Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
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CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
Grant me the serenity to just give up and work around the bush-league UI design flaws that @Microsoft@twitter.com has no intention of fixing. The ROI of contacting their support is ... well, zero.
Interdisciplinary Team Lands $500K for Earthquake Preparedness Research https://www.lclark.edu/live/news/41473
Your mileage may vary, but I did grab two anti-distraction tips: tell your browser to make new tabs blank and to never ask you if you want notifications.
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RT @Nick__Bentley@twitter.com
Marijuana transformed me...into a productivity ninja. An essay about one of the strangest, most joyous things that has ever happened to me. http://bit.ly/nicks-marijuana-story
https://twitter.com/Nick__Bentley/status/1148245500942008320
A Graphical Comparison of Earthquake Energy Release https://youtu.be/bom4Av4aq8I via @YouTube@twitter.com
This also works in PyCharm, and so presumably in other @jetbrains@twitter.com products, including IntelliJ (for Java) and Rider (for C#).
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RT @MBoffin@twitter.com
THIS. IS. AMAZING. I had no idea! I feel like so much o@jetbrains@twitter.comhas been a waste now. https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1148956662503497728
https://twitter.com/MBoffin/status/1149095045074604033
RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
Playing video games can be an effective painkiller, as it ‘distracts’ the part of the brain associated with pain response.
OH: "I'm just grown up enough to swear a lot."
How many of our technology frustrations come from capitalism's incentive to make new stuff instead of fixing the shoddy stuff they sold us last week?
C# lets you access string elements with s[i], which is nicer than Java's s.charAt(i). Of course, Python's slicing is even nicer.
RT @Mr_Meowwwgi@twitter.com
How to summon a demon
RT @qikipedia@twitter.com
If adjusted for body size, only 19 species of mammals live longer than humans. 18 of them are bats.
RT @thedailytexan@twitter.com
BREAKING: Full-ride scholarships will be offered to all in-state UT-Austin students from families earning under $65,000 starting in 2020. Story to come.
RT @TheOnion@twitter.com
Historians Discover Thomas Jefferson May Have Secretly Fathered Multiple Other Countries https://trib.al/UtHCiI9
RT @madhukishwar@twitter.com
Norwegian woman Ayla Kirstine developed an unusual skill — running and jumping like a horse because of her love for horses. Love takes so many wondrous forms👇
I never know how much is my own impatience, unreasonably high standards, or failure to read directions and how much is terrible UIs. The point is that communication is hard, even if both parties are trying.
Is there a word for my bad habit of publicly venting my tech frustrations? Maybe something Icelandic for "screaming into the void"?
I realize that sometimes obscure features don't work, but this is obviously broken and reachable in a single click from the home screen. Seriously, how did they not notice this?
The fact that @Windows@twitter.com boots to a random image from your Pictures directory seems like a security hole.
When I click on the Windows search bar on my @surface@twitter.com, I get a wildly flickering (not rendering properly) request to "Get the Skill" to use Cortana. Oddly, the link takes me to an @amazon@twitter.com page to enable her. How do I make this ad go away?
- 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
