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Depends on if you think of formal proofs as a kind of code, I guess.

We’re very specialized kinds of mathematicians, sometimes. In other languages the term is often “Information Science” and in German, IIRC, it’s “Infomathics”, both arguably better names.

Theoretical Computer Scientists write mathematical proofs showing the limits of how information can be stored, transmitted, permuted, hidden, and extracted. Practicing Computer Scientist learn the current best ways to do the above and write implementations thereof. Examples:

Storage: Compression algorithms like zip files, jpeg, mp3

Transmitted: protocols like FTP, HTTP, and yes, ActivityPub

Permuted: A lot of sound editing is done by turning an array of of pitches over time into an array of frequencies over time, changing those frequencies, then turning them back.

Hidden: Encryption, obviously, but also steganography

Extracted: Decryption, obviously, but also natural speech processing and image recognition

The Long Winters — “Stupid”

bro doesn’t even know about bubblegum goths, lmao

My wife was a mother already when I married her. Of course, I was the father of her children and we’d lived together for years at that point. But it still counts!

Frybread

Why would I do that to myself, I wait for the credit card statement and take it all in at a gulp

Nope. I usually think “I should go out more” and then when I’m still recovering two days later I think “Ah, this is why I don’t go out more.”