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It’s still too damn narrow. Yeah, I get plenty of vertical space, but then the Figma chrome gets jammed into teeny little strips along the sidebar.
This solution does better in Adobe applications, where you can break panels out of the parent window…but still, just, no, 16:9, too skinny, too gawky, give me closer to the Golden Ratio.
- xScope (https://xscopeapp.com/history) — OK, I’m cheating, 19 years, but still a notable tool in my toobox
- Transmit (https://panic.com/transmit/) — Though it debuted as “Transit”, it’s been going since 1998
It is really nice to have video span, if not the entire viewport, most of it, with the timeline down below. 16:10 gives you a nice bit of control area.
But 3:2 is even better. Hell, give me a 5:4 screen—I live and die in Figma all day, working on mobile app mockups. Which are very tall, obviously, and get awfully small on these HDTV-ish aspect ratios.
…I say as someone who used Photoshop 1.0. (And HyperCard.)
2. We build a robust safety net with worker retraining and…haha, I can’t even finish that sentence. It’s the same thing that tends to happen to the working class: nothing good.
It’s pointing out the lack of an org chart for figuring out who is responsible for what. It’s pointing out their observational study basically doesn’t include a control arm. It arguably does lean a little heavy on long COVID patient advocacy…but given they spent that much money and produced nothing, at all, apparently not even a patient registry…that’s bad! That’s not misplaced anger at our institutions—when you can't even come up with an org chart, that’s objectively bad!
It’s not that NIH didn’t find a cause of “long COVID”…it’s not that they didn’t find any treatments for long COVID if such a thing truly exists…the NIH just did a whole lot of nothing.
The National Institutes of Health hasn’t signed up a single patient to test any potential treatments — despite a clear mandate from Congress to study them. And the few trials it is planning have already drawn a firestorm of criticism, especially one intervention that experts and advocates say may actually make some patients’ long Covid symptoms worse.
Instead, the NIH spent the majority of its money on broader, observational research that won’t directly bring relief to patients. But it still hasn’t published any findings from the patients who joined that study, almost two years after it started.
A really spectacularly expensive whole lot of nothing.
Luke was supposed to be, I believe, 19 during A New Hope, which was a movie about young rebels throwing off the almost literal corpses running the Empire.
(Same as it ever was…)
Is that a common term in physics for a single electron? I am very much used to seeing that phrase as the probability space for electrons in orbitals in an atom.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_orbital
In this article I take it to mean “any point particle has a non-zero physical radius, but because quantum mechanics shows everything has a measure of uncertainty, the possibility of the charge within that non-zero space is an amorphous cloud”. But still a weird lexical overlap with the high school physics electron cloud meaning of things.
The USA leads the way in terms of household electric usage in the world – an average US household consumes approximately 975 kilowatt-hours of electricity each month, three times more than for example the United Kingdom.
Which got me wondering how big US domiciles are versus those in the UK. Turns out: lot of big-ass houses here in the US.
https://shrinkthatfootprint.com/how-big-is-a-house/
2164 sq. ft vs. 818 sq. ft
Which sure would explain that difference.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
Must be nice to be a libertarian—lot of fat government subsidies seem to come their way.
But nah, I doubt it’s any particular product issue. If it’s not just a matter of goosing the share price, it’s probably due to commodity prices eating into profits.
I can’t particularly imagine why there is any appreciable Windows 7/8 user base outside of enterprise machines that are, like, running CNC mills and will just never need to be updated.
Sure isn’t Canada. Sure isn’t anywhere in the EU. Super-duper-sure it isn’t anywhere in Asia.
There’s lots and lots of academic research. And a fair bit of Department of Energy money flowing into those labs. There’s lots of interest. There’s lots of papers.
And the great thing about those who “do proper science” in materials research: you can do actual science by repeating and verifying the experiments.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaleidoscope_(software)
Kaleidoscope. In the old days, we could change every single icon on our Mac. You kids, you’ll never know the freedom of putting Star Wars icon packs on your computer and then having intractable crashes that took down the entire machine because it didn’t have memory protection…
There’s at least a plausible need there, what with the whole “don’t want to slam an asteroid into the planet” problem.
Mining is still an utter fantasy. It’s completely economically unviable to mine anything from an asteroid and bring it down the gravity well, and we have close to zero ability to actually mine and manufacture anything in space. We are a long long long time away from that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murchison_meteorite
It’s an extensively researched meteorite that is just full of organic molecules.
That same day, Jira — a tool Twitter uses to track everything from progress on feature updates to regulatory compliance — also stopped working.
Ha, that seems to imply that people even know there’s such a thing as font licensing.
I’ve been a graphic designer for a long time now, and I barely even remember font licensing exists. Even though I know better, my gut instinct is “well we paid for it, we can use it however we want internally, send it along with the InDesign file to the printer, why not?”
Besides dynamic range, that’s a real stretch to say color negative film is more flexible. That sort of film arguably does a better job of preserving highlights, but I don’t see a plausible argument for any other aspect being better. Just getting the white balance right alone…
Snap is well-positioned for a comeback.
TikTok is at a high risk of being banned by the US government, and Meta properties increasingly lack any sort of focus and coherent product management. When TikTok exits the US market, by choice or by decree, and when Meta fails to regain user trust and engagement, Snap will be the choice of the burgeoning Gen Z market.
…ow, ow, I think I hurt something in my shoulder, I was reaching so hard there. Ow.
Anyways…discoverability?
1. If you are on the normal Home Screen on an iPhone, where is the affordance to even suggest widgets exist? There really isn’t, unless you enter the modal jiggly mode to rearrange apps, where you get a subtle + button to add widgets.
2. If you are on the home view and swipe all the way left to get to your “stack” of widgets (which I do use), you get a weeeee little Edit button down at the bottom to add new widgets.
3. If you add a new app, is there a universal affordance to know there’s a widget available? Not really.
So, for me, I just kinda forget they are there, or at least I am forgetful enough to check if there is new functionality available for me.
(And if I am missing an obvious affordance, please, make me look dumb here. I’d be glad to learn more.)
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I will say I am getting more use out of the…oh wow we really are keeping that name…the Dynamic Island with Live Activities feature.
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/dynamic-island/
Barely any Live Activities out there, but that omni-present and slightly animated subview lets me know there are fresh things to interact with.
Twitter was not, well, Twitter without the users and developers. Hashtags, replies, threads…users and developers. Not the product managers.
And that’s relevant because: if you’re developing a product today, probably worth thinking about how so many features and practices are an emergent property of how it’s used, and not what you are narrowly planning for.
Right from the bird’s mouth, which by the way, they created, not Twitter…
“Since 2007, Twitterrific helped define the shape of the Twitter experience. It was the first desktop client, the first mobile client, one of the very first apps in the App Store, an Apple Design award winner, and it even helped redefine the word “tweet” in the dictionary. Ollie, Twitterrific’s bluebird mascot, was so popular it even prompted Twitter themselves to later adopt a bluebird logo of their very own. Our little app made a big dent on the world!”
And “pull-to-refresh”? Tweetie.