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Gemini AI 3 years ago

"Bard isn't supported in your country"

Oh, the Internet? You had no trouble sending me the 404 page, so why not just send me the page with Bard on it?

When creating a starter kit, one must choose defaults. Choosing the default emacs defaults is still a choice.

What is the simpler choice? Choosing the defaults that are built-in already, or the defaults new users will expect?

The longest fantasy series ever written. Take all Stephen King books, throw in the entire Harry Potter series, and it's still shorter than the Wandering Inn.

I just gave up on the series after book 4. I felt the original main character wasn't getting enough screen time, and didn't really like the newer characters as much.

The price should be the price. Advertising any dollar amount less than what the customer actually has to pay should be fraud.

Even taxes should be included in prices.

And this has to be a top-down, legal thing, rather than something companies can opt-in to, because I think the business consequences of being the only one in your industry with transparent pricing would generally be lethal, and I've heard stories of restaurants going out of business due to including taxes in their prices. People want to pay less, and they'll go to the place they think will charge less. So this has to be enforced top-down.

Any system that tries to guess what I want isn't going to work.

For example, when my browsers or mobile devices try to guess automatically when I want audio to start playing, they're almost always wrong.

Open a browser? Why is a video playing in one of my 30 tabs?

Unplug earbuds from my tablet? Why is an audiobook now playing? I didn't even have the audiobook app open, and haven't listened to any audiobook in months.

If your design relies on intelligently guessing what the user wants, but doesn't actually use any intelligence to do so, then your design is shit.

Give users the tools to do what they want quickly and easily. Don't guess.

Diablo 3 years ago

The gameplay was fun to me when I was literally 5 years old and playing my first ever computer game. I can't understand how an adult would find the Diablo games fun. The atmosphere and art and whatnot are great, though.