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Why even live when you can just go into a medically induced coma and have nutrients pumped into your body?

How do you responsibly disclose public information?

That is truly more frightening than a federal maximum security prison in the United States.

Gambling easily ruins more lives than just the gambler’s. It can be as effective as drugs or alcohol in that regard.

In my experience it doesn’t. I came at UX from the interaction design/HCI side of things so I was already generally that kind of person, but the people who came at it from the design side weren’t as strong weren’t as strong. They were still very good at design though.

Because that program already exists.

Good. The more unimproved dirt holes and fewer resorts the better.

Because lots of companies pushed their graphic artists and designers into UX roles without providing any training, expecting them to learn on the job. I saw it happen at every job I’ve had and heard about it from people I knew at other companies.

When the iPad launched, I was in my third year of an industrial design program and we endlessly mocked it. Who was this thing for? It's a giant iPhone. It's not a laptop or a phone, why would anyone want it? Obviously, by the end of my last year we realized we were definitely wrong.

These days I still think we were wrong, but I also think we were more right than we knew at the time.

It's frustrating for professionals, and it's too big for kids to be carrying around, but after observing my parents I realize who it's for: people who have trouble reading on small screens. That's why I like my iPad.

BP execs should have been out there on the water helping clean it up until it was done.

If web was as good as iOS native, for example, Apple wouldn’t get their cut.

In the physical sense, entropy favors the attacker because destroying something is just helping it along the path it wants to take. Everything wants to turn into dust, all the time. It takes energy to prevent it from happening. The attacker can use significantly less energy to get it moving.

Consider the energy requirements to construct a skyscraper compared to the energy requirements to demolish one.

Nope, never said that.

Yeah that’s the problem with sites like these. They just turn into furry porn and drive everyone else away.

The "magic" here should be that whichever app was last explicitly cast to an external display should be the one that keeps casting to that display until the user chooses from a different app to cast it to the external display.

I think the counter-argument you posed is the weaker of the two. You of course know you want to switch to displaying the live demo environment instead of the presentation you chose to cast to the display, but there's no way the OS can reasonably infer that, so it shouldn't.

> Here, I think this hits a fundamental weakness in Apple’s design culture: if you want to make things magical by removing options from users, occasionally you’re going to hit something that’s impossible to do without giving the user control. And if anything, Apple’s culture has been overtuned towards not providing that control, if at all possible.

Sadly true.

Yes they should also know.

> The engineer in me says "surely there is an optimal solution, so why are they all so different?". Is there a simulator?

Optimistically, because each one has a different optimal solution given all the unique constraints for each airport project.

Also, airports aren't just built and then done. Often the cities around them will grow and the airports will need to expand and adapt to new constraints, sometimes many decades after they were first built.

I wouldn’t expect them to state it plainly and publicly if they were.

Even a tolerant society has to be selectively intolerant to preserve itself. The goal is maximally tolerant, not absolute tolerance.

Hypothetically, should a party running on a platform of ending democracy be allowed to participate in democracy? Should they be allowed to end it for all future and current citizens?

Germans, of all people, should know the danger.

> Isn't this in contradiction to the observations of severely neglected or feral children who having never learned language as a child cannot learn it later in life?

No. Language learning ability does change as the brain matures, but all humans (barring some pathology) possess the ability as infants to learn any human language. They're essentially learning a second vocal language without having ever learned their first. And of course, not all languages are even spoken, such as sign language.

Sure, lots of animals have evolved vocal communication, possible even all from a common ancestor, but none are comparable to human language. There is no limit inherent limit to the information human language can express.

My understanding of the current state of linguistics and evolutionary biology is that communication-first theories are not generally considered likely, though of course it is not settled and likely won't be for a long time (if ever).

Animal olfactory sensing is more or less just detecting the presence of certain molecules in the air.

We already have devices that do that better than humans and even ones that detect things we can’t smell (carbon monoxide, for example).

Though I suppose you could say that “smelling” is the result of the synthesis of the accumulated signals from the olfactory system in the brain, and more than merely sensing their presence.

I have seen such footage, and I’m glad some officers take their job seriously.

But unless you know a way to tell apart those who abuse their power from those who don’t, I have to consider all officers as antagonistic and potentially dangerous.

You see, if I’m wrong, then I could end up in jail or injured or dead while they get paid leave.

> help people or detain dangerous criminals risking their own lives and limbs.

As we’ve seen them feeling afraid for their life is justification enough to kill you. It makes the risking life and limb part less admirable.

Unless there are officers present, I don’t see what that has to do with the conduct of police officers.

I don’t need to be fed propaganda, I can watch their own body cam footage myself.

It’s a sad state of affairs when the best advice is “never talk to the police” so they can’t frame you for something.

That’s not really a controversial idea and nearly everyone who owns a home where you can see your neighbor’s house wants to do that to some degree.

If you live in close proximity to other people, you should not be allowed to do whatever you want on your private property.

Pretty much every municipality already has laws that limit you in that manner.

Scale matters. For example, at large scale you might be able to essentially ignore the friction between two materials, but at 1/1000 scale it might be the same order of magnitude as the forces expected during operation.

While a large piece of sheet metal might slide down a given ramp, a 1/1000 scale bit of foil of that same metal would probably just sit on that same ramp and not move.

There are lots of constants that, by definition, don't scale.

Language is an inseparable part of modern humans. It’s likely language evolved as an internal tool for thought and executive function, and externalization of language came afterwards as a means to transmit our thoughts to the minds of other humans.

As such, writing (another form of externalizing our internal language) is a reflection of our essential human qualities.

LLMs can certainly mimic that quite effectively, but they can’t exceed it. I think that’s why LLM writing still never quite hits the mark. It’s the right shape, but it’s missing intent. The words were not chosen to represent real thoughts in someone’s mind.

Even if AI intelligence exceeds humans, it still won’t be human.

I think the comments section is the perfect place to nitpick something like this.