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Comment · 3 months ago
But OP asked for content not about AI. If you have content not about AI, wouldn't that be more helpful and to the point of the request?

We're drowning in AI slop and slop about AI, someone asked for a bit of reprieve, and you reply with direct link to your post about AI.

EDIT: I see you edited your comment ;-) I'll leave mine, but I'm not feeling inspired. Maybe others will be. Good luck!

Comment · 3 months ago
OP asked for blogs not about AI. You shared a blog you wrote about AI.
Comment · 2 years ago
God. "Freedom of speech" and "free of abuse?" Sounds like a nightmare! Liberals!!

Where are the spaces anymore to be outlandishly an asshole and shut other people down?! :-|

Comment · 3 years ago
I have trouble caring about what someone says about typography when they've chosen abnormally excessive letterspacing which makes reading awkward and effortful.
Comment · 3 years ago
Implying "instead of path B, which is good for your child, do path A, which is bad for your child, to prevent A from becoming an even worse option?"
Comment · 4 years ago
I think the gotchas aren't for the early adopters and power users. It's for the people who will eventually make up the larger, more lucrative percentage of their user base starting with the friends and family of early adopters who are recommended to it.

Once they're set up with it, the idea of "importing and exporting between dozens of password managers" is meaningless. And gotchas aren't always limitations but can be "positive" like well meaning features, integrations, your company using it (so you too), etc. Lock-in comes in many forms.

Comment · 4 years ago
Users do. I spent a whole summer A/B testing an app's landing page to get 10+% more conversions. Over 50 experiments, the biggest win was having a hero image. Its actual content didn't matter as long as it was a photo and featured humans. And the more screen space it took the better. Probably different for different markets and apps, but yeah from my experience users love em.
Comment · 5 years ago
While I agree with "not wanting separatism," I find it infuriating that the burden of analyzing and debating "separatism" (or etc) always gets foisted on the minority or marginalized populations create a space for themselves. And relatively never the mainstream, dominant culture and institutions that have left out, pushed out, or outright exploited them in the first place.
Comment · 5 years ago
The author literally gives an individual reason why about half the books should be read by everyone and the other half by many based on their interests. What are your objections?
Comment · 5 years ago
Not original commenter, but some examples of Android's superior UI/UX: - "Back" action is consistent and not in a different spot in each app. - Notifications are more actionable, organized, and clear. - Actions tend to be more clear and discoverable. On ios apps you need to try swiping, clicking, holding, and pinching seemingly random elements to "discover" basic actions. I forgot which app, but one of Apples literally starts you on some screens scrolled a little...and you have to guess you can scroll UP to find extra info and options. - So many extra steps to do anything. E.g. you can turn on/off wifi in quick settings for both, but on Android you can get to your wifi settings by long pressing the quick settings button, but in ios you have to open and navigate through settings. - Can't arrange app icons as flexibly or have widgets on home screen. - ios notification panel has like 3 different modes all with different capabilities and purposes depending on how you open it. - The app settings are ridiculous to navigate in ios. Sometimes they're in app, sometimes in the settings app's app settings pages, and iirc, sometimes in separate settings app pages altogether (e.g. I think permissions or accessibility settings per-app have a whole 'nother place to find them. - Notification page search bar has really poor, irrelevant results that display above the web results you really want. - Scrolling on ios is slower and more jittery than Android these days which surprises me. - Apps look squished and busy with text with ios' UI. Not always clear what's a button, what's swipable, whether you're deeply nested in navigation or at the top, etc. - ios seems to skip loading indicators and just show empty screens, which is really frustrating. - Very subjective but ios emojis have a pseudo-realistic creepy vibe and icky feel to me.

Etc, etc, I have more but I'll stop there :-/ I love my MacBook and use ios for a few professional needs, but ios feels almost unusable in comparison as an everyday device to me.

Comment · 5 years ago
Fwiw, "rape x" is exactly what I read your email as before I read the other comment saying the same.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes to Colemak! Easier transition from Qwerty, more efficient ergonomics, most common shortcuts are the same or similarly positioned! I switched about 14 years ago and so happy I did.

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