alexmckechnie.bsky.social
Musician, Programmer, Lecturer. Rest of biog deleted due to protests from daughter.
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I’m pretty enthusiastic about anything if D. Essex is involved
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I didn’t read the instructions.
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Yeah, eyes wide open Howard! Total hardcore. I won’t do it again though.
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Unfathomable selfishness and stupidity
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It’s got a lot of rocky guitars on it that give me the creeps, but not in a good way.
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Nice that Travel Dreams, a travel agent, liked my post about retro user interfaces.
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Strange premise: what sort of maniac laughs at children for believing in Santa?!
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youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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What’s the blue one?
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I once got a fortune cookie that read: Tolerate the shame.
😞
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I’m 1000% of the belief that different people need different things. Some people like monogamy.
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The uncoolest person I knew had a copy of the blue compilation. I reluctantly borrowed it from him, and taped about half of it. I wonder now which songs I thought weren’t worth recording.
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Fantastic
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I’m pretty sure this happens unofficially all the time. The nurses in my mother’s hospice cranked up the morphine until she was gone. They knew exactly when we would need to be there, so we wouldn’t miss the end. I felt bad for them having to take those decisions in secret. Or maybe I misunderstood?
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Trouble is, that wouldn’t be a very fun hobby. Coding used to be fun.
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Students are losing confidence in their own ability to write, so even if they don’t want to use it they’re starting to feel like they should.
Point about GPT-proof assignments noted: it’s probably impossible.
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At the college I teach at there’s a “big push” to embrace Ai, which means they basically want everyone to use GPT, including students. Top grades for everyone! 🤦🏻♂️
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I teach computer programming. It’s almost impossible for a student to solve their own problems now. I’m not sure how they’ll ever learn to think properly.
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One solution is to just pull the knobs off and buy some cute replacements online.
www.thonk.co.uk/product-cate...
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All seemed very important in 1987
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As promised…
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Sorry, that was a bit oblique. I’ll post a table of contents later and you will see what wonders it contains x