Idiot211

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Comment · 10 days ago

Buyout?

Oh dear, someone forgot to read the article.

Comment · 1 month ago

As with all things like this, a lot of the data is hidden behind teams working inside organisations that won't publish their data.

I tend to find good examples of data-driven blog posts on Gov.UK; GDS has done a lot to drive better decision-making with strong data. An example of that is the Input component they use [1] and the data behind the choice and issues with type=number [2].

On the making more money perspective, I can share an anecdote for you, when I was working with a large property portal in the UK, we had a few unstyled dropdowns hanging around the app for sort criteria etc. Simply replacing them with a styled dropdown (and dropdown list) resulted in a 60% uplift of using that sort. We made no functional changes, just styled it. And it wasn't good styling, we broke dropdowns (as many do) in the first iteration (we were testing the hypothesis that people didn't use it because it didn't look like it was our component / wasn't styled like the rest of the site) -- So yes, anecdotally, pretty can be more impactful and result in more clicks.

EDIT: Missed the appendice links

[1] - https://design-system.service.gov.uk/components/text-input/

[2] - https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des...

Comment · 10 months ago

My key problem is not knowing what the real good alternatives are? I've trusted Mozilla for so long that I've fallen out of touch with a market that never really changed as much as it has in the last few years.

Comment · 1 year ago

Guilty as charged. To steal a phrase from Reddit, "the true LPT is in the comments"

The true insightful discussion comes in the comments.

Comment · 2 years ago

I was at the keynote, Llama was featured in the Copilot models section and called out specifically, as was Mistral.

I assume they just aren't at the point where they have the ability or want to host the compute to offer up Llama as an option as opposed to OpenAI, Anthropic and Google who are all offering the model as a service.

Comment · 2 years ago

Any chance of multiple bonus numbers like the Euromillions offers?

Comment · 2 years ago

To be fair, this problem is semi-solved by European airlines by having callsigns like BAW44W.

Which uses the last 2 numbers of the flight number, and an alphabetical character. BA use this on a lot of transatlantic type flights where delays etc can be an issue.

Comment · 2 years ago

> Carmel did not invest in poverty. Carmel pushed it out of town. Now it is extremely wealthy per-capita.

What exactly does that mean, I'm reading it quite negatively, but the rest of this is positive, so I might be missing your true meaning.

Comment · 2 years ago

All good! We all have those moments!

Comment · 2 years ago

FYI: The link to "You're the OS" points to localhost OP :)

Comment · 2 years ago

They actually open sourced the iOS and Android applications, not the server code of course.

But that's even more of a fun thing from them!

Comment · 2 years ago

Relevant XKCD:

https://xkcd.com/927

Comment · 2 years ago

Been a VATSIM member for many a year, both on the scopes and in the sim.

It's a fantastic hobby organisation, one filled with village politics and annoyances more than it needs to be.

But if you focus in on the sim and the scope, my opinion is there's no better hobby org focused on excellence in a collective.

Comment · 2 years ago

My interpretation of hubris in this context is actually "pride" and it's what I've chosen to substitute the word for.

Having pride means that I want to write code that others view as good code and won't look at in the future as a mad hatter's ramblings.

Comment · 3 years ago

Does that 59.99 include VAT at 20%?