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Tools are often objects that "exceed the average human's capabilities" in some respect or another but assigning the quality of intelligence to tool itself is like calling a hammer …

Would injustice exist in an alien society if that society didn't recognise it as such?

Here's a Strange Loop talk where one of the authors covers some of the content of the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxINoKFm-S4

This project wraps `inotifywait`[0] which I didn't know about until just now. Really useful utility, thanks for sharing! [0] - https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/inotifywait…

Ah, the boiling frog strategy. Effective but definitely evil. Is "don't be evil" still part of the Google's official ethos?

> langcc is general enough that the tool is self-hosting: that is, one can express the "language of languages" in the "language of languages" itself There's something deeply satisf…

I think we're still in the experimental phase of lots of novel types of social information exchange. Building in public is very much an experimental form of communication. It's a n…

So it turns out that when you outsource auth, you also outsource some of the governance on who can access your platform. Isn't access control a set of patterns rather than a servic…

Is ROI in this case a measure of comprehension? What about the enjoyment and playfulness of metaphor and expressive language - do these have a negative ROI if they aren't sufficien…

> No matter how much well-intentioned user research these companies invest in, they'll never be able to produce software that fully meets the needs of individual users and cultural…

> To comply with DNT, we pledge to delete user personal information such as IP addresses in server logs after no more than 10 days. We do this regardless of whether you set the DNT…

> We need to stop admiring those smart enough to understand how the software works, and start making the software easier to understand in the first place. Yes, I agree. But I think…

> It's not what people truly wanted in the first place. The transition towards "a nonstop amusement drip" has been gradual and effective but it doesn't mean that the current situat…

> The reality is that software is extremely expensive, especially polished software with a good user experience that's usable by non-experts. I get your point here and I think this…

This is exactly why I think FOSS has become irrelevant for end-users. An open source client for a proprietary API only gives superficial freedoms and doesn't guarantee those freedo…

You don't often see such clear examples of where industrial design impacts the evolution of human practices. It seems like the feedback loop works both ways - the available paddles…

It's a sign that you intend the company to survive.

I think the thing to remember here is that inputs should only be `type=number` where the semantic value is best represented with a numeric scale, not just where it is a number only…

Is this not just describing a community of people who have vivid imaginations? How is this an "uninvestigated emerging phenomenon"?