peterdrake

peterdrake, 1 day ago to python

Multiple assignment swapping is handy when implementing sorting algorithms (for teaching purposes) in #Python:

a[i], a[i - 1] = a[i - 1], a[i]

freemo, 25 days ago to random

@peterdrake

To update you and eveyone interested. We have 4 out of 5 of the versions tested on beta. The last one is where we expect some problems. If so we will apply 4 out of 5 and work on the 5th. Otherwise we might have all 5 updates applied to production soon. The first 4 succeeded which is a nice first step!

peterdrake, 1 day ago to random

Up and at 'em, people! These delivery trucks aren't going to bark at themselves!

s1m0n4, 2 days ago to juggling

#workoutoftheday

🤹‍♀️ 1h of #juggling

I've been trying the mills mess with 3 balls for what feels like a godzillion years and now I finally see the light at the end of the tunnel🕯️😁. I'm close!
The same goes for alternating 2-1 doubles with the clubs

Then it was time for my #circuitraining session.

2x45s, 2x30s:
1️⃣ High knees
2️⃣ Floor ladder (cardio)
3️⃣ Side plank
4️⃣ Bulgarian split squat
5️⃣ Scissors
6️⃣ Squat jump
7️⃣ Wall chair
8️⃣ Hollow hold
9️⃣ Russian twists @ 3kg
🔟 Adductors

#fitodon #fitness

Me struggling with mills mess 3 balls
Me struggling with clubs double 2-1 sequence
Me doing a 180° rotation while juggling with clubs. Ending the sequence by passing a club under my leg

peterdrake, 2 days ago to art

Art question:

Some projects in the colored pencil book I'm working through ask for various shades of gray. My 36-color Prismacolor set doesn't have any grays, just black and white. What should I do? Fake it by varying pressure with the black colored pencil or graphite?

#MastoArt #art #drawing #ColoredPencil #asktodon

peterdrake, 2 days ago to random

It turns out ZZ Top's 1973 song La Grange is not, in fact, about orbital mechanics.

peterdrake, 2 days ago to pdx

PBOT needs help counting bicycles!

https://www.portland.gov/transportation/walking-biking-transit-safety/bicycle-counts#toc-2024-summer-bicycle-counts

#pdx #portland #BikeTooters #biking #bicicyle #ClimateChange #climate #transit

peterdrake, 2 days ago to random

A safe deposit box implies the existence of a dangerous deposit box.

peterdrake, 3 days ago to random Luxembourgish

Pickachu is a bluegrass type Pokémon.

peterdrake, 3 days ago to drawing

Dahlia, per Ferreira. #MastoArt #drawing #ColoredPencil #bloomscrolling

peterdrake, 4 days ago to random

TLDR: draw.io is groovy for drawing diagrams.

A while back I went through the tutorials for Inkscape and was fairly impressed.

Now that I sat down to draw some box-and-arrow data structure diagrams, I found that (a) the knowledge had fallen out of my head and (b) it was nearly impossible to figure out how to do things by playing with the program. I probably spent the better part of an hour trying to center text vertically within a box. A DuckDuckGo search was useless, because I kept getting videos explaining how to do much fancier things like getting text to lie along a curve. The only source that explained the procedure was, surprisingly, ChatGPT.

Clearly this is far too powerful a tool for my task -- like slicing butter with a chainsaw.

I looked for open source alternatives and alternativeto.net reminded me of draw.io. I had used this before, but been annoyed that it insisted on saving things within Google drive and manually drilling through my directory structure each time. Fortunately, there is now a standalone desktop app that lets me save things locally. It feels much friendlier -- poking around for a few seconds tends to find what I need.

#inkscape #drawio

peterdrake, 8 days ago to python

If you want to build a simple #Python desktop application with a GUI, is tkinter the standard weapon of choice?

(This is for classroom use, so simplicity of the code is more important than it being fast, powerful, or bulletproof.)

peterdrake, 8 days ago to random

My workplace is preposterously scenic.

A frickin' gingerbread house
Verdant trees

peterdrake, 8 days ago to python

In #Python, I can define a class Fraction to represent a rational number. I can then create one with Fraction(2, 3).

Is there a way to overload a construction operator so I can say something like 2 ./. 3 instead?

unclepj, 8 days ago to random

Waiter: Welcome to IHOP, what can I get you this morning?

Me forgetting the word waffle: I’ll have the uh… the… graph… pancake.

peterdrake, 8 days ago to random

George C. Scott as Gollum: "My preciousss ... bodily fluids."

peterdrake, 8 days ago to random

Grant me the serenity to do by hand the things I cannot automate,
the skill to automate the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.

peterdrake, 9 days ago to random

frantically pressing numbers on keypad I'm in!

Convenience store clerk: Sir, that's a microwave oven.

peterdrake, 9 days ago to random

Spotted: A Mini Cooper with the license plate WEE CAR.

peterdrake, 9 days ago to ubuntu

My Ubuntu installation of Discord is borked.

snap refresh discord

gives:

snap "discord" has no updates available

but when I try to launch it, it gets caught in an update failed, retrying loop.

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling it.

Any ideas?

#ubuntu #discord