jfax
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Scott Adams is basically a sort of older version of Chris Chan. A cartoonist whose unreliable narration of own life became part of the whole performance.
But thing is—boy who cried wolf—not sure if he actually has the prognosis of cancer he says he has? It sounds mean, I reckon he does have it, but his past descriptions of health problems were confusing enough that I wouldn't be surprised if he recovers next year and spins it into a story about how he found a cure.
Comment · 1 year ago
A few others are saying, "well yeah, duh!", but this to me demonstrates a mental fault that arises in calling GNU+Linux, "Linux".
Comment · 1 year ago
Except China actually keeps their ultra wealthy in line.
Comment · 1 year ago
A newborn's eyes are not focussed.
Comment · 1 year ago
The first example website given here is described "just text with minimal styling." It's not just text though, it's hypertext? Since when did everyone lose sight of what hypertext is.
Comment · 2 years ago
I object to the statement that a Black woman is a woman. This is a distortion of language and science.
Comment · 2 years ago
They're saying it doesn't amount to a syndrome.
Comment · 2 years ago
The UK House of Lords has a quota of 92 hereditary peers, descendants of Norman conquerors.
Comment · 2 years ago
This is beautifully articulated. I myself thought for a long time that if the day ever came that Assange walks free, I'd cry, but instead I feel a strange emptiness inside. The world isn't the one I'd imagined for this day.
Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
We have airing cupboards in the UK. Cupboards with shelving that keep the hot water tank, so it's built around using waste heat from that to now and then dry damp clothes. It's not a one-to-one replacement for full clothes drying, but it's a nice complement to it.
> Ignoring the garbage on Web pages is a skill that some people don't have, and I don't know how to teach it. I'm reminded of this each time I try to help someone who doesn't have my background, use the Web; there are users who look at the literally first thing on the page and think about it carefully, even if it's "Please enable notifications," before they see the second item on the page at all.
> With Google searches now offering multiple screenfulls of garbage before the actual results, well.
> A related issue is failing to understand the epistemic status of different kinds of text on a page. E.g. the user who sees a clickable link with the text "I forgot my password" and believes that that means it's telling him he did forget his password (and it somehow knows this?), rather than just being the place to click if he forgot his password.
> The death of UI standardization, of course, makes this issue much worse.
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