become the goto guy for dogs that are emotionally shutdown. It helps that the shelter I work at is run by great people who have put together a great team that really cares about all our residents. I get to take my time working with these dogs and am not pressured to get it done faster.

I am a really good earthmover, heavy equipment operator. My machine of choice that I run daily is a motorgrader.
Other equipment I am very skilled with; bulldozers, scrapers, and loaders. Fair on excavators. Skid steers and loader backhoes I am average.

My neurodivergence means that not only can I process a huge amount of things at once, but I can also process through large tasks quickly.

This means I am an absolute maniac when it comes documentation, large scale changes, and complex thoughts.

In one research assignment, I managed to visualize a 12+ dimensional object/map, in its entirety. I felt amazing and understood the datasets complexities all at once.

The moment I am done with my current job, I am fucking off to be a professor.

I have bipolar and addiction issues. I’ve been sober and stable for 8 years. With a lot of work and therapy and meds I’m down to 2 episodes a year and stay very stable outside of those. I’ve also started a program in my city for addicts with mental health issues, for half the month it’s a peer support group, the other weeks we bring in local therapists to run free workshops on DBT skills and principles. This is often the only time many of my regulars can access mental healthcare. For someone with a major mental illness and low education I feel so proud of myself

I still exist, despite fighting depression and dissociation and suicidality my entire adult life. I have been homeless, I have moved across the country to a place that is safer for people like me because where I lived no longer was, leaving me alone in a place where I knew no one, and I am still here.

I am okayish at learning and understanding languages. I have a personal language with a couple thousand words in it that I have been using for twenty years.

I am a quiet person and try my best to be humble and small and hurt no one. I often fail at this, but damn it I try.

I’m an awesome physicist. I’ve created valid solutions for a variety of problems the community thought impossible, as well as solved problems that nobody else was aware of. My first major solution was for the diffraction of waves through an aperture. As part of that solution I even improved upon Bethe’s solution. Bethe was a Nobel price winning physicist.

I solved a data science issue with working with a collection of arbitrary data sets in a systematic manner. That open source software is pysat, python satellite data analysis toolkit.

I invented a new neutral wind instrument for satellites called SANDS that also measures composition and temperature. It is smaller, faster, more robust, and requires less power than previous attempts. In fact the solution is a differential equation rather than a ‘simple’ formula. The reason is the instrument operates too fast to simplify the math.

Most recently I solved another impossible problem in plasma physics. Previously the community couldn’t correctly calculate the distribution of electric potential around the globe because they thought the magnetic field was too complicated. I can. My software solution also produces visual art though it was explicitly designed for physics.

I also invented a new class of musical instruments called photonic musical instruments. These instruments use the resonance of electricity and light to create music in the same way acoustic instruments use the resonance of vibrations in wood. Photonic instruments create music we can’t hear using colors we can’t see. I created a software plugin that authentically recreates photonic musical instruments but in a way that we can hear. I’m currently trying to market the plugin and my art which is proving to be quite the challenge.