1mo ago

Never go full cringe

Has my motd gone too far? It loads a random ANSI catgirl from a folder. I use arch btw, server runs minimized Ubuntu Server.

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You could double the vertical resolution by using half-height blocks (U+2584) and using the background color for the upper half.
- Thanks for the suggestion, gonna look into this. I didn't want to use real images even though kitty supports them because I like the retro look and wanted it terminal agnostic for when I use termux on my phone.
  
  I gladly present you this jank.
  You might need these to compile:
  bash
  
  cargo add image cargo add clap --features derive
  And the jank itself:
  
  It's beautiful! I actually adjusted my python code to your method and just for optimization checked if the current two pixel colors match the previous two and if so leave out the color info. Much more fidelity in the images now!
  
  As an extra optimization, if top and bottom colors of a pixel match, you can just output space and only set background color. Implemented correctly, this can save a lot of memory. Didn't want to make the code more complex in fear of people being scared of running it.
  
  I've been learning Rust by going through The Book... there's some wack-ass syntax in that language. I've mostly used C# and Python so most of it just looks weird... I can more or less understand what while let Some((_, top)) = iter.next() { ... } is doing, but .for_each(|((_, _, t), (_, _, b))| { ... } just looks like an abomination. And I mean the syntax in general, not this code in particular.
  
  but .for_each(|((_, , t), (, _, b))| { ... } just looks like an abomination
  It's not so different in python: for ((_, _, t), (_, _, b)) in zip(top, bottom):
  Or in C#: .ForEach(((_, _, t), (_, _, b)) => Console.Write(...));
  
  Is | (...) | { ... } a lambda expression then?
  
  Yep, lambda or closure (it's an anonymous function but it can also capture state from the enclosing function, i think pure lambdas can't do that?)
  
  rust
  
  .for_each(|((_, _, t), (_, _, b))| { ... }
  This is actually fairly similar to what C# has.
  This is a closure syntax:
  
  | arguments | { calls }
  In C#, the closest is lambda expressions, declared like this:
  
  ( arguments ) => { calls }
  Parentheses are tuple deconstructors. In C# you have exactly the same thing. Imagine you have a method that returns a two element tuple. If you do this:
  
  var (one, two) = MethodThatReturnsATuple();
  You'll get your tuple broken down automatically and variables one and two declared for you.
  First of all, I'm using .zip() to pair the rows of the picture by two, that returns a tuple, so, I have to deconstruct that. That's what the outer parentheses are for. The pixel enumeration stuff I'm using returns a tuple (u32, u32, &Rgba<u8>) first two values are x and y of the pixel, the third one is a reference to a structure with color data. I deconstruct those and just discard the position of the pixel, you do that with an underscore, same as C#.
  I'm not that far into learning myself, but I'm not a textbook learner at all. Poking around opensource projects and wrestling with the compiler prooved to educate me a lot more.
- Or using sixels. For example foot supports them, and you can display one with chafa.

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