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DocBohn

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Professional Thinker.
Usually thinking about #AirPower, #ComputerScienceEducation, nerdy stuff, or #alpacas & #chickens. Sometimes all at once.
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masukomi, to random
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I am exhausted while pushing the mower. I had just asked Siri to set a reminder and she omitted the most important words in that reminder.

Me: hey siri…
Siri: uh huh?
Me: oh, fuck it. Nevermind. I can’t
Siri: ok it’s deleted.
Me. ⁉️ what’s deleted⁉️
Siri: < reads me the definition of the word “deleted “>
Me: 😭

DocBohn,
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@masukomi

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Good morning

DocBohn, to random
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Good morning

Five alpacas hanging out in a barn stall. Three are kushed. One is standing, looking at the camera, and chewing. One is at the edge of the frame, eating from a feed bucket.

RickiTarr, to random
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So, I was on a long drive yesterday, and put on some pump me up music, so I didn't get sleepy. I just put something on YouTube, and I ended up in the group of music that I would call Peak Mid to Late Millenial. For perspective, I'm one of the Gappers, not quite old enough to be Gen X, but also feel too old to be a Millenial, although I suppose I technically am, just an Ancient one. ANYWAY, this music, on the surface, sounds like bubble gum pop dance music, the kind you dance in "da club" to, but as I was listening, I realized most of the lyrics had a trend that broke down basically to this:

Get your friends together, drink heavily, have sex, party, DANCE, GO LIVE IN THE PRESENT, because we will all probably die young anyway.

Most of these songs are probably between 10-15 years old, and honestly probably really caught onto the zeitgeist of the time. Hope didn't work, we are still caught in a shit conflict none of us want to be in. The world is actively burning, and no one in power wants to save it. We make less money than our parents and their parents, we'll probably never get to own a home, we'll probably have college debt forever, if we could even afford to go. Might as well party your life away. I do wonder if Trump was a pretty big slap in the face about how bad it could really go, because this Apocalypse attitude seems to be changing a bit, or maybe Gen Z is just rebelling against their sad grunge Gen X parents. LOL

Either way, that was some kind of a ramble, share your thoughts on this, and listen to a peak representation of this musical phenomenon. It's kind of a banger.

https://youtu.be/NOubzHCUt48?si=e9ZwpiRj9A5Q9hfT

DocBohn,
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@RickiTarr Years ago I bemoaned the loss of oldies stations. Then I enjoyed it a while as I realized that the oldies stations were playing the songs I grew up with. Then I gave up as the oldies stations played songs I don't recognize.

Someone finally addressed my need. There's a "Boomer Radio" station in these parts, and I'm back to listening to '60s music. https://www.myboomerradio.com/

DocBohn, to random
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A conversation on another site reminded me of something fun that happened on one of my exams last fall.

If class attendance gets low enough, I'll walk off camera and/or turn off the mic to give the attending students the answer to a bonus question on the exam. The question is a fill-in-the-blank question with the prompt something like "What did I draw on the board on October 15?"

On one of the exams, about 3x as many people had the correct answer as had actually attended. I realized I wasn't rewarding those who attended so much as rewarding those who had a friend who attended.

My horror at this realization was offset by my amusement at another realization. There was at least one student who refused to provide the correct answer -- there was a sizable number of students (about 2x as many as had attended) who all had the same incorrect answer.

#AcademicMastodon

dgar, to random
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Koalas aren’t bears.

Even though they’re koalafied, they failed bearification.

DocBohn,
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@dgar Please tell me that the collective noun for koalas is

koalition

RickiTarr, to random
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Who is the best Batman villain and why?

DocBohn,
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@RickiTarr The Henchman Employment Network.

Without "Mother HEN", the other villains would find themselves remarkably short-staffed.

(oh, wait, this only exists in my headcanon?)

dgar, to random
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It’s that time again!
Show me some memes!!

DocBohn,
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@dgar A little something I created a couple of DST changes ago.

DocBohn, to HashtagGames
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Given you up.

Rick Astley dancing in front of a microphone.

aeva, to random
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I love how much stuff is catering to my late 90s / early aughts nostalgia. Final Fantasy 7 is new and blowing my mind, and in the background an evil tech monopoly is about to get a slap on the wrist by the DOJ 😌 it's like I'm 10 again.

DocBohn,
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@aeva "early aughts nostalgia"

I think that phrase just broke my hip.

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@aeva

faraiwe, to random
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WTF

DocBohn,
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@scheidegger @faraiwe There's no kerning issue. The bus is the express service to Jes, US.

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Good morning

dgar, to random
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Sweet Caroline…

DocBohn,
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@dgar You want an earworm that just won't let go? There's a cover of Sweet Caroline that sounds like it's being performed for the Close Encounters aliens.

DocBohn,
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@dgar https://youtu.be/M14yIdVRBic?si=vDlFwalvtxSWiAr3&t=35

RickiTarr, to random
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Share your cute adorable face, or don't, just be a lurker!

This my face in the sun, and my poofy hair and my eyes looking at you

DocBohn,
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@RickiTarr Am I doing this right?

masukomi, to random
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/me grumbles something about "fucking americans" and "god damn imperial measurements"

DocBohn,
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@masukomi I tried to get away from measuring things in fractions of inches, but my students strongly objected to microfurlongs.

DocBohn, to HashtagGames
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Sex, Lies, and Sticky Tape


DocBohn, to random
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Good morning

A flock of chickens trying to figure out how to free-range without crossing the snow around their coop. Eventually, they decide to cross the snow.

nedbat, to random
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Tired of this: "learn C so you can understand how a computer really works."

So much of modern computers is not visible from C (pipelining, virtual memory, branch prediction, cache misses, etc).

I guess what they mean is, "you learn about pointers and consecutive memory locations"? How is that helpful for programming in other languages without pointers?

C teaches you an abstraction of computers based on the PDP-11. It's interesting, but it's not essential.

DocBohn,
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@nedbat I'll readily agree that learning C doesn't teach you how a computer really works. But when teaching how a computer really works (not really -- I still keep it relatively simple), I find C to be useful.

When discussing a model for processor architecture, I find it easier if my students have been exposed (and played around a little with) assembly. I find that C is a useful stepping-stone to make assembly a bit more graspable. The hands-on portion of the first third of my course could be taught in Java, but that would require a greater leap to assembly.

Later in the course, we talk about memory-mapped I/O -- the hands-on portion definitely isn't do-able in Java or Python.

Have I considered languages other than C? Sure, but on the balance, C seems to be the right choice for this course for these students.

muskanity, to random
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😹🤣

DocBohn,
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@muskanity @clive It's the car that made the White Castle run in less than twelve minutes.

DocBohn, to HashtagGames
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One is the Loanliest Number


0xabad1dea, to random

you can use computers every day for thirty years and still be utterly blown away by new error messages you cannot even begin to comprehend

DocBohn,
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@0xabad1dea I had to take a second look to convince myself that the icon doesn't include a christmas tree ornament.

DocBohn, to HashtagGames
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Just about any song by SantaNa


DocBohn, to HashtagGames
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I like big bows, but I cannot knit
Buy off the rack, and it'll surely fit


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