buckminster

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Comment · 5 years ago
So you need a warning whenever art makes you feel something other than enjoyment. Now I understand.
Comment · 5 years ago
> TV, music, movies, theater, and books are supposed to make you feel something when consuming them.

So we don't need a warning when they do. What's not to understand?

Comment · 5 years ago
Surely you're thinking of UI design. The term UX design was coined because it's not the same thing. You're right that UX design is not principally intended to benefit the user. That's by design.
Comment · 5 years ago
Where I live you need to hold a trigger on the nozzle. You can't wander off and do something else.
Comment · 5 years ago
You could even call the win32 api from 16-bit VB3 by going through the wow thunking api. It worked well but the declarations were quite hairy.
Comment · 5 years ago
Barmouth! Circa 1979. When we realised we were swimming in turds and shit tickets we decamped to Harlech.

That said, most of my holidays were in Wales back then and the Barmouth turd regatta is my only grim memory.

Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
House alarms are worse. People take their car alarms to work with them but the house alarms are here all day.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's an easy mistake to make because the top of the article says

> Posted by Natalie Silvanovich

but the bottom says

> Posted by Ryan

The latter is just the blogspot username though. It's quite scruffy.

Comment · 5 years ago
Maybe they are all right. The twenty year olds think their peers are judgmental because they are judgmental. And so on.
Comment · 5 years ago
It reads like SEO spam: a plausible collection of statements scraped from other articles and then cobbled together with no understanding. It's a shame that stackoverflow has sunk to this.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm receiving scam calls from India saying "Your Amazon Prime subscription is about to renew, please talk to our representative if you wish to cancel". If Amazon Prime was easy to cancel this scam wouldn't exist.

(I actually tried going along with the scam, but his call centre was so noisy he couldn't hear what I was saying, ffs.)

Comment · 5 years ago
"Open banking" and "cross-border banking" are two different things. The UK will definitely continue to have open banking. The UK-EU banking relationship is still up for negotiation. (I'm not hopeful though.)
Comment · 5 years ago
In the 1970s this was a thing in England too, for the same reason. My Dad was advised to check his car for bombs and he wasn't anybody important.
Comment · 5 years ago
All old computers get it right. They are not doing UI asynchrony. It's a fairly recent problem.

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