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peterdrake

@peterdrake@qoto.org

CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.

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jonikorpi, to gamedev
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Worked on non-visual stuff all year and missing #screenshotsaturday, so here are some choice clips from last year’s prototypes.

#gamedev

Tiny player character with an anime-style portrait frame, standing on a forested coastal island. Stylized, French comic-ish graphics. Hex grid world. When a hex is clicked, the world loses its color, apart from the bits surrounding the character, and displays a pathfinding route to the clicked hex.
Tiny player character freely walking in a wobbly fashion around a sandy coastline, near a forest. Glitchy player portrait frame randomises between different faces.
Tiny player character with feminine portrait, standing in a forest. The world loses its colour when the camera zooms in, only colouring in the bits the character can move to.
Similar to the videos before this one, but this time the world is foggy, and only the character’s surroundings are clear, and the colors there very saturated. Mountainous area with a bay.

jonikorpi,
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Aaand some of my favourite screenshots, because I’m enjoying going through these

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday

A rather epic cliff-surrounded plateau. Foggy coast with some woods underneath it. Drier terrain on top of the plateau.
Distant view of an arctic coastal area. Wide swathes of brightly coloured fog all around.
A valley at the edge of what I think are tundra and taiga biomes. Nice line of fog at the bottom of the valley, and a little lake.

futurebird, to random
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I don't know as much about vertebrates as I do about bugs but I do know a fruit bat when I see one.

Stop saying I'm wrong.

futurebird, to random
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I have never been more disappointed by a spelling error:

https://dp.la/item/9383481d7c3b1a327cbdf34ba6255d14

ai6yr, (edited ) to animals
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Animal Hour! Beaver! (ps. crunch crunch crunch) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOXIpsoEo2w

wonderofscience, to random
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"While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity"

― NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman

An astronaut in a white spacesuit with red markings conducts a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, with the Earth’s curvature, blue oceans, reddish-brown desert terrain, and thick white clouds visible in the background.

enobacon, to random
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This needs to be broken down by which Agile. Was it the waterfall process with no requirements gathering, the scrum and methodology instead of code method, or the actually putting something that runs in front of stakeholders and iterating?

https://geeknews.chat/@theregister/112563321944952194

ai6yr, to random
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Had a bad day? At least YOU didn't run over a nuclear powered measurement device and potentially scattered Cesium-137, Americium-241, Beryllium, all over the place! 🤪 https://mastodon.tds.xyz/@whoopsie/112564414971748177

khalidabuhakmeh, to godot
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More goodness is coming in the next release of .

The support for is going to be awesome.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2024/06/05/rider-2024-2-roadmap/

mjg59, to random
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The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Some of y'all are still confused as to why it seems that Silicon Valley billionaires are "turning to Trump." That's because you don't listen to Black people, you disrespect poor white people, and you ignore obvious statistics that have been staring you in the face for decades.

Silicon. Valley. Billionaires. Have. Always. Supported. Trump.

Not because they like the tax breaks. Because they are more likely to be racist, and racism is the greatest predictor of Trump support.

1/N

TheWarOnCars, to Podcast
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"Paris has closed more than 100 streets to motor vehicles, tripled parking fees for SUVs, removed roughly 50,000 parking spots, and constructed more than 1,300 kilometers of bike lanes since Mayor Anne Hidalgo took office in 2014. Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution..."

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

CStamp, to random
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Woman posts video of her neighbour's corgi riding her one-eyed pony, it goes viral, then, of course, "you set that up."

So another day, she hears noise outdoors and shoots more video. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL9093SME9Y&t=32s

CascadiaRail, to microsoft
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More coverage of Cascadia High Speed Rail:

"Microsoft-backed high-speed rail project links major West Coast cities in under an hour: 'This is an investment in the future'"

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-home/cascadia-high-speed-rail-seattle-portland/

slashdot, to random
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CEO of Zoom Wants AI Clones in Meetings https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/06/03/1448220/ceo-of-zoom-wants-ai-clones-in-meetings?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

Hannah, to random
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The other day at work, in an online meeting, a fuckhead said the phrase “Well, it’s probably because she’s a woman and she doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about”, referring to an external contractor.

I’m not out, but I stopped the meeting and said “You don’t get to talk like that in front of me. Now, I have to call HR.”

There was laughter. To which I replied sternly, “It is not funny. Do better.”

There was no laughter then.

I don’t put up with that shit. Misogyny, any kind of trans- or queer- based phobia, racism. None. That’s how you ally - you speak up. You challenge the notion that these fuckers are in a safe place. You DO have power to create change. Be the voice for the voiceless.

Afterwards, two of the other attendees reached out to me to thank for my courage to stand up to one of the “cool kids”. I don’t need thanks, I need people to be better.

BE BETTER.

rdp, to pdx
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#PDX nerds: I'm embarking on a home #networking project and need about 250 ft of quality solid copper #Cat6 (or better) cable. Before I buy new, is anyone holding? Anyone with a half-used spool gathering dust in the garage? I'd much rather buy someone's leftovers. Thanks!

rephlex00, to random
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Just because I barked up the wrong tree doesn’t mean you can call me an idiom.

LoganFive, to Haiku
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I thought the sign read
“Haiku Club” not “Hiking Club.”
We walked for hours. Hours.

cpay, to Birds
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Bluebird again

RickiTarr, to random
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Friends: Who are you listening to right now?

Me, very hip: Oh, you wouldn't know them.

This is a song playing the piano and howling and barking, and legit, he sounds pretty good. I've heard much more insane Mingus albums

josh, (edited ) to random
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Hey folks! I'm looking for examples of elected officials and people running for office who have accounts on the fediverse.

Know of one? Please let me know! Boosts appreciated :boost_requested:

stux, to random
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She has a real good example of how algorithms on platforms like Instagram not only try to make you addicted but also divide us even more

I real LOVE the fact Mastodon and most of the Fediverse software avoids this all together

A girl explaining comments shown on an example Instagram posts. It looks at your age, gender, interests and serves comments based on that.

TonyStark, to random
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if you can't be in a coalition with people you disagree with on at least a few things, you can't build a coalition big enough to accomplish anything in the United States or defeat rising fascism.

It’s just not going to work.

thorncoyle, to random
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Usually, if there’s a thing you feel passionate about doing, there are other people already working on the project.

Individualism is not helpful. Find a place to plug in.

ramikrispin, to datascience
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Gradient Descent Visualization 👇🏼

I was looking for examples of interactive data visualization for a gradient descent algorithm, and I found this app by Lili Jiang. This desktop app is based on C++ and enables simulation and visualization of different gradient descent algorithms, such as momentum, AdaGrad, RMSProp, and Adam. The app enables to compare different methods simultaneously.

https://github.com/lilipads/gradient_descent_viz

Image credit: App repository

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