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grimpy

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    Laggy experience (Safari, M3 air) talking about laggy experiences. I suspect the needlessly ornate demo controls (scaling, opacity, animation) contributing this -- playing with the…

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    Comment #46148465

    This works until your leadership changes.

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    Comment #45868686

    There are two kinds of Unisom: diphenhydramine and doxylamine succinate.

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    Comment #45264785

    this should be flagged; this is ai slop.

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    Comment #44734549

    im quite of aware of what it is. this isn't just "make a brutalist website" it is "make a website that looks like ssi when meta has multiple platforms and means to publish the same…

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    Comment #44734251

    why does this page have the same look as ssi.inc? feels kind of strange to copy that of all things?

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    Comment #44599146

    This just means this with lots of capital can buy things for cheap. This is not a downside. Overall, they win.

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    Comment #44411142

    this is a useless semantic position. could you frame innovation problems as "design" problems? sure. was the cotton gin framed as a "design" problem in the sense that it had some s…

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    [flagged]

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    Comment #44103562

    I think it's inevitable (and fine) that aesthetic trends influence UIs, however, what is terrible (and already happening... again) is that people will create all kinds of faulty re…

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    Comment #43995332

    Before I left Google, my org's leadership (recent external hires in the pursuit of ruthless efficiency) instituted a "5 minutes between meetings" rule. The intent was to shorten me…

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    Comment #43853621

    > There's so many questions I genuinely don't have an answer for... > Has Congress made it illegal to use an off-brand messaging app for secure communications? _Why_ is it insecure…

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    Comment #43809345

    This is a nice collection. If you are making software, I implore you to do a quick and simple test if you plan on using icons: show them to some users and ask if they would know wh…

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    Comment #43297405

    ...and especially since this is a convention the author uses for all their articles. The AI images make the whole site look fake.

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    Comment #43209647

    ...and not just decades of art theory, but any familiarity with the actual art objects themselves. Looking at the author's other (prolific) posts, I can't help but wonder if this i…

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    Comment #41821468

    Yeah, I get that this aesthetic is how a lot of people consume media these days, but the aesthetics combined with the subject matter is repulsive.

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    Comment #34995565

    The tone of this article is asinine considering that no one forces anyone to specialize in a particular framework, specializing/investing in any technology is always a risk, and th…