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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I think of this every time my boss copies from Microsoft Word and the pasted output is an image of the text.
AN IMAGE!
How is that usable Microsoft?!
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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?
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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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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
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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.
@htdrake will pass on this one, but I'm going to seize the #BoardGamesAToZ opportunity to play the Arkham Horror card game. #BoardGames #AkhamHorror
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).
I'm doing #ungrading again.
Because I can't realistically keep a sense of the progress of each of 50+ students in my head, I give a number for each assignment:
0: Turned in nothing or a blank document.
1: Significantly incomplete.
2: Basically complete. For programming assignments, passes all unit tests.
3: Above and beyond -- perhaps tackled an optional challenge problem.
Several 0s and 1s indicate a problem to be addressed. 2 is by far the most common result. If a student wants to argue for an A, they should have a few 3s.
**The question: should I show these numbers to the students?**
Pro: It give them a sense of how they're doing, and therefore how much energy they need to allocate to this class.
Con: They will look at the number, think of it as a "grade", and pay no attention to written feedback.
Thoughts?
Kickin' it old school with our heirloom handmade Aggravation board. #BoardGamesAToZ #BoardGames
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Tech kvetch
I'm giving students permission to register for my class even though it's over the original capacity. We (barely) have enough room to squeeze these nine more into the lab, so that's not a problem.
Using our (fortunately soon-to-be-replaced) system, each one requires FIFTEEN mouse clicks or hotkey presses.
No, there is no way to do this in bulk.
Am I spending longer complaining about it than the actual task will take? Sure. BUT STILL.
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💔 RIP Ken Block, killed yesterday in a snowmobile accident. His Gymkhana Five is one of the greatest videos showing off the sights and streets of San Francisco.
https://youtu.be/LuDN2bCIyus
#KenBlock #Gymkhana #GymkhanaFive #Gymkhana5 #StreetsOfSanFrancisco #Hoonigan #drift
- 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
