The25 March 2024 xkcdhonours Greenland’s place as a measure of cartographic distortion. It’s also, unexpectedly, a riff on the idea of the 1:1 scale map (cf.Borges), especially if you consult the comic’s alt text: “The Mercator projection drastically distorts the size of almost ever...
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or explore innovative graphic techniques, setting them apart from the ordinary static comics. He will useanimated GIFs, rather than standard formats, for some of the simplerdynamic comicimages and will engage with complex page and server-side scripting to present the reader with the more immersive...
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Team Teaching, Humor, and Informal Polling Techniques in NECDMC - Based Research Data Management Workshops at Brandeis University Humor was employed strategically through icons, disaster stories, and select xkcd webcomic strips within the lecture and slides. Informal polling and direct ... M Radik,...
I consulted davean’s deep knowledge of game programming techniques. We walked through the code together over Discord. Neither of us could spot an obvious problem with the formulae until we started stepping through the physics state tick by tick. At last, we spotted a deeper problem!
I wonder if the book Megan spots on the bookshelf is a sly reference to the classic (but rather staid) computer-science textbook "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" by Aho, et al, AKA "The Dragon book". The cover of the first edition does has both a dragon & a sword on...
SBN: "I just want to add to the combining quotes in replies techniques. The control key is your friend. I tend to use control-Quote to open a new reply, and then combine the replies into one." NoMouse: "Also middle mouse button works in all browsers the same way as ctrl+click." ...
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