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Welcome to #CheckIn for FRIDAY 2025-05-30


CHOOSE YOUR SPIRIT ANIMAL OF THE DAY! What do you think would be a good spirit animal for you? What characteristics make you feel attracted to a particular animal? What behaviour do you aspire to? What do you find comforting about a particular animal? What animal would you like to be friends with if you had the opportunity? Hey, and you can have as many spirit animals as you like here!

I admire this fuzzy person for being able to sleep through the cold months!

bear cub

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I think perhaps we should start assigning animals to people who haven't said anything yet! Okay @Beej Cobalt I'm gifting you an Arabian horse as your spirit animal! They are both graceful and jaunty.
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You're next @Samuel Smith. I'm gifting you the spirit animal of the quokka, an Australian marsupial. They are friendly and inquisitive. They also have proper opposable thumbs! I'm pretty sure you have opposable thumbs, so they are a natural fit!
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Hi, @Jon Alcibar (main)! I shall gift you the spirit animal of the koala! These fellows can eat the most toxic leaves in Australia because they have a hind gut that ferments them before digestion. How handy is that! They have this big old bellow that all the ladies find adorable. Amazingly, they also have finger-prints much like human ones. That was a plot point in a TV murder mystery in a series here!
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@Jodi For some strange reason, I keep thinking of Australian animals! I gift you the spirit animal of the rainbow lorikeet! They are one of the most colourful birds in the world. They are quite friendly, and in some places they will land on people in order to be hand fed. They have, get this, a papillate appendage at the end of their tongue in order to eat the nectar from a broad variety of Australian plants. Yummy!
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Karl Auerbach

For some reason this thread engendered an image of a spirit animal - not mine - Tyrannosaurus Tex. It's sort of like a regular Tyrannosaurus but it wears chaps, a Steston 50 gallon hat, chaps, spurs, a belt with a big buckle, cowboy boots and a pair of six shooters. But it's arms are too short to reach its guns - or buckle its belt.
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As a kid I wanted to be like a Chameleon. You know, perfectly adapting to any environment. Unsure about a spirit animal though.

Some days like those last few and then some to come I'd just identify with the simple life we are able to provide to #maltethedog - a select few hours of demanding activity per day, training, happy to work and with the walkies, and snuggle up when you wanna.

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Today's accomplishment was finishing up some python code that does a lot of stuff and then outputs minimal c code to do the same stuff. The goal being to use python for the "fooling around and finding out" part and once proven output minimal c code that does the same thing in a more embedded-friendly footprint.
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What's interesting and fun (to me) is that I wrote a c support library and used python bindings to use that c code during the "fool around and find out stage." That way I already had the well exercised c library to statically compile in with the generated code.

Generating code permits things that hand written code would be a bore to write.

For example, given function prototype:

int c_string_function(const char *str, int slen);

And generated code:
retval = c_string_function("this is a string", sizeof("this is a string") - 1);

After running through the 'c' pre-processor should end up something like this:
retval = c_string_function("this is a string", 16)

Yes I could completely bodge c_string_function() and introduce plenty of buffer overflow exploits but at least the string length will be accurate.

:)

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@Richard This is an Australian carpet python. I have met a few of these. I have friends who keep them as pets! They are non-venomous, but grow to 2-4 meters long and have powerful jaws and constricting muscles. They have lovely silky skin, but you don't want them giving you a hug!
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Like most things, though, if you leave snakes alone, they'll leave you alone (with a couple notable exceptions), because you are not their prey item.

That said, some snakes are dangerously territorial. Black mambas are rightly feared. Some constrictors, including anacondas, will also attack people.

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if you leave snakes alone, they’ll leave you alone


heh, yeah... that day I moved some clutter from under a table and didn't notice the red rat snake that had made a home there 😳 stood at the table doing something for a while just inches away from it 😳😳

eagle-eyed viewers will recall that I posted it on here trying to find out if it was venomous... I was afraid to let the dogs out for a while

it eventually wandered off... with a full belly like that, I wouldn't be in a hurry to move either

sorry I bothered you, snake... thanks for the pest control

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@Lisa Stranger - A few years back when I had to do some work in Homestead Florida I would go out to the Everglades. On one trip I was wandering through the marked paths on one of the "islands". I saw some alligators swimming - and thought "wow. those things barely even cause a ripple!" As I was walking I really wasn't watching my feet - but when I did look down I noticed I was standing right next to a couple of very dark forms - sleeping alligators. Less than a shoe length away. I quietly made my exit.
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@Muse taken in great haste with my iPhone to explain to Mr. Stranger why my eyes got big as saucers and I said OHHHHH SHIT lol

@Karl Auerbach I have not yet met the state reptile up close... sincerely hoping the retention pond going in behind the neighbor's house is not going to change that

I have been close enough to hear them grunting in a neighborhood pond

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