For some reason, knowing about programming languages is one of my niche interests. Knowing about, fuck me if I can make even a hello world in them.
Still, Nim, Crystal, V and LISP just have a weird hold on me
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I like languages, I only speak one fluently though
Right now it's using keyboards that don't have nearly enough keys on them.
I'm convinced the end keeb for enthusiasts is a single mechanical key and learning binary
I think you just invented the telegraph.
My partner got me a custom engraved snuffbox for our anniversary. It's hexagonal, both of our favourite shape :3
Edit: it closed with magnets in a way that you can also rotate the lod endlessly and the magnets snap together when the lid and lower part align. It's a great fidget toy too!
How? I need this
Idk where you live but they ordered it only from schnupfdoesli.ch which I think is pretty location specific
I need to move to Germany or Switzerland so bad. Snuff is just on a different level in that part of the world... A little off topic: Are you aware if Bernard availability in Germany and the rest of the world will change with the McChrystal's buyout?
Oh nooo I hadn't heard of the buyout! And McChrystal is my go-to :( so idk what's gonna happen
I love non-standard computer rendering methods.
Most games use rasterisation which takes a number of triangles (polygons) and calculates where on the screen it should be.
An alternative that's becoming more common is ray tracing which starts with the screen coordinates and and calculates what's in that direction.
Rasterisation is a really clever trick to do more with less powerful computers, and was the only way to do any kind of realtime graphics in the early days of computers.
Ray Tracing takes much more computing power, but allows for interesting things like non-euclidian geometry, 360 degree field of view, and picture-in-picture with no loss of performance (compared to ray tracing without these additions).
Apparently my wife and I collecting rocks counts as special interest because most of our friends are baffled by our collection, and the fact that we go out of our way to hunt down rocks + fossils.
Apparently out of all my friends I'm the only one who thinks it's fucking awesome to hold a 410 million year old seashell in my hands, or an awesome chunk of mica. The highlight from a few wknds back was when I found a wicked hunk of quartz + feldspar with a bunch of garnets in it. Our excitement is our own, and no one else's
Rocks are cool, I don't understand why anyone wouldn't appreciate a collection of them.
My mother is trying to downsize her stuff because her health is going downhill, she gave me the best of her rock collection and it's on the shelf next to me while I type this ... they're really nice rocks.
Hmm ... niche ...
One I got from a friend of a friend is a taste in shitty old cars. Whenever I'm out walking the dogs and happen across an obscure or currently rare, but shit, car I'll take a photo of it.
Everyone loves the "halo" models, the GTIs and Turbos, but I love to see a rusty 1.4 diesel that didn't even come with carpets when new :-)
I've never ever found another woman to nerd out about old cars with, unfortunately, and most guys do the knowledge test thing which is most offputting :-/
Any special interest can be uncoventional if you go down the rabbit hole deep enough!
That's true! These would be welcome contributions to the thread, too. Like "trains, but especially the seats and the history of train sitting layouts" would be so cool
That would very cool. I wish we had better trains here in the US.
Monkeys, for sure.