Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
At the grocery store it's back-to-school season, but at the craft store it's already Hallowe'en. 🎃 💀 🧛 🦇
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Have you ever noticed that most self-driving cars don't have any passengers?
"Deadheading" is an industry term for keeping driverless cars in constant motion, even when they have neither a passenger nor a destination. Waymo & Cruise rely on deadheading to avoid paying for parking.
Why pay the city for public parking when you can store your car on the road for free (as long as it's moving)?
Since I've started keeping track, I've noticed that over 90% of the self-driving cars I see are empty...
I got one of these Monument devices to store my photos. Sure, it gets you privacy and all that, but the image recognition is vastly inferior to Google Photos. It thinks I've only taken five photos of my dog.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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One concern: does Windows still believe it owns both drives? How do I know it won't ever write there?
Well, that was easy. I'm posting from Ubuntu!
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Huh. The first thing on the Ubuntu website is a popup asking you to accept trackers.
Workaround: take a series of screenshots and print those.
Time to begin #TheDualBootening!
I'd like to print out all of my system specs on physical paper. In Windows 11, I can get some basic specs under System > About or by using systeminfo on the command line, but neither of these includes details like my graphics card. I can get this information from the Device Manager, but I don't see any way to either print it or paste it into another document. Any ideas?
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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just watched a video about the lack of bicycles in hollywood productions. e.g. there are post apocalypse shows where there's no fuel or they can't use engines for other reasons, and the characters are shown walking or riding a horse. they never try bikes even though it's the most popular mode of transportation on the planet. Daryl from TWD on a bicycle? uncool. if a protagonist is doing it, it's a comedy. riding a bicycle is seen as a ridiculous thing to do unless you're a child. I am stunned.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Do I know any screen reader users who have successfully completed advanced math coursework? If so, I would like to meet with you. Boosts requested
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Here is a fun animation that will help you to understand the relative rpms of the planets.
I will soon be in a position to design a physical, printed flyer, which I realize I haven't done in quite a while. What's your weapon of choice?
I'll open the bidding at LibreOffice.
In two days I'm going to dual boot my Windows box with Ubuntu.
I use the Windows machine *only* for gaming, so I don't think I have any data on there that I care about.
What am I going to regret not backing up?
#CSharp has enums, but you can cast regular ints to them, increment them, etc., giving you invalid values.
That seems to defeat the main job of enums.
C#: "We'll give you safety, but we'll also absolutely give you a duct full of buzz saws and live electrical cables if you really want to crawl through it."
- 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
