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by chefandy 3y ago
> Actually I think you should re-read my comment. Ok, done. Still didn't see anything beyond assertions based on nothing but your own preference, and countering things I said without any support. > Oh, sorry, I didn't realis
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by chefandy 3y ago
Most developers look at old interfaces through rose colored glasses. If you separate nostalgia from what most people find usable, they just don't hold up.
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by chefandy 3y ago
User testing disagrees. Most people find an instantly refreshing screen of text to be quite dazzling. Developers look at screens of text all day long-- they're much more tolerant to those sorts of transitions than most people are, and
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by chefandy 3y ago
> Most "non-technical" people use computers, especially desktops, in a professional setting. Navigating those UIs is part of their jobs and they will spent hours upon hours doing so. Yes, but they still reason about those inter
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by chefandy 3y ago
> Yes, animations are useful sometimes, but in at least 90% of cases they make the experience worse. If animations were so important and integrated everywhere then why didn't I notice any change when enabling "reduce animations
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by chefandy 3y ago
> poor design aesthetics Sorry to be nitpicky-- I largely agree with your comment-- but I always must point out that interface design is a communication medium, not an aesthetic medium. Like technical writing, it's a communication m
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by chefandy 3y ago
> And I think most users would prefer software that does stuff instantly User research feels differently, but with numbers. > These things almost universally degrade the interface and I've yet to see the actual benefit of them Se
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by chefandy 3y ago
Most people that complain about these things don't even realize how much of it is integrated into their daily lives and workflows because it's too natural to notice. You don't need experience to see when someone's done a
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by chefandy 3y ago
> Like in this case, what exactly is "going on" that requires this visual delay? Nothing. It's a technical demonstration. The delay is also overemphasized to make the difference more apparent. > The this is the fancines
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by chefandy 3y ago
Yeah it would suck if it ended up being really harmful because alcohol ethoxylates are in way more stuff than rinse aids. https://www.ewg.org/guides/substances/16368-ALCOHOLETHOXYLAT...
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by chefandy 3y ago
That aside, it's also a VC-backed startup. I've been burned enough times by "we promise we're going to be the good kind of corporate!" types to ask upfront now if a big chunk of someone else's money is fund
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by chefandy 3y ago
I'm a lot more concerned by what my insurance company can do with the data than marketing companies-- they regularly deny claims based on data collected by device vendors. In the following article, see: Sleep aid or surveillance device
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by chefandy 3y ago
TFA has a list of those included, who they worked for, and the circumstances of their death. I saw one that was only credited with having a podcast (which has 225k followers on their instagram account,) and a few others that seemed to work
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by chefandy 3y ago
The NTSB asked Boeing for the names of the specific people on the team that replaced that door, and they said Boeing hasn't provided that. In Boeing's response, they didn't say they provided that, either. They said they provi
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by chefandy 3y ago
Also: > Almost any computing device on a network can share files this way, with a bit of configuration. LibraryBox is designed to be a deployable appliance that works where no network exists that's configurable by non-technical peop
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by chefandy 3y ago
Modern network interfaces are safer even in a default config without a local firewall enabled. Not even windows has SMB or the like enabled by default anymore. Theres a lot different sorts of USB devices that thing could pretend to be.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Security is a big one. No way I'm plugging into some random public USB outlet. Aside from that, I believe they were indeed intended to serve multiple people at once... encampments, communities, short term installations, etc.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Great project and Jason is super rad. I'll bet someone with the requisite knowledge could pick it up and run with it. If memory serves me, there was a web server available through a standalone open wifi network.
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by chefandy 3y ago
As soon as music is involved, ASCAP will come a-knockin' in the US at least. They're legally pugnacious even when they're in the wrong knowing that bar/restaurant/coffee shop/store owners don't have the re
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by chefandy 3y ago
I imagine the person responding to my initial comment just didn't realize it was a VC-backed business rather than a regular FOSS project. The repo readme doesn't seem to indicate otherwise, so I can see why they'd have gotten
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by chefandy 3y ago
> this is a very VC-brained comment to make on a peer-to-peer open source project. let's instead ask if there are any single points of failure to the protocol and service, and if so, are those sustainable regarding developer time, e
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by chefandy 3y ago
Their monetization strategy is pretty critical for people who’d sink their time into the service and entrust it with the code for long-running projects. So… how do they plan on making money off of this? If they can’t or won’t say, what sort
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by chefandy 3y ago
> Most people don't know, so they are not bothered. That's why this symbol works the way it is - it would not work, if everyone recognizes it as "dead butterfly". Yes-- symbol meanings are even more malleable and impr
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by chefandy 3y ago
But it's not any specific facet of their form that distinguishes it from communicating an idea vs something physical about the represented object -- it's the context and the intended message. Nobody puts a butterfly decoration on
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by chefandy 3y ago
It’s not fantasy, it’s an abstract idea represented by that visual symbol. The ♡ symbol, for example, pictorially represents a naive understanding of a heart, but the connotation of love— itself not accurate— is the real message. We don’t s
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by chefandy 3y ago
It does come across as a bit glib, but I empathize with the author. I worked in legal higher-ed for a long time; I have absolutely no legal education, but my job involved reading lots of writing about the law, both for expert and non-expert
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by chefandy 3y ago
Yeah, but in the future, I think we'll see our current dissatisfaction with content discovery the same way I see my pre-social media dissatisfaction with computer privacy.
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by chefandy 3y ago
From the blog post: Algorithms that recommend prices to numerous competing landlords threaten to remove renters’ ability to vote with their feet and comparison-shop for the best apartment deal around. From the brief: To participate in th
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by chefandy 3y ago
Flagging is commonly used to de-rank articles people disagree with, and considering the initial comments in the article, I’d eat my hat if people flagged it in good faith based on the headline alone.
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by chefandy 3y ago
Everybody brace yourselves: in the coming years, finding actually good things on app stores is about to get a whole lot harder.

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