bjnewman85

participating in asynchronous communication

Umm, the argument in the article seems self-defeating. UI=f(org) except we end up with the same UI with radically different orgs because we can just f() over the differences with dark design patterns and users can't tell the difference.

I can show you anything in a UI - only good orgs can develop valuable products from those UIs.

i would argue that any state that is useful should not be illegal, but i agree with you that people have often used that phrase to mean what you said

UI=F((irreducibleComplexity + poorDesignChoices + poorArchitectureChoices + techDebt + bad coding + states)^n). The author mixes web and native UI development here to encompass a partial range of possible UIs, there's obviously a lot more complexity in UI development if we expand that list to include AR/VR, CLIs, voice-based interfaces, etc.

But also most software UIs we are building today are overly complicated. Because devs forget f() is supposed to narrow the complexity space to match the users needs, by making illegal states unrepresentable.

Yeah man, our government borrows money. We used it to build the largest economy in the world. Now we continue to do that, but we also send part of the money our government borrows to people all around the world.

In exchange for this ultra stable source of revenue backed by the wealth of our current and future taxpayers and our military, they might forgive us for all the horrible things we have done.

as mentioned elsewhere this is from nearly six years ago and uses a very crude model for curiosity - and poses this as some sort of unsolveable problem instead of a decision made by the researchers in order to investigate particular behaviors of the systems they were working with.

It is a fun thought experiment - how do our brains systems manage to reward seeking new information without getting trapped by simplistic pseudo-RNG patterns in nature

paper link here https://www.nature.com/articles/s41557-023-01383-y i thought this sentence from the abstract was interesting 'Given that a cell is unlikely to develop resistance to such molecular mechanical forces...' I wonder if someone could explain what basis there for believing that cells couldn't develop such resistance. Is the difference in energies that high?

Justine is creating mind-blowing projects at an alarming rate.

pathologizing people you disagree with is a pretty dehumanizing tactic and one i think we should pretty much stay away, or from doing armchair psychology on a whole group of incredibly diverse people.

the author's argument such as it is is a series of strawman arguments. this isn't academic it is political, which is fine.

This is a nice idea. But it appears the trend of "Look at this astonishing youth!", then in paragraph 8, "whose parents own a recycling company near Shenzen...and connected him with manufacturers" so this is a joint venture between his parents company and some of their friends to back their son's business idea. Very newsworthy.

its the first time i have seen that label on a wiki article. Is it in common usage or only for scandalous near-homonyms?

if you cover the LED notification light you will get a notification to uncover it. Surely that will stop anyone from covering it.

the incurable disease in the title is greed in the hearts of others that values the lives of these people less than the shiny things they make for rich people

Second that, I would definitely buy a book based on this series.

Can't capture audio info when i'm blasting music at max volume with the windows down on the highway yelling at my friends. Privacy Win!