Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)

Post by tdb7893 » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 3:57 PM UTC

le-mark wrote: post #127

sly010 wrote: post #117

A few years ago I co-founded a standing desk company without any experience in real world products in general. The plan was to source desks and sell them to companies. How complicated could it be? Well, the freight company requires a lot of information about the destination building. The destination building require a lot of paperwork in a very specific format just to deliver something. The paperwork is always a litt…

If you're like my old boss, just tell the employees to assemble their own desks, and then wonder why all these developers who requested a standing desk, are still using their old sit down desks.

Post by mbrock » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

cicero wrote: post #124

woliveirajr wrote: post #49

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> Network Programmer: “Do all the players need to see the door open at the same time?” Brings me the question on wheter the "reality" is the same for everybody.

Perception of reality is not the same for everybody, but there is a single objective reality that we all perceive in our imperfect ways.

Post by samfriedman » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 4:05 PM UTC

woliveirajr wrote: post #49

KineticLensman wrote: post #29

There is an excellent example of this type of fiddly detail in Liz England's 2014 blog post about the problems of doors in video games [0]. She identifies about 20 questions you can ask about as a door (as a game designer) and then about 30 different roles (from sound designers [1] to monetization director[2]) who might be involved. Her post works really well because the example is so mundane but the questions are ve…

> Network Programmer: “Do all the players need to see the door open at the same time?” Brings me the question on wheter the "reality" is the same for everybody.

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 4:09 PM UTC

dingo_bat wrote: post #104

littlestymaar wrote: post #76

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> If one human is teaching another human, you can leave the "countersteering" detail out and it won't matter. The 200 years of people learning how to ride bicycles is evidence of that. This is actually a well-known fact about motorcycle, and it's taught in driving schools. It's just that their is no bicycle driving school and people just figure it by themselves. I'm pretty sure it takes more time though.

I don't think regular driving schools teach you to countersteer when you turn.

Post by cr0sh » Fri, Jan 19, 2018, 4:15 PM UTC

taneq wrote: post #101

monochromatic wrote: post #83

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A moped (and I assume a motorcycle) is a lot harder to turn without countersteering. I’m not sure if that’s because it’s more massive or what. Anyway, learning to ride a moped was when I first consciously discovered countersteering. It made things a lot easier after that point.

The geometry is set up to be stable at a higher speed. Even then some sports bikes require a steering dampener to prevent "speed wobbles" (which, yes, are an actual thing and are much worse at 260kph than at 30kph on your BMX when you're a kid.)