DeathRay2K

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by DeathRay2K 9mo ago
I changed the UX in my mobile app from text only to icon + text by default in menus, buttons, and links. There are several reasons I made the switch, but the primary reason is that it makes it easier to build a kind of muscle memory for nav
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by DeathRay2K 1y ago
The author doesn’t suggest it, but the implicit solution is public funding for social goods. That could be through a robust grant process, providing funding for social media that is not supported other ways. Alternately, it could be through
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by DeathRay2K 1y ago
Building the social media platform you want to see isn’t really the problem though. They are relatively easy to build, the hard part is making it valuable enough to attract users and earning enough to keep it running. Using AI introduces ad
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by DeathRay2K 1y ago
Running a social media platform can be very expensive, and it only gets more expensive every day. Media takes a lot of storage and bandwidth, and you basically have unbounded costs if you want to meet user expectations for posting media.
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by DeathRay2K 1y ago
I don’t think there’s a person alive who wouldn’t carefully and accurately count the number of legs on a dog if you ask them how many legs this dog has. The context is that you wouldn’t ask a person that unless there was a chance the answer
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by DeathRay2K 1y ago
Isn’t this simply recognizing that people are not fixed points? The same person who is open and happy at one time could certainly be bored at another. It does not seem to me that the author claims otherwise.
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by DeathRay2K 2y ago
Just today I discovered there’s a Red Alert port to Three.js in the works: https://github.com/chongdashu/CnC_Red_Alert-ThreeJs
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by DeathRay2K 2y ago
As a measure of the safety of schools, it seems perfectly reasonable to consider that a school shooting.
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by DeathRay2K 2y ago
What makes you think that it’s more likely reporting a software-configured resolution? It is after all a hardware survey, and focused on what user hardware supports.
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by DeathRay2K 2y ago
You’re wrong that a so-called “war on hate” doesn’t work. More correctly, it doesn’t work in the US because of the first amendment and the few limitations on it. Many other countries have robust anti-hate speech laws that are effective, alt
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by DeathRay2K 5y ago
Let's be honest, even if Facebook started charging for access, they wouldn't shut down their other streams of revenue. That ship has sailed, Facebook is not and never can be a company that treats its users like the customers. Face
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by DeathRay2K 5y ago
I thought you were talking about the US in the first paragraph. In truth, there haven't been strong enough enforcement measures in Canada, that's why we're having such a bad third wave right now. In Alberta, which has the hig
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by DeathRay2K 6y ago
It's similarly easy to make your website slower than it would be with AMP. Absent a performance advocate in the development team, the features that reduce performance are much more apparent and valuable to most businesses.
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by DeathRay2K 6y ago
My conversations with Google reps and experience at an agency differ from this. My experience has been and Google reps have confirmed to me that a performant enough site will not benefit from enabling amp. It seems like they do assume amp p
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by DeathRay2K 6y ago
Every element the light interacts before hitting the sensor degrades the quality in some small way. But losing the mirror doesn't really improve optics significantly. It's more about reducing cost and complexity in manufacturing,
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by DeathRay2K 6y ago
Because intelligence doesn't translate to popularity?
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by DeathRay2K 8y ago
Yes it's worth it. I'm usually on Windows, and can say that 95%+ of the programs I use work flawlessly on a 24" 4K monitor with 175% scaling. The crispness of a text editor on a 4K screen is worth every bit of the 5% of progr
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by DeathRay2K 8y ago
I found a bug on the PayPal site (I can't associate a new email address). I tried the contact forms in their app and on the website, both resulted in error messages. I tried emailing them, but got an automatic message back saying that
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by DeathRay2K 8y ago
This has happened many times to me. I work at an agency that very often gets clients who already have a codebase but don't have anyone to maintain them - the original developers have moved on or fired them as a client. Sometimes the co