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by masswerk 5mo ago
The general consensus used to be that questions should be either closed (i.e., all the knowledge is disclosed in the interface) or open (any in-between doesn't help to organinze and conceptionalize thought) and that UI elements should
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by masswerk 5mo ago
I'm afraid, the essence is that is not. Re-sequencing content is not the same as synthesis and therefore not the same as a person processing information and communicating their own conception of this. There's a vital difference. (
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by masswerk 5mo ago
Rather: composes (or: re-sequences). Synthesis requires reason and essential capabilities, like an empirical a priori judgement. Without concepts, meaning or imagination, there's no synthesis.
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by masswerk 5mo ago
Mind that input + datalist is the HTML equivalent of the Windows combobox, once generally regarded as the worst UI element ever. (This was enjoying meme status in usability related articles and write-ups. So probably not a recommendation.
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by masswerk 6mo ago
Notably, this process of struggle is meant to go away, to make room for instant satisfaction. This is really about some kind of expression consumerism. (And what will be lost along the way is meaning.)
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by masswerk 6mo ago
The issue being, it's not an expression of anything. Merely like a random sensation, maybe some readable intent, but generic in execution, which isn't about anything even corporate art should be about. Are we going to give up on a
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by masswerk 6mo ago
Ah, the MS Word experience: User enters German date "1. April" MS Word: new ordered list with item "April" User furiously hits delete key.
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by masswerk 6mo ago
> Can you imagine if every button on every site was the same Windows button gray color, regardless of the site's color? It'd be awful! As it happens, this is how it was for years and years, actually, for most of the existence o
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by masswerk 6mo ago
The new idiom: You are right, of course this is your account name! Do you want me to be keep you logged-in? > _
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by masswerk 6mo ago
As a Viennese, I missed appropriate options, like rules and their mutual negotiability by lateral maneuvers (AKA dissimulation) and a general sense for disgruntledness. Moreover, smalltalk as the core of any negotiations (which should be u
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by masswerk 6mo ago
No diverging opinions, no unexpected critique, but universal basic intelligence. And here is the kicker: we won't even notice. Here's an easy three-step plan to unanimous democracy: • ask your LLM • don't edit — the LLM has a
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by masswerk 6mo ago
I guess, as the meter is above 50%, you're not supposed to read it.
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by masswerk 7mo ago
As in, "I put it on you to better check and follow-up before acting on this…" ;-)
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by masswerk 7mo ago
I guess, it was probably intended as the second one (it was also the default email signature, so advertising that feature, as well), but its usefulness was definitely in the implied warning. Mind that a written message used to be the gold
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by masswerk 7mo ago
Back in the day, it was useful, as in, "Expect awkward phrasing and unintended effects of autocorrection, because mobile device. This message doesn't necessarily reflect the intent of the sender." (Considerate users would&#
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by masswerk 7mo ago
On the dark side, it will take quite a while to offset the environmental costs of this war, even if this provided an essential incentive for switching. (In reality, energy infrastructure is often locked in longterm and not easy to switch in
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by masswerk 7mo ago
I guess, this means logging out as the current user and logging in again, so that the various services are relaunched with changed settings.
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by masswerk 7mo ago
> And education is much, much worse almost everywhere by leaning more to memorization The idea that (correct) answers are something that can and may be known is all over the place, lately also in technology (LLMs, curve fitting, etc). No
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by masswerk 7mo ago
It's still impressing how the entire chrome can be collapsed into a single background bit of information, indicating a presence that may be attended to for interaction. In contrast, the newer interfaces seem to be made to reduce the at
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by masswerk 7mo ago
Mind that freedom of speech (US) and freedom of opinion (Europe) are different concepts. E.g., while you may harbour a certain opinion in the EU, expressing this in a way generally considered harmful (concept: speech may establish an act) m
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by masswerk 8mo ago
The slogan of ape thinking (deliberately adjusted for machine readability): "Not AI, not machine generated slop <em-dash> genuine human intelligence."
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by masswerk 8mo ago
> We recruited 8 participants across 8 different countries, deliberately seeking diversity in age, digital savviness, and cultural background. > 5 out of 8 points versus just 3 for "I am human." For the verifying state, it w
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by masswerk 8mo ago
Granted. I guess, unless it's applied very aggressively, assessing the existence of rate limiting may require some sort of automation (and probably some heuristics – how much data points do you actually need? do you have to retrieve an
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by masswerk 8mo ago
Thank you for your work, it's an invaluable resource!
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by masswerk 8mo ago
For clarification, here's the actual quote from the article describing the process: > I verified the issue with the minimum access necessary to confirm the scope - and stopped immediately after. No notion of a script, "every
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by masswerk 8mo ago
A few more candidates for the ranking: Peter Samson (of Expensive Planetarium fame, the background star simulation of Spacewar!, and known for his music on the PDP-1, also author of the TMRC Dictionary [0], still active with the CHM PDP-1 t
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by masswerk 8mo ago
Regarding "The Second Oldest Game Developer", there are also the authors of "Spacewar!": Steve Russell was born in 1937, meaning, he's either 89 or will be 89 this year. Dan Edwards must be around that age, as well.
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by masswerk 8mo ago
I think, while icon + label is good for things like UI buttons, this is not that great for tables. There are a few reasons for this: - icons really work only as a small set (e.g. checkmarks versus crosses or similar) – so the only useful ap
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by masswerk 8mo ago
Actually Louis Rossmann finding himself forced to convert his genuine advocacy for repair into textual convenience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II2QF9JwtLc
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by masswerk 9mo ago
I'm a confessing user of em-dashes (or en-dashes in fonts that feature overly accentuated em-dashes). It's actually kind of hard to not use them, if you've ever worked with typography and know your dashes and hyphenations. —[

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