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@Grady_Booch

scientist, storyteller, philosopher

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computingthehumanexperience.com
Joined October 2011
Born February 27
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Mar 22

    It is the best of times, it is the worst of times, it is the age of wisdom, it is the age of foolishness, it is the epoch of belief, it is the epoch of incredulity, it is the season of light, it is the season of darkness, it is the spring of hope. It will be hard; I choose hope.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    This would make for a remarkable dystopian plot. Sort of Waterworld meets Mad Max. Hey, if someone had the insight to pitch Sharknado, this would be an easy sell.

    And oh, by the way. There are 29 cruise ships at sea now that left from ports all over the world in March.
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  3. 3 hours ago

    Hawai'i has just reported its first death from (on Oahu).

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    4 hours ago

    Here’s what the looks like right now, soundtrack courtesy of oblivious songbirds doing their thing in the beautiful blue dusk of a Manhattan ghost town.

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    4 hours ago

    publishes COVID-19-related 2020 Global Challenge starter kits via

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  6. 5 hours ago

    "What we've got is a situation where we're supposed to physically isolate, but we're socially, electronically connected in dramatic ways." --

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  7. 7 hours ago

    History before our very eyes.

    A partial list of warnings that Trump and senior admin officials received months or years before impeachment:
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  8. 7 hours ago

    A thread.

    Since we’re all talking about the ‘Blitz Spirit’, and how we should act like Londoners in WW2, here’s something that never makes it into the official story. Remember those iconic photos of working-class Londoners sheltering in tube stations? Well, that wasn’t meant to happen >
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  9. 7 hours ago

    Crisis theater, it seems to me. Not unlike the rules for airports, which Bruce Schneiner calls security theater. I see lots of clouds of something being blown at broad surfaces such as roads. It looks dramatic, but is that really the major vector for ?

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    The UAE is using drones to help sanitize its cities amidst the coronavirus pandemic
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  10. 7 hours ago

    Every line of software has an ethical and moral decision.

    Oregonian article stated a TriMet bus driver tested positive for covid-19. Bus drivers want to restrict most passengers to enter from the rear. Union says that should be an easy fix. TriMet spokesman claims not so fast, it could require software updates might take until year end.
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  11. Retweeted
    12 hours ago

    This is eugenics.

    “For instance, Alabama’s plan says that ‘persons with severe mental retardation, advanced dementia or severe traumatic brain injury may be poor candidates for ventilator support.’” What the hell, y’all?
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  12. 7 hours ago

    Really interesting thread WRT classifying human emotional states.

    Replying to @danielJCam13 @Grady_Booch
    Sure, this needs a thread though... (1/n) First of all, I do not know if fear and arousal these basic states, which we know from birth. I am not a developmental psychologists. Maybe they can help out here? It does sound plausible but who knows.
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  13. 12 hours ago

    I feel heard.

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  14. 12 hours ago

    It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked. — Warren Buffet It’s only when your software gets pushed to the limit that you learn how fragile and ill-constructed it is. — Me

    What pains me about Zoom being such sleazeballs when it comes to both security and privacy is just how unnecessary it is. They have good fundamental tech! But as the skeletons keep falling out of the closet, it’s clear that the organization is fundamentally corrupt.
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    13 hours ago

    Thanks for posting the Zoom Meeting ID.

    This morning I chaired the first ever digital Cabinet. Our message to the public is: stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives.
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    14 hours ago

    This assessment of how responsible Trump is for the disastrous US response to the pandemic is about as even-handed as you’ll find.

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    Mar 30

    I wrote about America's worst public health disaster and how our country has compromised clinicians and left the medical community highly vulnerable, along with our patients

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  18. 14 hours ago

    Every line of code has an ethical and moral implication.

    Replying to @Grady_Booch @JohnRConstable @neil_ferguson
    It's never been as important to understand someone else's undocumented code as right now. The whole of UK is under house arrest because of it.
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  19. 14 hours ago

    An important update to the announcement

    Replying to @Grady_Booch @Medtronic
    The idea is great but in practice the package does not contain any source code, PCB design, mechanics, drawings and the used microcontroller is today hard to obtain. So we, a group of ~250 volunteers, continue to work in our spare time on a real OpenSource
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  20. 14 hours ago

    Every line of software has an ethical and moral implication.

    Urgent help needed with this PB840 ventilator. Does anyone know how to use this ventilator? We are getting all these errors and have no idea how to overcome it. This ventilator is just to complicated for Idlib! we cant even take the safety lock off!!! someone please help!
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  21. 15 hours ago

    This is the norm.

    I am frankly appalled that major life and death policy decisions were made based on "thousands of lines of undocumented C" code written 13 years ago and apparently not reviewed by anyone else? Is this the norm in the field?!
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