Waiting till the new year to change is an excuse

Change now, not later

Yup

It's also the "choke that guy with your crotch till he passes out" sport

(Triangle chokes)

I am really looking forward to all the new ~~fresh meat~~ newcomers to Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

Being able to smash someone else's face into the mat for once

Because it's all an impulse decision

"New Year's Resolutions" are the exact opposite of setting good goals

Good goals:

• need to be definable
  • "I will start restricting calories and target a 1lb per week loss"
  • not "get in shape"
• need to be actionable
  • "I will start making plans right now, and implementing them tonight"
  • not "I will wait till a specific time of the year"
• need to be sustainable
  • "I will adjust my strategy to work around my daily habits and otherwise be flexible"
  • not "NO MORE SWEETS"

I think it's both a big cat, and the perspective makes it look bigger

I write code so I can pay for my bougie coffee

(Local fresh roasted coffee is amazing)

Coffee brewers that have a hot plate under the carafe will burn and ruin coffee. The best method of keeping coffee fresh is to keep it in a sealed container (like a double walled carafe with a lid)

Microwaving coffee is actually a pretty decent way to re-heat it, but the taste will depend on how fresh it was kept prior

Mostly boys admiring the boobs or butts of girls

Them: "Yo man, check out her ass... She's so hot"

How i want to reply: "Yep, that's a gluteus maximus, although I don't see her sweating"

Mostly ask when I'm gonna get a girlfriend / married / or have kids

Although, most of the relatives have stopped asking, or just accepted that I'll always be single

Also, boy "locker room" talk always made me uncomfortable

The distinction is meaningless in the land of Opcode's and memory addresses

For example, a struct is just an imaginary "overlay" on top of a contiguous section of memory

Say you have a struct

struct Thing {
  int a;
  int b;
  Thing* child;
}

Thing foo {}

You could easily get a reference to foo->child->b by doing pointer arithmetic

*((*((*foo) + size(int)*2)) +size(int))

(I've not used C much so I've probably got the syntax wrong)

Mostly because at the lowest level of computing (machine code and CPU instructions), pointers are the only method (that I know of) of any kind of indirection.

At the lowest level, there are 2 types of references:

• CPU registers
• memory addresses (pointers)

Every higher level language feature for memory management (references, objects, safe pointers, garbage collection, etc) is just an abstraction over raw pointers

Pointers themselves are really just abstractions over raw integers, whose sole purpose is to index into RAM

With that in mind, pointers to pointers are a natural consequence of any kind of nested object hierarchy (linked lists, trees, objects with references to other objects, etc)

The only other kind of indirection would be self-modifying machine code (like a Wheeler Jump). But the computing world at large has nixed that idea for a multitude of reasons

Are there people whom you look at, but don't experience sexual attraction to?

Imagine that's every person. No matter who they are or what they look like, they're just... other humans. You never have any desire, nor need to be close with someone. That entire part of life just doesn't exist.

Now imagine that every time you get turned on, it's just the "physical" aspects. You feel the hormones, the need to release some tension. But it's never tied to a particular person or body part.

The sensation is akin to being hungry, but not "in the mood" to eat anything

I should note, that this is just my personal experiences, and is not universal. Some aces still want romantic relationships (I don't: aka aroace).

Also, some aces are "sex averse", and can even find masturbation annoying or unpleasant in some way

Alternatively, some aces can have fetishes or reliable turn-on's