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> To me, the main culprits of crimes against usability are business leaders and marketers, not designers (although these do bear some of the blame). [...] However, when you explain the issues they often back down and create usable designs.

Honestly, my experience is the opposite. It is almost always designers who push for what they consider aesthetically pleasing with very little regard to usability.

Yes, when you push back a lot, you sometimes win. But it takes too much fighting, you need to be at powerful position to have the chance to win and they simply do not seem to care about usability.
Pasting in output from ChatGPT or similar as a comment is a very lazy way to respond, and shows that you didn't really engage with the article.

All the points that your LLM of choice raised are either addressed in the piece or are just nonsensical. I mean like, "anti-feminist bias" - really? If you'd read the article yourself you'd see that it is written from a radical feminist perspective.
Plenty of cancers have been linked to very specific combinations mutations in non-mitochrondrial DNA, IIRC p53 mutations alone are prevalent in ~50% of cancer cases.

About the not eating thing: maybe you can starve the tumor, but who starves first?
I was rather thinking about instant communication and cooperation, instead of remote control. Like an entire orchestra tuned together - no more individual players but one orchestra superbrain. Or football team. Or of course army shudder
OP was wearing them wrong /s
I'm no game dev, what I gather is that Apple hasn't been very friendly in terms of graphics drivers and compatibility in general. There was that article a little while ago where some company implemented a fully compliant Vulkan for Apple Silicon better than Apple did? If Apple makes it more difficult almost on purpose, why should developers come to the table when their target audience isn't on the platform?

I get the impression that mac-specific tools work very smoothly and nicely, but cross-compatible tools suffer needlessly.

For Valve at least the decision seems to make sense - Linux has overtaken macOS in their hardware survey. No doubt Steam Deck and Proton have a hand in it.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/september-2023-steam-s...
I thought it doesn't break cleanly and then can cut them up trying to break it more?
Meh. I think Flexport proved what their word was worth when they rescinded loads of employment offers. Not an ethical company to deal with.
I'm not sure what your argument proves. No one said it is just games either. I think you're turning what I said into something else. Languages are incredibly impressive and powerful things. I feel like you're making languages appear simple and of low utility. But language has been one of the, if not the most, powerful tool humans have ever created, especially when you consider written language. The latter allowing us to pass along information asynchronously through time and space. Do not miss the power of this tool just because it is something we use so frequently. There's a reason we use it so frequently.

The reason we use the language of math is because it is so precise. But you just described a turing machine without using math. Keep in mind that physics is also a language. Physics is an ever evolving model, a description of our reality. But it is not more than that, a model. But all models being wrong does not equate to models being useless. Physicses (yes, there are multiple ones), are clearly quite powerful and useful models that have enabled us to do quite amazing things as well. But I'm also not going to start programming in Brainfuck or with Magic cards. But I do have a deep passion for mathematics and it is something I use every day and spend quite a lot of time learning even outside my work.

Your argument demonstrates the usefulness of mathematics, but does not demonstrate that it isn't a language. I also would like to remind you that you can create pretty useless algebras. Maybe also checkout Wolfram's section on recreational mathematics. Maybe also dig into my name sake's multiple theorems. Most people misunderstand the results, but I don't think it diminishes their worth, they are quite important and amazing. And the incompleteness theorem is deeply related to turing completeness as well as superposition and a famous logic paradox.
The date is yesterday about layoffs happening today?
> from my experience with people with ADHD, many are actually dysfunctional to the point of needing medication to get anything meaningfully done.

I didn't have medication for the majority of my life and I got plenty done. I just had a certain degree of executive dysfunction that's hard to describe, but manifested itself as basically losing every hobby whenever I got bored (which is not supposed to happen nearly as much).

I didn't even know it was a thing that just happened to people (and had a name like ADHD) until about a year ago. I seriously just thought I was lazy or "couldn't be fucked".

So it could totally be ADHD, speaking as someone with severe ADHD who also did not know it was ADHD for quite a while.
> In UI terms they're both ignorant and opinionated.

These are the UX/UI cargo-cult morons you're looking for.

It seems in the software world we've yet to establish our own version of industrial design[1] so "regular" designers gets used. And leaders who decide aren't technical so they don't get usability.

I think the lack of competition also make the terrible designs seem successful.

I'm not using Teams because it looks great. I'm using it because my org uses it for chat and meetings. It's not like they let people try a few different looks for Teams and then see which people like the most.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_design
> If there's an opportunity to build something 10x better than Chrome, it'll be shipped.

There won’t be. Since IE6 the standards have grown to inhuman proportions, and implementing a new browser engine is even more difficult than it was then.
> I wouldn't be surprised if numbers and physics go hand in hand, in the sense that we can only observe these, and not the more irregular patterns that make up the total chaos that we might exist in.

I am curious to see how far we can get with the logic and mathematics that we understand (as humans). Perhaps there is a perfectly "logical", consistent and complete description of why the universe exists and what it looks like that is beyond our comprehension. Maybe we wouldn't even recognize the description as such if it were shown to us (comparable to an abstract painting with two lines and one dot that is supposed to depict a woman).
My bad first scan read (probably wrong now I look at it) was;

The IRS says Microsoft owes an additional $28.9 billion -- in tax for 2004 to 2013 plus penalties and interest

For an SEC filing they really should be declaring the actual value of their liability - the interest on the bill is going to be $10bn+
Why would you have anything like passion for the customers or products in Meta of all places? Their main product, FB, is implicated in facilitating ethnic cleansings in multiple countries. Their other big success, Instagram, is a gigantic lie factory designed to give young women body image disorders.

The only way to help Metas customers is figure out how to make that BGP outage they had in 2021 permanent.
If your earphone price range is $19 then those things will indeed not be the right choice for you, that's true. But there are wired earphones which cost 10x as much as Airpods, so your statement only shows your bias.
Wow! 40 miles an hour! So fast! Give that carrier 5 hours start. What's that? A mere 200 miles.

A hypersonic anti-shipping missile goes roughly 6000 miles an hour. So that missile would catch up that huge 200 miles in 2 miserable little minutes.

Now, final manoeuvring. The carrier's biggest drawback is its size. Everything else is tiny in comparison. And it will be in the middle of a (hugely visible on radar) Carrier Group.

So if you want to hit a carrier, just aim for the largest return in the middle of that very conspicuous Carrier Group.
I don't understand how you draw a connection between this and Stockholm syndrome. "The products are great when they work, but Apple is horrible to deal with when something goes wrong" is a completely sensible opinion.

And after all, the 99% case is that things work well. Choosing products which are worse 99% of the time but where the company is more pleasant to work with in the 1% case where something goes wrong is a tough sell. (Omitted from this discussion is whether Apple products are truly better when they work or not. That's a wholly unproductive discussion which comes down to opinion and mattcantstop clearly thinks that they are.)
I learned to love them. I always liked the taste so I either mashed them or didn't eat the mushrooms itself in a sauce. With time I learned to like the texture as well.

Except Champignons which I still dislike. They have the worst texture of nearly all food I ever tried.

So maybe also try avoiding Champignons
To be fair, in the era of dedicated title bars, there used to be a huge drag button for easily relocating the window, wherever you wanted it to be.
The woman shouldn't be in the title at all. This is about the bionic hand, not her.
The real world runs on Linux (from servers, data centers, microcontrollers, ...), business runs on Microsoft/Office, and creative makers (from designers to OSS creators) do it on a Mac.

Of course not 100% true but wherever I look its like >50% true at least.

Not to mention being the most valuable company in the world, sitting on _not_ the majority of users _but_ the majority of user revenue/wallet sizes, and having more cash to spend at hand than nearly every other company in the world has in total revenue, to the point of surpassing small/medium countries' GDP.

So far, "shooting themselves in the foot" I would not 100% agree with. And depending who you're asking, the Mac is the #1 platform, and is even growing since M1 chip releases.
Telegram is Qt based as far as I know.

Funny that I would find the other basic comms channels integrated a good thing, if they would be properly polished, and the stuff you like is what I find junk.
The new OS M6t W5s 12. Now more accesible. With O5k 365 and M6t E2e. /s
Agree to disagree I guess. I don't need a window border when I can drag/resize the window from anywhere in that window.
So what way could you prove current ownership?
Its weird that there is no online portal for selling access to HTML5 games. Itch doesn't really do it

> Currently all HTML5 games on itch.io are set up to only take payments as donations

Seems like a big hole on the market? Anyone interested in setting up a online games payment gateway?
I could've phrased it better, it sounds like you're criticising something other than what I meant.

One single plane flies over Hiroshima, ignored because "that can't possibly be a threat". The air raid warning had been cleared at 07:31, and many people were outside, going about their activities.

> it had its own atomic bomb program

Two programs; it was because they were not good enough that they thought the US couldn't have had the weapons:

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The Japanese Army and Navy had their own independent atomic-bomb programs and therefore the Japanese understood enough to know how very difficult building it would be. Therefore, many Japanese and in particular the military members of the government refused to believe the United States had built an atomic bomb, and the Japanese military ordered their own independent tests to determine the cause of Hiroshima's destruction.[0] Admiral Soemu Toyoda, the Chief of the Naval General Staff, argued that even if the United States had made one, they could not have many more.[86] American strategists, having anticipated a reaction like Toyoda's, planned to drop a second bomb shortly after the first, to convince the Japanese that the U.S. had a large supply.[1]

[0] Frank, Richard B. (1999). Downfall: the End of the Imperial Japanese Empire. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-100146-3

[1] Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi (2005). Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01693-4

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> AGI

You personally are a General Intelligence; we have Artificial Intelligence. Is GPT-4 a "general" "intelligence"? That depends on the standards for the words "general" and "intelligence". (Someone is probably arguing that anything trained by an evolutionary algorithm isn't necessarily "artificial", not that I know how it was trained, nor even care given I don't use that standard).
Let me ask you something honestly, where do you find your people? Is there really such a place that operates differently? I find myself in a very similar situation as the GP, but I agree with your sentiment, so I would prefer to taks your advice. In my experience, every work place has the exact same problems as they described. I just want to know whether there are indeed better options, and what to do to find them.
Please delete this. I (I meant this comment, not the original post) @dang
Honestly, a great deal of that texture can be hidden simply by chopping them small and adding them to meals that have bits of a similar size.

Some homemade vegetarian meat substitutes are mostly lentils and finely chopped mushrooms. I've seen it for a burger, "meatballs", taco filling, and one that I make is a sausage roll - I just use the filling in bread dough.

You can also hide texture by adding them to ground meats that you are using in other things. Sauces also hide texture and you can add them to a variety of soups.
Untrue. The flag represents exactly a language as usually is connected with the original country where the language was born.
This is just another attempt to create a new ideology that distances us from history and tradition (very fashionable lately, why deny it)
Again, like the other post you did this on, this is a very a low effort response by pasting in whatever ChatGPT says about this article.

You didn't even read it yourself, did you? Otherwise you'd likely have noticed that all the points your LLM makes are lazy dismissals that don't engage with the piece in any substantive way.
If you really want, there are devices you can install to do this yourself and self-host the infra for (minus the mobile data), not sure how well they work with fancy modern cars, but they exist.

example: https://vandogtraveller.com/cheap-gps-tracker-installation-a...

obviously it would depend which product you pick to define the interface (SMS is not ideal, fair enough) and capabilities
What can people do instead of technology jobs, to make real productive work in the labour market?
It's kinda weird that the windows desktop looks essentially the same today and not even talking about the config dialogs from then that are still there.
I think about this on a number of levels a lot. I think things have changed a lot less than we tell ourselves (though they have changed a little bit, in that we are no longer bound to each other by feudal oaths - possibly for the worse).

The idea behind governments, even the most liberal, has always been that you give up some of your freedom in exchange for security against violence. This was also the primary motivator for swearing serfdom to a feudal lord. And the idea behind corporations is effectively giving up a large share of your labor value (the other part of serfdom) nominally in exchange for security against economic instability, in that you get a steady paycheck regardless of revenue fluctuations.

In practice, I think many people are finding that security is dubious since corporations lay off employees, but they don't understand what the tradeoff is that they made. Lack of loyalty by employers has then fueled lack of loyalty by employees, and overall the situation is more tenuous now for employees.

And for that matter when people complain about crime (and why crime against its own citizens is particularly heinous), they're complaining that the government is not holding up their end of the contract with protection from that. I'm not sure whether it's easier or harder today to find a different "lord" in the form of emigration. On one hand we're not bound by feudal oaths so leaving as such is usually pretty easy, but on the other hand the process of living somewhere long-term and changing citizenship can be very difficult on the other side depending where you go.
How will that CLI work when using non-proprietary Git (or other VCS) servers? Sounds like a way to get stuck in walled garden.
I must admit I never looked at that ecosystem. Does it just happen to have been quite stable or is it a serious design decision they made and are sticking to?

From a quick search I do not get the impression that .NET has been deprecating parts of the API, including Core APIs, in the past, e.g.:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/compatibility/...
How to install Linux without hurting our bottom line too much.
It might be worth trying the mem_sleep_default=deep kernel parameter
> Most importantly, if you don't pay for the service it does nothing at all.

Until someone gets in to onstar's systems and activates this for every device at once.
Most officials communicate in ways that circumvent FOIA.
Of course it hasn't. It's a gold rush. Once a winner is established and we're all hooked on the services they will milk it for all it's worth.

For now we're getting it cheap from parties trying to buy markershare. Enough frantic investors looking for the next bitcoin.
Yeah, As someone who grew up in one Scandinavian country and currently lives in another, I wouldn't trust a Scandinavian country to not roll over and be a US lapdog when push comes to shove.
If you want to create a Z-Machine game, get Inform6 and Inform6 lib among the Inform Beginner's Guide to learn how to create a basic adventure:

git clone https://jxself.org/git/inform

git clone https://jxself.org/git/informlib

cd inform ; cc -o inform src/*.c

sudo cp inform /usr/local/bin ; cd ..

Spiritwrak:

git clone --recursive https://jxself.org/git/spiritwrak

cd spiritwrak; sh build.sh ; cd ..

Snowed In (incomplete):

git clone --recursive https://jxself.org/git/snowed-in

cd snowed-in; sh build.sh; cd ..

Homeland: (complete, small)

git clone --recursive https://jxself.org/git/homeland

cd homeland; sh build.sh ; cd ..

In order to play the z5/z8 games, you'll need Frotz/Fizmo or any compatible interpreter.

The games at jxself's repo are GPL licensed, so, please, comply with the license if you create derivated games.
More on borders (and title bars) here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37865824

My theory is that designers target users viewing 1 full-screen window at a time. Their model user never moves or resizes a window, or opens more than 3 tabs/documents a day, as they sit at their 13" laptop in an ideally-lit room with no reflections.
Full extent of Team17 cuts threaten third of the company – sources
that s questionable if it will work. maybe there s a more sustainable solution
So how could OpenAI make fine-tuning so cheap? Beside the computing power you need for fine-tuning, OpenAI also have to save your fine-tuned weights, and spawn a new instance for you every time you want to run your fine-tuned model. If so, I imagine it must be insanely expensive because the inference only model of ChatGPT is not what one can say "small". So, how did they do that? Can anyone share their "secret"?
>Microsoft openly claimed that "Linux is a cancer" back in 2001

Yes, and? Like any company, it's not a single-mind monolith set in stone willing to die on some random hills, but adapts to where the money is if it wishes to survive, and it's represented by people who are subject to change, specifically Balmer who said that at the time and he's been replaced by Nadella, who fixed a lot of the bad directions Blamer took.

Apple also refused to use USB-C over lightning until the EU forced them, then came around and told everyone how much better the "new" USB C connector is despite refusing to use it in their phones for nearly a decade.
Disagree with this. Model quality is THE factor keeping them ahead.

I think a comparison to Netflix and the media industry is fair. Years ago, people claimed Netflix's tech and infrastructure was their moat, but it turns out it was the cheap easy access to loads of high quality content that was the real motivator.
The process works. I once got a MacBook issued from work that didn't have DEP or any MDM, so I did enroll it in Find My / Activation Lock. When I returned it I thought I had removed the lock, but there's a bit of a misleading option to remove a device (until it checks in again) from Find My that doesn't disable the lock. So work tried to contact me through a colleague, failed, and when I called back they already had the Apple reseller do it for them.
> I've heard second-hand that these were mostly caused by third-party drivers for devices, and truly fixing it required rewriting the drivers in-house and deprecating the old driver model.

Windows 95 had some memory protection but it was rather basic compared to for example NT and UNIX'es. So it was pretty easy for a faulty piece of software to cause a kernel panic.
Latency can only go down so much because as parent comment said: laws of physics dictate the minimum response time between two points given the distance. And it will be higher with each hop /media change
I don't have experience with .net core, but working on a cross platform java desktop application has me pretty convinced that "write one, run everywhere" is a pipedream even before you add on "forever". It's maybe more of less fine for small, simple applications, but eventually you'll run into something that doesn't work the same in Windows as in Mac and you'll start having to write platform-specific workarounds. At some point you'll find yourself reflecting into the platform-specific jvm internals to work around some bug or another. Then an os update will break something. Then a jvm update will break something.
Browsers should have a good way of running a kiosked-ish tab in a native-like way then.

I don't want to switch to my browser for Slack and then dig through tabs to find it, I want just to switch to Slack.
As a matter of principle, pedestrians should not have to yield to vehicles at all. Obviously they should, but the law shouldn't tell them to.
But it's not cross platform. Unless you count wine.
HTTP/3 is now the version to upgrade to. We're in Google cloud so we've been running that for some time now without issues. Works great actually.

I don't get all this anti HTTP 2 & 3 sentiment on hacker news. What's wrong with people here? HTTP 1.1 is a quarter century old at this point. This sounds just like a bunch of grumpy old men arguing against progress. Time to move on. Yes HTTP/1.1 works. But it's also a bit limited and slow in various ways that both new HTTP variants address. One little bug in nginx is not going to change anything. Bugs happen all the time. They get fixed and people move on. I'm not hearing a lot of rational arguments here.
To prevent a familiarity bias we should ask them the same question in 1995 with time machined screenshots of current MacOS downsampled to 640x480px.
Hmmm, can you return this product as faulty using your warranty?
> The overhead of booting windows maybe once a year?

No way!

If you were to boot into Windows only once a year, I'm sure there will be a couple of updates waiting to be installed, forcing you to boot into Windows at least twice a year ;-)
> But the interesting observation is that billionaires don't learn from experience.

This is my personal speculation, but self-learning can be extremely helpful for people with a lot of investment in a specific topic and high intrinsic motivation - a description likely to fit most people that made a vast fortune by themselves and their usual peer group. This is probably a serious filter bubble making them believe that self-learning is the way forward for everyone, since it worked for (nearly) everyone they know.