cosmotic

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by cosmotic 3y ago
I agree, it's confusing because the two percents are of different things.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
Better title: Medicaid could cut costs by 0.45% if 1% of smokers quit smoking Absolute units like billions of dollars are meaningless in these contexts. Please use percentages.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
> less prone to bugs Citation needed. With XML validation, auto-generated type-safe serialization, and decades of battle testing, I feel like XML would be less buggy than JSON.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
This might get you into a lawsuit if wcag is't followed. Or at least that's what the legal and accessibility team will think.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
It's remarkable how many people hurt themselves and their teams by considering sprint goals as must-complete. "We must complete the work we committed to!"
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by cosmotic 3y ago
Measuring commits, loc, tickets, and story points, individually, might be gamble, but seeing all those consistently higher or lower seems like an okay indicator.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
I disagree. It is (or was, last time I tried a year or two ago) hard to upgrade postgres because you need both the old and new binary. Package manager tries its best to allow just one copy. You end up copying from one image to another, then
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by cosmotic 3y ago
Reading indicator can also distract and drive the reader crazy, especially when it is perpendicular to the scroll direction.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
This seems to hit all the high points of a lot of the iOS and macOS interactions, but I think fails to hit any the low points. It doesn't take much user testing to find that a lot of these interactions are frustrating to a good segmen
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by cosmotic 3y ago
"Beautiful Iconography" <4 icons that all have the same silhouette>
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by cosmotic 3y ago
When I used a 5k LG, on the lowest scaling above 100%, I would get shimmering effects when I moved windows. You could see the same art/glyph rendered differently depending on if it was on an even or odd line; move the window 1 pixel an
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by cosmotic 3y ago
Undo is one of many fundamental usability shortcomings of all (commonly used) CLIs. Also includes feedback, consistency, system status, discoverability, actionable error messages, etc.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
Windows common controls had side-aligned tabs around 1997
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by cosmotic 3y ago
How many totally-different-yet-common sets of requirements are there for user uploads or task processing do you think there are that necessitate the ultimate flexibility and complexity? I suspect vendor lock-in is a more likely cause of the
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by cosmotic 3y ago
Do you mean the software is stuck in 2014?
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by cosmotic 3y ago
I think the use case for disaster recovery is a bit different than long-term archival.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
Vendor lock in for backup and archival products is so ridiculous. It increases R&D to ensure the lock-in, and the company won't exist by the time the lock-in takes effect.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
Most of what makes NTFS different than FAT probably doesn't need to be backed up. Complex ACLs, alternative data streams, shadow copies, etc, are largely irrelevant when it comes to making a backup. Just a simple warning "The data
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by cosmotic 3y ago
MS Word has this feature and it calls them "Smart Quotes"
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by cosmotic 3y ago
As a newer MS employee, the funny thing about these videos is that employees only have to watch the current "season" (ie: this years rehash of the same training points), but they have plot points that involve prior seasons (ie: pr
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by cosmotic 3y ago
The design of the site itself is not great; my brain parses the entire thing as an ad. I've thrice now opened it and closed it without really reading anything because It feels like an empty article.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
This may get the asker closer to the front of the line, but it pushes everyone else back. If everyone asks for a stat referral, then stat referrals will take a long time. This is something that you should probably rely on your doctor to ask
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by cosmotic 3y ago
I'm advocating more against designer-driven decisions. Of course UX should be based on user research.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
What? It does or doesn't show this are good or bad?
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by cosmotic 3y ago
Screen reader testing is a risk mitigation strategy. Is the team okay risking ADA law suits?
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by cosmotic 3y ago
It should not be based on what YOU (the developer or designer) feels, it should be based on user research. User research shows hamburger menus are bad.
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by cosmotic 3y ago
The jury is out on the efficacy of the feedback loop.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
If anything, allowing guns scares away people that would actually qualify as 'diverse'. "Gun carrier" is not a protected class.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
You can also use response time as a proxy for cost.
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by cosmotic 4y ago
PiHole shouldn't be writing much to the SD card if at all; Something seems wrong there. Once it boots (a read only affair), it should be running exclusively from memory, no? Maybe periodically updating the rules and saving to disk?

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