Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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I watched Werner Herzog's "Into the Inferno". Some impressive volcano footage (and a lengthy digression about life in North Korea), but I was disappointed that it wasn't either more informative or weirder.
Werner's best line: "I am the only one in filmmaking who is technically sane."
On the other hand, what if we moved slowly and fixed things?
I got an error message I don't understand. As an experienced programmer, I know to search the web for a solution.
Random number generators: Sorry, computers are deterministic. We can technically only give you *pseudo*random numbers.
#unity3d: Oh, you expected pressing the same button again, without changing anything else, to produce the same result?
I keep getting excited and then re-learning that exclamation points aren't allowed in git commit messages.
Pickachu is a bluegrass-type Pokémon.
@yogthos@mastodon.social Fun fact: the face and the arms in the top picture don't belong to the same person. That is also true of this picture:
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#2623 Goofs
The film is set in 2018, but when Commander Bremberly chases the hologram through Times Square, there's a billboard for Avengers: Age of Ultron. Depending on the date, that billboard would have been advertising either Infinity War or this movie.
https://xkcd.com/2623/
Impersonating Werner Herzog is a complicated profession.
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One out of ten dentists recommends falling asleep with a marshmallow in your mouth because they clicked by accident.
After two days, I got the feature (persistent inventory) to work!
"Fun" parts of programming with #Unity3d:
Having seven different objects with the same name (the GameObject, the script, the model, the texture ...).
Multithreaded, event-driven programming, with dozens of objects you didn't write invisibly calling things in an unpredictable order, leaving no way to test or trace through the process.
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TIL newton’s pendulum has way more „moves“ than I originally thought it has (never owned one myself and just always saw one in films etc.)
also:
gangnam style ft. newton’s pendulum by xmphysics
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YB7KUGdP7wI
@yogthos@mastodon.social My thoughts on that part are vague, but certainly technologies and the amount of economic power available internationally to each "side" have changed.
I'm not trying to make a specific argument here, just exploring.
I turned my broken program into a smaller broken program, and that's progress.
The state of the world is different from, and in many way better than, your perceptions.
@yogthos@mastodon.social Not as ideas, but the context is somewhat different since the cold war ended. I would be curious about more recent research.
There's a lot of work showing that the world has been getting better over the centuries (e.g., https://www.vox.com/2014/11/24/7272929/global-poverty-health-crime-literacy-good-news). A question is whether this is because of or despite capitalism (and how entangled the industrial revolution is with capitalism).
@yogthos@mastodon.social ... although it's worth noting that this paper is 36 years old.
@pixouls @pastelpunkbandit Mine says:
`Mastodon is open source software. You can contribute or report issues on GitHub at tootsuite/mastodon (v3.2.1).`
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