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by bandoti 1y ago
Curious to see how this goes. It seems to me it’s hard to match reality—for example, books, book shelves, pencils, drafting tables, gizmos, keyboards, mouse, etc. Things with tactile feedback. Leafing through a book typeset on nice paper wi
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by bandoti 1y ago
I recommend folks give “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” a read. Another good book is “Negotiating Rationally” (see below). If the core developers/maintainers are putting in thousands of hours over several years, and a patch comes along,
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by bandoti 1y ago
Seurat created beautiful works of art composed of thousands of tiny dots, painted by hand; one might find it meditational with the right mindset. Some might also find laziness itself dreadfully boring—like all the Microsoft employees code-r
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by bandoti 1y ago
Agreed. I think engineers though following simple Test-Driven Development procedures can write the code, unit tests, integration tests, debug, etc for a small enough unit by default forces tight feedback loops. AI may assist in the particul
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by bandoti 1y ago
Here’s a few problems I foresee: 1. People get lazy when presented with four choices they had no hand in creating, and they don’t look over the four and just click one, ignoring the others. Why? Because they have ten more of these on the go
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by bandoti 1y ago
The thing is though, this story is a metaphor for life we’re living right now. Consider up in Canada the paper mills that were built near water streams, dumping mercury into indigenous people's food. Many of which corporations exploite
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by bandoti 1y ago
Given this anecdote I can imagine doctors having AI access to a network of the latest studies will certainly help better inform everyone. Ultimately, doctors are the experts doing the studies, but AI being there to help will certainly add v
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by bandoti 1y ago
Only time will tell! But it’s worth a try.
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by bandoti 1y ago
Personally, I don’t bother searching because I only consume the headlines, on other news sites too, come to think of it. There’s lots of interesting things people post but frankly I’d rather pay for a good book on any subject. hides from t
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by bandoti 1y ago
Lots of nice thoughts that I agree with. But there is a lot of value creation in AI as well, beyond building things. For example, how can doctors save time and spend more time one-on-one with patients? Automate the time-consuming, business-
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by bandoti 1y ago
Please consider some folks might be new to A*, and perhaps even HN, so maybe this is the first time they’ve seen it! :) Also, I have ten books on perspective drawing, and my understanding isn’t complete without all ten of them Or, if I’m te
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by bandoti 1y ago
It seems the way to go would be to open source the SaaS code to ensure that longevity. The folks at Penpot have a good thing going with that—most people will use the SaaS offering but it’s available for self-hosting. One of the difficulties
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by bandoti 1y ago
This is too much for me now haha. A restaurant menu contains hamburgers, hotdogs, meatballs. A UI menu is represented by abstract icons of the items contained within a restaurant menu. Now I am starting to like the hamburger menu after all…
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by bandoti 1y ago
Well, actually the three bars are now two: the cool kids have replaced hamburger with a sausage roll. See https://apple.com
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by bandoti 1y ago
I understand and agree to an extent with common use. However, it stands that language is more specific and unambiguous—thus better suited to communicate an action. There’s also the problem of the plethora of OTHER icons which use horizontal
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by bandoti 1y ago
Well, to put it in perspective, consider these three words: Menu Settings Notepad If these are actionable buttons, the message is encoded and decoded by viewers. Three bars means what, exactly? There’s the cognitive load.
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by bandoti 1y ago
Interesting—I guess build quality and certain technologies that don’t change much makes supply-and-demand takes over.
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by bandoti 1y ago
Any symbolic visual takes time for our brains to decode. When compared to language which we’ve spent our entire lives decoding and which comes much naturally, the cognitive burden is much higher. In addition the three bars are as mundane of
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by bandoti 1y ago
The hamburger menu is a pet peeve of mine! It takes much less cognitive load to simply read the word “menu”. Also, it used to be important when screens were nowhere near as wide but now there’s no longer any reason to use it the way it is.
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by bandoti 1y ago
Good premise for a cyberpunk novel. I recommend keeping the weird chins though, because plastic surgery makes anything possible!
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by bandoti 1y ago
I’m sure someone has done this, but it would be interesting to study the overall tech landscape and compare which technology has sort of retained its value, depreciated, or increased in value—and how long those phases take. Even as far back
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by bandoti 1y ago
Nice I would like to explore KaiOS more. I have been thinking these days: what is the bare minimum people need today in a mobile digital experience. Browser, phone, email/contacts, maps, payment, authentication, file manager, networkin
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by bandoti 1y ago
I think it’s time folks dust off their library cards :) Or support an open source AI model. I stopped using ChatGPT when it started littering my conversation with emojis. It acts like one of those overzealous kids on Barney.
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by bandoti 1y ago
I find as time goes on I am less-and-less excited about mobile releases. I’ve had a smartphone since the Google Nexus 1. The desktop experience is always better, and a good book is even more inviting. Curious what other folks are feeling. A
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by bandoti 1y ago
It’s going to be really interesting to see how this UI paradigm pans out. I think this captures a shift toward the extreme in responsive, fluid, convergent, whatever-you-want-to-call-it, design. We’ve had books/scrolls for thousands of
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by bandoti 1y ago
It’s going to be really interesting to see how this UI paradigm pans out. I think this captures a shift toward the extreme in responsive, fluid, convergent, whatever-you-want-to-call-it, design. We’ve had books/scrolls for thousands of
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by bandoti 1y ago
Thank you for the links I will take a closer look at XNU. It’s neat to see how these projects influence each other.
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by bandoti 1y ago
Another reason it matters is they might have done it differently which could inspire future improvements. :) I like to read bibliographies for that reason—to read books that inspired the author I’m reading at the time. Same goes for code an
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by bandoti 1y ago
Thank you—I’ll give that a read. :)
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by bandoti 1y ago
Not sure about that Liquid Glass idea. Ultimately UI widgets are rooted in reality (switches, knobs, doohickeys) and liquid glass is Salvador-Dali-Esque. Imagine driving a car and the gear shifter was made of liquid glass… people would hit

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