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by arrrg 7y ago
What are you on about? I don’t get it. The intuitiveness of an interface is an empirical question. Whether it works or not is not some subjective fact. The Venn Diagramm for “intuitive” definitely includes “familiar”, it’s just a more gener
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by arrrg 7y ago
That’s not really how humans work and not really how brains work. Nothing is technically intuitive and in that regard I do agree with you but I think you are missing the forest for the trees. Everything humans ever do happens within a certa
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by arrrg 7y ago
But familiar = intuitive. You are just splitting hairs. Obviously what’s intuitive is intuitive largely because it’s familiar (mixed in with a bit of psychology and perception) but that’s not really an issue at all. Rigid adherence to guide
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by arrrg 7y ago
Amazon has changed massively over the years. Check out the Wayback Machine. (Sadly looking at the checkout itself that way isn’t really an option.) Only one example of thinking outside the box that’s relatively new on Amazon is putting your
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by arrrg 7y ago
I’m not sure what you are trying to say here and how it relates to the article. It’s a pithy quote but it’s also sort of pointless since all of culture is like that. To a certain extent intuitive = familiar and that’s not even weird or surp
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by arrrg 7y ago
But that’s not correct. Amazon changes the nuts and bolts parts of it’s UI a lot and they do not tend to make egregious UI mistakes. They use dark patterns, sure, but don’t confuse useable UI with beautiful UI.
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by arrrg 7y ago
Setting an example is great and doing what you personally can to reduce your footprint is certainly not wrong but it’s completely and utterly wrong to focus on that and talk about it. That’s just the wrong approach. Deniers and their ilk wi
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by arrrg 7y ago
Cars like the Volt are most certainly not more complicated than ICE cars … You can simplify those cars significantly due to them being an hybrid.
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by arrrg 7y ago
Part of activism is picking the right battles you can win and where you can be effective. The main focus of animal rights protesters consequently are industrial meat production and animal cruelty, not the fucking Hell’s Angels. That’s absur
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by arrrg 7y ago
I also think that there would be many opportunities to do much more, but local politicians often aren’t brave enough. Which I can totally understand, since there will always be very worried people when you propose a change like that. In my
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by arrrg 7y ago
I’m not really sure what you statistical point there is. If Vendor A has a 2 percent failure rate and Vendor B has a 3 percent failure rate it’s still valid to conclude that you would be less likely to have a failure with Vendor A even if y
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by arrrg 7y ago
People aren’t rational. And many will.
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by arrrg 7y ago
That is why context is important. The dream of the perfect context free golden rule does not exist. We have to pay attention and make hard decisions. None of this is simple.
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by arrrg 7y ago
I think you are talking past each other. What was labelled as “bollocks” here is the scientific evidence.
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by arrrg 7y ago
You immediately assume evil intent and a complete unwillingness to cooperate. And, yes, in this capitalist hellscape of ours that’s a very real possibility. But don’t just assume that bringing up ethical issues others might not even be awar
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by arrrg 7y ago
Developers have a lot of power (because they do the actual work and have all the power over how something is actually implemented in the end) and share a lot of responsibility. Additionally they are often the only ones who can be aware of c
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by arrrg 7y ago
Isn’t this simply a case of tourists and cities overburdened by tourists clashing? As more people become more mobile this will only deteriorate. It could also be these cities developing a museum mentality for their historic city centers. In
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by arrrg 7y ago
We do have mechanisms that deter us from committing suicide like fear and pain. The good thing about fear and pain is that they are universally useful, e.g. both when we are on the verge of being reckless and suicidal.
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by arrrg 7y ago
What are your specific criticisms? A blanket dismissal is not very helpful and additionally sort of off-topic. For what it’s worth I found the presentation to be excellent. Extremely well readable, clear focus on text presentation and typog
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by arrrg 7y ago
People feel as thought it’s a moral judgement when someone just exists and is a vegan. They feel as though they are being judged, a finger is pointed at them. That is, of course, bonkers.
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by arrrg 7y ago
I know – I think every English teacher is obligated to mention this fact when teaching English and teaching you wardrobe-related vocabulary.
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by arrrg 7y ago
„Lederhose“ is correct in German. „Lederhosen“ is just the plural. If using the word in English texts “lederhosen” is in a sense correct, though, also when only referring to a single one. This is a case where the loan word was slightly adop
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by arrrg 7y ago
It’s exactly the reverse for me. Weird.
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by arrrg 7y ago
That’s an obvious joke but it’s right in the middle of a section about things she is ok with but the generation prior to her wasn’t. It would be bad writing if she weren’t actually serious about those things.
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by arrrg 7y ago
Acting as if context doesn’t exist is repeating weird motif of this genre of dignified dusty outrage. Using these words in a context where the context doesn’t make its meaning clear is a bad, sure, but other usage is quite unproblematic.
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by arrrg 7y ago
I have yet to have an enjoyable experience with any maps app looking for places. That experience always seems frustrating to me and no fun at all. I mostly use maps for finding routes. I think it’s important that people differentiate betwee
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by arrrg 7y ago
Not a single person in the world (rounded down – I’m sure you might be able to find someone) is opposed to people using plastic straws for medical purposes. Just as not a single person in the world is opposed to allowing disabled people acc
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by arrrg 7y ago
People have been mentioning very practical reasons but I just wanted to add that for me, even if none of these practical reasons were to apply (and I also don’t think the practical reasons are very strong), it’s simply about aesthetics. It’
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by arrrg 7y ago
In theory I completely agree that insects traps could lead to evolution through natural selection. There is no disagreement here about it being possible. All I’m saying is that insect traps are too rare to have any influence.
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by arrrg 7y ago
That doesn’t really pass scrutiny. It’s not like they are mass collecting insects and it’s not like someone else is using insect traps to mass trap insects. As such there is practically no evolutionary pressure to adapt to not being caught

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