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You can buy a good variety of kits on eBay (I say, having done so recently).

What.are.you.talking.about.the.iOS.keyboard.is.just.fine

There's definitely software that wants to make people feel dread. Mostly horror games and Atlassian applications.

This feels like the origin of a lot of these mistakes (and more besides): they weren't based on "what is it that lots of real designers are actually trying to accomplish?". Why did it take so long to get support for pinstriping, when prior to that there were 1001 different ways to try and accomplish it, because so many people wanted it? Why did it take so long to get layout functionality that even just matched the power of what CSS was intending to replace? Or vertical alignment, or drop shadows, etc, etc, etc. I like CSS and the intentions of it, but man, it was designed from a place of having no idea what people wanted to do.

> Disney is buying equity from OpenAI.

Can you buy equity from OpenAI without also giving OpenAI a license to use your IP? Even if the equity is worth $1 billion, how much is Disney's IP license worth?

> But for professionals who use these to solve complex problems and need correctness above all?

Is that the same thing as making bootleg graphics involving Disney characters?

This was a fantastic article. I loved this point near the top:

> Digital transformation is the manifestation through commercialization — which is to say financial means and industrial availability — of tools and processes whose introduction shines a light on issues and challenges which were always present but otherwise able to remain unseen.

And then revisited later:

> Wall labels, then, are not really the problem. They are the symptom of some broader challenges with the way that museums are organized and the ways in which they get things done. I do not think that machine-learning and AI technologies will actually solve any of these problems but the collective hope and belief that they will is, perhaps, the proverbial light I keep talking about making visible some larger issues we have avoided having to address.

> If the people don't care enough about it, using AI to create more volumes of data on it is just wild.

They do care about it—they cared about it enough to get it, store it, preserve it. But they’re not good at storing the context around it—it’s like they care about it, but don’t care about why they care about it?

> Curation nowadays is about the purge, the filter.

I agree there’s value in that, but there’s also value in understanding the meaning behind what we keep.

Will there be taco trucks on every corner? We had been promised that if Hillary won, and I am still disappointed we missed out.

Is it that it’s dead, or that it never existed?

I agree about Jefferson Airplane, but the person I was responding to claimed the pills came from Lewis Carroll.

> to tune out the corruption angle once the war started

Oh man, wait until you hear about what’s going on in the US, we’re experiencing corruption to a degree you can’t even imagine.

I’m not sure what you wanted them to do, that they didn’t do.

> The pills originally come from Lewis Carroll, where Alice could change size by taking them.

Wasn’t it a cake labeled “EAT ME” and a drink labeled “DRINK ME” in Alice in Wonderland? I don’t recall them being pills at all.

> Chuck Pahlaniuk then? He devised it.

He devised it, but Chuck was pretty clear—Tyler Durden wasn’t the good guy. So don’t take what he said as an endorsement by Pahlaniuk.

> Shouldn't there be just one, holding all the truth?

How do you hold the truth? Even if there was only a single fact-checking organization, and they had no institutional or personal biases, they still wouldn’t own the truth.

> Not everything can be owned by conservative leaning billionaires.

Well, it can be, that’s the problem :-(. But it would really, really suck.

> Let's not pretend that James "Avatar" Cameron is deep.

It’s not, but it’s also now 3 films in 16 years. That’s not a lot.

Bigger than the market for $200 phone pockets.

> This also far more easily lets you have different butt images.

Plus there’s a number of subreddits which specialize in those.

> If the people they are arresting aren't being punished they won't bother arresting them.

That’s a weird excuse to be soft on crime.

> If people aren't being punished then the population as a whole isn't going to bother reporting them to the police in the first place.

Well right there is the reason they should still be doing their job. Because you’re right, if the police stop arresting people, why would anybody report crime to the police?

However now we have more murderers, which is one of those “one step forward, two steps back” things.

> The amount of copper thieves is finite.

If that were true, we could simply wait for them to all die out and be done with the problem for good. And since that won’t work, this claim can be dismissed.

> I specifically mean the left) has decided to nearly universally stop enforcing rules

The left isn’t generally in control of policing.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess :-)

I dunno, she tweeted (skeeted?) out something recently with position & rotation splines that was pretty cool.

Sometimes yes, but I think in this case the angry sarcasm is clear.

Let me add in Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (2022)

> Modern movies are obsessed with plot. Inception being an example of this.

I don’t think Inception is a great example of this. It has plot, but the plot is all texture. None of it makes that much sense, nor does it need to.

> Contrast 2001 space odyssey to a 90s movie, it feels so slow.

I believe it felt slow when it originally released as well.