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#232https://logological.org/girlfriend Some guy from 1998 explains why he will never have girlfriend
That’s interesting, I got roped into this man’s website which is similar. I felt very sad about him and tried to find out if he ever found love. He was very conflicted about it and on his website he states he was 50 when it was written.
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think a lot of modern web design suffers from the same AB testing failures that got Pepsi into trouble back in the coke/pepsi days of the 80's. I may be misremembering the details, but the gist was that Pepsi was a bit sweeter, and so in the tiny amounts that people tasted during taste tests, they usually prefer the sweeter drink. In normal use, however, that flavor of Pepsi was too sweet, and sales tanked. I see t…
The iPads with buttons: too complicated for a whole swath of our population, or just for a small specific age range? I wouldn’t want the take-away point from your experience there to be over-generalised.
What do you think "a whole swath of our population" means?
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#234Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
#235so cool!
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fully agree that 3.0 is the marketing term for decentralized cryptobro stuff, but isn't it also a term that tentatively belonged to a more generic idea of a regular web that iterates beyond web 2.0?
No. Web 3.0 is only defined in terms of marketing buzz tied to crypto. It has zero use outside of that.
Not true. The semantic web people were using it to describe their ambitions.
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
What I've found consistently scarier this past decade+ is the casualness and seeming inevitability with which vast swathes of the population can be captured by unfavorable technology and social spaces or narratives. And yeah, what you and others here often enough describe(d) are the shadows on the wall. Keeping civilization and culture on track really is a constant struggle.
Vast swaths of the population are uninteresting rubes. Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter are all doing us a favor by keeping those people occupied and their drivel contained.
Isn’t hacker news doing the same thing for the most parts? This is a little rude but I went through your history and maybe you should be more careful who you call “uninteresting rubes” and “drivel”.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think you're in the category. I don't think anyone is. I'm just poking a little at your self awareness and your lack of respect toward your fellow people. I do think there is an issue with the walled gardens, but I don't think it's the people who use them. It's the psychological effect of having affirmation systems tied to everything you post. I'm sure most people would post waaaaaaaay less "uninteresting" content if it wasn't because of the dopamine chase. I'm guilty of it myself. I try to ask myself if I'm really trying to contribute or if I'm just posting to get likes, and sometimes it prevents me from posting things to social media sites. There are a lot of time where it doesn't though. You may not put much value in Reddits karma system, but what value do you put into your hacker news account? I know from my own experience that it's been fairly healthy for me to create a new account every time I reach a 1000 points. I hope that I'll eventually get to the point where I don't have to do that, but I'm not sure I'm there yet.
It's obviously up to you, but I'd encourage you to not so blatantly disregard other people for what they post on social media. Because social media is a game for our attention, and most of us chase that sweet dopamine rush, even though everything we post on social media sort of disappears after a day and is frankly invisible in the sea of sameness posted by our peers.
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Wikipedia to the rescue! > jelly (from the French gelée)[29] is a clear or translucent fruit spread made by a process similar to that used for making jam, with the additional step of filtering out the fruit pulp after the initial cooking. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_preserves#Jelly
That seems entirely counterproductive. Why remove the fruit from jam?
Berries with seeds are strained to remove the seeds. It tastes nice so we do it with everything else too.
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#239Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think a lot of modern web design suffers from the same AB testing failures that got Pepsi into trouble back in the coke/pepsi days of the 80's. I may be misremembering the details, but the gist was that Pepsi was a bit sweeter, and so in the tiny amounts that people tasted during taste tests, they usually prefer the sweeter drink. In normal use, however, that flavor of Pepsi was too sweet, and sales tanked. I see t…
> But then you start trying to get actual work done, and the Fisher Priced interface is too simplified. That's exactly my thinking as well. To give another example: This week I tried to use an iPad and an Apple Pencil for day-to-day note taking. If you handwrite 100% plain English prose like, The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, it instantly converts it to text and corrects any typos. For simple stuff, it see…
That's my experience with doing basically anything that's vaguely complex on mobile devices.
The iPhone camera is usually excellent, but there are some situations (for me it's autumn forests and funnily enough Disneyland at night) in which the auto white balance fails miserably. On my DSLM it's a simple question of just using manual white balance, but on the iPhone the only way to do it with the stock camera app is to do in post.
On that note, the Photos Mac app has a neat feature where you can fix white balance by calibrating on a neutral grey area, but that feature is missing on the mobile apps which just have a color temperature slider which does not give as good results.
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still don't believe modern we design is actually preferred by the masses. Ofen times it isn't even a balance between aesthetics an clarity, because the modern pages are broken or otherwise unusable. It has gotten to the point where I wonder if maybe I'm not neurotypical. I'll take sites formatted like Craigslist 100% of the time. Now I'm just waiting for windows OS to fully replace file navigation text with iconogr…
I think a lot of modern web design suffers from the same AB testing failures that got Pepsi into trouble back in the coke/pepsi days of the 80's. I may be misremembering the details, but the gist was that Pepsi was a bit sweeter, and so in the tiny amounts that people tasted during taste tests, they usually prefer the sweeter drink. In normal use, however, that flavor of Pepsi was too sweet, and sales tanked. I see t…
The button gives a known "reset" feature, where if you get lost you can get back to someplace you know and try again.
Without that, it can be disastrous.