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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Watch AvEs vijeos. Problems. No problems. After they are fixed by the meat confusor. They are solved. Your tool in a vise.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I wrote too quickly. I meant to say "plenty," as in the jerk-off neighbors who act like their lives haven't graduated past freshman year Spring Break. I suspect this to be true because they're single, aging their bodies
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Oh my. Minix1. That predates me and my gray hairs. I at least got Minix 2 with the printed source code in AST's book. Minix 2 was so annoying on real PC hardware that I had to stick a keyboard repeat rate and delay patch whenever I use
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Misattribution in pattern-matching is common and necessary to construct and improve workable inner models of self, others, and the world. This requires training ("pre-training" or guidance from a more omniscient-esque knowledge a
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
If I were homeless and hangry AF, I would have a crowbar handy to get me some free yuppie-hipster pizza. Also, Whole Foods' freeganning is a must for everyone tired of Amazon's insane "convenience" (vulture capitalism) p
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
In the US: If one of these contraptions appeared on your property and didn't leave, is it your property now, as much as any mistaken delivery? I'm thinking about lots of "whoopsie-doodles" for interested parties who migh
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I wonder if The Netherlands over-polices cycling behavior and so inflates their stats with minor nits in order to collect fines. OTOH, there's not many helmets nor stolen bicycles in NL. In the US, for experienced/aware/agile
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Maybe if you focused on the best and nuanced picture of cyclists because it's not like they're BMW drivers. :) It's legal to ride bikes on sidewalks here.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Yeap. Rickshaws gonna get sawed.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I ride my personal scooter at 0~40 mph in the road and in the bike lanes. When I see for-rent scooters dumped blocking public commons, I stop and throw them in the nearest gutter, dumpster, sewer, or river to hold the companies responsible
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Antidepressants discontinuation “brain zaps” possibly explained (2010)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Favelas tin-roof shanties would be cheaper too. In the US, why not distribute value, transportation, and land sufficiently so people can have a better basic standard of living? Right now, I'm looking at 1000 homeless people and tents h
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
What dimensional scales, materials, turn-around, volume, and/or processing? Breaking tools and getting G-code just right seem like the perpetual headaches of modern machinists. Other than occasionally being bitten by a bitchy blade-lik
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Popularity means popularity. It doesn't mean utility. There are plenty of dumb things large companies use. OTOH, there are also many unsexy, little-known, ubiquitous technologies essential to certain sectors of the economy.
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Do you have a deep link to a translated version of the story? Google Translate didn't work on this site. It just showed a blurred background. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https:/...
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
It's either an Ethernet port light or one of those cryptic things from AliExpress without a manual. ---- There was once someone who knew. It did have a useful purpose at one point for expert users, technicians, and engineers. A large g
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
IIRC, most configuration of electron microscopes tend to lyse cells because of the environmental conditions of hard vacuum and high charge. Then some instruments came along that took advantage of lysing cells for analysis: flow cytometry. I
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
It wasn't directed personally. The tendency is for front-end developers (the bulk of developers numerically) to treat software development like RMS does with emacs: everything extends from their perspective without consideration of per
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Yes. I agree. Also, the insistence on a "single task at a time" notion when real work required context switching. Simplicity goes too far on the balance of, and in search for, advancement of design. Form + Function. Not an industr
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I wouldn't be so eager to jump into the happy-clappy credulity camp without understanding the functional basis for this. 1. Odds that he was intentionally faking, looking for an attention opportunity. 2. Odds that he believed he was cr
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
So? An affordance affords. It's in the word. > pulling, but not pushing. Because of prior ubiquitous, universal training. Something with a place for fingers to grasp must be for pulling because pushing needs no such requirements. If
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Flat design is the definition of art because it creates something without the intention of usability. Functionality that is hidden isn't usable by definition. It always annoyed me in early Mac UX that there wasn't a specific affor
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Revell (Japanese) model kit instructions: We will show you every necessary step clearly and precisely using line drawn actions to provide as much accessibility to all people as possible. Only for very complicated concerns will we use langua
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
I don't see any specific evidence given any that good textbook is "inconsistent," merely vague accusations cast without evidence. A straw man. Affordances have a specific meaning in design. Affordances themselves are subjecti
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
If you present me with a completely blue screen, there are no affordances. If you present me with a blue rectangle on a black screen, it's still confusing and cognitively-loading what the hell it's for or if it does anything. Ther
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Nope, that's the nomenclature and it means something very specific in the cases of architecture and UX. Affordances "afford" cues to the viewer that something has perceived action possibilities. It's the opposite of a hi
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
People without much life experience, knowledge, mastery, humility, or expertise don't understand what things are used for, and decide for everyone else to throw them away as "unnecessary." Put another way, it may well be some
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Balance-sheet aggregation != perfect execution consistency. - DOS 4.0 - Microsoft Bob - Windows ME - Windows Vista - JScript - MSJVM - Zune - Eliminating all/most easter eggs https://www.infoworld.com/article/26129
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
Cross-platform development is like communism. An unattainable utopia. There's no "magicking-away" the idiosyncrasies of cross-platform development with abstraction layers. It's simpler to use native tools and go for the
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by failwhaleshark 5y ago
When and where it's a priority: creating a solid user-experience takes effort. If a project can't manage that when it matters, then their product or service is also going to suck in so many other ways their users will notice. Th

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