reflexco

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by reflexco 6mo ago
I always suspected there's a step in Apple's software design process that goes like this: - Is the app convenient to use for power users? Then careful, you must have mindlessly went with what's intuitive for you , but what&#
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by reflexco 1y ago
User retention is not much of a thing anymore thanks to the stickiness afforded by integrated services and network effects. You can't just switch calendar/video streaming when everything else is integrated with it/everyone is
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by reflexco 1y ago
This is probably caused by Google aggregating the answers from people with different languages, as the automatic translations of the one-word prompts are often ambiguous or wrong. In some languages, the prompt for your example is the equiva
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by reflexco 1y ago
Google captchas are hard because they're mostly based on heuristics other than your actual accuracy to the stated challenge. If they can't track who you are based on previous history, it doesn't matter how good you answer, yo
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by reflexco 1y ago
I used to be optimistic that way, but if you look somewhere similar developments happened before like China: yes, people adapted to circumvent their regime's oppression, but the laws never changed. Since surveillance is only a 2nd tier
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by reflexco 2y ago
What's your good pdf reader of choice? And do you use any software to organize your collection, or just the filesystem?
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by reflexco 2y ago
You could use separate Youtube channels for this. Use one to subscribe only to the infrequently releasing channels.
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by reflexco 2y ago
> lack of empirical data backing up claims Doesn't that describe almost all books on psychology? Psychology studies tend to be so hilariously unscientific that I'd rather get the coherent opinions and gut feelings of an experie
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by reflexco 3y ago
Following Hanlon's razor, it's probably just a genuine lack of imagination. Grand parent poster might have only lived in areas where homeless people and sex workers were quiet and nonthreatening, so they can't imagine an area
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by reflexco 3y ago
No, it's absolutely not about how "counterculture" her opinions are. It's about using offensive language. She probably would have avoided all trouble if instead of talking down a fellow participant of the conference, she
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by reflexco 3y ago
So their employer pays for them to go to a conference and they don't see anything wrong with embarrassing their employer with inflammatory tweets against an arm of the government? How would they react if it was the megacorp playing s
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by reflexco 3y ago
I feel the same with Twitter. Recently, no matter how hard I try to train its algorithm, it always finds new crappy short videos or click-bait threads to push on my timeline. Feels like a naive "crank the engagement up" lever has
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by reflexco 3y ago
One thing I don't understand is how can Bluesky pretend to be more open than Twitter when it's been months and it's still an invite-only closed garden?
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by reflexco 3y ago
Whether it can technically be called a DNS request or not, this is a privacy leak for anyone who isn't already using Google as a DOH provider. So this should really be written on the extension page...
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Crypto Startup Chia Network Files Confidentially for IPO(bloomberg.com)
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by reflexco 4y ago
"My intuition tells me that cavemen probably had worse quality of life (experience-wise) than modern humans." That's a very suggestive judgment. It's likely they felt incredibly more in line with their body, emotions and
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by reflexco 4y ago
It almost certainly did, but for what we lost in working memory, we gained a broadness of outlooks that would have been unfathomable at the time. We are connecting ideas from further afar in a sense.
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by reflexco 4y ago
Shaky? Full-blown professional tools like Figma running almost flawlessly on 5 different operating systems is not shaky. We've never had a better developer story before.
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by reflexco 4y ago
Or as app designers they're designing for devices people use in the real world...
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by reflexco 4y ago
Nuclear weapon use in a local conflict would be similar to someone unleashing a new coronavirus to win a local conflict. Due to its polluting non-local effects, it instantly paints a target on whoever uses it. This is also why "anonymo
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by reflexco 4y ago
Since the advent of web 2.0, people often interact with media in more ways than looking at its thumbnail.
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by reflexco 4y ago
It just feels weird to have results from a walled off website on a search engine, unless we specifically indicate that we have an account on this website. Similar to how we don't like submissions to paywalled articles on HN.
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by reflexco 4y ago
Chicken-and-egg problem. You would say the same about the data provider if there was no decent frontend for it.
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by reflexco 4y ago
very + good = sterling I'll stick to "very good", thanks.
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by reflexco 4y ago
Apple managed to raise the price of everything they sell compared to their competitors by raising the bar for quality. They could do this to software too. For me seeing an iPhone game priced at $20 or more is making me more likely to try it
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by reflexco 4y ago
The bigger threat to Wikipedia is people who want to corrupt its information content. People wanting to get their treasure chest is not an existential threat. The existing employees and collaborators are more likely to get corrupted by nefa
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by reflexco 4y ago
Ergonomics is not vanity. Most 100% keyboards don't allow you to have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse with good posture, which I'm sure for the average user is a more common thing to do than entering long strings of
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by reflexco 4y ago
Yea, it seems like this footprint could accommodate a 75% design. The big one is the Del key, it's quite inconvenient to have to use a key combo for such a common action. But if the design allows swapping the rotary knob for a Del key
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by reflexco 4y ago
If a part of the job is coordinating with people in a specific timezone who are ready to pay for availability during their own timezone then yes. We don't consider it abnormal that a waiter in Manhattan gets paid more than a waiter doi
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by reflexco 4y ago
A mechanical watch has some advantages over a smartwatch: - you can be relatively certain it's not spying on you. - you don't need to charge it every week. - it probably has better water resistance.

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