Barry Peddycord III @ishara@social.isharacomix.org
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Software developer and Ph.D. dropout who loves his Chihuahuas. 
My main interests are game design, federated application theorycrafting, machine learning, educational psychology, and stuff like that. I'm a huge #MTG and #ElectricVehicle nerd.
I live on a #SingleUserInstance, so sometimes I can miss conversation context due to federation issues. Follow requests welcome, no prior contact required.
Joined Nov 2017
So I just crawled out from under my rock and saw the Microsoft Flight Simulator trailers and I'm wondering: can we get this world scale game map technology for a driving game next?
I'm loving this series "Maddie Goes Electric" from Fully Charged. It's nice to have a show talking about cars that's full of excitement and whimsy for a change. #ev
https://invidio.us/playlist?list=PLzD0K2OhbVfFklgq7spH42H7xUEG_gEg2
Barry Peddycord III
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In tech, 'smart' refers to any device that stops working when the company that manufactures it goes out of business, regardless of what it does.
Oh wow, can't believe I'm finally about to finish this Persona 5 run!
it's weird to see jokes on twitter that I first saw on mastadon
pokemon, temtem
pokemon, temtem
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I learned about Temtem today and it is freakin cute. https://www.humblebundle.com/store/temtem
Oooooo apparently MTG Arena Tool lets you share your drafts now! That's very neat! https://mtgatool.com/draft/zhedyt
Oh hey I went 7-2 in a Dominaria Draft with a UW historic deck! That was fun. 
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people were talking about the millennium bug recently, well it turns out a lot of the fixes just delayed the problem to 2020
"Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option."
"Those systems that used the quick fix have now reached the end of that window, and have rolled back to 1920. Utility company bills have reportedly been produced with the erroneous date 1920, while tens of thousands of parking meters in New York City have declined credit card transactions because of the date glitch."
My new years resolution is kinda silly, but what I want to do is run a tabletop rpg adventure module. Get some social interaction while exercising my imagination muscles - two things that have really suffered since getting out of school.
More star citizen adventures
Today I did my first delivery mission in Star Citizen!
Most recent star citizen patch has the controls feeling much more responsive! The sluggishness of movement has always been one of my biggest complaints in the past, but that has either improved or I've gotten used to it.
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Excuse me but "Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg won’t talk to the Guardian. So we fed everything he says into an algorithm, built a Zuckerbot, and interviewed it" has got to be the best take. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/22/zuckerbot-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-botnik
Played forza horizon battle royale for a bit and it's a fun and silly take on the genre.
- Matrix
- @isharacomix:matrix.org
Software developer and Ph.D. dropout who loves his Chihuahuas.
My main interests are game design, federated application theorycrafting, machine learning, educational psychology, and stuff like that. I'm a huge #MTG and #ElectricVehicle nerd.
I live on a #SingleUserInstance, so sometimes I can miss conversation context due to federation issues. Follow requests welcome, no prior contact required.
Joined Nov 2017
