Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@qoto.org
- 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
uspol, climate
Democrats on climate change:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8QByzxYYHk
Republicans:
Tried the Qwant privacy-oriented search engine, but it's much weaker than Google. It couldn't find my own web page or maps to local buildings.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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I miss Shenzhen
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RT @towernter
Learning programming following a video tutorial
https://twitter.com/towernter/status/1558745418867118082
Finished playing Hardspace: Shipbreaker. Exquisite!
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@GreatBigTable @slyflourish I think there's a rich vein in the analogy between time travel and software version control, with commits, branches, and merge conflicts.
Post-its imply the existence of pre-its.
Finished playing The Crew: Mission Deep Sea with @htdrake. Satisfying!
I've still yet to try either this or the original with more than two players. That could be a whole different challenge.
@GreatBigTable Time travelers from the future coming back to prevent the assassination of someone who lived in our timeline. Better yet if it's someone who seems unimportant to us but whose death would lead to catastrophe.
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your ui should not passively animate for anything less important than a carbon monoxide leak.
it's effective at getting attention, often way too effective.
Hank Green is surprised to suddenly feel (guardedly) optimistic about #climate.
Enjoy driving a huge vehicle? #Portland has a deal for you.
TriMet faces historic driver shortage - OPB
https://www.opb.org/article/2022/08/12/trimet-bus-driver-shortage-portland-oregon-public-transportation-issues/
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Have you notice that all the drake mallards (male ducks) seem to have disappeared? If not, visit your local pond and observe. You'll only see brown ducks, like in this photo.
What is going on?
#birding #ornithology [1/3]
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Student volunteers can get free registration to the Richard #Tapia Celebration of #Diversity in #Computing Conference in Washington, DC:
Live in #Portland, Oregon? Interested in #disaster #preparedness and helping with heat waves, ice storms, and the looming Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake? Join the Neighborhood Emergency Teams and get free lifesaving training!
https://www.portland.gov/pbem/neighborhood-emergency-teams/volunteer
(In other US cities, similar programs are called #CERT.)
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Jared And Ivanka Holding Each Other At Gunpoint In Kitchen After Simultaneously Revealing Undercover Identities https://bit.ly/3QGJgf7
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did you know that while filming Predator (1987) Jesse Ventura bet Arnold a bottle of champagne that he had bigger arms (because the wardrobe department told Jesse his arms were one inch bigger than Arnold's) and then lost because Arnold had set the whole thing up with the wardrobe department
Preparing to teach Programming Language Structures for the first time in quite a while. I looked up my old videos on Haskell, which I was surprised find have tens of thousands of views!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKduftKRQvY4X2leuze7X7BSeQGOEXT1R
- 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
