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

@justafrog @futurebird I am also bothered by the gratuitous overuse of "utilize". It is *almost* always better to use "use".

Some will say that these words don't have exactly the same meaning. "Use" means what you think it does, but "utilize" suggests that you're making something useful in a way that it wasn't previously, e.g., "He utilized his credit card as a spatula."

@dmself @futurebird I use a password manager that for some reason chose a font where these symbols (and possibly the vertical pipe |) are identical.

In related news, this is why I tell my computer science students not to use a lower-case L (l) as a variable name. I was shocked when I ran across an introductory machine learning book that, in the first chapter, had not one (1) but five (5) variables with this name -- they differed only in font!

@futurebird Eating utensil.

@hellomiakoda Peanut butter.

Some action at the dragon feeder. #DragonsOfMastodon #dragon #shadow

@trinsec There's usually an icon that lights up, but it can be hard to spot among the dozen or so other icons. It's red, but that wouldn't help the colorblind.

This joke works just as well if a video clip of the line from the movie is played on the screen most cars have nowadays.

It's a huge UX fail that, when you forget to put on your seatbelt, your car just plays a generic chime instead of an audio clip of Topol shouting, "For God's sake, strap yourselves down!"

Clearly a rodent got into the emergency food supplies, ate a mouseful of this Clif bar, and noped out of there. I guess we need to keep the lids on these bins. #preparedness #rodents

It's only "menudo" if you're doing for sport or enlightenment. If you're using it in combat, it's "menujutsu".

#cooking #BoyBands #MartialArts #puns

(Adapted from Bond, p. 483.)

Suppose you have a Unity GameObject obj and want to set its x position to 5.

You'd like to say:

obj.transform.position.x = 5;

but this doesn't work!

The reason is that position is a property, so obj.transform.position returns a new Vector3, not the one stored in the transform.

You therefore have to do this:

pos = obj.transform.position;
pos.x = 5;
obj.transform.position = pos;

This bothers me because you can't tell by looking at something whether it's a field or a property. .position is accessing a property, but .x is accessing a field.

#unity #unity3d #csharp