Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

@trinsec We're not sure, but there's probably some Corgi in there. When we walk her, almost literally every day someone will stop and ask, "What kind of dog is that?"

Hmm, that's odd. If I click on the hashtag #Violet in the quoted toot, it doesn't find the quoted toot! Can anyone explain what's going on?

(This was true before I quoted the toot, so that's not the issue.)

@barefootstache My dog. If you click on the hashtag #Violet do you find pictures of her?

#3GoodThings

1. Feeling much better physically.
2. Violet got to attend Zoom meetings with students (and, not being aware of this fact, was very relaxed).
3. A fire in the fireplace.

@g1comics A huge foam "we're #1" finger.

Ready for the programming languages midterm review.

#programming #jeopardy #teaching

@mattl Search for the hashtag #SteamDeck.

#Violet doing a little light reading. #dogsofmastodon

@jkohlmann Works for people and software.

@derickflorian @vern Unfortunately, this feature doesn't work very well.

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@jalefkowit My partner is a fan of Plum Deluxe.

@vwbusguy *speaking around cigar* I love it when a flan comes together.

@trinsec It does seem like almost every computer problem comes down to some variation on that idea. It works because maintaining state is tricky -- perhaps an argument for functional programming.

A problem in teaching with interactive notebooks (e.g., #Jupyter): students tell me, "I typed exactly what you did, and mine doesn't work." Now, sometimes it's not *exactly* the same (e.g., = vs == or the wrong kind of brackets).

Other times it *is* the same, but they had previously run some erroneous code that redefined some function or variable. Perhaps they redefined max to be a specific list rather than the built-in functions that returns the largest element in a list.

That code is no longer in the notebook since they edited it trying to fix their mistake. Restarting the runtime environment usually fixes this, but it's a nasty issue to track down.