Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
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Cuteness alert: Dark-Eyed Junco looking rather fluffy today under some cold temperature. #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #nature #ottawa #wildlife
@ConsoleWitch That ended well for Ming the Merciless and Evil Willow, so...
If you fancy a video game, try Heat Signature or Magnum Opus.
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@echoechoR I do, but only on those rare occasions where I have to open a Word document someone sent me.
In the vast majority of word processing situations, I use Google Docs.
The last time I needed to format something to look nice on paper / PDF, I used Nisus Writer, but that was quite a while ago.
Wait ... we can't even search for hashtags in our own toots now? Didn't that work previously? Is this a #qoto specific thing?
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@jhertzli Interesting. What do you mean by "in more accordance with the data"? Do you have examples?
1. Strong presentations from the students in the first-year seminar.
2. One of them told me, "This class totally slapped!"
3. All my Xistmas shopping is done.
@higharchmage A falcon-owner might have to worry about, say, the money he owes Jabba.
@trinsec What are you playing?
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England and France should call a Christmas truce in the middle of the soccer game to sing songs and play a friendly soccer game
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Sell a man a fish, and he pays you for a day. Sell a man a subscription to a proprietary fishing system, and he pays you for the rest of your life.
@grammargirl I don't like "polarized" because it carries a whiff of both-sides-ism.
*inspects cuticles* OUR side didn't try to violently overthrow the democratically-elected government.
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An important reminder at this time of year:
You are under no obligation to maintain a tradition that you do not enjoy or cannot afford.
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Does science advance one funeral at a time?
One paper morbidly suggests so: "after the death of a star scientist, the flow of articles by non-collaborators [of the deceased] increases markedly [...] and is disproportionately likely to be highly cited."
The top 1% most-cited scientists account for 21% of citations. So a star's death leads to a citation vacuum, allowing lesser known researchers the chance to advance and reform the field.
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OK Mastodonauts... I need your help beta testing our PeerTube instance.
Though I'm @cdnspace, this is the video I can use to test. Please hit these videos and if you get ANY errors, please report them here.
Share widely so we can stress the crap out of this.
@trinsec Well, it's Subway, so it's "healthy".
A donut shop, on the other hand, might be a problem.
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I'm curious if there is any sense of whether #mastodon has or is developing a generational identity?
Anecdotal or data-driven takes welcome, but as a start, indicate your #generation below and boost. Discussion of the assumptions behind this welcomed!
(I had to lump older generations in with boomers because evidently surveys are limited to four choices.) #generation #GenX #genz #millenials #Boomers
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
