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oh thanks for the tip! I'll look into it.

I love this! It's really a mindset of taking seemingly common things that we take for granted, and reconsider them under a fresh look to appreciate how amazing they actually are.

Before Facebook bought Instagram, the later was the main way people posted images on Twitter, since it was text-only at the time.

My wine fridge uses Peltier and is super quiet. It's the perfect application for this because wine doesn't need to be as cold as a normal fridge, and noise is a consideration.

It's not completely silent though, there's a small PC-like fan but it's way less loud than a compressor.

We still have world fairs, the current one is in Japan. A friend of mine just came back from seeing it and it's apparently quite impressive.

https://www.expo2025.or.jp/en/overview/purpose/

June and July have the most amount of sunlight so that makes sense. The numbers look a bit different in December.

Still, diversity of energy production is a good thing. There's no one silver bullet. Solar + Wind + Nuclear + Fossil + Hydro all have their pros and cons.

In particular, during hot and dry months, Solar will shine while Hydro will be a trickle of power (no pun intended), also affecting Nuclear and Fossil power plants near rivers.

The difficulty here is professional skill entails money, money entails risk management, risk management entails legalities.

The only way in the US is to have a powerful lobby that can fight to ensure broad waivers stand up in court, like the NRA: you can buy a gun and literally shoot yourself in the foot.

But if transaction, money, service, profession are all removed, then under a co-op / non profit this might work. Of course, those structures are also vulnerable to well-funded legal opponents.

Some European countries do provide a framework for this but it's more from a public health perspective and to eliminate the raison-d'être of criminal drug organizations.

Thank you for the correction.

Yes, this is the pragmatic answer.

Apple's HyperCard had a French dialect, and AppleScript followed with one too. It was short-lived but did provide a window as to how these programming languages might have looked like had they originated in a non-English world.

A fun factoid I just discovered: on March 11, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson signs an executive order mandating that ASCII be adopted as a federal information processing standard for electronic data interchange between federal agencies. This order was known as... Executive Order 11110 :)

Let's not be too hasty...

I've seen legitimate businesses outside those areas use that as a dark pattern. Basically you go to unsubscribe from the mailing list and they throw another hurdle at you, hoping you'll give up.

On the same note: https://xkcd.com/980/ (from 2011 when Bezos "only" had $18b)

Whether or not they eventually fuse, I don't know—I doubt it. But the approach they've taken over the past 15 years to gradually increase the similarities in user experience, while not trying to force a square peg in a round hole, have been the best path in terms of usability.

I think Microsoft was a little too eager to fuse their tablet and desktop interface. It has produced some interesting innovations in the process but it's been nowhere near as polished as ipadOS/macOS.

I’ve had a similar experience. If it’s a “I must do” with high stakes, I get a fear of failure, fear of disappointing and if left unchecked it unfortunately becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

However, challenges that start with “I wonder if”—like wondering if some bold idea just might actually be possible—give me a huge reservoir of energy to work well beyond my normal limits and find new solution that truly make a difference.

Of course in most projects, actual innovation is only a fraction of the work so some reframing of “run the business” tasks is necessary. That’s when I tap into gratitude: for being able to work on a project, for being entrusted with a particular task, etc.

> there just has to be a risk that consumers think that this is somehow associated with Waffle House

More than risk; some of the tweets could be actual evidence of that confusion.

I think if the general branding vibe of the site was more about hurricanes and only made a reference to the "Waffle House index" via NOAA, it might have had better chances of surviving. And also a big disclaimer that there is no affiliation with WH would have also helped.

It's also a Product issue: "fast and snappy" is almost never on their list of priorities. So product managers will push devs for more features, which satisfy the roadmap, and only get concerned about speed when it reaches painful levels.

This is not entirely true. For example, Calendar.app does the same by locally extracting the .ics out of Mail.app without ever sending anything to Apple.

I don't think Telegram's UX is tied to their permissive privacy, but they do seem to start with UX then do what's needed to support it. That does give them an edge. (Instagram has terrible privacy and actively mines information from chat and their UX is only passably good.)

CSV is awesome for front-end webapps needing to fetch A LOT of data from a server in order to display an information-dense rendering. For that use-case, one controls both sides so the usual serialization issues aren't a problem.

This is true, however getting it funded is the difficult task.

For it to be effective, the money can't come from the provider, meaning it's either from the payer or the patient. The payer doesn't really care, costs are contained as far as they are concerned, with the various Quality Initiatives. That leaves the patient to sign up for a subscription model.

I explored that as a business 12 years ago, and sadly there is still a need. The worst part is that most clinicians actually want to do the right thing but it's the admins in their organization who set up processes that result in terrible outcomes.

Both are needed. You can appreciate the energy you have by being around older people. You can be inspired in energetic ways by being around younger people.

Diversity is a good thing to cultivate.

Tell them you can't use your phone for whatever reason, and then ask them to just tell you what they have. I think enough people must have done this already because I've seen paper menus return in many places.

(This fall under the general pattern of "make it their pain")

The point is that the monkey was only the trigger. But the full cause of an outage is much more than just the trigger. It's a monkey this time, could have been an operator or a storm...

Digging a bit deeper, they appear to be running with very little margin, if any. Meaning redundancy and protection against cascading failures is limited.

Fixing the real cause is expensive, so it's often easier to just blame the trigger—though admittedly in this case it makes for a great headline. :)

A good use for home-cooked software is a UI layer over something clunky, or a glue layer over several systems that are cumbersome to use.

For me, that's the best use of time without re-inventing the wheel—though this is specifically for network apps and for addressing pain points of existing SaaS products.

I would rather != stay the way it is, and have the language support ≠ as a synonym. 30 years ago, on the mac's HyperCard, the language supported ≠ as an inequality comparator (as well as ≤ and ≥ for <= and >=, respectively). On the mac it's easy to type with the Option key and =.

Back then, those characters weren't easy to type on dos/windows so it seems to be a case of being stuck with the "lowest common denominator" in terms of character input across OSes, reminiscent of C's trigraphs where "??<" was used because keyboards didn't have "{"—thankfully those are long gone. Ligatures are a hack around that but it always struck me as an inelegant solution.

Fruit drinks have a neat trick to increase sugar content. Take apple juice for example: you can evaporate water out of it till it's a sugary syrup, then add it to regular apple juice, and it's still called "100% pure apple juice no sugar added".

(This is also done with various flavor essences from the juice, so they can recombine them in such a way as to produce a uniform flavor all throughout the year regardless of where the fruits are coming from.)

About 15 years ago, I stopped drinking soda. Not out of a desire to be healthy or loose weight but simply because it dawned on me that for the same amount of sugar in one soft drink that I drink without any afterthought, I could enjoy a really good pastry that I can slowly savor.

I do the same for fats. The way I look at it, I want to maximize the "enjoyment per kcalorie". :)

More recently, I'm starting to apply this to meat as well. I really enjoy meat, but I'm not one for quantity since I'm on the skinnier side. So I'm trying to enjoy meat more, and in doing so, get better quality, prepare it better, etc. while at the same time eating less of it. This is still a work in progress, and eating in restaurants can be challenging as they usually favor quantity over quality—except for the very high-end & costly places.

Thankfully that part has vastly improved with STIR/SHAKEN, combined with number reputation management.

This.

Also healthcare providers, though they seem to have finally wised up. They would call me from poorly configured phone systems (so unrecognizable caller id) and the first thing they would ask is to confirm full name and date of birth.

Patterns like this do a great deal of damage in desensitizing folks and making them accept dangerous patterns that get exploited by scams.

These things still exist, but they sometimes take time to discover and even longer to gain a sense of belonging. I like to call them "tribes" but really it's just a community. Sometimes the intersection of your { interests + location } may not have a vibrant community which happens to contain members who readily welcome new people, and so it requires a bit more effort.

Some examples of communities I've been a part of over the years:

- Family

- Church groups

- Bar buddies (overlapping with the previous category :))

- Biker community

- Startup community

- Technology groups

- Queer communities

- Neighbor groups

It was a lot harder to get into groups when I used to be introverted, I distinctly remember how afraid I was. My startup was the thing that forced me way out of my comfort zone and led me to learn how to overcome my fears of joining groups full of unknown people. The "ah-ha" moment was when I realized many others had the same fears and insecurities as I did, and yet that's ok.

This is because the US is not one homogenous system of thought, but rather a mosaic of people with differing views. (This goes for any other country or population for that matter.)

A more constructive observation would be to consider the overlap in groups of people who (1) hold that murder is indefensible in any case, and (2) hold that death sentences are appropriate for crimes. While not sharing that view myself, I could think of a few factors that may lead others to espouse it, such as:

- an implicit trust in authority and deterrents (follow rule, "or else");

- feeling of being mostly immune to errors in the justice system ("this would never happen to me");

- a propensity to desire revenge but only when it pertains to "others" ("I'm a good person, we must punish the bad people")...