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by npunt 9mo ago
In the Aqua image the big bright blue scrollbars stand out far, far more than the content. That sucks, honestly. So does the percentage of the screen dedicated to their presence. Also, horizontal scrollbars suck. One thing later versions of
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by npunt 9mo ago
safest place is put it opposite of drivers side, because if you're out of gas on the side of the road and filling it up, you won't be standing right next to freeway traffic. Saab started this.
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by npunt 9mo ago
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could [run macOS on a phone], they didn't stop to think if they should." - Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park
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by npunt 9mo ago
they make $1b in revenue and $300mm a day in profit
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by npunt 9mo ago
Institutional knowledge is scoped to members of an organization and covers things related specifically to the institution's operations. What I'm talking about is the knowledge of the general population, often as it relates to an i
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by npunt 9mo ago
I've never found a term I liked for this particular concept at the intersection of education & business so I made one up a while back: A Knowledge Pool is the reservoir of shared knowledge that a group of people have about a part
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by npunt 10mo ago
I don't think the medium of short form video is redeemable. Its occasional positives are the delivery vehicle for the many negatives, the sugar coating around the poison. It's rotten by just about any measure: properties of the me
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by npunt 10mo ago
Normally the 1 sentence per para LinkedIn post for dummies writing style bugs me to no end, but for a technical article that's continually hopping between questions, results, code, and explanations, it fits really well and was a very e
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by npunt 10mo ago
And your response here is a perfect example of confidently jumping to conclusions on what someone's intent is... which is exactly what you're saying the LLM did to you. I scoped my comment specifically around what a reasonable hum
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by npunt 10mo ago
I'm not so sure; that may not have been what you meant, but that doesn't mean it's not what others read into it. The broader context is HN is a startup forum and one of the most common discussion patterns is 'I don'
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by npunt 10mo ago
Filed under: trying to solve another domain's problem with only the tools in your domain (this is almost always a bad idea)
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by npunt 10mo ago
One of the few use cases for LLMs that I have high hopes for and feel is still under appreciated is grading qualitative things. LLMs are the first tech (afaik) that can do top-down analysis of phenomena in a manner similar to humans, which
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by npunt 10mo ago
I grew up a few blocks from his funky Santa Monica house [1], passed by it all the time. When you’re a kid you typically see wild new things like that as just normal because you have no context for how unusual they are. His house defied tha
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by npunt 10mo ago
Perhaps you missed the product positioning: “Simple setup and clean design” Not everyone wants to fix old hardware and configure linux on their weekends
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by npunt 10mo ago
The irony is that AI writing style is pretty off-putting, and the story itself was about people being put off by the author's AI project.
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by npunt 10mo ago
I think all of these are true: 1. Apple is big enough that it needs to take care of edge cases like offline & limited cell reception, which affect millions in any given moment. 2. Launching a major UI feature (Siri) that people will com
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by npunt 10mo ago
Discoverability is quite literally the textbook problem with CLIs, in that many textbooks on UI & human factors research over the last 50 years discuss the problem.
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by npunt 10mo ago
It's a great feature! I was demoing it to my parents over Thanksgiving and forgot about the lack of Siri support, and of course it failed. Parents were excited when I mentioned it but now won't be using it. Ah well.
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by npunt 10mo ago
With 1B+ users Apple isn't in the position to do the typical startup fast & loose order of operations. Apple has (rightly) given themselves the responsibility to protect people's privacy, and a lot of people rely on that. It&#
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by npunt 10mo ago
Apple Reminders has a feature to remind you when you are leaving or arriving at a location. It's super useful! But it's not super low friction to add to a Reminder via UI (it's buried at the bottom of the edit screen), so it&
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by npunt 10mo ago
Yeah, it's a classic CLI v GUI blunder. If you don't know exactly what the commands are, the interface is not going to be particularly usable. I've found I appreciate having Siri for a few things, but it's not good enoug
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by npunt 10mo ago
I'm amazed more AI tools don't have reality checks as part of the command flow. If you take a UX-first perspective on AI - which Apple very much should - there's going to be x% failures to interpret correctly, causing some un
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by npunt 10mo ago
Was the failure really driven by privacy policy? Long term a privacy play is the right move. But right now, Siri's capabilities even underwhelm vis-a-vis a model with no understanding of user context that is just interpreting commands.
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by npunt 10mo ago
I'm amazed 'set a reminder for x when I leave this location' still doesn't get the 'when I leave this location'. It's clear user expectation created internally (by siri marketing) and externally (by ai too
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by npunt 11mo ago
Ah its great you bring this up, it's timely as my app is adding contacts syncing soon and I want to do it in a secure/private way. If you choose to go ahead with this, are there any plans to make it open source? ty!
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by npunt 11mo ago
They want you to never unsubscribe, which requires your addiction. Incentive to addict + Ability to addict = outcome
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by npunt 1y ago
iOS .0 releases tend to be this way, even on brand new devices. I noticed some big perf improvements on the 26.0.1 release. If I were you I'd wait til 26.1 or 26.2 and reassess then. It still may not be optimal for a mini tho for non-p
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by npunt 1y ago
TLDR not all perspectives have optimal legibility, but if it's easy to change perspective to achieve optimal legibility, then it might be a good tradeoff if you get other value in return. And phones have gotten bigger, and this is a re
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by npunt 1y ago
I initially balked at this change but realized they placed the 'all tabs' button right where the ellipsis menu is, so you can just double tap to get to your tabs. Takes the same amount of time.
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by npunt 1y ago
The weight difference in the hand between the 14 pro in stainless and the 15 pro in titanium is considerable, I use both every day. Sometimes weight is a way to denote solid and premium like in watches, but with the size of phones and how w

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