Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Me: I’ve been bitten by a wolf!

Doctor: Where?

Me: No. Just a normal wolf.

Shot in the dark here: did you, or anyone you know, work at the #Harvard Office of Information Technology (#OIT) circa 1997-98, AKA When Everyone Quit At Once over the summer? (Before or after the quitting is fine.)

If so... I have some questions which you are probably no longer legally enjoined from answering! 🤣

I really wanted a better sense of how the current version of DALL-E (through GPT-4) works and what the limitations still are (because people keep telling me it's OMG SO AMAZING), and so I'm trying to use it to illustrate my "Twas the Night Before AI Bias" poem. Seemed like a decent test case.

Ask me how many times I have had to write "Can you please not make all the elves white?". Also, totally bizarrely, it insisted that it's incapable of illustrating elves without... wings. WINGS.

Looking at my game's source after 2 weeks

#gamedev

`@staticmethod` is (almost?) always wrong in #Python. It doesn't take the object's state as an argument, which means it's just a plain function. The class name is only used for namespacing, but modules already do this.

The only reason that I know of why people keep writing them is being taught Java's version of OOP too early too deeply. Java uses classes as a namespacing primitive.

I'm surprised that so many people don't know this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Time to put a smile on your face! 😃

#dogsofmastodon #fun #pets #dogs #dog

Watching his favorite movie! 😀
#dogsofmastodon #fun #pets #dogs #dog

🤔

The statues move.

#WritingPrompt #RPGhook #ttrpg #dnd #writing #AmWriting

help I'm dying

Lost "Doctor Who" episodes found but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/11/lost-doctor-who-episodes-found-owner-reluctant-to-hand-them-to-bbc
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38229998

What most ancient Greek poets forgot to mention was that in addition to guarding the gates of Hades, Cerberus was also a floofy chonk.

#dog #dogs #dogstodon #dogsofmastodon #cerberus #humor #humour #funny

Happy #ExplodingWhale day to those who celebrate.

https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?si=zHptSJMhOOnO9l76

#Oregon #history

I've recently installed #ubuntu on a Microsoft Surface Pro tablet.

I can scroll using either the stylus or the touchpad on an attached keyboard, but I can't find any way to scroll using just my fingers on the touchscreen. Does anybody know how to do this?

comfy symbiosis

#Caturday #Saturdog

Please look at these incredible illuminated manuscript cookies katie made yesterday