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I was wondering about that but it would only work for the sailor standing in the right place on a boat sailing dead center of the river where there is typically two way traffic.

This doesn't seem like a utilitarian solution, more of a signal with a symbolic intention?

Why a bail of straw? Reminds me of the forgotten reason why the onion was thrown into the varnish

"Primo Levi was working in a varnish factory. He was a chemist, and he was fascinated by the fact that the varnish recipe included a raw onion. What could it be for? No one knew; it was just part of the recipe. So he investigated, and eventually discovered that they had started throwing the onion in years ago to test the temperature of the varnish: if it was hot enough, the onion would fry."

Grafana can get pretty info dense very quickly. Try some of the dashboards or the Explore feature here https://play.grafana.org/

I worked there as a product designer for a couple of years, I now work on even more data dense UI in the cyber security domain, e.g. https://elastio.com/blog/cyber-recovery/three-clicks-to-rans...

As with almost all UI design the answer is "It Depends". If you could provide a little more context around the domain you're working in I'm sure I could point you at some specific examples

The premise of Tufte's work make sense until you try to apply it to functional and usable user interfaces.

He has strong opinions strongly held but as someone who's designed industrial strength UIs for over 20 years (networking CLIs & UIs, CAD modeling/simulation, Devops dashboards, cybersecurity tooling) I've read all his books, attended his lectures... he's a king with no clothes

Have loved some of those for years and never heard of others. Thanks for the recommendations and it sort of speaks to how special and unique they are (o;

They do the first two (clean and eat bugs) and will happily take sugar in the form of bread an cake crumbs you leave out on surfaces. We're already quite symbiotic

Genuine question, are distributed systems naturally more resilient?

I can see arguments for both sides. Your point and then the hidden failure modes without central observability and ownership. Nothing exists in isolation.

Because its Teenage Engineering and hardware designwankery, not product design, is what they do.

Need a BT speaker? That'll be $550 thank you, btw the speaker cones are completely exposed because it looks cool.

It just blows my mind Apple can get people to pay 3.5K to join their beta test program.

The title of the article is specific to -cordless- tools. Of course there are downsides around battery management and corded tools can have more torque but thats not what the article is about.

I think the point of the article is cordless is good and after some major advances away from nicad and brushed motors, things have pretty much plateaued.

GO TEAM RED!!!

Action sports cams, dashcams, handheld gaming device such as the switch and steamdeck, I'm sure there's plenty more application. All fairly niche but it's a market

> Making already highly illegal actions more illegal.

Regulation isn't stiffer penalties alone, it's oversight.

If I have to pass 2 checks vs 1, the incentive to fuck around decreases.

All true, there was a few comments from other parties in that video where they noted a significant number of bikes were going for 2-3 times expected. Either there's a bubble in the rare bike market or an influx of money looking for somewhere to park.

Here's a youtuber picking over the auction. You'll get to see the outside of the repurposed Walmart 'national museum', auction process and some really unique bikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnX7hkZzLQ0

I get the feeling bikes in the last 5 years have turned into investment vehicles (pun intended) like rare bottles of wine and art. Often by people who have no personal interest in the chosen market, just a place to park money (again with the puns)

Definitely reads like AI. Short declarative statements. No coherent narrative.

(I see what I did there (o;)

Right! just last night I had a couple of free hours and thought... 'you know, I really should do a preventative valve check on my honda 450'. Youtube step by step to the right, cold beer to the left. Just bliss.

About the ECU. Bikes are becoming increasingly hobbled by emissions compliant ECUs. The aftermarket ECU options allow you to tune the bike the way you want. I'm not talking diesel-gate here either. My Honda ECU was getting me 40mpg, my aftermarket is getting 50-60 mpg but with maybe higher CO2 per gallon??? I dont understand what the rules/laws are optimising for?

They have, at least the high end KTMs and BMWs. You simply can't work on them yourself anymore.

Fortunately there's a constant flow of user friendly "low end" bikes coming out of Japan, India and China.

You can't generalise like this. We use modals, drawers and new tabs where appropriate.

There's two words you must learn when talking about UI design - "It Depends".

The one general rule I will state that guides towards using a modal is if the user needs to stay within the context of the originating page and they must return to that page as part of the workflow that launched the modal. But there's also edge cases to this.

source: UXer with 25 years experience in both desktop and webapp.

I'm reusing this for our next hackathon, this will be an awesome & fun way to write PromQL queries

That's a great demo, the money here is video call with verizon and having Lawrence Fishburne calmly tell me to turn the router off and on again.

I'm wondering if this perspective is true at scale? If everyone is saving ~25% of their time then on the whole there is a 25% increase in workforce efficiency, no?

The flip side of efficiency if the workforce headcount remains constant is over capacity, which is a downward force on earning potential.

When you say "gearboxes" as in traditional multi ratio transmissions? If so, are you 100% sure about that?

the same left wing government that allows police to use lethal robots? That's doing little to nothing to address homelessness, income discrepancy & the housing crisis? The one that is beholden to big tech? That one?

'left wing policies' are typically social safety nets (healthcare, housing etc). You're describing failed government, left or right.

The gps market is alive and well for marine, aviation and outdoor/offroad/motorcycle niche markets.

fwiw, google maps has download & offline functionality. Click your profile icon top right and select the area you want offline. I use it all the time for backcountry hiking (along with OSM apps) and going abroad where I dont have data.

It does, it took me a minute to click on the "fqa" (o; but I absolutely love the design, humour and aesthetic. The web needs more of this oddballness. Dare I say, odd balloon-ness

I've been a happy pixel user for years after getting burned with some cheap Android phones, most notably One Plus.

The Pixel 6 is an unmitigated clusterfuck. GPS/Maps locking up is the worst. Either wont load or will lock up during a trip and you will miss a turn. Try rebooting a phone while you're alone on a motorway, then having to type in your route again - super dangerous.

I've had the camera (video) lock up mid scene. Focus locks up. Fingerprint recognition is a fail 25-50% of the time.

These have been known issues since release, I made the now incorrect assumption these were natural bugs that would be fixed over time.

Pixel 6 is the last phone from Google I will own. Not sure I want to jump to iOS yet but things are looking increasingly bleak in the Android garden

I'm in Ireland this week and yes. Watching broadcast TV last night was challenging, lots of interference.

didn't mean to only be unfair to my kind, just a UX trait to not speak on the behalf of or make assumptions about other's motivations without direct domain knowledge or research.

UXer with 25+ years here.

To be respectfully blunt "the responsibility of designers to the end users of their work."

No, it's our job to make the user's goals as seamless as possible - within the functional constraints of the business. If that business is to fuck users privacy over, we must operate within that overarching environment or GTFO.

To be clear, I dont understand how conscientious UXer's function at a place like Facebook, unless the plot of Servance is a reality?

Dad here, I agree with all of the above with a caveat... my kids are now 9 and 11.

After a long road trip when they're farking around in the back of the car I'll start throwing down some dad jokes. They soon plead for me to stop.

There's something agonizing about processing a good Dad joke, it's now become torture for them. The deeper and more twisted the pun the better.

Maybe I'm about to reach Peak Dad?