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by asoneth 2y ago
> they're not worth worrying about at the individual level Just as an anecdote: My company tried to recruit an executive from Britain many years ago. He had young children and was concerned about the high rates of child mortality du
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Humans are not good at measuring risk. True in general, but in the specific case of gun homicides, the data do seem to support their concern. As per [1] and [2] the US gun homicide rate is more than 4 per 100k whereas countries like Sw
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by asoneth 2y ago
> to become mainstream requires a bucketload of UX design and user support work that no one in their right mind wants to take on for free as a hobbyist. There are several open source communities with UX designers and user researchers in
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by asoneth 2y ago
When I taught UX graduate students we certainly tried to instill in junior designers that their chief responsibility is to their end-users. And where it doesn't negatively influence their users their secondary responsibility to the bus
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by asoneth 2y ago
> You should know exactly why you are building every little part of your system. As a UX designer/researcher who focuses on exploring novel interfaces, if every company rethought their UI from scratch that would be great for my job
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by asoneth 2y ago
> no ... rewrites in Svelte or whatever The vast majority of the terminal interface has been rewritten more than once, but the UX framework team does a great job mimicking the prior look and feel each time. Though if you know what to loo
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by asoneth 2y ago
> the Bloomberg Terminal constantly undergoes UI changes, though not in a dramatic way This is correct. (Source: I worked on Bloomberg's UI change management policies.) Despite dismissive comments from design industry folks and mor
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Looks like something I would pay $150 for That's useful market information, but note that in the "How much did it cost?" section he points out that the BOM is ~$400 not including labor, tools, or shipping. Going from ext
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by asoneth 2y ago
DARPA Program Managers have a lot of leeway to write these sorts of requests. PMs are typically experts in their field and often come from an academic, industry, military, or government research lab. DARPA gives them a budget for grants, au
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by asoneth 2y ago
> We are both active and require a lot of protein. I'm curious what your targets are. I've found getting 0.8g of protein per kg of bodyweight (USDA recommendation) is easy on any diet whereas 1.5g/kg or higher on a vegan d
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by asoneth 2y ago
> There is a difference between a straw man and satire presented in a clear tone that cannot be mistaken as a reconstruction of the other person’s statements. You are correct, my apologies. However, it's unclear to me how satire is
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by asoneth 2y ago
> “Oh that 7 minutes of checking my email while I refill my tank was horrible. Leaving the house so much earlier if I hadn’t done it the day before was truly oppressive. And these days I luxuriate in those rare gifted 20 minutes of leisu
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by asoneth 2y ago
A 31.5" color e-ink poster is ~$1700[1]. I do not know what these large panels cost but (possibly due to low yields) eink panel prices seem to scale superlinearly with area. I would expect a 75" panel that is five times larger to
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by asoneth 2y ago
> But I think the reason virtual collaboration only doesn’t work is because you need to meet people, socialize outside of work with the business lunches and dinners etc. And I'm saying there's more to it than that. A couple dec
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by asoneth 2y ago
Your last paragraph seems to reinforce my point that "collaboration tools still aren't a satisfactory replacement for many kinds in-person work" given that you and your coworkers spent significant time and money to have occas
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by asoneth 2y ago
> The pro RTO people are nothing short of power hungry. It depends. I have no issue with companies that RTO'd after lockdowns ended. Some teams and orgs work better in person, others can work fine remotely. But promising new hires t
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Just because you haven’t learned how to adapt doesn’t mean the rest of the world hasn’t adapted. The truth is a little more complicated. We've definitely found some tasks where CSCW (computer-supported cooperative work) performs b
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by asoneth 2y ago
Why not a choice? Individuals could choose a "secure" browser or browser mode that provides increased protection from such attacks or a "compatible" one that is less likely to break old websites.
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Prospective employees don't know who got laid off, and even if they did, they most likely don't personally know any of those people. True, I've never interviewed somewhere where someone I know personally got laid off. Bu
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN I can't think of the PIN 1234 without immediately thinking of Dark Helmet: "So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I ever h
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by asoneth 2y ago
> You get dirtier looks and more likely to be harassed smoking a cigarette than you would smoking weed Interesting, this has not been my experience. Certainly smoking weed is much more accepted than it used to be and cigarettes are less
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by asoneth 2y ago
As heartbreaking as they are for those affected, layoffs provide incredibly useful information for prospective employees. For example, was it a small number of people who were laid off with decent severance, or was it a huge mass of people
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by asoneth 2y ago
> "it's all a priority, get it done." Reminds me of a product owner I had who abused priority categories by insisting that the majority of his tasks were "top priorities" because he had discovered that any time h
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by asoneth 2y ago
There are many kinds of "negative" responses: 0. This idea is bad. 1. This idea is probably bad, but if someone wants to put together a more compelling argument we will discuss it at a future meeting. 2. This idea needs to be more
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by asoneth 2y ago
All else being equal I agree with focusing on companies that have a long track record of success -- due to the Lindy Effect they're also more likely to be successful in the future. > in an industry where there is not much competitio
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by asoneth 2y ago
> Where do you find these places though? Thinking about the best jobs in my tech career, in one case I made a list of companies that were biking distance from my house, in another an ex-classmate recruited me, in another a recruiter cold
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by asoneth 2y ago
> All of my kid’s sixth grade friends have smartphones My condolences. I agree that it's too late once you hit a tipping point and a critical mass of their friends have smartphones. At that point you have to fall back to weaker back
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by asoneth 2y ago
> everyone else has accounts they should not have or devices they should not have You can start the conversation with other parents at kindergarten pickup. Each grade at our school has a pledge that kids & parents can sign to wait un
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by asoneth 2y ago
I also consider myself extremely lucky in that regard. > the key seems to be getting out of the corporate world, away from companies with a singular focus on profit-making and competition In my experience there are still healthy corporat
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by asoneth 2y ago
> the grass isn't greener anywhere else That may be true, but even the act of looking can provide some measure of hope, which can make everything more bearable.

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