James H (they/she)

Oooooh. Where?

Is this your way of getting a bunch of book recommendations?

(I know American and Europe had already standardised on 440 before the 50s. But let's not get too picky)

440 tuning was only standardised globally in 1955 and 4'33" was written in 1952. So should really be performed at 435.

When people post romantic photos of the two of them to FB, tag yourself in the empty space behind them. Or even better between them

Screenshot of reddit: happy cakeday u/angusprune! 20 years on Reddit!

I don't know how to feel about this

I only did pizza for nine years, but after that (relatively) short time I got so used to the feel of dough that I could judge temperatures within two degrees by hand, nail weights without a scale, and get a full pie from phone to oven in twenty seconds.

All labor is skilled labor.

That would explain it.

In 2010 smart phones barely existed and social media was in its infancy. Most user generated content was still text based rather than photos or video (iphone only got video in 2009).

Data generated has gone up around 100x since then, and 70% of that is user generated.

I still don't buy it. The valuable personal data held about individuals is tiny in terms of data size (but massive in terms of impact).

Detailed records of every purchase I've ever made and all my geolocation data would be so much smaller than even one video taken on a phone.

That's assuming that all data is related to an individual.

I'd guess that a majority is not related to individuals at all and is commercial, industrial or scientific. CERN generates 1 petabyte of data every day. Large radio telescope arrays can generate up to 600 PB/year.

90% of storage capacity? That seems unlikely at first glance.

90% of records maybe

Do you have a citation?

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

I think Being There (1979) starring Peter Sellers is absolutely perfectly crafted.

Slightly diminish a band

Prince

I'd actually be curious of a sysadmin's insight into this. Is there actually a way this could save water in a meaningful timeline? Or even at all?

Maybe, eventually, if enough has been deleted, has been deleted from disk (which doesnt happen quickly), the HDDs have come to end of life and total storage requirements are less and total storage capacity doesnt need increasing and a server can be completely retired?

Wouldn't, if anything, deleting old emails and photos increase water usage in the short term?

These are all going to be on colder storage (ever tried viewing old photos on FB and had to wait rather than them juat appearing).

How much extra water can they be using day-to-day?

Thank you. This is the one that sounds closest to what im looking for next. But I'll keep a note of all your recommendations. I really appreciate it.

3b/ what are the equivalent classics for today's world?

Where were we imagining the hyperconnected 24/7 world? William Gibson, Cory Doctorow?

I can't think of other big topics off the top of my head, but there will be others. Queer? Feminist? Post-colonial?

What was shaping these kids world?

3/ the classics I read imagined the world i was being born into. What does space flight mean? What do mainframes mean for society? What will it look like to have computers in the home?

And not only were these our guesses about the new world, but influenced the inventors building that same world.

2b/ What are the books that reflect the same connection to today's kids parents and grandparents?

I wouldn't get a kid to watch star trek tos, I might get them to watch ds9, or star gate.

And this also broadens out in another direction to my third thought.

2/ I was connecting with the books of my parents and grandparents. What they grew up with. I talked about the books with them. I shared the 3 laws with them. I saw the post-war socialist utopianism of my grandparent's politics in those books.

For kids today, those generations are different.

1/ The mammoth books of sf by the decade were great, and it i herently contextualised what I was reading. I suspect l, depending on the age of the reader, and adult should be reading along so that dated stuff that shouldnt go unchallenged gets challenged.

There may be better complications now.

This 💯.

But also thinking back to what I read as a kid. I read the classics when I was already an sf fan. I read the classics off my grandparents bookshelf and I read them *as classics*.

For a young/newer reader interested in the classics I have 3 thoughts on how to approach it.

Would you mind sharing some recommendations? I've nearly finished Charlie stross' laundry files, and that's the closest I've gotten to lovecraft so far.

A man with a spectacular 1970s mullet, wearing big wellies and a v-neck jumper over a T-shirt, looks at camera as he stands on a boat which is itself standing on the muddy bottom of an empty canal. He is holding up an enormous wooden plug on a long chunky chain

Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldn’t be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out

I hear both transphobes and normal folk talking about Testosterone as a performance enhancing drug and Estrogen as performance decreasing drug, and that's dude centric and not true. T and E are both performance enhancing drugs for sports. They just enhance different aspects.

Let's talk powerlifting

I like the artistic choice, and it should be done more, i sometimes choose to go with the unintentional unintelligibility rather than turn subtitles on. But what's being discussed are shows where there were subtitles when first broadcast, but in home releases they rely on subtitle tracks.

This was always approach and worked well on okc back in the day.

I've struggled to work out how to message on feeld or similar where there is often very little content in the profile to respond to.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.