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The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by oddmiral »

nojvek wrote: post #72
CrzyLngPwd wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One only has to see the differences between NATO bombing of serbian power stations vs the russians doing the same with Ukraine, or Israel killing children in gaza vs russian killing children vs the US killing afghan or Iraqi children. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/25/us/crew-of-cruiser-that-d...

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Israel is not a state with Christian morale, they are not a part of the "Western world". They have their own religion and morale, which are older than Christianity. Only part of holy books are shared between two.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by tambourine_man »

rglullis wrote: post #40
JimDabell wrote: post #35

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A lot of the recent OpenAI events that were posted here were links to Twitter and I’ve seen plenty of people point this out as evidence that Twitter still is at the centre.

The OpenAI saga was such an outlier in the usual news cycle, it is hard to use it as a measure of anything.

Also, lots of OpenAI fans and venture capital/crypto people are still on Xitter. It’s a special demography that makes it more an outlier.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by Hamuko »

xkbarkar wrote: post #87

What a terrible platform to present an interesting story. What wrong with a good old fashioned article style blog ? I admit I am so turned off by the format I only made it hlf way throught the thread.

You made it further than I did, since the UI is absolutely horrendous after the first post.

You can set up a blog on the Internet for free if you want to make longform content.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by ImaCake »

JimDabell wrote: post #35
rglullis wrote: post #30

Aside: it is the second day in a row that a thread from Mastodon ends up on the frontpage of HN. When was the last time I Twitter thread did the same, and does anyone else doubts that Twitter is no longer at the center of tech-related conversation?

A lot of the recent OpenAI events that were posted here were links to Twitter and I’ve seen plenty of people point this out as evidence that Twitter still is at the centre.

This is part of the current cycle of fragmentation. Twitter is no longer the centre, but it still holds certain cultural niches. Other niches have migrated to Mastodon or elsewhere.

I am personally pretty excited to see this diversification and fragmentation as it should help provide more niches for more people.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by klez »

lynx23 wrote: post #39
ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #8

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> Mastodon is apparently at least as bad as Meta. Wow. Such a comparison is mindblowing. You are apparently unaware that the default Mastodon web client is only one way of many which you can use to interface with a Mastodon instance. If you feel that there should be a plain HTTP(S) interface to its open API, feel free to advocate for one — or to create it yourself!

Nope, sorry. I am too old and frustrated by modern web accessibility issues that I am not going to waste my time and "contribute" to this mess. A few years back, I would have tried to make the world a better place. These days, I have learnt that we blind people are no longer a factor for anything anymore. I bet LGBTQ people have a way higher chance to get what they want/need then people with disabilities hurt by the…

If you made this about accessibility in the first place, (and avoided the useless war between the poor with the LGBTQ people here) I bet your post would have been better received.

By the way you make a very good point about accessibility and the fact that you basically need two operating systems (the actual OS running on your PC and a modern Web Browser) to read simple text that should have been rendered as such in the first place.

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by gambiting »

oddmiral wrote: post #111
nojvek wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Israel is not a state with Christian morale, they are not a part of the "Western world". They have their own religion and morale, which are older than Christianity. Only part of holy books are shared between two.

Who mentioned anything about Christianity??

Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by CrzyLngPwd »

scotty79 wrote: post #104
nojvek wrote: post #72

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Isreal has been trying to keep their morals for decades using defensive measures. They constructed probaby best in the world air defense systems to protect their civilians daily. They could just send one rocket for one they were targetted by instead and Gaza would be inhabitable decades ago. So when they were rewarded for their restraint on 7 Oct with savagery I'm not really surprised that huge part of the world give…

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Re: The 1988 shooting down of Flight 655 as a user interface disaster

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Post by hoseja »

m463 wrote: post #94

I wonder when a tesla will show up in a courtroom with a situation like this. I'm not talking about autopilot. I'm talking about the continuous (past ridiculous) removal of physical controls from their vehicles. For example, the original model S/X had dedicated controls for lots of functions - turn signals, gear shift, wipers, autopilot, steering wheel tilt, etc. On the steering wheel, there were two buttons and a sc…

What sort of "physical control" would be appropriate for a radar-guided beyond-visual-range anti-air missile?
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