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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
"I decided time zones should be abolished..." It reads as tongue-in-cheek to me :)
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
> Here’s a simple app my toddler made to generate toy trains[0]. Can you explain what you mean by this? How did a 3-year-old (or younger) meaningfully contribute to the design of this app? Do they know how to read?
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
Yes! Children of Time starts with a AI-capable civilization and proceeds from there. I won't give anything away, and I recommend going in cold! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-tim...
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
Go has surprisingly good "UX", which I don't hear people talk about much. It compiles very quickly and gets out of your way. I've found it useful for a few reasons: 1. The standard library has a real HTTP/2 implemen
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
C looks friendly enough, but it has many nooks and crannies filled with undefined behavior (UB). If your program accidentally does something like overflow a signed integer, you're toast. Raymond Chen has the best write up on UB that I&
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
What about "my business model relies on copyright infringement"? https://www.salon.com/2024/01/09/impossible-openai-admits-ch...
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
There's CBOR, but it is not nearly as compact as the C in its name implies.
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
Not trying to be mean, but there's not much content here. It's a definition of the term "stringly typed" (from another blog) followed by the idea of using appropriate types.
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
I don't think arthropods are capable of informed consent, despite what the author claims.
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
FYI, the author is a woman.
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
Ah, you're totally right. The screenshot has radio buttons for selecting one of the two shower heads.
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
I'm assuming they mean "in aggregate, visitors were shown both options" rather than "each visitor was shown both options".
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by bqmjjx0kac 1y ago
I think it is an A/B test, as you described, based on this part: > We created a secret landing page. The product and design were identical. The only difference? One was labeled “Made in Asia” and priced at $129. The other, “Made in
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
It's technically correct, but feels a bit forced.
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
> User interface designers aim to reduce cognitive load, improve ease of use, and guarantee access to all (Johnson, 2020). Do they, though? Anecdotally, they seem to be primarily focused on optimizing engagement metrics, secondarily on a
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Can you explain the fallacy in more detail? It doesn't seem like a leap that if marriage is less popular, a larger percentage of the population is single.
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Sadly, these clean contexts also include vast swathes of the internet. I bet someone already came up with "pigment of your imagination".
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
I'm curious how much review happens in Nix packages. It seems like individual packages have maintainers (who are typically not the software authors). I wonder how much latitude they have to add their own patches, change the source repo
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Yes, exactly. This is on an iPhone, to be clear. Maybe the control center on iPads has an equivalent software toggle? Sorry, that probably isn't very helpful.
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Nice work! It might be nice to hint to iOS users that they should disable silent mode via the little side toggle if they want to hear anything. Just a quirk of iOS that took me literally years to figure out -- I assumed it just didn't
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Fun fact, `find`'s wonky argument syntax predates GNU syntax. It was part of Version 5 Unix from 1974. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find_(Unix)
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Oh, I'm not denying this is the way things are done. I just don't think it should be legal. Price segmentation was more palatable a few decades ago, but technology has enabled us to push it to this absurd (to me) extreme where ind
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
You charge what the market will bear, not the individual .
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
I work at a BigCorp with a fancy md-to-html generator that supports graphviz via code blocks, e.g. ```dot digraph { a -> b } ``` But day-to-day, I actually use graphviz inside emacs org-mode (and in a private git repo).
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Graphviz! The syntax is kind of absurd, but it produces some beautiful results and can be version controlled.
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
I'm more sensitive to noise than most -- AirPods Max are an incredible tool for me. Sometimes I just wear them without listening to anything to block out office noises, conversations, etc. Unavoidably, they get uncomfortable after a wh
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
While I don't disagree with your point, I think VR's issue is that most people don't want to strap things to their face. More physically engaging video games definitely seemed to have some interest, though, starting with the
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
I don't know if this is an actual problem you have, but since Siri appears to be composed of independent voice-to-text and text-to-action systems, you can say "start a one three minute timer".
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
I'm in the US and I totally forgot about the blood oxygen patent fiasco. I have an Apple Watch Series 8 and it continues to work. Maybe it's only newer models that are affected? (Aha, this article says it's Series 9 and Ultra
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by bqmjjx0kac 2y ago
Wow! I wouldn't be surprised if I make more than 100 searches per day.

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