LP: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (front)
LP: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (rear)
Kind of Blue. Session #2 of 2 recorded on this day in 1959.
"A defining moment of twentieth century music"
#MilesDavis #jazz
The next *three*!
… so we can shake his hand?
In about 2010 I bought a $100 Microsoft/Nokia smartphone that had a faster processor, more pixels in the screen, more storage space and more RAM than the computer I used in 2000 when writing my comp-sci Honours thesis. And it was a better digital camera than the Kodak DC3400 I had then, too.
Tampa, FL
Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work
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I live in hope, but I haven’t seen that button yet.
I am 180+ days overdue on this terrible AI-voice over bad PowerPoint compulsory internal training.
It’s also full of impenetrable HR jargon.
Right wing tech bros: we love Star Trek but it's too woke nowadays. Too preachy. Kirk's show wasn't like this.
Average TOS episode: AI is bad and should never be allowed to run a society. Also, make peace because nationalism kills and every life form must be respected equally.
Repeat for as long as they’ll go with you to the library….
I am medically banned from climbing ladders, for which I am unendingly grateful.
It was when the Hero/Protagonist was revealed to be named “Hiro Protagonist” that I thought something was up.
Snow Crash is absolutely biting satire. It’s not aiming to be aspirational.
Teach critical literacy to technology students!
Your mobile phone exists because of software I wrote in the 90s (seriously). That hardware exists because of another trans woman. The book on how to do microelectronics was written by a trans woman. Loads of the internet is kept running by trans women.
Rachel, THINK FOR ONE SECOND
If you like that ⬇️ may I introduce you to Genevieve Bell’s 2006 paper “No more SMS from Jesus” www.dhi.ac.uk/san/waysofbe...
I have seen this.
It was SO good! My favourite bit was your little “there are stories” to Joe’s “perverts?”
I honestly like the pics of the Luce interior, but I also like “random switchgear” interiors from 60s British cars.
Project managers: “I have added people to this project that is late, as recommended in Fred Brooks’ classic ‘adding people to a late project makes it later’”
Just kidding no project manager ever has read Royce.
Project managers: “I am following the waterfall software development model from Winston Royce’s 1970 paper ‘Do not follow a waterfall model for developing software’”
Spectacular thread.
The maddening thing about this all is that Winston Royce wrote about this in 1970.
Vibe coding broke people's brains because they had a bad understanding of the software design process.
The pop culture model goes something like this: start out with a sketch and then render that same idea in progressively finer detail.
So when tools could "skip" to high detail, people went WOW.
What coders lose by relying on AI. From our event with the University of Washington Office of Public Lectures.
(with @emilymbender.bsky.social)
It is excellently orange.
The only way this could be better is if it had the pop-up headlight front.
This is why I _don’t_ have one.
I keep trying to write clever blog entries with Deep Realizations about government tech, while failing to document the simple, fundamental truths that guide my work. So here's one of those fundamental truths: government simply has to hire people who understand how technology works.
“Hire people who understand software” might not be a Deep Realisation but I think it is an Executive Realisation.
Perfect time to reestablish K-HOLE
