Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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I have been working on an updated version of the Starmada Drydock, one which should be fully functional within both MS Excel and LibreOffice. At the moment it builds ships but does not create the SSD.
Anyone interested in taking a look and trying to break it for me?
@ravisambamurthy @mastodonindians There's a fascinating image processing algorithm for solving this "pesky tourist problem": take a series of pictures (from a tripod-mounted camera for consistency) and take the modal (most common) value of each pixel.
(In this case, you probably don't want to remove the "tourist".)
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RT @Rainmaker1973@twitter.com
This ultra-small generator is highly portable and works even with shallow, slow moving water. Already tested with powering street lights, it promises to allow people in the world’s remote regions to generate their own electricity
[source, full video: https://buff.ly/2U6yeEc]
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@ginnyhogan Computer science is the only discipline that still thinks binaries are a good idea.
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Le pliage du jour !
Un rhinocéros
Modèle créé par Syn. Diagramme disponible dans Comic Origami.
Plié dans du kraft duo, 21×21cm.
Vue la petite surface du changement de couleur, il est possible que je gruge un peu quand je le replierai, en colorant une partie de l'envers. Parce que trouver de beaux papiers bicolores, ce n'est pas toujours simple.
Ah, et il y a une erreur dans le diagramme, en tout cas si on en croit la photo en début d'ouvrage : il "oublie "une oreille...
What's the story here? A strange way to get high? Making explosives? Keeping open the option to reattach anything that was shaved off?
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Dragons are real. And they live in the ocean.
Blue Glaucus or “the blue dragon” is a brightly colored nudibranch. They incorporate toxic chemicals & stinging cells from prey into their skin as a defense against predation.
And in my humble opinion, it’s more spectacular than anything ever imagined in Westeros. #science #nature
@ZachWeinersmith You know about the FIRST robotics league, right? https://www.firstinspires.org/about/vision-and-mission
Also, a few years down the road:
https://www.aspirations.org/award-programs/apply-for-the-award-for-aic
@ZachWeinersmith I'm not so much worried about the privacy side*, but all this data mining is using up all of our cycles and bandwidth, then blasting us with a constant firehose of ads.
*I recognize that, if I were a part of a marginalized group, I would be MUCH more worried about privacy.
@savanni FWIW, @montecook is on Mastodon.
@ivanski "Does that ceiling fan look loose to you?"
"I suddenly regret ignoring the signs saying not to sit here."
"If you two die, can I have your votes?"
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The first thing to understand is that in the USA, 60% of all Black men in college will drop out.😢
The primary reason for dropping out is not grades. It is financial hardship. This is true for students of all races. Not all poor students are Black, but in the US, most Black college students are poor.
You can ask a US college student 2 questions:
1) Are you rich?
2) Is your family rich?
If the answers are "No" and "No," there is a very good chance that this student will not graduate college.
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I have a feeling I'm going to need to update this one at least a few more times for #mccarthy
A nice talk on automating game testing from the 2019 Game Developers Conference.
Mild spoilers
@gidorah I was Wendy. The waitress, the librarian, and I were all defeated, in part due to friendly fire. It was a close thing; the final boss only had one health point left.
@htdrake will pass on this one, but I'm going to seize the #BoardGamesAToZ opportunity to play the Arkham Horror card game. #BoardGames #AkhamHorror
@undefined @goeland86 Yes -- in some sense the difference between an A and a B is the difference between grokking and merely successfully completing the tasks.
I have some other thoughts on what the final letter grades mean here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xXvmiHJB66jHNd4ZFUIw1FyP-7K8a1wr882bVuA3naM/edit?usp=sharing
An image search shows that there are (at least) two completely different Model-View-Controller patterns out there.
In one, the model is an intermediary between the view (which displays things) and the controller (which receives user input).
In another, the controller is an intermediary between the view (which interacts with the user) and the model (which stores data).
- 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
