Happy things thread!

[quinterbeck]

I got my basic math routines for zeptoforth working, so I now have EXP, LN, SQRT, F**, SIN, COS, TAN, ASIN, ACOS, ATAN, ATAN2, SINH, COSH, TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH working! To mark this occasion, I released a minor-version release 0.7.0.

What is F**?

[Travis B.]

I got my basic math routines for zeptoforth working, so I now have EXP, LN, SQRT, F**, SIN, COS, TAN, ASIN, ACOS, ATAN, ATAN2, SINH, COSH, TANH, ASINH, ACOSH, and ATANH working! To mark this occasion, I released a minor-version release 0.7.0.

What is F**?

F** is fixed point exponentiation.

[Raphael]

I got my new mouse! Yay! Hopefully, this means that the times when I would nervously wait to see whether my mouse would interpret the single click that I just did as a double click, as two clicks in rapid succession, or as no click at all, will be gone, at least for now.

[Risla]

I had three world-shattering personal epiphanies a couple weeks ago within a few days of each other and my mindset has totally shifted. I struggled so hard to connect with people for so long, but now it seems almost effortless. I've already repaired some broken friendships and built new ones, and I feel like something inside me that's been sleeping my whole life is finally awake.

I've been working on myself for a long time and this was definitely coming, but I didn't expect it to happen so suddenly. It's like the waters had been gradually rising, but then the dam burst, and the rush of water overwhelmed several more downstream. So here I am, still discombobulated, floating in the floodwaters in a place I've never come to before, but so glad to have finally freed myself of the constraints I've been under. I'm finally no longer just in survival mode—I'm here and ready to be an active participant in the world.

So yeah. That's cool.

A couple of other things:

1) L-theanine is the absolute shiznit for my anxiety. I started taking it in November last year (as an experiment, not even to try to treat my anxiety) and it was frankly the best thing that happened to me all year. There's no high at all—it's just if I take it, all the physical symptoms of anxiety are alleviated. Can't recommend it enough. (If anyone decides to get some based on this recommendation, keep in mind that not all brands are the same quality—California Gold is by far the best one I've found)

2) My friend gave me a professional camera—a Canon EOS 70D, with two lenses (including a very fancy zoom lens)—because he said I'm talented at photography and should have a real camera. It's fucking great so far, and I'm still flabbergasted at the gift!

[alice]

I had three world-shattering personal epiphanies a couple weeks ago within a few days of each other and my mindset has totally shifted. I struggled so hard to connect with people for so long, but now it seems almost effortless. I've already repaired some broken friendships and built new ones, and I feel like something inside me that's been sleeping my whole life is finally awake.

That's really great news. I am very, very happy for you!

[Raphael]

Congratulations, Risla!

(Pedantic note: you should, however, keep in mind that a specific psychological drug might not work as well for other people as it works for you. They often have different effects on different people.)

[Ares Land]

I'm very happy for you, Risla!

[finlay]

hi, risla! miss you

[Travis B.]

Congrats Risla! And long time no see!

[sasasha]

postgraduate studies

Congrats! That's fantastic!

...

leftover tortilla chip under your desk from lunch = win.

It's the little things in life.

Thank you, that's kind. And agreed on the tortilla front.

I had three world-shattering personal epiphanies a couple weeks ago within a few days of each other and my mindset has totally shifted. I struggled so hard to connect with people for so long, but now it seems almost effortless. I've already repaired some broken friendships and built new ones, and I feel like something inside me that's been sleeping my whole life is finally awake.

That's utterly brilliant! Congratulations.

[Risla]

Thanks, everyone!

It's definitely a weird time to be me. I'm shocking myself daily with the stuff I find myself doing and saying and couldn't be happier about it. Getting lots of comments from people around me too about how my whole demeanor has shifted. Weird but good.

[Man in Space]

My sister graduates with her Master’s today!

[Raphael]

Congratulations to your sister!

[Yalensky]

It feels so good to have gotten a haircut for the first time in more than five months. Like I've come blinking out of the cave and rejoined civilized society.

[Risla]

As of today (August 20), I've walked over 10,000 steps every single day for a thousand days—every day since November 25, 2017.

And tomorrow, a thousand and one…

[Moose-tache]

Amazing! All that, while making us feel like cryptographic idiots as well. And congrats to MinS's sister. As the possessor of a superfluous post-graduate degree, I hope it brings her more luck than it did me.

On topic. In the spring I quit my job just before Corona, which means I missed the opportunity to get paid for doing nothing (since the place I worked would have paid out the rest of the year without requiring much in the way of work). Now I've got a new job, and the first thing I learn is that I probably won't be doing anything at first, while still getting paid, because of Corona-related delays. The 'Rona giveth, and the 'Rona taketh away.

[alice]

As of today (August 20), I've walked over 10,000 steps every single day for a thousand days—every day since November 25, 2017.

And tomorrow, a thousand and one…

How many moras (morae?) is that equivalent to?

[Travis B.]

zeptoforth 0.9.0 is out, complete with wordlists organizing the built-in functionality, so you can now choose whether you want to see internal functionality or not!

[rotting bones]

zeptoforth 0.9.0 is out, complete with wordlists organizing the built-in functionality, so you can now choose whether you want to see internal functionality or not!

I have to check out zeptoforth once I'm free again.

[Travis B.]

zeptoforth 0.9.0 is out, complete with wordlists organizing the built-in functionality, so you can now choose whether you want to see internal functionality or not!

I have to check out zeptoforth once I'm free again.

Mind you, you'll need to get your hands on a STM32L476 DISCOVERY or STM32F407 DISCOVERY board from STMicroelectronics or one of their dealers such as Arrow, or you'll need to do a port for some other Cortex-M4 board, if you feel up to it.

Just warning you, this is a Forth implementation, and it isn't exactly a standard one, so there might be a learning curve.

If you want to take a look, its GitHub page is at http://github.com/tabemann/zeptoforth and its hackaday.io page is at https://hackaday.io/project/170826-zeptoforth.