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compilers (research), game dev (tabletop and digital), art (various) • PhD student @ NU • 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Qamar The Federative Union of Qamar is a country in eastern Itaan. It borders Monnais to the north, Arkand to the south, and Delsin to the southwest. The Qamari region of the Irim Desert is the only location of naturally occurring emerald air. Its capital is Cadaz, a large coastal city home to the Qamar Historical Center. Qamar has a population of approximately 35 million. Roughly 5 million live aboard a few hundred landships in the Irim Desert with the remainder residing in coastal and desert waypoint settlements. Geography The Irim Desert, also known as the Qamari Desert, covers most of western and southern Qamar. Emerald air pockets appear at high altitudes over the Irim and are visible as green and cyan atmospheric light. The border region with Arkand is sparsely inhabited (except for Nu Ayzen, a minor Qamari city) and the exact border has historically been poorly defined. Oasis towns are scattered throughout the Irim, many of which serve as supply, repair, and waypoint stations for landships conducting aether-collection operations. Economy Much of Qamar’s economy is centered on the collection and export of emerald air. Since the late first century, collection is undertaken by town-sized landships that travel the Irim Desert following aether pockets. Landships operate scout planes to track the movement of emerald concentrations and tethered aerostats equipped with industrial compressors. The collected aether is pumped into tanks on the landship then taken to port towns for sale to brokers, who then export internationally. Landships Qamari landships are self-contained mobile communities, each functioning as an autonomous town. A typical landship houses five to ten thousand residents and contains housing facilities, maintenance workshops, and commercial spaces such as shops, restaurants, and swordball courts. Each landship is internally self-governing, typically run by a council or captain-led administration. Landship governments maintain their own treasuries funded by taxing aether sales and are responsible for their own operational costs. Laws regarding ownership of on-board property vary. Some landships allow private leasing, while others directly operate their own collection operations or residential facilities. Most landships dock at oasis towns every few weeks for water, food, and repairs, and at coastal export cities at least once every season. Some landships are built for extremely high autonomy and can survive for months in the western Irim with no external contact. Government and Politics In practice, individual landships and oasis towns are largely self-governing, with the federal government working to coordinate the use of shared national infrastructure and directly administering some coastal cities. The Qamari Federal Air Service is a semi-militarized civil service agency. The Air Service conducts weather and communications patrols between oasis towns and landships and maintains a capable fleet of combat aircraft. Cooperation between landship security forces and the Air Service is limited, and Qamar does not otherwise have a standing army.
October 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Northwestern Nightly Issue #1: Moonshot is now available. Read it here: a11ce.com/news/moonsho...
Headline: Cole Sprouse Discusses Chopping Off Finger, Writing On Walls With Own Feces
March 16, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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day 4: stacket (full text in link)
December 4, 2024 at 6:08 AM
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day 3: ruby (screenshot of link)
December 3, 2024 at 6:15 AM
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November 24, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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I wrote a library for implementing simultaneous-turn multiplayer games (like rock paper scissors, yomi hustle, or pokemon). You write 5ish functions and it handles TCP, taking turns, hidden information, etc

github.com/a11ce/turnst...
example playing rock paper scissors in two terminal windows list of required functions (in linked github readme)
November 24, 2024 at 3:33 AM
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she's doing this to me tomorrow
November 20, 2024 at 5:51 AM
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some good beginner google searches if you're looking to get into acquiring information
November 14, 2024 at 8:25 PM