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a feature that simply makes your product easier to use

Except it doesn't. You lose context and are now drowning in an endless morass of lazy-loaded blocks and widgets, all hiding under invisible elements. Nothing has a permanent URL, so there is zero accountably if the user was shown something that they need to reference - unless it benefits the platform. And of course, it will eventually all force reload when the page complexity exhausts the available memory, or at least when it becomes too exhausted to reliably serve ads.

https://xcancel.com/AlexBlechman/status/1457842724128833538

Government: We will destroy any company that refuses to create the Torment Nexus

Beat Saber was the reason I bought a Quest 2. Now I actually find Synthriders to be a lot more fun. In Synth, if one person has purchased a song/map, everyone can play and players can create/share/upload maps and songs (there used to be a great free repository of songs that got taken down recently unfortunately).

Synth also removes some anxiety about playing in smaller spaces because AFAIK you're not encouraged to aim for big swings.

It sold for $8.5 million... ..."The auction was for the building itself, not the land. That is owned by a publicly traded real estate firm, which collects a monthly lease. But the rent from the building’s current tenants is not enough to cover those monthly payments, which are set to increase every five years and do not expire until 2123."

When my AirPods actually stay in my ears, I'll worry.

As kids, we were usually in the back of a Ford pickup on I-95 bouncing around in a sea empty beer cans. My mom was very safety conscious, however, so we were forbidden from sitting on top of the wheel wells.

I use this Menubar short cut for Passwords, so it's only 2 clicks and fingerprint away.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/22133925f3e34579b22951d6593...

And we'll institute aggressive countermeasures and discover that millions of real people can no longer pass a Turing test.

The problem with ubiquitous apps (or almost anything) having "personality" is that a large number of users may not like that particular "personality" and, from a UX standpoint, it may not serve a large number of particular use cases. Instagram is no longer a niche project.

I would argue the death of personality is more attributable to growth and optimizing for mass market dominance. There's a reason mom and pop business can be quirky and Citi and McDonalds can't.

Aren't traditional (non-LED) lightbulbs that get hot much higher in the IR spectrum since they're dissipating most of their energy as heat?

I keep thinking of a service that sends famously long books in short chunks.

"Infinite Text" or "War 'n Pieces"

How is it different from https://pinboard.in (besides $1/ mo)?

If your favorite song is by Pearl Jam you get an extra layer of security:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU

Does the buyer need to setup an account?

How does this service prevent the actual (free) URL of the content from being visible / shared after a user pays? It seems like this would be difficult for some of the use cases presented (YouTube, Wordpress, etc) without managing the backend.

And how long does the buyer have access? How do they regain access to the link later?

Isn't this idea basically FriendFeed (which Facebook bought to kill)? I've always wondered why nobody has simply recreated it.

I knew this was true for nuclear weapons. It was just surprising that a smaller asteroid could be that much more dangerous than a larger one due to potentially exploding in the atmosphere.

I'm confused. A 100 ft asteroid that explodes 2.2 miles in the air seems to result in far more deaths from a 0.6 mile wide fireball compared to a 200ft asteroid that would hit the ground in the same location (Fort Lauderdale, FL).

100ft = 211,172 deaths

Is this correct? https://imgur.com/a/Elst6Q3

Empty Ink Cartridge has Better Medical Access Than Most Americans

I'm still surprised that Google didn't just clone or buy Twitter in the 2009 "Fail Whale" era. Seems like they had 95% of the work done already: a highly-scalabile real-time infrastructure that took Twitter years to catch up to. (Yes, Google+ came later, but the UX of the boundaries, of where the network started and stopped on the web, felt too amorphous for most people as a social media destination)

Deep Space 9 was also shot on film. The editing, effects, and mastering were completed on video (same for TNG). This is true for nearly every 1-hour US prime-time drama of that era (Buffy, X-Files, etc).

https://www.slashfilm.com/549088/star-trek-voyager-deep-spac...

If Poe's law was a design template.

Not exactly the same, but rats eating the power cables has been a problem with cars built in the last decade because of the switch to soy-based insulation.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/20878/rodents-are-feasting-on-...

More record players in cars:

https://thevinylfactory.com/news/amazing-photos-of-a-time-wh...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/automobiles/collectibles/...

Just as a counterpoint, I've sold almost 200 items on CL in the last 5 years in NYC as part of a decluttering project — everything from pro cameras to $3 adapters and cables to furniture. I have a process for when I switch from email to text, when I give my cross streets and train stop, and when I give my exact address, as well as boilerplate about cash, pickup only etc.

On the other hand, I'd been looking for a used car on FB Marketplace for about 3 years and couldn't find a single listing that seemed like it was from a legit owner (i.e. someone who wasn't selling a bunch of random cars parked on the street or a dealer posting fake prices).

Also sites where zooming in slightly causes the elements on the page to explode into layout-less CSS soup and then zooming back out puts you at a completely different location on the page.

The Warcraft startup options are reminiscent of the 'about to edit video" ritual of the time. Just need to disable all extensions and plug in a "certified" (i.e. heavily marked up) SCSI drive.

[] Quit other applications [] Quit Finder also [] Switch to 640x480 [] Hide desktop [] Turn off File Sharing [] Disable screen saver [] Hide Control Strip

The "Chief Freemium Business Officer" seems an odd choice for a quote about consumer billing.

My recent/related iOS hack is screenshotting difficult-to-select text in sites and apps. Live Text immediately performs OCR on the screenshot and the text can then be copied/pasted.

To paraphrase Tolstoy: Bad CGI is all alike; every bad practical effect is bad in its own way.

I had a laser iridotomy a few weeks ago for "narrow angles". Other than feeling like you're in a staring contest with Locutus of Borg, it was quick and painless.