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by afandian 1y ago
Are you sure that the perceived reduction in noise corresponds to a reduction in damaging sound pressure levels? I know about destructive interference in theory, but was always curious about the perceptual vs real SPL. Whenever I’ve tried A
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by afandian 1y ago
> this question seems bizarrely focused You did say "playing devil's advocate", and you asked which of the two I was more concerned about. So I think it's OK to explore the arguments either way! I'm going by gut
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by afandian 1y ago
Agreed. But the same should be true of selecting 'yes'.
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by afandian 1y ago
I think 'well intentioned UX designers' who do this are in the minority, honestly. Or naïve. Per derefr and latexr's comments, it's a dark pattern with an ulterior motive. To your question, I'd say it's a false
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by afandian 1y ago
This is good for security becuase you're giving temporary access for a helper binary to do privileged stuff in a limited scope. From the UX perspective, yes, it is triggered from the app. It's been a long time since I used the Cor
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by afandian 1y ago
I wonder how that works when they are asking to grant permission for an integration with a resource gated by OS or browser, e.g. in this case location data for the Reminders app, or showing browser notifications. Is the deprecated path that
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by afandian 1y ago
You could A/B test it. Add a 'not now' and a 'no' button.
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by afandian 1y ago
I see your point, but I'd argue the opposite. If I say no, that's an optional feature that I didn't ask for, and no longer need to think about it. If I say 'not yet', it's one more thing I know I'm going t
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by afandian 1y ago
Didn't that stuff start around 1998 though? That's when they started pushing USB and networking by default. And then OS X came along, with bash and Unix and all, and there was a lot of shared developer knowledge. But they still ma
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by afandian 1y ago
Hey UX people. "Not now" says "I won't take no for an answer". It comes across as _really_ creepy. Let me say "no". And no, you don't know better than me about this cool feature.
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by afandian 1y ago
Got references? This is crazy.
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by afandian 1y ago
I'd heard, probably in a Centre for Computing History [0] interview or similar that these regulations contributed to the BBC Micro never getting a good foothold in the USA and losing to Apple. It had an amazing selection of ports, all
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by afandian 1y ago
If you’re interested, Uli Westphal has made a serious study of elephant drawings and the chains of influence. https://www.uliwestphal.de/elephas-anthropogenus/
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by afandian 1y ago
That only switches within an app, not between apps. Unless you mean to find the full-screen window. And that doesn't work either. At least for Zed, Firefox and iTerm, where I spend most of my life.
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by afandian 1y ago
That's almost certainly it. I'd probably searched for common fragment. And 'select all' does indeed select across all of the search result buffers. Thanks!
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by afandian 1y ago
On the subject of surprising behaviour. I did something last week. I don't know what it was, but maybe some kind of fat-finger error. It randomly deleted 3-line chunks all across my codebase. No rhyme or reason. I was just about to com
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by afandian 1y ago
You're right, I'm thinking of using the keyboard cmd-tab. So if I have two Zed windows and Firefox in front of one of them, I can't switch from Zed to Firefox and back to Zed without losing view of Firefox. Means I have to mo
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by afandian 1y ago
Undo works for editing. Just not (apparently) file deletion.
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by afandian 1y ago
I’ve not used windows since XP, but the one thing I missed was the keyboard menu navigation with alt and the underlined single letters. Still in my muscle memory, and I always felt like it was at least as good as keyboard shortcuts.
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by afandian 1y ago
The app switching behaviour is really infuriating. Selecting a window and having all the app’s windows come to the fore, obscuring the window from another app is still annoying, 20 years on. And then when you full-screen a window, switch to
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by afandian 1y ago
I've been using Mac OS since 10.3 and, whilst it's better now, I've had a memorable number of of wifi connection bugs. And ISTR issues with waking from sleep, but that might have been before the Intel migration. It's nev
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by afandian 1y ago
Seriously, I don't understand how this is meant to work, even on the 'happy path'. I've never done any Santa stuff in my family except stockings with small presents + fruit, so the stakes for make-believe are low. Do the
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Women taking Meta to task after their baby loss(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by afandian 1y ago|1 comments
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by afandian 1y ago
Good to know! Too late in my case, between the loud noises and the infantile UX I've long since deleted the app.
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by afandian 1y ago
Now do Duolingo. That ping is _so_ loud.
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by afandian 1y ago
I’ve always been curious why there’s no generic USB serial chip. It seems like the most obvious thing in the world. I’ve noticed ESP32 boards tend to come with one of two proprietary chips, with their own drivers. Do you know why this isn’t
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by afandian 1y ago
I don’t know the answer, but Swish is very common. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swish_(payment)
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by afandian 1y ago
> live in fear of private companies It's not the _concept_ of private companies. It's specific things that those specific companies do. e.g. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-08-30/goog
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by afandian 1y ago
Not everyone has a smartphone with the latest OS and a fully charged battery. > i can tell that living in a country with great digital services is a lot less stressful For everyone who deserves to participate in society?
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by afandian 1y ago
It's broken in the UK. Gives a 302 redirect to https://www.history.co.uk/ And VPN via Sweden, redirects to https://www.historytv.se I don't think they want international visitors.

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