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by ddingus 2y ago
The evidence is clear in that very large numbers of users prefer it and can articulate why. That you personally do not agree is a separate matter. As you age, and I am guessing you are in your first few decades of life, remember this moment
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by ddingus 2y ago
My guess is nope. That is very difficult to do, unless one works with people willing to make an investment to heal one of their own. That is out there. But it is rare.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yes! I did for may years after my career change into the high end CAD world. And more recently I am doing it again working with people I love on a startup (manufacturing related) I believe in.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Very high value, lucid advice. My experiences were similar, however I must add when your day job is not related to skill building activities, you may find your "on" time to be greater. Still, be careful. In my case, my day job was
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by ddingus 2y ago
You will prove right over the next handful of years, maybe as much as a decade. Wish it were different. I miss supremely crafted interfaces. Pro users can move as if thought itself is action. Sure glad I got to experience a handful of the
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by ddingus 2y ago
Indeed! Gorgeous!
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yeah, it's the long form of "just kidding" And often followed by sorry, (not sorry)
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by ddingus 2y ago
I remember a time when usability people took pride in the high amount of work they put into what were often pretty damn great user experiences. My takeaway from this post is very different. Minimum work, or even modest work, and the users
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by ddingus 2y ago
Thanks. I have a couple of thoughts to share: Back in the day, IBM did a usability study. An application requiring the user to specify operations and fields for data input was setup two ways: One way was manual, lots of clicks, and or inp
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by ddingus 2y ago
Interesting!! I'm not slamming you, or your experience or preferences. That said, I find very little difference between 2 seconds and one second or less than that. Search taking a small fragment of time just isn't a big deal and
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by ddingus 2y ago
I will not use Windows 11 with that feature present. Regular screen captures are a completely unacceptable intrusion.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yes, I recently rediscovered it. Man, in the 90's when I was learning about a lot of manufacturing processes, that tech book store was a gold mine! I would get the pre-computer era books and those contained all the manual, analytical g
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yes! That IT guy got you. So many of us, myself included, can trace our love of computing and free spirits to people like your IT guy. Remember kids. It will be your turn to free a young soul one day, and you should give same as you once
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by ddingus 2y ago
Maybe. The point is cultivating dependency under the color of "open source" is not generally wise. Users of the "open source" LLM do not have all the software freedoms normally associated with "open source." Th
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by ddingus 2y ago
I love monospace. Has to be early computing experiences working a lot like music does in our early life. Nice work. Many very readable examples for others to draw on.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Quality post that reflects my experience perfectly. If we had a pin function, your contribution would be my choice.
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by ddingus 2y ago
I have never mourned on career changes. I do miss access to things associated with a former career. However, I can often buy or build what I need due to strong electromechanical skills developed along the way and or as side hustle skill b
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by ddingus 2y ago
I think the author has a typo: "CP/M systems rarely had more than 64Mb of RAM" This probably was intended as 64Kb of RAM. Great piece. I found it interesting. Nice work.
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by ddingus 2y ago
This woman was amazing! One I would dearly love to travel back in time to meet. Of course I would have to be careful and prepare so as to appear plausible and relatable. There is a beauty in the mind just as there is the body, nature. She
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by ddingus 2y ago
They should absolutely be for profit. How else would the skills and information needed be obtained and maintained? Doing these things is not cheap! Just tooling can surprise one thinking about this activity. In fact, the more for profit re
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by ddingus 2y ago
This is one area where I feel Apple did pretty well. My M1 Air has great sound and a solid max output level. Recently, I was given an old Sound Pop gen 2. That thing also delivers a lot of sound while also handling low input levels decentl
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by ddingus 2y ago
I always preferred sugar and shit. Obviously, that is profane. But, I consider profanity be seen as the part of speech it really is.
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by ddingus 2y ago
It isn't a problem. The text is the UX. What else would you have proposed, or would propose?
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by ddingus 2y ago
I would argue strongly for poker. No limit hold 'em poker is a fantastic game! My experience learning the game, alongside my wife, who we learned later in life is an exemplary player! (The story behind that involves a period of high
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by ddingus 2y ago
Yes, seconded easily
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by ddingus 2y ago
No way! No amount of extra characters was going to address what Unicode did. ASCII was not a mistake at all. Adopting it unified what was surely going to be a real mess. At the time it made sense, and the control functions were needed. St
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by ddingus 2y ago
About damn time! Of course most people have no idea how brutal these systems are simply because they have nobody in the system. That was me, until someone ended up using this stuff. Frankly, I was shocked! I have a major league problem with
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by ddingus 2y ago
Would one not just use a few pixels to create white? That does mean a variable resolution scenario.
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by ddingus 2y ago
It sure is.
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by ddingus 2y ago
Lol, sure. I just made sure I did my homework so I can operate with anyone. And it was huge. I have few worries.

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