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Same here.

Was reading the comments to see if anyone experienced just that. Youtube sometimes becomes absolutely unusable with Firefox. Google Flights too. Would hate to switch back to Chrome but I keep having to switch back and forth.

I think the game design angle is the best here. What he's gesturing at, to me, is the concept of difficulty as encountered in games. You have to play at the highest level of difficulty you can tolerate without getting frustrated. If it's too easy, it's boring, and a sign you're not learning anything. If it's too difficult you give up. So it's not so much a binary thing as a matter of "right degree of difficulty"/balance.

Can someone enlighten me on how Sam Altman is a "visionary" of any kind? The extent of his vision, to the best of my knowledge so far, is "things will get cheap then cool stuff will happen." That's the laziest "vision" I've ever seen in my life. It depicts nothing concrete whatsoever.

Aligning fonts on a grid in the way you're suggesting is a common beginner mistake in typography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overshoot_(typography)

That got me curious, and according to the French Wikipedia, he was originally called "Letiers" (with the same etymological explanation) before he renamed himself "Lethiers" and finally "Lethière". Seems to hold up.

It has. And so it makes sense if they happen to be your target market.

> For me it's a better experience because I've been using it so long and have a good idea of what it can and can't handle.

How would you know that, though? That's the reason why at this point I can't see myself ever using that kind of a feature. The added stress of the unpredictability would make the experience miserable.

So what you're saying is OpenAI can't align two teams internally but they want to align a super intelligence.

If he has to draw a picture in crayon, maybe he must think a little harder with that big head of his about how to say it properly in the first place so it doesn't require a second explanation?

In this case, it's really hard to understand why someone not completely idiotic when it comes to communication would have used the phrase "I like that sentence" after saying "Blacks are more stupid than whites."

Title reminded me of this: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/transfer-patient/

Wikipedia "list of unsolved problems in X."

The trouble with that is that startup people naturally gravitate towards building things without having a clear idea of what they're trying to sell/what the benefits are.

Building a landing page can sometimes be a useful prioritization exercise in that sense. It obviously doesn't replace building the actual product eventually.

The unspoken premise here is that profit correlates to value creation, so it may be more rational to allocate resources to people who can generate value regardless of the form it takes (that's kind of Friedman's idea if you dig a layer deeper).

Subtweeting the Eliezer Yudkowsky threads on weight loss? More seriously, yes, "We're all unique so nothing could possibly apply to me" is usually pretty thinly veiled cope.

You're in luck, today's is a secular cantata.

Pretty sure HN is one of the worst places to talk about design on the internet because its population seems oddly averse to the concept, tends to deride it as the useless whimsy of decoration-obsessed simpletons, and in general has nothing valuable to say about it except for its own obsessions with nostalgia-inspired tech aesthetics.

It would be okay if it were just that, but coupled with the classic god-complex engineer attitude blaming every problem in the world on designers (you're a "manager"? take your number, you're next) it just makes for a very cringe experience for anyone who cares about design discourse.

It's a balance. If you only read what you think you should read, you're exposed to "you don't know what you don't know"-effect. If all you do is read stuff (an albeit fun activity), you risk not doing much with the knowledge you acquired.

If you feel like 80% of what you read is a waste of time, just, erm, don't do it.

I was genuinely curious to find some games I may not have tried. Thanks for the suggestions!

Haven't had the chance to play Disco Elysium yet, but Planescape Torment, Fallout 1 and 2 are definitely in my top 5 ever. I'm genuinely curious to see what kind of games the OP is thinking of (besides BG1/2, probably?).

I'd be curious to see what your top ~5 CRPGs that are better than BG3 would be.

Might benefit from a stand-alone reset button, looked for that feature immediately and couldn't figure it out.

It's something that's both a common B2B requirement because users keep asking for it ("I want to see all of my data at once"), and something functionally ~useless.

I think the OP is more about "obvious first order consequences" than "every possible consequence."

Pop-up windows that take focus over other running applications are a whole another ball game, dude. In-app popups are a pattern that may or may not be annoying, like most things used well or badly. This case seems pretty innocuous to me.

"I would rather not read this article than have to click a button" is an interesting level of entitlement. Hope you never had your fingers stained by the ink when reading the newspaper, you probably would have sued the New York Times.

Feel free to give everyone your suggestions to learn UI design.

And, appropriately, that font is not used for an application's interface but for a display title.

Legibility sometimes needs to be traded off for impact or other variable that matters more depending on the purpose.

He could have used Inter, like every other landing page on the internet these days, but then it wouldn't stand out.

These are the kinds of things that have more to do with graphic design and that incorporate other considerations than typical UI stuff.

With RefactoringUI and Erik's course, I think the 3rd I would use to complete my top 3 is Shift Nudge (https://shiftnudge.com/).

There's a fair amount of overlap between all of them, so if you want to Pareto minmax it, I would recommend starting with Refactoring UI, which should help provide practical solutions to many situations and get rid of the most egregious horrors you might commit.

Of course, UI design goes much deeper than anything those courses can teach, but they're a great start.

That sounds like the most complicated cash grab of all time. As a fan of the original games, I couldn't be happier with what Larian did with the IP.