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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • So, there are a lot of words in the post that I’m not familiar with (LoRA, Oobabooga, CivitAI). However, I think those are details about the actual library or package you’re looking at, so I will not touch any of that.

    I can strict answer the question “what is Yarn?”

    Long story short, it’s a direct “competitor” to NPM (Node Package Manager). In the earlier days of Node and NPM, Yarn was an attempt to improve certain weaknesses perceived in NPM (including speed and security). Yarn is still used in many codebases, but it’s become less popular over the years as NPM has resolved many of the things that Yarn sought to fix. Also, Yarn version 2 made a major design change which some have viewed as too radical (though I’m unclear on the details as I’ve only dabbled in v2).

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarn_(package_manager)






  • So, I will start by saying “Yes, you can do it. It’s not too late and programming is fun and fulfilling”.

    However! One thing my experience has taught me in seeing people approach and bounce off programming is: programming is a fail-til-you-get-it type of endeavour. Your first several years will be littered with broken code, because there are a thousand little things you have to bump up against before you unlock one more puzzle piece.

    So! If you go for it, persevere! You aren’t a bad programmer, or a slow learner, because you can’t get your code to work. Every single one of us ran into the same issue, and we just had to push through, learn to Google, and try again until it sorta-kinda works. You in 10 years will be embarrassed by what you write in your first years









  • Not to assume, but just in case you don’t follow the joke, can appreciate the aha moment if you have had it already, and don’t mind an internet stranger overexplaining…

    There is/was a popular meme term “me irl” (often stylized as me_irl), which is a shortening of the phrase “this is literally me IRL”. It spun off into many related terms and subreddits (gay_irl for queer memes, ich_iel for German/Germany memes, pony_irl for My Little Pony memes, etc). anime_irl is a continuation of that trend, but also has the deeper pun of being readable as aniME_IRL.

    It’s all very heady and clever, naturally