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Your Camel is Burning Across the Desert Sands

Sometime in the mid-to-late 80s, my brothers and I got hooked on a very early text adventure game called “Camel”. The premise is that you’re fleeing across the desert on a camel, being chased by “pygmies.”

I don’t recall how we obtained the game; I do remember loading it from a floppy disk, but I’m not sure whether we bought the disk preloaded or if someone typed it in from a magazine, but we played it enough times that some of the program’s outputs have been a running joke in my family for decades.

The line “Your camel thanks you” (displayed when the player chose to stop for the night) came up again this weekend. This inspired me to see if I could find the BASIC program online.

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Disable Co-Pilot Code Completions

I’m putting together a small collection of pages to share with family. A CMS would be overkill for this, so I’m creating the HTML by hand (and sometimes I enjoy doing this stuff by hand).

I’ve reached the point where I’m adding text, describing the photos and the memories they bring back. And because I’m using static HTML files, I’m using Visual Studio Code.

The problem is, the GitHub Co-Pilot that’s useful for auto-completing some of the boilerplate, also wants to chime in and offer suggestions for the text of my memories. Not only is this distracting, but some of the text is wildly inaccurate (after all, these are my memories, not the bot’s). So, how do you turn this off?

It turns out this is relatively simple:

  1. Go into the Command Palette (Ctrl-Shift-P or Command-Shift-P)
  2. Select “Github Copilot: Toggle (Enable/Disable) Completions”

(There’s also a “Github Copilot: Disable Completions” which will have the same effect.)