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doublespanner··on 41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
You are missing the point, it's obvious that a cockpit needs to account for stress or a crisis. Extending this to CAD software for example is nonsense.
doublespanner··on 41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
I do not care about your opinion of acceptable language.

Attempting to insert your off topic opinion is a character flaw.

Keep it to yourself.

doublespanner··on 41 Years in UX: A Career Retrospective
Horrible advice for expert tools. If you can make the assumption that the end user is going to learn the tool you can design it for peak effectiveness after a learning curve. If you have to consider retards and hostage situation level panic you can't do that, and create a worse product overall.
doublespanner··on On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney
It's the implication of virtue signalling that it's a facade?

If Steve the megarapist is writing articles about the latest popular injustice, does that make Steve virtuous?

doublespanner··on ‘This Has Been Going on for Years’: Boeing’s Manufacturing Mess
Not inherently true, there is not really a path from manual sheet metal work to CNC for example.
doublespanner··on A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
Mostly the viability studies in the French reactor program.

It heaviy depends on how you set up the comparison. If you look at most current energy markets and say "how can I make money with these rules" the answer is almost always build a small amount of renewables. If you say, how should a government invest to retire coal power and achieve a low and stable energy cost, then nuclear can be viable (in some places).

doublespanner··on A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
The part I hate about the math used in this argument, is that really we should be working with a goal of much cheaper energy production, to enable other green technology.

Yeah, if you use standard new construction capacity planning in some cases solar + wind wins. If you target a much lower average/maximum cost per GW (and higher consumption) nuclear wins.

Things like EVs, electric furnaces for recycling, greener chemical plants and carbon capture mechanisms all become more viable with consistently cheap electricity.

doublespanner··on A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant
Generally you get less than 1/3 of ideal conditions during rain. Overcast less than 2/3 of ideal.
doublespanner··on 12VO power standard appears to be gaining steam, will reduce PC cabling, costs
I suspect that you will have to get add in cards or drive caddies that also do power conversion, but these already exist (although expensive). More than 2-4 drives is starting to hit a point where you should start thinking about a different platform anyway.
doublespanner··on Can flow batteries finally beat lithium?
Is the overlap between terrace and apartment renters and new car buyers all that high anyway?
doublespanner··on Tesla FSD Timeline
They are trialing a radar again in the S, but from their marketing it doesn't look like it's a clear benifit yet
doublespanner··on Mold Course
No, there was controversy over mistreated patients in a number of asylums.

There were campaigns to close the asylums based on this, but no real plan for what to replace them with.

doublespanner··on Former Labor Secretary Found What Work Is Like Now (2022)
I feel like a focus on minimum wages is misplaced, it's hiding the real problem that is the value of labour has been diluted.

The minimum wage should be set based on determining the rate a sound minded well informed advocate could negotiate for the work. That is preventing exploitation. It should not be used to try to set a living wage, because as we have seen, this just leads to the COL increasing for everyone... Leading to a greater concentration of wealth as the average person now has less ability to save.

doublespanner··on Tax, healthcare, immigration: why Dutch people voted for Geert Wilders
Its a problem of metrics, if you look at the conditions of the middle third of the population, then historically less migration is better as a rule. If you look at GDP then it's more muddy.

As an example the Australian immigration restriction act created some of the best conditions for workers, due to a high value of labour leading to high wages, increased negotiation power, and investment in labour saving innovation.

It was good for the nation and individual workers, but to use terminology familiar here, a single generation decided to enshitify the country and cash in, extracting all the present and future value of existing institutions.

Part of this is a massive propaganda campaign to try and convince you that every measure to restrict migration is racist or misguided... However migration is the most important and significant policy for a long term outcomes in a nation, we have millenia of history to show this.

doublespanner··on Tax, healthcare, immigration: why Dutch people voted for Geert Wilders
The way a country gets crowded has less to do with the actual land, and more to do with the rate of growth and investment in infrastructure.

The Netherlands had a similar population to Canada in 1950, but today's population is dramatically smaller. Combine that with a historical higher tax rate and investment in infrastructure, this is not something that can be replicated...

doublespanner··on Brother have gotten to where they are now by not innovating
Soldering a crimp is not good practice, a correctly done crimp will not come loose (OEM connections are mostly crimped), and you risk making a brittle section if the solder wicks past the crimp.
doublespanner··on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
Wikipedia is the marketing face of Wikimedia. People donate to the first, but the money gets used by the second, and Wikimedia grows to use all of the money it receives. Wikimedia has no solvable mission, its just a mechanism to turn donations for a project people like into donations for arbitrary causes.
doublespanner··on U.S. reenters the nuclear fuel game
The highest yield current mining and enriching processes beat that by about a factor of 10; there are a few sites globally that achieve that, Canada would be the most relevant.

Don't forget that only the high density fuel needs to be shipped long distance as well...

For a fully reliable 1gw of wind, that's something like 600 turbines (to simply), each turbine lasts about 20 years, and weighs about 200 tonnes. So about 5000 tonnes of finished wind turbine a year, with an equivalent waste stream.

doublespanner··on Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)
Americans tied up so much of their image of a "good person" with not being racist, that when in environments with no way to demonstrate that they are not racist, they had to invent new racist things to oppose.
doublespanner··on Luxury beliefs are status symbols (2022)
The whole point is that the defund the police movement is a signal taken up by people not directly effected by the issue; not a comment on the details or potential effectiveness of the concept...
doublespanner··on Stories told by Aboriginal Tasmanians could be oldest recorded
This kind of thing is similar to fortune telling... There are some vague tales that occasionally coincidentally align with geological record, (or can be massaged to resemble another yarn). However there is nothing beyond wishful thinking to show that the tales remained consistent for any length of time, or were based on reality in the first place.

Aboriginal studies is a joke, there is no ability for a critical interpretation to be published, so the entire field has descended into drivel.

doublespanner··on A journey into the shaken baby syndrome/abusive head trauma controversy
The worst encounters I have had with nurses have been with older ones filtering information and using out of date practices because they think they have seen it all and now know best.
doublespanner··on New York employers must include pay rates in job ads under new state law
I've seen plenty that go $100-350k, especially when it looks like a company is hiring a few people... Useless to a candidate, but not dodgy or malicious.
doublespanner··on Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew
Because the CEO is managing a company that is either 40% bigger or 40% more profitable. The worker is likely doing similar work...
doublespanner··on The Ones We Sent Away
Have you experienced any of the current driverless taxi services?

Personally i see the current limits to rollout as ones of hardware cost, but this is steadily declining.

doublespanner··on Teaching with AI
Current education is a ranking signal to see if we should continue investing in a student. Adding LLMs into things reduces the clarity of that signal, because the purpose is not to assess the quality of the students work, but the capabilities of the students.
doublespanner··on NYC Lost 100K Homes in Apartment-to-House Conversions
I've heard this taking point often, but from the perspective of a resident in Japan (rather than an investor) is really not leading to observable negatives for the people... Housing and land prices are lowering, wages are increasing, and investment in working environments and labour savings technology is high... Maybe the worst is yet to come, but at the moment it looks like an overall benefit for the majority.
doublespanner··on NYC Lost 100K Homes in Apartment-to-House Conversions
Rate of population growth (migration) is the demand side of the "real problem". And a slower rate of growth seems to have more benefits than fast growth with reduced building restrictions.
doublespanner··on NYC Lost 100K Homes in Apartment-to-House Conversions
In my experience, the motivation for rapid growth in an area comes from an opposite direction to improving services in an area.
doublespanner··on How do we pay for parking?
Depending on the place, if you fail to pay it's actually more valuable to them, due to fees.
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