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DocBohn

@DocBohn@techhub.social

Professional Thinker.
Usually thinking about #AirPower, #ComputerScienceEducation, nerdy stuff, or #alpacas & #chickens. Sometimes all at once.
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MissingThePt, to random
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Spain in a surprise move in World Cup Final deploys Armada offense against England.

DocBohn,
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@MissingThePt Seems like a sure way to light a fire under them.

Alice, to random
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Happy Saturday, everyone!

DocBohn,
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@Alice Not being able to see the submerged portion of the floaty due to refraction, makes it kinda look like that's some sort of portal.

gsuberland, to random
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if you've not heard this remix of Sweet Caroline, you need to, if only for the drop.

cracks me up every time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M14yIdVRBic

DocBohn,
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@gsuberland Now I have a mental image of this crowd cheerfully singing when a flying saucer shows up.

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Rencontre Du Troisième Type GIF

dgar, to random
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Every C in Pacific Ocean is pronounced differently.

DocBohn,
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@GustavinoBevilacqua @dgar Otherwise known as the Sean Connery pronunciation.

DocBohn, to random
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I'm looking for a few guest speakers for a couple of my software engineering courses at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

The first course is for first-semester students, so they'll be interested in learning what software engineers do. The second course is a mentorship & leadership course, so those topics will be people-skill related.

You do not have to be in Lincoln, or even Nebraska, to be a guest speaker. If you're close enough, you're certainly welcome to be an in-person guest speaker, but we've had remote guest speakers in the past, and I expect we'll continue to have remote guest speakers for many years to come.

Here's a link to let me know that you're interested: https://forms.office.com/r/j7FLmFX3vs

I'm going to boost this now & again over the next couple of days to try to catch people in different time zones, and I'm hiding it behind a CW so it's not too annoying to people who see it more than once.

Please feel free to boost it, too!

simon, to random
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Answered a question on Hacker News about using ChatGPT for programming tasks with a bunch of my own examples... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37126182#37127206

Comments so far include "If someone on my team was doing things this unusually they’d probably be let go" and "sorry but these examples are not impressive at all and by no means a representative of any serious programmer's workload"

A lot of people out there are absolutely determined not to take the practical utility of this stuff seriously!

DocBohn,
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@simon trust, but verify.

DocBohn, to random
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Good morning

A flock of chickens mulls about near a small greenhouse.

dancinyogi, (edited ) to random
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Who learned to type on a real typewriter?

Please boost for a wider demographic.

DocBohn,
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@dancinyogi And I was the only boy in the class

cliffwade, (edited ) to fediverse
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Does your computer have a CD/DVD drive in it currently?

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the

DocBohn,
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@cliffwade "Other": I have a 12yo external USB CD/DVD drive that my current computer doesn't want to play nice with.

masukomi, to random
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A short, really good post explaining a "Punch Line" method of status reporting that conveys the important info first, and makes it harder for people to obfuscate what's really going on.

Similar to the "inverted pyramid style" of journalistic reporting.

Includes an entertaining anecdote and is definitely worth the time to read

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2565077/i-m-ok--the-bull-is-dead.html

DocBohn,
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@masukomi When I was in the Air Force, we had the BLUF. While everything after wasn't necessarily quite so structured, you wrote the Bottom Line Up-Front so that we knew how to read everything that followed. Today I teach it to my students as the TL;DR line.

While not an official thing, I also developed a style I called "The General's BlackBerry". It came after I noticed that the general I was working with on a particular project had his BlackBerry's font cranked up to display maybe 32 characters wide by 5 lines tall (I'm not sure about the exact numbers, and it doesn't matter). So I started writing emails with his device in mind. Short sentences. Everything he needs now in one or two short paragraphs after the BLUF. Anything that can wait until he got to his laptop after that. I teach that to my students as the "smartwatch email".

onelson, to random
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A ghost in the shell is worth two in the bush

DocBohn,
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@onelson
...worth two in the bash.

design_law, to random
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"I am not ready for it to be August," she cries, already one-third through the month

DocBohn,
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@design_law Tell us that you're a professor without telling us that you're a professor.

timonsku, to random
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Reading DHL Express shipment updates feels like reading tea leafs

DocBohn,
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@timonsku ...but sometimes they use a teabag.

Had a shipment go on hold the other day. Checked their customer service page, and the automated answer was that they needed more information from me; follow this link to get the specifics. I follow the link, and there's a list of a half-dozen things I can do but nothing saying what information they needed.

clive, to random
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Hundreds of years ago, writers of alphabetic language used "Scriptio continua" -- there were no spaces between words

Eventually we realized that chunking the words with whitespace would dramatically aid comprehension

Here's an essay wondering why we so often fail to do this today ...

... with numbers, many of which -- in the commercial world -- are still delivered in Scriptio continua: https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2023/07/digital-age-why-our-numbers-need-updating.html

DocBohn,
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@clive absolutely! Digit separators are one of the things (but not the only thing) that I'm looking forward to in C23.

As I noted a couple of years ago when reading @thephd's update on the process:

"The digit separators might even make me less skeptical when students insist that 0b011111111000000000000000000000 is more readable than 0x7F800000"

What's funny is that for all the people who agreed with me, no one noticed that the binary literal has only 30 bits instead of 32. Which emphasizes the point (and was also an actual student error).

Alice, (edited ) to random
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You must have misheard me.
I didn’t say I was an alpha male, I said I was an ALF female.

DocBohn,
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@Alice suddenly, I'm no longer sure you're talking about the sitcom from the '80s

DocBohn,
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@Alice Oh, no wait. I just remembered Alf's favorite snack.

(But I'm still no longer sure.)

DocBohn,
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@Alice yeah, I know. Seems I'm slow on the uptake.

That, and my immediate word association with Alf is "mustard". It's because of the "Alf Tales" cartoon. They had an episode that mirrors the John Henry legend, but with chefs. There's a conversation:
"You said I couldn't cut the mustard!" / "You can't cut the mustard. You spoon the mustard!"

DocBohn,
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@Alice @bleakfuture oh, my poor sensitive eyes!

Sully from "Monsters, Inc." fainting

evelynefoerster, to random
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&LETTUCE JOKES
What’s a gardener’s favourite Beatles song? Lettuce Be.

DocBohn,
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@evelynefoerster Didn't Gregory Peck & Audrey Hepburn enjoy salads together on their Romaine Holiday?

gvwilson, to random
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I used to say that if I could have a minor superpower, I'd want to know where lost things are. ("Honey, where are my car keys?" "Oh, they've slipped down the back of the couch again. And you left the receipts for the dry cleaning in the top draw of your desk at work.") These days I'd trade that for being able to revise conversations—to retroactively not have put my foot in my mouth or forgotten someone's name. I wonder what minor superpower I'll want if I live another twenty years?

DocBohn,
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@gvwilson I already have an one dealing with the frequency of bathroom breaks, but not in the way you mean.

I can pee on command.

It's (almost) useless and has raised the suspicion of the occasional urinalysis monitor, but it's my

clacke, to random en-us

Several shapes of OSHA vs NSFW memes are making the rounds and I love it.

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@clacke

donni, to random
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Please do not gaze upon my works and despair! I worked really hard on them

DocBohn,
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@donni Gaze upon my works and de spare. I worked hard on dem so dat in case summin happens to de works, I got de spare works.

cheeseblintzes, to fediverse
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I found a downside to country life.

Our windows are currently open, and our neighbors have cows.

Guess what my house currently smells like?

DocBohn,
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@cheeseblintzes An old post of mine from the other place...

DocBohn,
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@cheeseblintzes We've had the opportunity to get very good at convincing escaped cows to go back to the neighbor's cattlefield. Sometimes they'll even show us the break in the fence.

I remembered another old post that is a bit more relevant to your original comment about odors. This screenshot doesn't have the original comment it replied to, but I think you can figure it out.

lowqualityfacts, to random
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Titanic reboot but it's on the world's new largest cruise ship, and Jack never finds Rose again after meeting her because the stupid mega boat is simply far too big.

DocBohn,
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@lowqualityfacts "Icon of the Seas"?
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