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Autism spectrum, feelings and (against all odds) a Witcher quote
"""
[…] Because you're a witcher and you can't feel any emotion. You don't want to fulfill my request, because you think that you care about her, you think that… Geralt, you are with her only because she wants that, and you'll be with her for as long as she wants to. What you're feeling is a projection of her emotion, her interest in you. To all demons of the Pit, Geralt, you're not a child, you know who you are. You're a mutant. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not saying this to offend or disdain you. I'm just stating a fact. You're a mutant, and one of the basic features of your mutation is your full immunity to emotion. You've been made like this so that you could do your job. Do you understand? You can't feel anything. What you're taking as emotion is actually cell memory, somatic memory, if you know what that means.
"""
(Andrzej Sapkowski, Miecz przeznaczenia, Okruch lodu, Istredd's words, my own translation)
However the context is different, it made me think of my own problems with emotions.
Am I capable of love? Or perhaps I can merely project somebody else's feelings, return them at the best. Or perhaps just intellectually be aware of what I am supposed to feel.
Was perhaps that, what I used to take for "love", actually gratitude that somebody was nice to me, or that she showed interest?
Or perhaps was it that she fitted into an unrealistic model that I've engraved into my personality as a child?
Or just an attachment, a feeling of safety, stemming from a large data set. A conviction that unpleasant surprise is no longer that likely.
Or just desperation, a need that's been forced into me since I was a child and that now I'm trying to attain based on what the media, books and personal stories tell me about it.
Or even something resembling a Stockholm syndrome. "At least she's paying attention to me. I know the worst she could do to me."
#ActuallyAutistic

Would you have the patience and persistence to post something like the following about a hundred times in reply to the same person over 3 years?
"'This is the semi-friendly patch-bot […] you seem to have sent a nonsensical or otherwise pointless review comment to a patch submission on a #Linux #kernel

This day six years ago was the last time I boarded an aircraft, on my way back home from Berlin Buzzwords. Today, I am instead flying through the German countryside on the night train to Stockholm.
Last year was the first time I had to sacrifice something to avoid air travel, when I couldn't make it to my friends 50th birthday party and also arrive in time for the conference. Other than that, I enjoy travel more than I did when I travelled by plane. I am looking forward to new carr…

Hidden symmetries and Dehn surgery on tetrahedral links
Priyadip Mondal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08456 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.0…

Hidden symmetries and Dehn surgery on tetrahedral links
Motivated by a question of Neumann and Reid, we study whether Dehn fillings on all but one cusp of a hyperbolic link complement can produce infinite families of knot complements with hidden symmetries which geometrically converge to the original link complement. We prove several results relating the existence of such an infinite family of knot complements with hidden symmetries to the existence of certain symmetries of the horoball packings associated to the original link. Using these results, …

Good morning and happy Thursday #Fediverse
How are we all feeling today and what do we all have planned before the day ends?
For me, it's already been a TON of work stuff due to the Discord release of Nova 8.1.0 yesterday that introduced Smart Folders and Nova Now. I'm still not quite caught up.
Work meeting at 12pm today that will likely be sort of long, but ho…

Some friend told me that learning to program was a waste of time since AI would write all perfect code for us and make most developers obsolete within 3 years...
It is now exactly 3 years ago, how are my developer homies holding up? Feeling obsolete yet? :yay:

Statue of Gerard Mercator, Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer, in Brussels #Belgium

So, the webhooks were failing and it was kicking my ass for a bit. Come to find out, embedded fields in Discord webhooks are limited to 1,024 characters and some of the watch/warning descriptions managed to go over. The only reason I put two-and-two together was just random chance as I captured the embed JSON and toss it into an online Discord embed editor.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.05139 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Stability analysis of a stochastic port-Hamiltonian car-following model
Port-Hamiltonian systems are pertinent representations of many nonlinear physical systems. In this study, we formulate and analyse a general class of stochastic car-following models with a systematic port-Hamiltonian structure. The model class is a generalisation of classical car-following approaches, including the optimal velocity model of Bando et al. (1995), the full velocity difference model of Jiang et al. (2001), and recent stochastic following models based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck proce…