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I'm not sure I see any reason to expect or believe that engineers would make good ui/ux decisions. It's not clear to me that choices that are simple for engineering are necessarily even aligned with ultimately being functional.

A good ui/ux specialist will be interested in reducing error rates and improving ease of discovery and use through affordances and good organization of information and actions. Obviously other business interest may conflict with those goals but those same interests are capable of corrupting engineering as well.

And I don't think ui/ux work is as recent as this is all making it sound. Perhaps it is more common now even for orgs where their bread and butter isn't software but ultimately making tools useful and safe and accessible predates software entirely.

Americans aren't socially unmoored. We come from a society where people smile as a matter of being polite. People everywhere have to learn social signals and ours happen to involve smiling as a matter of course.

This thread is pretty irritating for being kind of clueless to the reality that every culture on earth is going to have trappings like this and the alleged stoicism of Russia and Germany are no exception. (Thinking someone is simple or mentally ill because they smile too much is already such a trapping.)

Speaking as someone with mental health issues and as someone who has been the shoulder for others who are the same, no, saying it'll get better doesn't help because almost nothing that could be said will.

But being lead in circles of doom talk and complaining by someone who is inconsolable naturally leads to vacuous sayings like it is what it is, it's not as bad as it seems, or count your blessings, only because I have to say something in reply despite not having any answers.

I view a principle as being a belief held that one will hold the line on, even if to do so would be potentially costly. A principle isn't necessarily popular or just.

Optimizing for traffic, revenue, or whatever else is certainly a strategy but I don't think it's a principle in the sense of someone or some people having principles.

And I would add that the effective output of such a strategy, if it were the behavior of an individual, would probably be described as sociopathic.

Reddit seems pretty unprincipled in general. Their decisions wouldn't be so bad if they appeared to stem from a coherent principle but overall they seem to only be reacting and doing whatever is politically expedient in the moment.

Not unlike most orgs I suppose.

You're wondering why making threats of violence against a person or trying to rally a credible threat against them isn't permitted under the first?

A signal conversation is not a public platform. It's the difference between sending a letter and sending a newsletter.

You should use your sick days when you are sick.

That doesn't justify adding additional uncertainty about what BMW is going to do with their sunscriptions and software and for how long.

And anyway, confidence in Apple is justifiably higher.

It seems like you're trying to catch this guy out for cognitive dissonance but I'm not seeing it.

CarPlay is offered in perfectly functional forms in the market right now for a reasonable upfront price that people will pay for a known feature set.

A subscription arguably can make the product less valuable, because of uncertainty about continuing support, changes to the subscription model or software, and an unknown price that will likely end up being higher than the flat fee offered by competitors.

This isn't cognitive dissonance, it's worry that BMW might pull a bait and switch.

These are borrowings or coins into a natural language. A word from bash does not mean you are speaking bash any more than saying macaron would mean you are speaking French.

The pandemic is dovetailing in interesting ways with other matters of geopolitical importance. I wouldn't say anything is stealing the spotlight from anything else but the confluence of events makes this moment feel like we might be crossing the Rubicon.

They could have played their Nokia acquisition in many different ways. What they ended up doing was killing the baby in its crib.

The fundamentals of Windows Phone were mismanaged to such a degree that brand image seems like a high concept in comparison.

Yes, if you need that kind of service, then you're going to have to pay for it. That goes without saying.

Better yet, get the office to pay for it, if they're going to be so demanding.

I've read here and there, don't know how credible it is, that Apple uses emojis as a carrot to encourage people to take the update.

It is a cheap and immediately gratifying feature whereas users might not care about or understand the more substantive parts of an update.

It was only ever supposed to buy us time (to develop treatments, vaccines, reorganize workplaces) and avoid overwhelming the capacity of services like hospitals.

I don't think anyone credible has said that lockdowns were going to put the genie back in the bottle. It is only one component of a complete response.

They _have_ argued that a complete response might permit more economic normalcy somewhat sooner, and that appears to be bearing out.

I suspect if you doggedly pursued this strategy without a strong stem background, you would have one before long.

The framing of all third-party cartridges as "counterfeits" regardless of whether or not they carry HP trademarks is deliciously dishonest. Buyers getting into difficult relationships with "large-scale criminal syndicates" over discount ink and toner also strains plausibility.

Whatever the reality, they've made it so consumers get burned by counterfeits (rendered completely nonfunctional) instead of HP, while conveniently eliminating legitimate competition.

This is ridiculous. Neither environmental hums nor hallucinations or tinnitus or other psychological sources are paranormal.

I'm fine dismissing out of hand paranormal hums and paranormal phenomena generally. You don't appear to even be in this group and yet you feel personally attacked?

I agree. Even today I would be very reluctant to use the term "multimedia" because it sounds very dusty and boring to me. I would use "audiovisual" or something else in its place.

Though it's not really necessary to call this out anymore, seeing as virtually every corner of computing is capable of a whizz-bang multimedia experience and has been for a long time.

I've got a current model monochrome laser printer and I'm very satisfied with it.

Considering that there are many compilations of the evidence that Trump lies more than past presidents and that he lies about matters of national security, public health, climate science, and election security, I find your position absurd.

Most of the spent flying short routes isn't spent in the air. The process of getting to and away from the gate is so unpleasant and inefficient that it makes me a little angry if I think about it too long.

And that's if everything goes well. Delays are frequent. Add on top of that the cramped cabin, luggage restrictions, and that they ask you to not get up or use the bathroom for so long while the plane is going up or coming down (most of the ride on these short hops).

And it's _expensive_.

Flying is awful and I hate it and will gladly choose the train if it's remotely competitive.

Yamaha just announced their first ANC products, in both cans and buds formats if I recall. Don't know how they will stack up.

Trademark. There are a great many that are generic words. Fortunately they are limited to the markets the owner is participating in and the consumer confusion test relieves trademark squatting somewhat.

It's not whataboutism if the premise made explicitly by you is to compare and contrast the "badness" of the west with China.

And anyway, a claim that the west isn't worse than China does not entail a belief that the west hasn't done anything wrong or doesn't have objectionable administrative policies.

Sealed classes don't have to have anything in common. Sealed classes are an example of a discriminated union. A contrived example is you might have a function that takes or returns circles or ducks but _nothing else_. Not triangles, not pigs. It has to be a circle or it has to quack.

Where are these used? Well, they are used in a sense all over the Java language already in the form of methods with checked exceptions, which say in their contract that they return either a successful result or any of the declared errors but nothing else.

I think assessing and charging at the time of distribution, as best as can be estimated, the total cost of responsible disposal would be sufficient to align incentives, for both manufacturers and consumers. More waste means higher prices.

And fees so assessed should actually pay for disposal. Of everything. Discourage dumping and garbage burning by making waste collection "free" (in reality paid in advance at time of purchase).

The police and the general population have very different flavors of bad apple.

The "good" protestors have no ability nor obligation to remove or control the "bad" ones. It's shameful that some see fit to dismiss the message of them all for the actions of a few. And anyway, the goodness or badness of violent or riotous protests through the lens of history is more than a little bit complicated.

The police do have such an ability and obligation. They are organized and they are in a position of power. It is shameful that some see fit to excuse the entire enterprise because not all cops are bad.

Neither is as simple as that.

I don't feel that way. Social media circulates a lot of weird takes. For the many, many hot topics of 2020, I hear a lot of opinions that are something like, I'm bored of this so it's not important and it's all fake news anyway so I can make up my own story. That's a take that sounds like it should be quiet but it's instead really noisy.

Not really a replacement for quality journalism.