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Re:AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton on Friday February 20, 2026 @01:03PM (#47091476)
The exoskeleton analogy seems to be fitting where my work-mode is configurable: moving from tentative to trusting. But the AI needs to be explicitly set up to learn my every action. Currently this is a chore at best, just impossible in other cases.
Re:Apple Designs a Virtual Knob on Saturday October 11, 2025 @08:07PM (#45553918)
Hmm, may be you're right about UX designers not wanting to explain. For instance, I certainly won't want that vertical bar for aesthetic reasons. It's just hard to defend objectively.
Re:Why does Britain feel so poor? on Friday April 04, 2025 @10:55AM (#43583345)
Re:Busy Status Bar from Flipper Devices on Monday October 14, 2024 @06:32PM (#41842847)
Agree, except the product price could be right on the buy button. Now the analytics won't tell you whether I clicked on the buy button with an intent to buy, or did I just want to know how much it is.
There's a video about an octopus solving a maze: https://youtu.be/7__r4FVj-EI?si=FH2QsL7BxlJ4h7KF. You could call that reactionary too, but at some point we have to admit octopuses do have a higher level of intelligence than we'd assume from an animal their size.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here? on Friday July 07, 2023 @01:18AM (#36627490)
https://adnankhan.space/ Just a couple of posts there atm, I write about usability, interaction design, service design and other things that sit on the UX spectrum of work!
Re:Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:33AM (#36208116)
They're just advertising the tech and the platform. Probably so people could come up with some real use cases and apps for it... otherwise what's the point of introducing it a year earlier.
Re:Twitter Suspends PG's Account on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:17PM (#34045353)
Elon now reminds me of the many characters talked about in 'Ego is the enemy' https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27036528-ego-is-the-enem...
Re:FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client on Sunday November 27, 2022 @11:43PM (#33769893)
My biggest gripe with Youtube right now is how they've left channel subscription just as a long list. I have hundreds of subscriptions, and they are clearly around a few of my interests...
Re:The Westinghouse Total Electric Home (1960) [video] on Saturday June 18, 2022 @07:09PM (#31794643)
Great. This is from 50 years ago, and many of the ideas shown have come true. What about the next 50 years? Any video suggesting what we'd be able to see around the house in 2070?
Re:This word does not exist on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @04:05PM (#29005585)
I'd like to read a newsletter named MetaMuffin.
Re:Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations on Saturday October 16, 2021 @06:36PM (#28892197)
Won't Spotify be able to tell dislikes by how quickly someone skips to the next song?
Re:Create and share images of your source code on Friday October 15, 2021 @12:57AM (#28874463)
It does more than export an image, see here: https://github.com/carbon-app/carbon#exporting--sharing
In Pakistan, the Peshawar airport has a railway line crossing through the airport runway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBgVEYjSq8

Re:Ask HN: How to learn how to sell? on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:18AM (#27659955)
How do you give multiple chances to say no? Is it like persisting with further offerings or different pricing etc?
Re:Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess on Monday June 21, 2021 @06:26AM (#27577862)
I have no affiliation with the author, but he's provided reasoning as to why he thinks the design doesn't work for him. You can window-dress the wording, but that's essentially what the article is about.

What are your reasons for 'trashing' the importance of the address bar and the need for 35 tabs?

Re:Truck Art in Pakistan (2018) on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:06PM (#25664726)
This is the correct url: https://youtu.be/gjaH2iuoYWE
Re:Building Your Color Palette on Sunday November 22, 2020 @03:39PM (#25180846)
Practically speaking, you end up using colours many more than 3. Even designing a button needs a base colour, a hover state colour, a clicked state colour and sometimes border colours too. You can ‘wing’ it by using sass ‘darken’ etc as someone stated above, but I’ve found that to be interpreted differently by different browsers, and it’s just better to anticipate these needs and come up with the required colour stops upfront.
Re:Show HN: Automate your feedback generation process on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:50PM (#25119489)
Love the idea. Would be interesting on the mobile.
https://historyofphilosophy.net/ has a great series on the history of philosophy.

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