gubikmic

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I used to submit a lot of radars (now Feedback). At some point there was very little effort from their side, no responses, annoying replies wanting to get everything served on a silver platter, just no appreciation of us devs. It’s a give and take. With such attitude I’m not willing to do free QA work.

As an example, I can write "notifications animation corner smoothing glitch" and honestly it's hard for me how one cannot know exactly what I mean. This bug has been introduced in iOS 16. Why would I waste my time making a screen recording etc. when something so obvious doesn't get picked up internally

Apple basically remote-bricked my 2yo Watch. Since December the battery drain is so bad that the Watch became useless. Lasts about 3 hours. There are several discussion threads [1,2] where many users have the same problem, even with the latest Ultra models.

Apple's leadership is so hypocritical it's disgusting. They make a cringe video [3] about environmental efforts while they waste so much energy and deteriorate so many batteries with their broken software.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255347991 [2] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255346006 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNv9PRDIhes

I think Spotify is still quite good overall. They sometimes make very bad UI decisions. But the latest home screen desaster (of huge, almost full-screen size tiles) was luckily already rolled back.

My main gripe is that it carves overly deep channels around what I've listened to before. For discovering new music I find Shazam more valuable. I wish Spotify had some clever randomness.

A good example are Tarantino soundtracks with songs from all over the genre landscape. I've never seen Spotify create playlists like that.

When staying within a genre the autoplay can be amazing though.

Can't take this seriously when there's zero mention of whether the participants are able to touch type or not

How did you market it?

This! (you mean the Smart Cover though)

Apple is pretending weight doesn't matter. They're all clunkers, even the "Air", once you add the keyboard.

My old 12" iPad Pro with the Smart Cover is still lighter than any of the new combos and yet it's heavy compared to certain Android tablets of the same size.

They're awfully heavy for a device that I treat like a dynamic book.

What a bummer. Figma was hugely innovative, Adobe is nothing but rent-seeking. They'll just milk it to death. Same story with Slack and Salesforce.

The Leuchtturm one is totally overrated, very thin paper. Try Clairefontaine. They don't market as well but the paper is much nicer.

What would be the reason for that?

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts and also how it makes you feel. In Jan 2021 I had become “intellectually lonely”. That was my feeling when I realized there’s almost no one left to have a productive conversation about COVID with. Also I realized how lazy most people are in just putting in even 1 hour of research that could change their situation dramatically (e.g. around supplementing vitamin D).

At the same time I started listening to many interviews with Daniel Schmachtenberger. Mindblowing, but also quite abstract. Rebel Wisdom does some work on the meta-level, i.e. how we can become better at sensemaking. Whether it’s around COVID or the next thing. And that for me is really the main takeaway from this pandemic. We suck at collectively making sense of complex threats and enacting good policies. Even simpler issues like statistical deaths due to air pollution most people don’t quite take for what they are.

I’d be happy to get in contact, I’m trying to figure out what ways there are to connect people and create a community that does high efficiency-collective sensemaking. Something that gives a good and balanced picture of status quo truth quickly. But also something that allows to progressively dig deeper into details. If this resonates with you → gubikmic@gmail.com

Oh, and I totally agree about the message board presentation making a big difference. I posted a crucial comment providing the context to the JRE thing yesterday and it didn’t get any attention. But even on Twitter most people missed the context, so it’s no wonder our sensemaking is so inefficient. Imagine talking for an hour only to later realize the point of contention became 90% mute in the presence of a bit of new information. That’s how I saw this, but multiplied by thousands of people. What a waste of smart people’s time.

The context is important here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZlnH8MAb8L/

100% not true for Aubrey Marcus

Vitamin D still not being promoted and offered to the whole population shows how incompetent western governments are.

".. individuals with Vitamin-D deficiency were 80% more likely to acquire COVID-19 infection .."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7973108/

One word: Apple.

Preventing PWAs is detrimental to users and an abuse of their monopoly.

100% agree! If more people understood this, I hope this narrative would gain some traction and eventually reach Apple management.

To me, the idea that an OS is mostly finished is completely bananas. There's so much room for improvement and hardly any of that potential was tapped into in what's starting to feel like a decade.

And if Apple had invested into a successor for Cocoa, there might be a larger gap between native apps and (Electron) web apps, leading to some lock-in. Instead most new stuff is not native and for good reasons (and I do dislike the way they don't adhere to Mac conventions, but still).

I think ultimately the problem is Tim Cook. He's too attached to Apple's stock price. I think that's the one metric that he believes rates his performance. But inertia is a bitch. Like in politics, the effects might hit hard only once he's out and it could be too late to fix by then.

If I think about how much this impacts the economy overall (i.e. make millions of knowledge workers a little bit less efficient) then I can only hope that I'll see more sophisticated organizational structures in my lifetime that prevent such erosion.

Source code is available: https://github.com/mathigon https://mathigon.io