This show convinced me 7-year-old me that I too could build a spaceship out of things I found in the backyard.
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This show convinced me 7-year-old me that I too could build a spaceship out of things I found in the backyard.
Bush v. Gore, man. What an inflection point. That week post-9/11, had President Gore come on the TV and said "We need to get off of oil as a matter of national security", we would've all done it.
Instead we got…
So if we want to know why dialysis is being rationed, there's a clear answer: it's so the 311 richest families in the country can enjoy one of the lowest effective tax rates in the world. We're killing people in order to make the ultra-rich ultra-richer
Or… programming.
As a recent convert to the Church of Cricket, this is a delightful story to learn about.
But also as a recent New Zealander, this is a DELIGHTFUL story to learn about.
An excellent, thoughtful essay that lines up with a lot of my personal experience with human-centred software design.
As an aside, this mindset is often described as "lean" because you skip the "waste" of low fidelity work.
Buddy, no. Low fidelity is not the waste. Work in low fidelity is what prevents the high detail work from being waste. Lean is when cheap-as-free sketches are all you need to avoid that waste.
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
Supreme Court just ruled that AI creations can't be copyrighted, so…
"Listen to me:
Our profit from the post office is the post office.
Our profit from a library is the library.
Our profit from a school is the school."
This would *significantly* set these kids back from being able to enter the modern workforce, not to mention kneecap their online security/anti-scam education, and devastate a significant number of kids through social isolation. Especially at-risk kids. Cascading generational damage.
Ōtepoti op-shoppers: The BroadBay rummage sale is on this weekend, and the Macandrew Bay school fair is on next weekend. Also, the Duck in Mac Bay is open for all you coffee/cake/actual meal needs.
Very relatable, ha! Thanks for the breakdown… interesting stuff!
This is a good principle for design in general:
When users tell you there's a problem, they are usually right.
When users tell you how to fix it, they are usually wrong.
(bonus: if you replace "user" with "stakeholder" this still applies)
This is such a cool idea. What's your "self-hosting" setup? The thought of a tiny custom server at home with a dedicated IP just fronted by an aggressive third-party cache is very appealing.
We seem to be seeing an explosion of dudes with radically optimised workflows, yet the concurrent explosion of more and better software products doesn't seem to have arrived.
Including pretty much all of the government.
Is my fear that this is an attempt to force previously private & encrypted communications to become unencrypted and snoopable under the guise of protecting children justified?
My Large Cultural Organisation's 100-year backlog of Things That Are Not Digitised would like a word.
i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat
but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it
They are so disconnected from the output of their work that many of the norms of the industry are outright illegal: there's a good chance that if you follow popular practices for a React project, for example, you'll end up with a site or product that violates accessibility law in several countries
Developers who come up in this system generally have no benchmark or reference point for genuinely working software. Most usability labs were disbanded over 20 years ago. Very few companies do actual user research, which means most of their designs are based on fiction. Bugs are the norm.
Full on makerspace and a sound studio
If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.
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I just keep coming back to how entire fields of iso9000-ish quality control and process management are based on repeatability, predictability, and optimisation. Your average 1995-era Perl script has more utility in that realm than any LLM.
We're facing exactly this same dynamic… in New Zealand.
www.rnz.co.nz/news/busines...
