Hi! This is a little microproject I want to do: I want to compress my years of experience building the API backend of a top-50 Steam game into a bunch of weird, rambling advice that I can deliver with all of the authority of someone who can’t differentiate success due to merit from success due to luck.
A decade ago, when I was working on, you know, procedural generation stuff, fresh out of University, I definitely felt like I’d need to spend some time putting together some serious tools for generating selections from a variety of probability distributions.
At the time, I was building a “Mohammed Chang” generator - a random name generator that used census data to try to generate mathematically probable names. If I’m pulling names out of a hat, and I want to pick “Smith” more often than I pick “Schwarzchild’ - well, that’s a job for a weighted probability distribution.
I needed to send a big file to another technically competent adult
there are many ways to do this that I have access to, but I just tried a way I had never tried before, magic wormhole
https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
It goes like this: I already have choco installed on my computer (very like brew for Mac Os)
so I installed magic wormhole with a choco install magic-wormhole
then, I found the file I wanted to send and set up a wormhole send file.zip
Wormhole code is: 11-virginia-shamrock
On the other computer, please run:
wormhole receive 11-virginia-shamrock
and the other computer installed wormhole, typed that in, and the file was transferred
magic
neat!