partlysean

I’ve found that left/right socks are more common for activities like running, where they’re knit to support specific parts of your feet.

Makes me think of the Star Trek episode “A Taste of Armageddon” where a computer simulates the outcome of a war and its causalities, and then those civilizations actually go to murder that number of people in real life.

As it’s been noted, these bots don’t comprehend what they’re saying. But I thought ChatGPT saying ”How can I assist you today?” and “I'd be happy to help with any questions or information you may need.” in the beginning of the conversation really reinforced this. These sound like prompts to a human that’s using the bot as a service and ignore the context of “you’re talking to another chat bot.” You wouldn’t say that if you’re meeting/learning about someone.

I prefer to call it “optical” and “mechanical” alignment, rather than “mathematical.”

Left a bad taste in my mouth when I was required to create a user account to just browse the web. Didn’t go back to it much after that.

Completely agree. Content Designers should be part of the conversation just as early as Product Designers and Researchers.

Reminds me of the party card game Pricetitution.

I use GoodNotes for all of my note taking and non-artistic sketching. Syncs with my iPhone and Mac, so it’s easy to have them everywhere.

Should have named it Monster Mesh.

It’s not necessarily a feature comparison, but I’ve found it much easier to just “try” things in Rhino. Solidworks is best when you already have a clear idea of what you’re building. In that way, our industrial design team would use Rhino and then hand it off to the mechanical engineers to rebuild it in Solidworks.

I think a good parallel of this is Webflow, which I find to be an incredibly powerful tool and gives design teams a lot of freedom to build and deploy their designs, however it’s incredibly cumbersome if you’re using it to mock up options and explore iterations. That work still happens in Sketch for our team, and when it’s approved that same team brings it into Webflow and “does it for real.”

I expect exporting from Sketch/Figma into React components would be cumbersome in this same way.

If I may pose another example from my days of industrial design, Rhino is a great tool for rapidly iterating designs and building CAD for renderings, however when your design is approved you really need to rebuild it in Solidworks for it to be made.

The real solution here is for companies to adopt a Design Ops/Design Systems Manager that can design and code in the front end. This would remove burden from the engineering team so they don’t have to worry about doing tiny design tweaks, etc.

Safari for all my personal and work usage. I do pop into Chrome and Firefox to perform browser QA, but Safari is my daily driver.

I'm right there with you. Our condo building is just over 100 years old and has 2 parking spots for 6 units (we're not one of the lucky ones). We'd love to own an EV, but it's just not practical.

This gets to my big complaint with companies like Tesla. They designed an impressive, game changing EV, but their solution ecosystem works best if you have a home with a garage in the suburbs. I don't have a garage to install a Tesla Powerwall that's charged by a Tesla Solar Roof for me to park a Model S.

If Tesla wanted to truly address climate change and get more electric transportation to more people, they'd solve city charging and start designing commuter transit.

It’s little things like this that keep me from using Firefox. Context menus, various micro-interactions, visual design decisions—they all feel so non-native.

NPCs in Half-Life 2 mentioned a number of times that Gordon doesn’t say much and is a “man of few words.” I’m sure this is a nod to his silence in the first game as much as it’s a storytelling device.

I’ve always liked that his character never said anything—feels like Gordon can be anyone. Same goes for the lack of cutscenes that take control of the player’s camera. You always feel like you’re looking from your own POV vs. being pulled out of the immersion.