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I always suspected there's a step in Apple's software design process that goes like this: - Is the app convenient to use for power users? Then careful, you must have mindlessly wen…

User retention is not much of a thing anymore thanks to the stickiness afforded by integrated services and network effects. You can't just switch calendar/video streaming when ever…

This is probably caused by Google aggregating the answers from people with different languages, as the automatic translations of the one-word prompts are often ambiguous or wrong. …

Google captchas are hard because they're mostly based on heuristics other than your actual accuracy to the stated challenge. If they can't track who you are based on previous histo…

I used to be optimistic that way, but if you look somewhere similar developments happened before like China: yes, people adapted to circumvent their regime's oppression, but the la…

What's your good pdf reader of choice? And do you use any software to organize your collection, or just the filesystem?

You could use separate Youtube channels for this. Use one to subscribe only to the infrequently releasing channels.

> lack of empirical data backing up claims Doesn't that describe almost all books on psychology? Psychology studies tend to be so hilariously unscientific that I'd rather get the c…

Following Hanlon's razor, it's probably just a genuine lack of imagination. Grand parent poster might have only lived in areas where homeless people and sex workers were quiet and …

No, it's absolutely not about how "counterculture" her opinions are. It's about using offensive language. She probably would have avoided all trouble if instead of talking down a f…

So their employer pays for them to go to a conference and they don't see anything wrong with embarrassing their employer with inflammatory tweets against an arm of the government? …

I feel the same with Twitter. Recently, no matter how hard I try to train its algorithm, it always finds new crappy short videos or click-bait threads to push on my timeline. Feels…

One thing I don't understand is how can Bluesky pretend to be more open than Twitter when it's been months and it's still an invite-only closed garden?

Whether it can technically be called a DNS request or not, this is a privacy leak for anyone who isn't already using Google as a DOH provider. So this should really be written on t…

"My intuition tells me that cavemen probably had worse quality of life (experience-wise) than modern humans." That's a very suggestive judgment. It's likely they felt incredibly mo…

It almost certainly did, but for what we lost in working memory, we gained a broadness of outlooks that would have been unfathomable at the time. We are connecting ideas from furth…

Shaky? Full-blown professional tools like Figma running almost flawlessly on 5 different operating systems is not shaky. We've never had a better developer story before.

Or as app designers they're designing for devices people use in the real world...

Nuclear weapon use in a local conflict would be similar to someone unleashing a new coronavirus to win a local conflict. Due to its polluting non-local effects, it instantly paints…

Since the advent of web 2.0, people often interact with media in more ways than looking at its thumbnail.

It just feels weird to have results from a walled off website on a search engine, unless we specifically indicate that we have an account on this website. Similar to how we don't l…

Chicken-and-egg problem. You would say the same about the data provider if there was no decent frontend for it.