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verge, 1 month ago to random

This is Tesla’s riveting fix for recalled Cybertruck accelerator pedals https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/20/24135876/tesla-cybertruck-accelerator-pedal-recall-fix

drahardja, 2 months ago to random

Unless Biden said “Hey, Benjamin, cut that shit out!” I’m really not interested. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112266963575427694

drahardja, 2 months ago to random

Oh hello there #migraine

This week has been a doozy.

drahardja, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to UX

The iOS #calculator meme that’s going around where “50+50×2=” yields 150 and not 200, is a great example of hidden states in UX design.

Low-cost desktop calculators perform (most) operations strictly left-to-right: press any operator button (+-×÷), and the display is updated to show the result of the calculation so far, and that result becomes an operand for the operation. There is no other state “inside” the calculator that affects the solution—what you see is all you get.

On the iOS calculator, you’re entering the entire expression into a hidden buffer. You can’t really see what you entered (and there’s no option to make it visible, as far as I can tell), and the final result is only shown when you press =. The confusion arises because a user’s mental model may not correspond to the hidden model used for the computation.

All this is to say that hidden states often break #UX expectations. Making hidden state visible goes a long way to remove confusion (see how PCalc does it in the second image).

11011110, 2 months ago to random

Here's an example of why it's important to base Wikipedia's mathematics content on published sources rather than going by your intuition. Wikipedia has an article on the classification of manifolds, topological spaces that look "locally" like Euclidean spaces, in the sense that each point has a neighborhood within which the topology is the same as a Euclidean space: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Classification_of_manifolds&oldid=169151396

From 2007 until very recently this article has said that there are only two connected 1-dimensional manifolds: the circle and the line. You can draw other curves, of course, but they will be topologically equivalent to one or the other of these two spaces.

But this is wrong! There are two more possibilities, the long line (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_line_(topology)) obtained by gluing together an uncountable number of copies of a unit interval, and a line-like space obtained by gluing together an ordinary real ray and a long ray. See Frolík (1962), "On the classification of 1-dimensional manifolds", https://hdl.handle.net/10338.dmlcz/142137

You might think that just as there is more than one line, there might be more than one long line, obtained by gluing together sets of intervals of different cardinalities. But no, it stops here: apparently only the smallest uncountable ordinal works as a gluing pattern. Anything else would have a limit point where more than countably many unit intervals appear in every neighborhood, and that limit point is not locally Euclidean.

Teri_Kanefield, 2 months ago to random

I took some time to think about the Ronna McDaniel hiring and firing.

The result is that I have written another blog post that has me going against the current.

https://terikanefield.com/the-ronna-mcdaniel-story/

If you get the error message, wait a minute and try again. It's Mastodon's fault! This doesn't happen with any other platforms.

Some news: I may be back in Nevada doing voter protection work with the Nevada Democrats after several cycles in Georgia. A little closer to home.

stroughtonsmith, 2 months ago to random

If Apple is dumb enough to start leaving markets in which it can't follow the law, it's not gonna have many markets left.

Apple’s one trade (or otherwise) war away from losing access to China. It would be colossally stupid to voluntarily leave a western market for the sake of one man's ego.

Apple's OS build process is overseen by Ireland. It has consumer apps teams in France. The iTunes infrastructure itself is run out of Cork, last I checked

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2024/03/28/profit-at-apples-irish-subsidiary-rise-in-2023/
https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/112181945483592226

annmlipton, 2 months ago to random

"'We live in a world in which people are afraid to speak the truth,' Mr. Ackman said. 'I’ve gotten calls from some of the most prominent people in the world who say, "I wish I could say what you’re saying."'"

The lurkers support him in email.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/24/business/bill-ackman.html

shoq, 2 months ago to random

@dangillmor is one of the only journalists on any platform that consistently points out stories that journalists should be covering. I keep thinking that “reporting on reporting, and reporting on what needs reporting,” can and should be key activity of decentralized social networking. Because it sure won’t be anywhere else.

markmetz, 3 months ago to vinyl

Time to keep on truckin'! Last vinyl-spinning show for a while, maybe a month or so, hope you can tune in tonight! 8-? PST

Listen live right here:
https://MarkMetz.Mixlr.com (audio-only)

LP #CoverArt in a thread below this post.

Please 'follow' on Mixlr and download the app to get notifications when I go live.

DJ
#Vinyl
#Mixlr
#LiveStream
#NowPlaying
#VinylRecords
#VinylCollection
#LateNightSatellite
@vinylrecords

video/mp4

drahardja, 3 months ago to datascience

This is an incredibly good video on the phenomenon popularly known as “the hum”—a constant low-frequency noise that about 2% of people hear.

#dataScience #acoustics #psychoacoustics #video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy_ctHNLan8

matt, 3 months ago to random

I tried switching to Safari today on my Mac and I've had more issues with the 1Password extension today than I have in the past 2 years using it in Chromium browsers. I instantly get why Safari users aren't pleased with the 1P8 upgrade :spinner:

Genuinely feels like using a totally different extension…bummer.

DenisCOVIDinfoguy, 3 months ago to auscovid19

🇺🇸US: CDC urges actively infectious COVID-19 patients to return to work and school.

"The CDC’s policy change is being implemented under conditions in which COVID-19 is circulating at a higher level than at the same time during any previous year of the pandemic and under conditions in which all restrictions of the spread of the virus have been dropped"

#COVID19US #CDC #CCOVIDisNotOver @auscovid19

Source: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/03/04/drxv-m04.html

drahardja, 3 months ago to Toyota

Very interesting to hear what #Toyota NA CEO Ted Ogawa has to say about #BEV investment in the US.

Essentially, Toyota is ignoring EPA guidelines about BEV mix and focusing entirely on customer demand, and they will not make BEVs in numbers higher than expected demand lest they waste their resources.

Toyota’s now-well-known reticence in jumping into the BEV bandwagon, preferring to sell #PHEVs instead, may prove to be the better bet. The EPA is likely to reduce their mandate for 50% BEV new car sales by 2030. If they do, then Toyota’s strategy would have been proven right.

(Article is paywalled, but video is viewable)

#ev #cars

“Toyota's Ted Ogawa: Better to buy credits than ‘waste' EV investment”

https://www.autonews.com/executives/toyota-na-ceo-ted-ogawa-us-ev-demand-will-be-30-2030

lauren, 3 months ago to random

More on AT&T nationwide mobile outage

Various media services are confused about this. Some are reporting 70,000 people out -- it's actually apparently the entire nationwide network, but that number of people have apparently complained officially so far on support forums I'm told. There are some reports that other mobile carriers are out, these are not true -- ONLY AT&T is out.

911 continues to tell people to use LANDLINES!

Dear California CPUC, do you understand now the risks that AT&T is trying to force down our throats by ending landlines?

drahardja, 3 months ago to cars

“"Right now, we're competing with Mercedes and Porsche. When [their planned $50k midsize car] comes out, we're going after Tesla Model Y and Model 3," [Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson] said, adding that he expects Lucid's total addressable market to increase 20 times.”

That speaks volumes about Lucid’s current addressable market, i.e. a very tiny niche.

Lucid make a huge error by releasing one expensive high-performance sedan after another, when the market clearly wants low-cost crossovers and SUVs (yeah, I hate them too, but that’s what people pay for). I don’t think a cheaper midsize car will do them wonders either. They need a cheap crossover/SUV.

“Rivian, Lucid's 2024 production targets disappoint as EV demand wanes”

#cars #evs

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/rivian-forecasts-annual-production-well-below-estimates-2024-02-21/

aardvark, 3 months ago to random

“Most of the stuff the EU Commission has been trying to enact over the past few years has been declared illegal.”

European Human Rights Courts Rules That Encryption Backdoors Are Illegal Under European Law https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/21/european-human-rights-courts-rules-that-encryption-backdoors-are-illegal-under-eu-law/

TPOHolmes, 4 months ago to random

I was having some oat milk when I realized the mug I’m drinking from is 30 years old.

CelloMomOnCars, 4 months ago to Virginia

Dominion wind project gets final 2 permits

"The facility, 25 miles in the Atlantic off the #VirginiaBeach Oceanfront, will have 176 turbines capable of generating enough electricity to power up to 660,000 homes.

The more than $9 billion project is due to come on line in 2026."

#Virginia #OffshoreWind
https://richmond.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/dominion-energy-offshore-wind-virginia-beach/article_70be5e70-bf7f-11ee-a0d1-2baecbf317bd.html