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Just two more days left in Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which means time is running out to win a copy of my card game Siva Afi: The Fireknife Dance of Samoa.

thegamecrafter.com/games/siva-

Boost to be entered in the drawing.

So, how to make friends with a squirrel?
Step 1: be good friends with local chipmunks!

A successful Session 1 of my space campaign. The party has become involved in a 10,000 km ice rally (think Dakar) to win money to buy fuel.

Other fun tidbits:

They arrived on this planet with a cargo hold of alcohol to sell ... but it turns out it's illegal on this planet.

The uplifted capybara enginer has been convinced to take part in the race with the promise of installing a hot tub on the ship.

Another race team comprises the son of one character and the nephew of another. They were embarrassingly confronted at the pre-race brunch by their older relatives (who don't yet know what these young mean are *really* up to).

Multiple organized crime families.

"Are we space drug dealers?"

As a cliffhanger, an attack by ice ostriches.

Do you want your posts to be seen by as many people as possible on here?

If so, it's important to use hashtags. Hashtag searches are the main way people find posts on the Fediverse. If a post doesn't have hashtags, people probably won't see it in search results.

Don't worry about using too many tags! As long as they are relevant, it is fine to have lots of tags. Many put a long list of them at the end of the post.

Also, if you are using tags, it's important to set the post's visibility to "Public" so that the post appears in search results.

On Mastodon you can set a post's visibility by clicking the visibility icon at the bottom of the post when you're writing it (the icon looks like a globe 🌐 , lock 🔒 or @ sign).

You can set your default post visibility by logging in through the website and going to Preferences > Other > Posting Privacy, select the default you want and click "Save Changes".

#FediTips #MastoTips #Fediverse #Mastodon #Visibility #Hashtags #Tags

Suppose you've got two files open because you're gradually pasting pieces of one into the other. In JetBrains projects (IntelliJ, PyCharm, Rider), you can mark the old version read-only so you don't accidentally edit it.

`NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object`

is the new

`Segmentation fault (core dumped)`

: I found a null pointer when I wasn't expecting one.

Me: Okay, where did you find it?

: I'M NOT TELLING!

Many programming languages use = for assignment and == for equality testing.

Some use <- or := for assignment.

Do any use ?= for equality testing?

#2624 Voyager Wires 

Also, they're getting increasingly worried that someone will accidentally hit the 'retract' button, and that the end of the cable thrashing around as it winds up could devastate the Earth's surface.
xkcd.com/2624/

'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens bit.ly/3LL7T7p

Since I took this picture three years ago, I'm more and more convinced that I'll never take a better one.

Adjunct computer science teaching position in Portland, OR.

Description

The Department of Mathematical Sciences at Lewis & Clark College invites applications for a one-semester (five month) adjunct position in computer science for the fall 2022 semester, beginning on August 15, 2022. The position involves teaching one course: Algorithm Design & Analysis. Lewis & Clark is a small liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon.

Qualifications

Applicants should have an MS or have nearly completed a PhD. Teaching experience preferred.

Send me a direct message if you're interested. Please boost for visibility.

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