Peter Drake HAS MOVED @peterdrake@qoto.org

What is the long end of the banana for?

Ouch.

I'm still confused by this #python oddity, originally posted by @driscollis:

x = True
y = False
print(x is (not y))
print(not x is y)
print(not (x is y))
print((not x) is y)
print(x is not y)
print(x == (not y))
print(not x == y)
print(not (x == y))
print((not x) == y)
print(x == not y)

Why is the last line a syntax error when the rest are fine?

There's a camp of like 600 middle school(?) cheerleaders on campus, and really, if they don't assemble themselves into a single, colossal human pyramid, what's the point?

Unity: sometimes, for no apparent reason, we're going to have stuff just stop working until you restart the editor.

#unity #GameDev

Somewhere in Texas, someone is standing waist-deep in floodwater, holding a shotgun, ready to test the famous ease of "shooting fish in a Beryl".

NPR just dropped a few bars of "Hot in Herre" under a sponsor announcement.

Aha! It's not as bad as I thought. The framerate is much higher if I play maximized rather than focuses -- probably because otherwise the particle systems are being rendered in the scene view.

Grrf. I've got a bunch of particle systems (burning trees), and they're tanking my framerate even when they're not on screen. Any ideas?

#GameDev #unity

Freddy vs Jason

Overheard: "I'm not sure where you get architectural pretzels."

Komi is 0.5 and each player has captured one stone. Who wins?

#go #igo #baduk #weiqi

Solution found:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/unable-to-login-unity-hub-on-linux.1176971/#post-8819518

UnityHub is also broken. It asks me to sign in, and when I do, the website claims it's launching Unity Hub. Nothing happens after that. I don't see any way to proceed.

#unity #ubuntu #GameDev

I tried

apt-get check

and got:

$ apt-get check
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?