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- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
Next fall, one of the undergraduate classes I'm teaching is Perspectives in Computer Science, a "CS 0" course for non-majors.
I plan to do it in Python and emphasize game development.
What's your favorite BEGINNER-FRIENDLY tool/library for developing games in Python?
Textbook suggestions also welcome.
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A few times I have told the anecdote that the singly most baffling thing I ever saw in a code review — not the most insecure, just the most “how could a real programmer have written this? how could this ever make sense?” thing — was simply a C++ variable “number_of_trucks” … declared as float. Unambiguously referring to real physical trucks in a fleet.
Reader, it’s been over ten years and I am blowing the gods damn whistle. I had edited that story to protect the guilty: the variable was named number_of_planes. It was shipped by a company whose name begins with “B” and rhymes with “GOING out of business.”
@lalitpatnaik Car enthusiast: *nods while writing down "remove tires, drive on rims" and "tailgate more aggressively"*
@ryan2one3 @lowqualityfacts "The first time Morgan Freeman saw himself crying in a mirror, he became old, and he remained that way his whole life."
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02.05. Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the West
Before we realized just how epic January's ice storm and power outage would become, we managed a very chilly play in the fading afternoon light. Even though I scored a personal best, @peterdrake still squeaked out the victory (73 vs 70).
Spoilers, both photo and alt text, can be found behind the Sensitive Content warning.
@LouisIngenthron I have not. The struggle is always between buying more books and reading the ones I have.
A castle, following Blando, "Fantasy Mapmaker". #art #MastoArt #ColoredPencil #mapstodon #ttrpg
What happened to this plant and can it be saved? #houseplants #plantstodon
(Due to a recent ice storm, it was subjected to a few days of near-freezing temperatures.)
@SmudgeTheInsultCat "You will ride eternal, shiny and chrome!"
@bradk I don't know much (and less about shaders). The funny thing is there isn't even a GameObject at that location, so I don't know what is failing to be shaded. Also, this doesn't happen when running the same WebGL build on a different OS.
Error messages in the browser console support your hypothesis, but I don't know what to do about them.
Note: Creation of internal variant of shader 'Hidden/PostProcessing/FinalPass' failed.
q3.framework.js.gz:10:34907
ERROR: 0:2: 'GL_AMD_vertex_shader_layer' : extension is not supported
ERROR: 0:20: 'gl_Layer' : undeclared identifier
ERROR: 0:20: 'assign' : l-value required (can't modify a const)
ERROR: 0:20: 'assign' : cannot convert from 'highp int' to 'const highp float'
q3.framework.js.gz:10:34907
0(285) : error C7532: global function uintBitsToFloat requires "#version 330" or later
0(285) : error C0000: ... or #extension GL_ARB_shader_bit_encoding : enable
0(285) : error C0000: ... or #extension GL_ARB_gpu_shader5 : enable
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The Oregon Supreme Court Rules GOP Senators Who Walked Out Can’t Run This Year https://www.wweek.com/news/2024/02/01/the-oregon-supreme-court-rules-gop-senators-who-walked-out-cant-run-this-year/
@bradk Definitely.
I beat a 2 dan! I (black) had five handicap stones and was very, very careful to hang onto my ever-shrinking lead until the game was over.
https://ai-sensei.com/game/6HhIL50SU1YUwtfnxeT5kTMrG0z1/wYabZhGn0gtpIeS3GTya
If you're looking for something to read for Black History Month, Michael Harriot's "Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America" is a good choice. In turns entertaining, edifying, appalling, and inspiring, it powerfully casts African-Americans as the active protagonists, not merely the victims, of our national story.
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Curated Accounts
Have you tried following any curated accounts?
Curated accounts are accounts which simply select and boost posts relating to a particular subject. By following curated accounts you can receive a steady stream of posts pertaining specific interests.
There are many curated accounts available. Perhaps the best known are the @Flipboard "Desks". Last week @newsmast introduced dozens of "Community Feeds".
This thread lists known #CuratedAccounts you can follow.
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Peter Drake HAS MOVED
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- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
I have moved to peterdrake@mstdn.social. If you found peterdrake@qoto.org on a website, please let me know at my new account.
Joined Aug 2018
