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Professor_Stevens

@Professor_Stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place

Comp Sci and Immersive Media faculty member at Univ. of Md, USA.

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dgar, to random
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The existence of Norway implies...

Professor_Stevens,
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@dgar

I hate to be a wet blanket, but doesn't this gag call for the first flag to be a NOR gate?

Professor_Stevens,
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@dgar

Trust you to wring that out of me.

Professor_Stevens,
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@dgar

However, to avoid that, let's complete the set with this one:

Professor_Stevens, to random
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The House Oversight Committee's members who were drunk (not necessarily all of them) were unable to get their stuff together during a failed attempt to vote on holding Merrick Garland in contempt of congress.

When do we get to vote on holding Marjorie Taylor Greene in contempt of the people of the United States?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/greene-called-bleach-blonde-bad-174434038.html?

aral, to ireland
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A little tour of the Greystones coastline from my OneWheel. (Decided to treat myself to a crepe and make the most of the dregs of the good weather from this week.) :)

https://vimeo.com/946204435

Professor_Stevens,
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@aral

Lovely. If life is long enough, I'll drop in someday and buy us a couple of espressos.

Professor_Stevens, to random
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Mastsdonians: does anyone know what this thing is?

shoq, to random
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@jeffjarvis You had me at ⏵

Professor_Stevens,
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@gooba42 @shoq @jeffjarvis

I think we do it by emphasizing the roll of the editor instead of the publisher. Same reason I still pay for science fiction when so much of it is available on line for free: I don't have time to find the good stuff on my own. So, I am willing to pay to have someone I trust make my editorial choices for me.

Also, we do it by admitting that people should get paid for doing something useful, much as we hate that idea.

kuba, to random
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Professor_Stevens,
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@kuba

Does anyone else see the irony here?

Professor_Stevens,
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@DanielEriksson @kuba

Well, "Banksy" is an internationally known brand, ubiquitous and uninvited, selling its products for in excess of US$10m per unit.

I don't seem to be ignoring anything.

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@beeoproblem @DanielEriksson @kuba

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/irony

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@beeoproblem @DanielEriksson @kuba

And I know fallacies. You're pretty deep into one right now.

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@beeoproblem @DanielEriksson @kuba

Thanks for the personal touch, much appreciated.

Agreed that being a hypocrite doesn't invalidate one's argument. But my observation wasn't about the argument. Part of Banksy's appeal is their counterculturalism (or so I'm told; I find Banksy boring). Yet here's Banksy, building the brand by making a counterculturalist argument that is utterly self-referential.

It's the same "I'm on your side" trick Trump uses to win undeserved support. That was my point.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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It just never ceases to amaze me how violently, like clockwork, police respond to left leaning or left led protests. Every single time.

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@Adam_Cadmon1

Would have been nice to see something like this kind of police response in Charlottesville before Heather Heyer got killed.

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@Adam_Cadmon1

The police took virtually no action against a massive white-supremacist "demonstration" several years ago in Charlottesville, VA. One of the participants deliberately rammed his car into some observers, one of whom was a woman named Heather Heyer, who died as a result.

If the police had acted to break up the event as readily as they are responding to these campus protests, Ms. Heyer would still be alive.

Why do you suppose they didn't?

ExtinctionR, (edited ) to random
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The editors of Scientific American have written an opinion piece saying we need to move away from to because of local & carbon , road crash death & injury and how it restricts access to life for so many- the young, the elderly, the poor & disabled.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-need-to-make-cities-less-car-dependent/

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@ExtinctionR

I love non-car options. I ride my bike to work as often as I can.

I am 65 years old.

I have arthritis.

Please keep me in your thoughts.

augieray, to random
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One of the things I've learned reading ~1,500 research reports on is the importance of REALLY reading them and not just relying on the conclusion. Here's an example: This study finds "there was no evidence of an association between COVID-19 and adverse perinatal outcomes." Great, huh? Not so fast: "COVID-19 in the first trimester was associated with fetal death, RR=2.36 (95% CI 1.04, 5.36)." That means fetal death is 236% more likely! Crazy conclusion! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38604636/

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@augieray

The conclusion says "in the OVERALL sample there was no evidence," [emphasis added] but also says, "severe COVID-19 may increase the risk of some perinatal outcomes, with the first trimester potentially being a high-risk period."

That appears to me to be consistent with the data reported in more detail in the body of the report, but this ain't my area, for sure.

lauren, to random
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The theft of $30 million in cash from a Los Angeles (Sylmar) processing and storage facility on Sunday night is of course a very serious crime. However, one can't help but have a certain admiration for the style shown. So far no identifiable traces left. No alarms were triggered. Nobody hurt. Quite the 1960s heist film plot in real life.

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@virtualbri @lauren

If you think that's wacky, check out an operation called the "Depository Trust Company."

aral, to CSS
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Oh how useful text-emphasis would be if it didn’t affect line height.

Professor_Stevens,
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@aral

I have always been frustrated by the lack of consensus on how to emphasize flat text.

Is it:

I am NOT gonna take it anymore?

or

I am not gonna take it anymore?

or

I am not gonna take it anymore?

Caps kinda work in the example above, because I'm shouting.

They not so good when you're just being emphatic, as in:

Crossing by covered wagon took six months. Today, we can fly across in six HOURS.

What do you use?

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@ninavizz @aral

So how do you emphasize in flat text?

appassionato, to KindActions
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World Central Kitchen founder's response

“The air strikes on our convoy were not just some unfortunate mistake in the fog of war. It was a direct attack on clearly marked vehicles whose movements were known by the [Israeli military]. It was also the direct result of his [PM Netanyahu’s] government’s policy to squeeze humanitarian aid to desperate levels.”

Jose Andres

@palestine


Professor_Stevens,
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@PaulWermer @appassionato @palestine

One of my senators (Van Hollen) has done so. My other senator and my representative (Cardin and Ivey) haven't. I sent my thanks to the first and my request that they make such public statements to the other two.

Please contact your electeds and tell them you want them to make this statement. I was an elected official once. Hearing from your constituents does mean something.

aral, to Israel
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‘It happens in war’: Israel admits responsibility for killings of aid workers in Gaza Strip

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2024/04/02/gaza-israel-latest-updates/

You spelled “genocide” wrong.

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@jwcph @aral

I no longer care if Israel's slaughter of innocent people is on purpose or by accident. Even if it is all accidental, it all looks the same as if it were on purpose.

If it is on purpose, Netanyahu and his commanders are criminals, and must be stopped.

If it is by accident, Netanyahu and his commanders are incompetent, and must be stopped.

Either way, they must be stopped.

Writing to my federal officials today: no more aid to Israel.

mekkaokereke, to random
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The highest paid WNBA player makes under $1M a year. WNBA and NBA teams play 5 players to a side.

Ice Cube has a 3 on 3 basketball league called "The Big 3" that is made up mostly of retired NBA players. Ice Cube just offered Caitlin Clark a $5M contract to play in the Big 3. 🤯

Many WNBA players play in other leagues during their off-season, in places like Russia and Greece. The Big 3 plays during a time of the year when there is no WNBA season, so she can play in both leagues.

Professor_Stevens,
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@mekkaokereke

Caitlin is awesome. So was Diamond Miller when she played college ball (go Terps!) and she is great with the Lynx.

My wife and I go to every Maryland home game. It's huge fun and, imho, the women play better ball than the men do. They are slightly less rough-and-tumble, but noticeably more technical (you don't see as many jump stops in a men's game).

Lowest NBA pay is $1.1M/yr. Highest WNBA is $200k/yr. The owners won't invest in promotions.

It's just do dumb.

baldur, to random
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Looking through Linkedin and all the bad managers I've had seem to be cast from the same mould:

  • Into "AI", but gesture towards doomerim to look reasonable
  • Believes "AI" coders will replace programmers
  • Pretending they weren't into "blockchain" a few months ago
  • Uses trendy PKM du jour (Aboard is replacing Notion among the MBA types)
  • Uses passive voice to gloss over the mistakes they've made in the past
  • Older ones talk about Web 2.0 as if it wasn't a bullshit marketing term at the time
Professor_Stevens,
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@otfrom @baldur

Serious question here: What is "Web 2.0?"

Professor_Stevens, to random
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So, if you expect to lose a judgment in New York, and have billions of dollars in assets, but just don't want to put up the entire amount pending appeal, make sure you lose very, very bigly. That way, you can whine about how your record-setting fraud is too expensive to pay for, and you'll get a break.

For the rest of us, losing relatively small amounts that we nonetheless still cannot pay means having our property seized and our wages garnished.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-civil-fraud-case-verdict-penalty-appeal-8447c48d0436083737204b13401438d2

Professor_Stevens, to random
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So my $50 cab ride from downtown SF to the airport ended with the driver handing me his phone so I could pay the fare with my card. Helpfully, it provided three buttons in the UI for me to choose a tip percentage.

My options were: 20%, 30%, and 40%.

Forty percent? Really? I'm going to volunteer to make my $50 ride into a $70 ride?

No.

Tip is 15%. Or, on the UI he gave me, it is "Custom," where you get to figure out the exact amount yourself (I tend to round up, so he got 15.9%).

Tip is 15%.

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