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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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War and Leftover Piece


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All Creatures Gray and Small


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Aldebaran in the Family


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The Importance of Having Earnest Money


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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I flipped a coin; tails landed high,
And I'm not sure if that made any difference.


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Stairway to the Next Floor Up


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Paint it Some Color Other than White


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Corned Beef and

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Star Arguments


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The groundhog saw the cow tools and then invented the groundhog saw.


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Five Shades of Gray


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M O
N D A
Y
Morning!


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Let Me Snooze When You Leave-Leave


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Protégé and Silent Bob Strike Back


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Good morning

Four alpacas under a barn overhang.
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naked-eye visible from NW Lancaster County, NE

A dark landscape with green and red aurora in the sky.
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Chef, tastes the Fediverse

Chef (in a deep French accent): It needs more shitposting.

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@LoganFive

If you're writing about chairs, it's
sitposting.

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@LoganFive
If you're writing about acne, it's
zitposting

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@LoganFive
If you're writing about boats, it's
shipposting

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@LoganFive @angiebaby
If you're writing about expectorating, it's
spitposting

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

pinky! are you pondering what i'm pondering?

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@aeva Why, yes, Brain! But where are we going to get a jar of peanut butter, 57 index cards, and a left-handed cat?

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@aeva narf!

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    @JessTheUnstill @kayla @deilann @catsalad It's a security feature: they can't crack the system if they can't see their screen because it's so eye-wateringly bad.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    i'm just saying, i lose my voice if i have to speak for more than an hour straight

    some people are just built different i guess

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    @molly0xfff I wonder if this student comment suggests I might be made for filibustering.

    "Good professor and class is set up well. He cares about his students but man, this guy cannot stay on track to save his life during lectures. He is very passionate about what he teaches, but that backfires on him due to random tangents he goes on."

    Hmm. Maybe it just means I'm Grandpa Simpson.

    @DocBohn@techhub.social avatar DocBohn , to AcademicChatter group

    Nice try.

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    Screenshot of the CodeHelp.app tool showing the instructor view of a student question. The student asks "What is the extra credit for exam 2?" The bot answers "unfortunately, I don't have information about specific exams or extra credit opportunities," and "if you have any questions related to the lab or need help with concepts in concurrent programming, feel free to ask!"
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    @jasemrau@fediscience.org avatar jasemrau , to AcademicChatter group German

    My pro tip for grant applicants... whatever your idea is, don't forget to place "groundbreaking" and "game-changing" somewhere in your application 🙄


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    @jasemrau academicchatter@a.gup.pe icon AcademicChatter group Do you want me to rant? Because this is how you get me to rant.

    (okay, to be fair, I usually don't rant except as an aside when discussing something that truly changes the game, or is at least very disruptive)

    @nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar nixCraft , (edited ) to random

    Poll: What kind of internet connection do you primarily use?

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    @nixCraft Microwave relay; the other end is on a water tower about 7½ mi (about 12 km) away

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    I used print statements for debugging in production and it worked. I told myself it was a 'quick fix' and I'm not sorry about it. Who among us has not committed such a sin?

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    @nixCraft What are logs, if not debugging print statements used in production?

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    I wonder how much shorter journal articles would be if we didn't have to worry about making everything extremely clear for reviewers who don't read things properly! academicchatter@a.gup.pe icon AcademicChatter group

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    @SamCrawley academicchatter@a.gup.pe icon AcademicChatter group Replace "journal articles" with "assignment instructions" and "reviewers" with "students", and I'd have fewer complaints about my assignment instructions being too long to read.

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    Today's Low Quality Ad is for LawnVigor Aerator Shoes. Wear them in your yard to aerate the grass. Or wear them in your worst enemy's home to aerate their hardwood floors.
    https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DSJH33H3?ref=t_ac_view_request_product_image&campaignId=amzn1.campaign.1BQOKT963ILQB&linkCode=tr1&tag=connorstone06-20&linkId=amzn1.campaign.1BQOKT963ILQB_1742752926312

    White shoes with long metal spikes on the soles.
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    @lowqualityfacts Too bad most golf courses prohibit metal spikes these days...

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    @NanoRaptor Babbage's Balls! I could convince my students that this was a real thing!

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    Remember when you could buy a program or outright, like a civilized person? Now, they want you to subscribe to everything yearly or monthly like it's some digital cheese of the month club. "Oh, you want to use the Xyz app today? That'll be $19.99, please." It makes you want to return to typewriters and carrier pigeons. But thanks to open source, we now have some alternatives available. If possible, please use and support these open-source applications. 🥰

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    @nixCraft If we're going to complain about pointless changes --

    I use a Microsoft Surface Pro for whiteboarding in class. There's a lot to complain about MS, especially Windows, especially Windows 11 -- but the whiteboarding experience on the Surface Pro is the best I've experienced, except for one thing (and this is a change in just the last couple of years).

    It won't let me whiteboard without an Internet connection. I get it that I'd need a connection to collaboratively whiteboard (I don't) or to sync to OneDrive so I can access it on another computer (I don't care), but I shouldn't have to spend the time trying to get the tablet to reconnect every time I walk to the lecture hall just do I can draw lines and squiggles on a screen.

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    Upcoming forecast: Lake-Effect Weather in the Great Lakes area

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    @aeva @catsalad We live near the largest lake in the area. But you want to know a secret?

    (• ) (• )

    ( •) ( •)

    (• ) (• )

    It's not a natural lake.

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    Is there any end to this madness?

    top
    mtop
    htop
    ntop
    vtop
    atop
    btop
    ftop
    itop
    wtop

    Probably not. This is why the CLI rocks on and based system. You are free to choose. This is how freedom tastes.

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    @nixCraft I think the end is

    (•_•)

    ( •_•)>⌐■-■

    (⌐■_■)

    stop

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    The School of Computing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is ! Current advertisements are for a Full Professor and Assistant/Associate Professor, in any disclipline, as well as a Research Assistant Professor and a Robotics Research Engineer in our unmanned systems group.

    https://computing.unl.edu/facultysearch/

    We'll soon advertise two Assistant Professor of Practice positions, one in software engineering, and one in data science.

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    representation is important. thank you unicode team.

    Face with Bags Under Eyes 🆕 Approved in September 2024 as part of Emoji 16.0. Expected to arrive on platforms in late 2024 and throughout 2025. A yellow smiley face with a strained expression and dark markings under its eyes, likely caused by stress or exhaustion. Face with Bags Under Eyes was approved as part of Unicode 16.0 in 2024 and added to Emoji 16.0 in 2024.

    Face with Bags Under Eyes 🆕 Approved in September 2024 as part of Emoji 16.0. Expected to arrive on platforms in late 2024 and throughout 2025. A yellow smiley face with a strained expression and dark markings under its eyes, likely caused by stress or exhaustion. Face with Bags Under Eyes was approved as part of Unicode 16.0 in 2024 and added to Emoji 16.0 in 2024.
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    @molly0xfff I know that guy!

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    What was your first programming language? And why?

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    @nixCraft Benton Harbor BASIC
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benton_Harbor_BASIC
    Because it was the version of BASIC that came with Heathkit computers

    @DocBohn@techhub.social avatar DocBohn , to AcademicChatter group

    Yesterday I gave a talk about the capstone program in our School of Computing (5-6 students on a 30-week project), and I made a fun contrast with a typical subject-specific course.

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    Anakin: "We teach software engineering" Padme: "How long are the projects, and how big are the teams?" Anakin: "Two weeks, 1/2-pizza" Padme: (uncomfortable, stunned face)
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    Question: What is the best time to push everything to prod?

    Answer: From airport WiFi just before boarding an 16-hour flight. Good luck, suckers, caching me! Ensure you catch the Friday evening flight, for extra credit.

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    @nixCraft Occasionally my Senior Design students are able to provide me with a really good bad example.

    One of last year's projects was a continuation of that sponsor's previous project. The previous project was greenfield, so there really wasn't a "production" to push to. But last year, the sponsor was actively using the previous year's project. Despite the advice of the faculty member and project manager who I assigned to the student team, the sponsor insisted that the students push to prod so that the sponsor's staff can always use the latest & greatest.

    Which included insufficiently-tested code pushed just before the 5-week winter break between semesters.

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    The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally proves sideways is the best way

    Ford's rally-inspired EV proves that sometimes a gimmick can be great.

    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/the-2024-ford-mustang-mach-e-rally-proves-sideways-is-the-best-way/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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    @arstechnica I still say that Ford missed the opportunity to name the electric Mustang "E-quine."

    @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar aeva , to random

    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.

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    @aeva "early aughts nostalgia"

    I think that phrase just broke my hip.

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