Totally misrepresents structured literacy, though. Not her fault, the media have done a terrible job of informing people.
I worked the HTML mines in the 90’s so I’ve seen some shit.
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Totally misrepresents structured literacy, though. Not her fault, the media have done a terrible job of informing people.
I firmly believe that those who think the least system is bloated and wasteful have never spent a night in a public hospital or have never had ongoing medical care.
Most conference presenters I watch are using Macs. They’re not even expensive either. You can pick up a used Mac Mini M1 for about $250-300USD nowadays.
As an outsider in NZ, the media gives the impression that the democrats are non-existent.
Could programmers from the 80's understand today's code? Could todays programmers understand code from the 80's? My brother, I don't understand my own code from last week. Every line I write is a bespoke bit of spontaneous genius that even I am incapable of deciphering mere days after writing it.
As usual, the discourse around structured literacy has been massively misrepresented by the media.
To be fair, modern playgrounds are pretty lame. youtu.be/jNrSMLUi3ps
Putin does love a window.
I’ve tried the iOS 26 public beta on my iPhone. Let’s just say I’m glad I had a backup of iOS 18.6. I’m not sure they got the direction right on that liquid glass thing. Transparent icons look awful.
The 2023 IRD wealth study found that the richest 300 people in NZ pay tax on income of 9.4%, versus 28% for someone earning $80k. Luxon Govt is removing the clauses of the tax law that allowed IRD to collect the study data. They don’t want you to know. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...
“We want AWS!” “We have AWS at home!”
“Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself? Why are you hitting yourself?”
I’d volunteer alongside him just so I could berate him mercilessly.
2006. I’m not basing this on anything, it just feels about right.
The Living End 👏
Ooof, that 2L of liquid gets hard going at the end. Worth it though.
There’s no way in hell I am trusting an AI to buy stuff for me. And all the tech bros telling us it’s going to happen can get in the sea.
“Private care does not “free up a bed” because the same limited pool of doctors and nurses work in private as well as public care.” This needs to be more widely known. My wife’s oncologist works both public and private. She doesn’t exist in two places at once.
m.imdb.com/title/tt1430...
Businesses should be more laser-focused on the economy.
To be fair, labs will tolerate an awful lot as long as they have food and a snooze spot.
If they can afford a $60K ute, they can afford RUCs.
Double-cab utes are everywhere in Auckland; I daresay 98% of them are not owned by farmers. Most Auckland ute owners are cosplaying as "rugged individuals" while driving to work as an accountant or sales rep. It's the kind of vehicle sold to men whose Tinder photo shows them holding up a fish.
Oh FFS.
Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
“Shall we spend time implementing all the missing features that caniuse.com says we don’t support yet? Nah, let’s add more AI”
I reckon books written before the age of AI will probably become more valuable as a trusted resource.
“A respected network of hospitals and cancer centers is halting enrollment in clinical trials for children with brain cancer after the federal government said it would no longer provide funding to the group.” This is on Trump. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...
Trump and his enablers are devoid of humanity and a stain on history.
I recently managed to convince our team to drop Fibonacci points in favour of just using days. My rationale being that it all boils down to time at some stage in C suite. We are already seeing more accurate estimations from team members.
Despite its missteps, I think the Windows Phone UI was heading in the right direction. For one thing, the vertically-scrolling Home Screen was much more ergonomic than swiping.
Not sure it’s a great pattern but interesting nonetheless.
Similar situation here. A lot of our nurse graduates have to go overseas to get jobs because the government is underfunding the health system.
I highly recommend reading hypermedia.systems before getting sucked into the “web dev JS framework” vortex.
Is it too late to change my answer?
There are many reasons to be sad about the loss of so much media culture and competence lately but one of the reasons is that there is not one single article about this headlined "BELL ENDS" www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
We get a lot of Filipino nurses here in NZ and, in my experience, they are excellent.
Today I discovered that you can add a minimal API to a Blazor code-behind file. This makes locality-of-behaviour for HTMX much nicer by having the endpoints embedded in the component itself. #Blazor #HTMX
My wife would pay for iPlayer in a heartbeat.
If you’ve ever wondered to find something in Bunnings… In each aisle, the bay numbers start at 1 from the front of the store. Odd numbers on the left, even numbers on the right. You’re welcome.
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
“America is a Gun” as Brian Billston wrote in his poem.
Y’know, I’m starting to think this government doesn’t know what the fuck they are doing. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
The problem with most induction cooktops is the touch controls. It looks flash but they will turn off at the slightest overspill. We ended up buying a Belling despite the mixed reviews mainly because it had cooktop controls on the front.
Oh TradeMe, you really don’t know me….
And this is the software the UK government wants everyone using yes?
I logged into BambooHR today and the AI fungus had invaded there too. Best I could tell, it mainly seemed to offer ways to find stuff inside the application.
As much as I am a fan of F1, the movie is pretty meh. Honestly, Drive to Survive offers a better story and character development. #F1Movie
At my previous company, we had a team rule that any meeting request that didn’t include an agenda, could be ignored.
Meme game on point.
Those are pretty flash looking seats. Is that domestic or international? I last went overseas in 1999 so I’ve no idea what the interior of a modern plane looks like now.
Yes.
Oh my…
I’ve left X because it had become a moral vacuum. However I’ve seen a X post from The Egalitarian - #DissDisinfo (lacking the courage to use their real name or photo). For the record I was invited to the Covid-19 Inquiry public hearings & was set to attend. Also met with them for 2 hours privately.
Zealandia. visitzealandia.com
Farmers are either a) doing it tough or b) having a bumper Fieldays.
If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.
Bonus points for looking like a Thunderbirds craft.
VMware Fusion is free on the Mac (maybe for non-commercial only…). Still need an ARM version of windows to run on Apple Silicon though.
The U.K. would be better off banning mumsnet rather than vpns.
I always have music going. Sometimes, it's a specific choice and other times I'll let Spotify or internet radio take the wheel.
I haven't been selected as yet, but I'm pitching to talk about Azure Container Apps mainly.
Made my submission for #DotNetConf Hopefully my pitch was enough to peak the curiosity of the selectors.
The guy shouldn’t even be in charge of a TV remote….
Nice, thanks.
How much are you supposed to write for the DotNetConf session description? It is unclear from the form.
There are dotnet starter packs which will hook you up with many devs who talk about all sorts.
In my experience it’s also often AI stuff too. But to be fair, they are both quite seismic shifts in how we build dotnet apps, so it stands to reason these topics dominate. Also BlueSky is not an algorithmic feed so there is probably a lot of chatter flying under the radar without hashtags.
There’s potentially some relief coming with new select element bits: youtu.be/VTCIStB6y8s
Here’s hoping an astrocytoma one is coming too.
I’m an American physician who moved to Canada last summer. Privatized medicine will destroy your country. It eats away at the humanity and empathy of a people. It is a level of hell difficult to convey. It is a horror show. It is so much worse than any mess you’re imagining. Fight like hell
Yo, is Azure having an outage at the moment?
I don’t think @carlfranklin.bsky.social knows the power that “Music to Code By” holds. I put it on the other day and entered some sort of fugue state. When I came round, my app had been elegantly refactored and a PR created. Dangerous 😃
I hope you sized all your technical stories and wrote effective acceptance criteria.
I swear people use their indicators like they’re charged RUC’s for them.
I’m willing to bet if it was privately owned it would appear better initially but ultimately devolve into the same sorry state but with higher prices and no responsibility. Privatising a monopoly is just asking to be reamed.
Privatization of public services of any kind NEVER works. As a matter of fact, privatization of anything people HAVE TO use, never works.
“that famous song from the Seekers” Ok, boomer.
But if they pay more tax, they might not be able to afford helipads! You want them to have helipads, don’t you Paul??
That depends on what you mean by “modern software practices”. There are so many TLAs and conflicting opinions.
It’s ’couldn’t care less’ not ‘could care less’. It’s ’rather than’ not ‘rather then’.
“The Fast and the Farmer-ish” on TVNZ…. Me: a game show involving tractors? How could that be interesting? Me 10 mins later: yeah Massey Fergusson is nowhere as manoeuvrable as the Zetor….
Vibe coding is so weird to me. Computers apologizing profusely because you asked them to write some code and they deleted your production data instead, sounds like a clip from Futurama as opposed to a regular day as a software dev. The future is a weird place. Screenshot from Reddit.
I’ve long suspected there weren’t many humans involved in Stuff content.
I think at this stage the incompetence could be described as finely-honed.
That's like when you download an app update and the description is just "Bug fixes".
It’s this one. No sheep involved, but it was a 1951 docker strike here in NZ that massively skewed some stats that formed the basis for austerity measures. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
It’s not this episode.
They’ve been touting a re-launch for weeks and I get the impression it’s mainly involved adding more 90’s music. As a GenX’er I welcome this change.
I make no guarantees to the accuracy of my claim - it was a while ago 😃
According to Copilot, it’s this episode: www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cau...
More annoying when you discover austerity was a policy borne out of a statistical anomaly involving sheep. I really wish I could remember the podcast episode where I heard this.
ML in medical imaging predates genAI and is genuinely lifesaving If backlash to genAI being overhyped is loss of important ML tools, that would be a shame It really doesn’t matter if docs docs non tool-assisted skills degrade after being given access to a tool. Just test doc+tool over time
This is your regular reminder that AI (machine learning) is not at all the same technology as AI (Large Language Models). The latter is what is generally referred to as 'AI' in 2025, or 'generative AI'. Machine Learning is a useful tool (despite occasional amusing misfires such as this).