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> Are you thinking of UI?

No. I’m saying if you squint hard enough, then maybe you can think of how these apply to UX, but they don’t directly indicate some insight of UX, in any way like the others do.

> Occam's Razor: What is this control meant to do?

If that’s how they mean to apply it, they should phrase it as “users make the inference about the control that requires the fewest assumptions about how to model the UI”. There’s a big difference between saying how users actually act, vs how you as an engineer should infer, or what you should optimize for.

And yes, if the latter is meant, then it’s applicable on some level, it’s just not specific to UX (just making inferences about data in general), and even then didn't make clear how it would apply in a UX scenario.

>Pareto: does this UX cover at least 80% of the user's needs? Are there critical cases in the remaining 20%?

That wouldn’t be the Pareto principle, that would be “check the 20% for if you’re missing something critical.”

Again, a tangential application, if you stretch, just not direct like the others.

>Parkinson's Law is more of a bank shot, but think of it along with the Pareto Principle: Organize the UX so that the user can accomplish the most important tasks in the least time.

That's orthogonal to Parkinson’s law, which says that time spent will bloat to its bounds. What you’ve described is a different principle, something like “minimize the time average spent to do tasks, thus giving more weight to the more frequent ones”.

LATE EDIT: With that said, those three should definitely be part of any UX engineer's mental toolkit ... but only in the sense that they should be part of any engineer's toolkit. The specific applicability to UX isn't obvious the way the others are, at least.
And yet nothing bad happened
Does it matter? This is a discussion about the law of the United States, and last I checked we do not follow Chinese law.

I'll reiterate my point from above-- if the US government wants to ban Chinese services, that's fine. I support that decision. What I do not support is doing this via executive order as that is not how laws are passed.

If the US were to ban Chinese companies, it should be a law passed through Congress, signed by the president, and approved by the USSC. It should have clear parameters as to what exactly is being banned. It should, again, not be an executive order banning TikTok explicitly as there is nothing inherently bad about being an app called TikTok.

tldr if the US government wants to play the "fight fire with fire" card, they should be fighting the whole fire, not just the one that upset the president.
Several states have had mail-in voting for years. It only became a political issue a few months ago, and only amongst one party.

Meanwhile, rigged voting machines that flip votes have been caught on camera countless times. Zero effort has been made to do anything about that.
I bet there is a reason. Not following guidelines is a good enough reason
The owner of the device is the one with root access to it. No, you don't own your iOS devices.
Telegram is also open source.
This is really just talking about which functions they decided to include in their standard library. Clojure for example takes the haskell approach so its not a question of composability vs monolith.

Sure composability is nice and should probably be the way you start creating something but after you are satisfied that it works the way you want it to and you want to make it more efficient you will go monolith and treat this new thing as a bigger piece you can compose with.

Someone new can the come along, fail to understand why its a monolith and decide to make it better my making it made up of composable parts again.
> yet nothing bad happened

Most of the time, letting your kids play in a Superfund site won’t lead to a bad outcome. That doesn’t make it sensible.

Hydrazine didn’t leak this time. That’s good. But it’s a stupid dice to roll.
USA has since disposed of their pawns in Chile, Argentina, and did not oppose them being taken out in Indonesia, and Salvador.
> One difference in philosophy of Lisp (e.g. Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp) and Haskell is that the latter makes liberal use of many tiny functions that do one single task. This is known as composability, or the UNIX philosophy.

This honestly seems like a misunderstanding which ignores how many POSIX commands actually accept commands. The uni philosophy doesn’t mean literally one thing, but rather one task; sometimes the task will have different parameters and that’s OK, but we’re not going to have `ls` takeout the trash.
I am reading a lot of comment that assumes Free Trading on the Internet. ( And to an extend that may be true )

I am guessing everyone working in the Software and Internet Industry are so used to Absolute Free Trading, where you could have someone using your SaaS from any parts of the world, with Discovery And Distribution Channel infrastructure in the whole world half sorted out. No one realise Importing and Exporting of real products and services have gazillions of restrictions.

US can stop the import and export of certain products or services from certain countries on any grounds, due to protection ideal ( These deals has always been in place ) Whether that is Food, Steel, Raw Materials or even Services. Using either Standards, Safety Policy, Tariff or other means necessary, or in other words, excuses. The same is true to EU, and especially China, who has been playing this game may be better than anyone.

That would be akin to US ( or in fact any countries ) working in China are required set up a Chinese JV. ( You can read up on what is happening to ARM China CEO ). So this is a policy change not a change of law. And even that is not entirely true, because under the current policy there are different rules to State Companies, and Chinese company can no longer prove they are not a state company. ( May be that is the part they break the law )

And in case someone ask why you have one specific set of policy for China? I would have answered would you expect to have the same policy for everyone including North Korea?

I view this as a trade issues, and China are no longer welcome to trade with US in many front, including its internet services. And in all fairness no one should be blaming US about it.
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Can someone ELI5 why you'd want to do line rate packet capture in a low-latency way? Wouldn't you risk losing packets because you are trading off processing capacity for latency?
Nitpick: a slide rule does have memory, but it is small and gets cleared when doing computations. One typically can store one number by moving the slide and another one by location of the cursor.

It also is fairly hard to hide the fact that the memory isn’t cleared.

Many slide rules also have some read-only memory, for example ’storing’ the constant π.
They are actively working on it (https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-may-2020-update/...) (HN discussion here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23380370).
Never did that, but some of my apps that don't require strong security have a line in the configuration file that tells if it's in prod mode or debug mode and if it's in debug mode what user to emulate after a real, successful login. That debug config file is not checked in Git, so it never gets in places I don't want it. This way I do have to login, but I don't mess with test accounts or other people's passwords.
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Honestly, I don't see how an alternative App Store would change things for the better for most users: I'd assume that big players that don't like paying 30% to Apple would leave for other options and put a lot of marketing money to force users to switch. Remember: The thread started with a complaint filled by Telegram. So, someone who wants to use Telegram would need to use the alternate store. If there isstill an AppStore version, I'd assume it to be a "light" version heavily promoting the "PLUS" version from the financially more interesting altstore. Who would be next? Niantic? They make tons of money with IAP that are taxed by Apple. Facebook? They are known for undermining security and privacy as much as possible. How long until my mother needs to enable one or another altstore just to continue to use apps she uses right now?

Yes, for a developer or advanced user, walled gardens look bad. But we as a community need to accept that we are a small minority of users of Apple devices. I personally recommend iPhones and iPads to entry level users in my family because I know they can't mess up the device completely without knowing ... so, to be honest, because of the walled garden and the limited choices. And I accept that if I want more freedom, I have to get something else for me.

Therefore, the question isn't why someone doesn't want to give you the choice and freedom, but why you (and sometimes I, and a lot of people in our community) want to force a change to the majority of iPhone users that are perfectly happy with the current status quo. A status quo that was in place 5 to 10 years ago and was definitely in place when they bought their devices.
Jeff would have barely qualified, as he was only worth ~$1.5B in 2002, when SpaceX was started.
What do you do if you want to experiment with lower prices? If you lower the price for existing customers during the experiment, it's going to hurt if you end up putting the price back.
> I suppose they could make it big enough to reduce the risk of anyone finding the actual landing area.

They probably have to make it as small as possible to minimize disruption to the public.

The right solution is probably to just have more Coast Guard on hand.
Why is fallback so bad? As long as you gain insight into the operational mode, then you can decide on how to react to the situation.

Perhaps you can fallback to a less demanding mode - process smaller dataset, or a less complex dataset... options are nice!
Great unless you or someone you want to communicate with doesn't use an apple device. Which covers the majority of the population.

I've also had terrible reliability issue with imessage in the past, messages not delivering, not showing up, errors sending, showing up on one device but not another, etc. Was a mess that caused a lot of confusion.
I have. I'm waiting for you to name some shitcoins you think meet the criteria I mentioned so I can dunk on you.
It is the same if it goes before.

$100 can become $1000 or whatever. It is in fact this the reason checks have the quantity written in letters too, and also a dash that occupies the rest of the space.
I very much enjoyed a Kmett talk where he described needing to parameterize some lens thing with an index, a monad it would operate under, the source focus, the target focus, and three different containing structures, with some pieces repeated... and then realizing the type arguments said `i m a s t a b u` and decided he had probably gone too far.
The article did say Florida.
"Right vs left" only means the two main political parties in a government, and whatever those parties stand for. It is different in every nation and every era.

Everyone who pretends there is a worldwide eternally consistent meaning is a small minded person polluting discourse.
An awful title to a well written story.
I think it is more about it being new or ideologically convenient and the ad support is a convenient excuse. They don't rail against TV or radio and they are also ad supported.
Just from the list in my post:

> elections being on a non-holiday Tuesday

Simple majority legislation

> absentee ballots being limited / restricted and operating state-by-state

Really easy to correct with conditional budget funding on the basis of providing / enabling absentee / mail in voting, again a simple legislative majority on a budget bill

> the persistence of first past the post voting being the least representative form of election

First past the post isn't codified into the constitution. The only part that requires constitutional amendment is the electoral college but that can already be overriden with a combination of popular vote interstate compact and said statewide elections being held in an approval or score voting way.

This one requires policy change that is federal law currently mandating first past the post, but its not constitutional. Additionally this could be done in a way that removes federal simple majority requirements in federal elections and instead uses federal funding incentives to pressure states to adopt more democratic election systems because that would face a lot less blowback from anti-democracy interests.

> the continued existence of the electoral college and senate

This is the one that absolutely requires amendment. The electoral college can largely be made obsolete with the interstate compact but little can be done about how undemocratic the senate is. That is wholly intentional though - the senate was introduced to give less populated states more influence in government and to largely provide capital a numerically small wing of congress to control more easily monetarily.

> nothing to correct the loss of voting rights for felons

Felony voting rights are currently state by state, and again federal law or financial incentives could be used to pressure states to not deprive felons of their voting rights, or it could be codified as law with simple majority.

So of my stated points 4/5 can be done with just regular law, much of it done with just budgetary law requirements.
Simple Alternative to Haskell?
I love the idea of statically-typed functional programming but Haskell is so complicated! I've tried to learn it many times but I never got very far because of the sheer number of things one has to learn (IO, Monads, Category Theory?). It's also really hard to read Haskell code that other people wrote because Haskell is extremely flexible and there are a bazillion different language features with their own odd syntax.

Is there a statically-typed, functional programming language that has a simple syntax with low cognitive complexity? By simple syntax I mean something like Go, Lisp or Python, that you can just read and write large programs without having to consult the documentation.

EDIT: For example, in this image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/xlTmD.png there are no programming languages in the top left corner. Why not?
Sounds like something I still will expect my privacy-respecting browser to block in its entirety. It's not meant to benefit me, it's designed to prevent "ad fraud".
I am not in favor of the US interfering, to whatever extent it may have, but it seems that for Morales to run in the first place was unconstitutional due to term limits. His party tried to overturn the term limits in a referendum, failed, and then presto, the Supreme Court ruled it was a violation of human rights.

So if he has a case for it being a coup, it seems like the opposition has a comparably good case that he was moving towards what people call an "autogolpe" or self-coup.

This is not to say the current government is preferable.

I have not been paying attention to Bolivia recently, like most Americans, so my information is from:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Bolivian_general_election
Powdered graphite is an excellent lubricant that doesn't attract crud. My father had a little squeeze tube of it for locks; it eventually ran out and I haven't seen any more since.
It's quite important semantically because for people who don't stay well informed 'second wave' might imply that areas which have "gone through" the wave are benig hit again, which so far is not the case.

Essentially a lot of news reporting on this at the moment seems to be fearmongering and maybe an attempt at face-saving from politicians, who will at some point not be able to escape the reality that many of the measures they instituted were not the ones which would actually have saved lives (such as stricter policies about care homes).
It's not fair, but I meant 50 more years. I figure real change takes about 4 generations to happen.

If it makes you feel better, you can think of the non-violent imprisoned as grains of sand on the scales of justice. Your persistent outrage helps push for change in the same way.
Even though it's more "Pythonic", I tend to avoid your Python version. I think my favorite way to write that would be:

> import whatever
> filter(_ not in y, foo)

For me it's more readable. To each their own, of course.
Actually for anyone who finds themselves in a situation like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/b01179/som... has some great advice.
And if you work for a tech company, many are able to really help you (since most tech companies skew young and healthy, ie low-risk, they are able to really push on the insurance companies). I know of at least one case at AppNexus a few years ago
That’s just nuts.

Just like people get flu shots every year to prevent widespread outbreaks, a Covid vaccine that gives temp immunity would save millions of lives.

Why do you think there’s such a big deal about people getting annual flu vaccine shots, especially the most vulnerable?
What if everybody got $20 for voting? It would be mostly equivalent to a $20 fine for not voting, but different psychologically.
> Once alternate app stores or other enforced reduction in apple's abilities to enforce and police app store policy are in place,

We don't need to imagine that scenario, that's Android, and Google still definitely holds massive control with it's play store rules.

> All I'm saying is that having alternate app stores, whilst it brings a lot of upside, does bring downside, and that is (presumably) what the defenders of apple are trying to warn you about: Those downsides.

So go ahead and pick your examples from the Android world.
Why would an average customer want to download apps from who knows where instead of an App Store? Hey started this whole drama, they clearly did not even follow the guidelines. Why is it so hard to follow the guidelines to provide a better experience for the end user?
Actually you can just click NEXT multiple times in a row. Imagine you are on item 1 but really want to see item 5. You would have to click next, wait for transition to finish, click next, wait, etc.

(I found this because I already read the first 2-3 laws and closed the page, reopened to see the "Details" and wanted to quickly navigate to the middle/end of the list. Instantly the site felt super sluggish and unresponsive)

I totally agree with you BTW, clicking a button and having a quick (<200ms in my eyes) visual response is completely fine, even if that response is just a CSS transition. I do this all the time.

The specific problem I had is the NEXT button stops responding during that CSS transition which might not technically break rule #2 but definitely makes the UI feel sluggish and non responsive.
It does happen in Unity and Unreal too when you strictly work in the visual editor without writing much code.

It also happens in Qt and similar WYSIWYG visual editors where they often cannot render full dynamic content in the editors. But in all those cases you can just write everything in code without using the visual tools, and you can do that with Godot as well.
I was listening to the feed. They clearly discussed the dropping concentrations of both MMH (although I think they called it "MMT"?) and NTO. If they weren't just staging an elaborate ruse, then those substances were going somewhere. At at least one point they asked the crew if they wanted to exit immediately or wait. The crew replied they were happy to "hang out" a bit longer.

Even though you're flip-flopping (in the same paragraph) about whether there was a dangerous condition, you do seem to concede that shooting people is not the way to rescue them. So, you're ahead of most USA national security experts.
I highly encourage everyone^ to at least try ditching the soaps, scrubs, and shampoos - unless you have a medical condition, your skin and hair will probably feel amazing. I haven’t used body soap or shampoo in well over 15 years. That said, I take 3 short showers everyday - after running in the morning, after swimming in the afternoon, and before bed. At 38 I get a lot of compliments about my skin and hair, and I think the trick is not wrecking them with chemicals that primarily remove all the natural oils that they need to be healthy. I do use Old Spice Deodorant (no antiperspirant) as I have not found a good replacement for classic DO. Minimalism FTW.

^ it works well for me, a male with an average head of hair. Results may vary.
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There are all sorts of decisions made based partially on taxes that the government later changes going forward. And those changes cause a ton of issues. Just seems like should all be one way or the other.
I don't have a problem with people like that, I have a problem with people like you acting like you're their friend until it actually costs you something. And I have a problem with the left painting a facade of caring, then implementing policies and taxes that eventually backsplatter all over those people, and leaves them holding the bag.

Your mindset is what lays the groundwork for systemic problems...see Joe Biden's political activity from years ago which laid the foundation for small-time drug dealers to do hard time. The harmful effects don't show up until about 10 levels down the line, but you're too entitled to see past the first few.

fyi done commenting on this thread since ppl downvote based on politics
I think you will start to see diminishing returns after 2 cats.
People who write Haskell don't just leave their symbolic operators undocumented. It's definitely heavy on the symbols but that and type signatures are certainly not the only tools Haskell devs have.
Does the US Navy or Coast Guard have the legal ability to bill private companies for those kinds of services?

Government agencies can only impose fees and charges on private entities where those are authorised (directly or indirectly) by legislation. And agencies have far greater discretion to make contracts in which they are the customer than those in which they are the vendor. The later kind of contracts generally need approval at a far more senior level than the former (in some cases even requiring approval by the legislature).
I absolutely am glad my parents don't have the choice.
> scrolling down to view content

Shouldn't this be normal?
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