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There is quite a leap from entertainment viewing choices to device gadget selection. It seems like a straw man to beat down and argue. My question is why? Why attached identity behind gadget choice? It is all marketing by large corporations in the end.

There was an article in the top page yesterday complaining about acronyms. I can see its point now because UTI means something else in my family.

I didn’t know about bogo sort and was genuinely waiting for it to finish.

I use json script to build complex logic and share them as JS

The irony did not lost on me that an article about superfluous visual elements is overlayed by an unnecessary distraction. But maybe the point is to not be 100% utilitarian but to weave in a "warm" feeling of the season. It did give me that a fuzzy feeling for the first few second. Then I was bored; then annoyed. Which pretty much follow my feeling of using Tahoe: Cool -> Meh -> Uggg!

No matter how well meaning or great it is, a large UI/UX changes without explicit user control (users clicking some download or update button) will always be met with vocal users revolt. I have not met a large UI change where I go "this is so much better than what I'm used to for the past years" Why do sites do this? Is the goal to attract new users? Just know that this comes at the cost of existing users irritation.

I will take around 1 year to get used to all the changes--just in time for the next large one to take place again. This is why I am always in a state of discontent.

Off topic--this came closely after my Sonos systems UI changes. It's like the whole world is telling me I am no longer their market demographics.

Is there a benefit difference between digital journal and analog (pen) ? I’ve been having this internal debate. Any thoughts?

i’m a vulnerable narcissist. still don’t know what to do about this information.

this will be abused. How does one verify a business is indeed practice racism? How does the business owner rectify the allegations?

what does lying more as adults equate to?

Edit: found the answer in the article:

The analysis found that parenting by lying could place children at a greater risk of developing problems that the society frowns upon, such as aggression, rule-breaking and intrusive behaviours.

"The roll is made out of three layers of different plastic"

So it's basically Paper vs Plastic. What is bad about the cardboard boxes that these thing replaces?

So many questions:

How many people have these type of phones at Facebook? Are we talking about 10 people 100 people? How many would have had these phones even without working at Facebook? What’s the percentage of burner phone user at Facebook as compare to silicons valley engineer in general?

Don't worry. Everyone have this idealization of what type of parent they will be until they actually have kids. There are no rule book to say what good parent looks like.