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by gffrd 2y ago
It’s not unlike sports cars: most have them for the _pursuit_ … and where that emotion is involved, price and realized benefit become decoupled.
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by gffrd 2y ago
Music consumers and music creators are not the same demographic. Price in one has no bearing on price in the other.
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by gffrd 2y ago
Color me surprised you actually tried it! Thank you for reporting back, and giving them a shot. Sorry to hear it didn't work out. They do so well with Ethiopian, Colombian, Rwandan (which is where my palette is dialed—berry, tea, honey
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by gffrd 2y ago
> these models aren't pelican painters or anything like that, they're LANGUAGE models Tools are defined by what people use them for, not by how they were intended—or designed—to be used. (Just ask Nvidia) adding: so I think som
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by gffrd 2y ago
Give Dorothea Coffee a call [1]. Selfishly, I'm be curious to see how their Kenyan stacks up against what you've had: I recently had a batch of their Kenya Nyeri that was excellent to my taste … but I don't drink Kenyan that
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by gffrd 2y ago
How should I interpret this? That Kenyan beans are least influenced by the roasting process, and thus more consistent? Or that you don't have a strong preference for Kenyan beans, so any roast will do?
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by gffrd 2y ago
> the crap Americans pay $$$ for at Starbucks to absolute shame. It isn't really about the coffee, specifically, for the lion's share, and this can be said about many consumer goods. It's convenience, a cultivated flavor p
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by gffrd 2y ago
As much as I hate to admit, I agree. The effort, intent, and practice (for lack of a better term) required to get the same effect in a remote environment is high enough that it just doesn't—and won't—happen for all but an extreme
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by gffrd 2y ago
The cynic in me expects people to read this thread and pat themselves on the back for definitely _not_ a being Harry Nyquist OR a poor performer / low contributor!
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by gffrd 2y ago
Or maybe put more accurately: these stories don’t appeal to you and people like you. What is your objection? Oversimplification? Lack of utility?
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by gffrd 2y ago
Nobody's talking about not paying. We pay for the library, and the library pays for an access license. NYT gets paid. Gift articles are sent by subscribers … who pay.
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by gffrd 2y ago
I’m about to do an old person thing: Balsamiq had (has?) something like this. You could mock up in whatever fidelity you wanted, but you could switch view modes and it would look like a sketch. Great for ensuring people didn’t get hung up o
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by gffrd 2y ago
A place I’ve worked recently had design leadership who: (1) Asked to be included as early as possible in the process, and … (2) Would not tolerate sketches, demanding at least a mid-fidelity level to discuss work. This was fun.
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by gffrd 2y ago
This is the beautiful dance of UX and Engineering! A proper pairing means both parties that make trade offs so everyone benefits: the engineering constraints provide healthy check to user needs, forcing the designer to evaluate and either f
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by gffrd 2y ago
What do you mean by this? Are you saying the process the author proposes—that the user’s needs should define the solution, and that process should be performed separately from engineering—won’t work on something like civil or structural eng
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by gffrd 2y ago
100% I’ve found working in pen is key for me. Imprecise, no ability to fix, so the impulse to tweak/fix has nowhere to go.
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by gffrd 2y ago
Well, you're not really a fan then, huh? Joking aside, for every you (or two you's), there's another person willing to shell out. Ticketmaster doesn't really care whether a venue is at 30% or 100% capacity so long as the
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by gffrd 2y ago
> they mostly seem to have found something that they like well enough and contributes to society. Exactly! It shows people being valuable to each other in small ways, having purpose, and being involved in each other's lives. And it
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by gffrd 2y ago
> "Maybe later" is also acceptable and even empowering You've got a fulfilling career in product management ahead of you!
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by gffrd 2y ago
Price is high … but the right price is the price people are willing to pay. … and people will pay a lot for anything that tickles their idea of self-identity, allows them to project an image they find favorable, but taps in to some core uti
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by gffrd 2y ago
A great point. What examples do we have of publicly-traded megacorps that have successfully made shifts at the scale which we see oil companies trying to make? (With extrinsic motivation being a primary driver?) Cigarette companies?
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by gffrd 2y ago
> The government needs a UX department to streamline all of the painful processes it has. Make it easy to follow the law. Sometimes the pain is a feature.
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by gffrd 2y ago
A fun read. This has a similar feel to the story that circulated a month ago of the note hidden in the column of London's National Gallery [1]: unable to let go of a disagreement, man goes to extreme lengths to have the last word &#x2F
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by gffrd 2y ago
> It’d be nice to not see that “translate this page” pop up Many of the songs detected are latin artists with like monikers and song names. Is there a way to suppress/prevent google from analyzing the contents of a page and determin
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by gffrd 2y ago
Holy cow. Just clicked around and you're right: the Sep 29 5:19pm snippet detected "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang, and there's almost nothing there. But it's in there. Had I not known what I was listening for, a
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by gffrd 2y ago
I hear the voice of the stoics in there …
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by gffrd 2y ago
I really identify with the phases and experience you describe above. The act of being engaged as your body moves through them is powerful. Writer Haruki Murakami, a distance runner, was asked by an interviewer what we thinks about when he r
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by gffrd 2y ago
I think you hovered over something significant: yes, most of the "new features" of the new phones are software features … but the line between "what is software and what is hardware" may not be crystal clear to a lot of
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by gffrd 2y ago
See, now THERE's a FEATURE. Where were you when they were coming up with "when a friend texts a song name to you, remind them they can play it in Apple Music"??!
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by gffrd 2y ago
We often decide on things by process of elimination: it's easier for us to identify what we don't want than what we do. If there are 5 choices available, the effort to decide on one is low as the contrast between choices is high …

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