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

Stacklands had, for me, the same arc (on a smaller scale) as FTL:

1. This is sort of interesting, but the graphics are underwhelming.
2. This is too hard.
3. <Late at night> Wait, but what if I ...
4. Oh, I can give orders while the game is paused? This changes everything!
5. I got a sense of completion from beating the main objective, but the bonus objective(s) would be too tedious.

It's clever. Definitely got my $4 worth.

#VideoGames

Stacklands had, for me, the same arc (on a smaller scale) as FTL:

1. This is sort of interesting, but the graphics are underwhelming.
2. This is too hard.
3. <Late at night> Wait, but what if I ...
4. Oh, I can give orders while the game is paused? This changes everything!
5. I got a sense of completion from beating the main objective, but the bonus objective(s) would be too tedious.

It's clever. Definitely got my $4 worth.

#VideoGames

@lilithsaintcrow Relevant:

https://twitter.com/moochava/status/354986725388468224?lang=en

5-minute still life. #mastoart #drawing #beginner

@goeland86 I ordered one about a week ago. All I have is an estimated delivery date of "June 2022", so I'll have to back stuff up to an external drive while I wait.

5-minute still life. #mastoart #drawing #beginner

@rythur @htdrake I must, at this point, link to the greatest facial hair of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYi24D9lHqc

@jalefkowit You know about the National Popular Vote Compact, right?

https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/

We're over 70% of the way there!

This aged relatively well.

https://twitter.com/DrPeterDrake/status/891104077802643456

@rythur ... but, to @htdrake's great relief, no mustache.

I've completed my term as department chair with more colleagues and more hair than I started with.

#winning

Another #rstats gotcha:

1:2 produces integers, but c(1, 2) produces doubles. They're not equal, but they're printed the same.

@data_science

@rythur @data_science Yes, I'm liking this one much better. I need examples like everyone else, but as a computer scientist (and a tabletop gamer), I want the rules laid out explicitly. This book does that, points out where R's way is handy, and also points out the gotchas.

@hhmacedo "Ah-h-h," as Frank Herbert would say, "-h-h-h-h-h-h-h."

Thanks!