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New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

DomenicoMazza — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:45:19 +0000

This change would go against multiple consumer guarantees in Australia where it's 1) a right to have undisturbed possession of a product 2) products must be fit for the advertised purpose https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-servic... Microsoft would be breaking consumer law if the change goes ahead for the perpetual licenses they sold in Australia

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)"

DomenicoMazza — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 02:38:08 +0000

This I can get behind. It takes out the redundant or poorly structured rules that accumulate over time when writing CSS. It doesn't modify the style.

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "KernType – A Letter Spacing Game"

DomenicoMazza — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:19:22 +0000

An interesting game! Something to note is letters in typefaces are usually kerned in pairs—meaning when you tackle all the tricky pairs in a typeface, most problems are gone, such as when an angular letter meets a round one e.g. wo or a capital letter like an umbrella meeting most lowercase letters e.g. To, and some uppercase e.g TA. A lot of the 'problems' to solve in this game just wouldn't happen.

If you were to tweak the game to build typography skills it'd be about pairs and you would have to look at the typeface at different sizes. In addition there are poorly kerned typefaces out there which show what happens when no or little kerning exists. You'll find all the common places kerning is required.

Also would be fun to consider ligatures (joined letter pairs e.g. fl) that are possible too. A more stylistic way to deal with spacing between letters.

In short, cute game. Not quite a real-world practice tool!

Edit: the best version of this game would be to make a (or edit an open license) typeface :D and kern it

Show HN: HTML Simple Publishing (HSP) – Neat Web Publications

DomenicoMazza — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 11:24:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/domenicomazza/HSP

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30598744

Points: 3

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New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Follow boring advice"

DomenicoMazza — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 11:40:10 +0000

You can consider emotions as a compass. I have found it useful to listen to them, to figure out their cause. We will carry emotions our whole lives, ‘changing’ them doesn’t bring about the insight to actually deal with them. I recommend looking to resources like ‘It’s Not Always Depression’ by Hilary Jacobs Hendel

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Mise-en-place for knowledge workers"

DomenicoMazza — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 06:04:18 +0000

The take home from the analogy is to follow a process where delegation and hierarchy is key for efficiency. This benefits all kinds of work. Delegation or setting the right roles in a team (where possible, or making it happen) is better than half-assing or trying to do everything. I don't think there's anything admirable in being unavailable or losing opportunities to complete work due to inefficiencies that can be avoided with a bit more trust distributed throughout a team.

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Show HN: Geelong Digital Outdoor Museum (GDOM)"

DomenicoMazza — Fri, 02 Jul 2021 05:45:44 +0000

:^) the image resolution of the LiDAR camera we used (a Leica BLK360) is only 15MP... if we didn't need the LiDAR for stitching and mesh accuracy outdoors we could have used a higher resolution camera!

Show HN: Geelong Digital Outdoor Museum (GDOM)

DomenicoMazza — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 06:15:12 +0000

Article URL: https://gdom.mindlab.cloud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685498

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

How Amsterdam Became a Bicycle Paradise

DomenicoMazza — Fri, 26 Mar 2021 23:42:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbRL6Opifg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26598340

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Why updating DNS is slow"

DomenicoMazza — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 03:37:38 +0000

Hmm.. now I realise that 'live' in 'time to live' is 'live' as in 'life', not 'live' in the 'going live' sense ... It's the record's cache time! Engineering/techy acronyms are a bad place for homographs...

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "The Joys of Being a Stoic"

DomenicoMazza — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:05:43 +0000

I love stoicism. I see the correlation to CBT, i.e. being in control of one's self rather than trying to control a world which is best to accept as it is. However CBT from my perspective is a very high level way of 'managing' emotions, a band aid fix if you will. You notice negative thought patterns and try to quash them. Personally I'm a greater fan of AEDP which is a lower level approach of 'accepting' core emotions to resolve traumas and begin to unpack unhelpful thought patterns. 'It's not always depression' by Hillary Jacobs Hendel was my entry point to AEDP.

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "How to say no, for the people pleaser who always says yes"

DomenicoMazza — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 12:55:37 +0000

Yes we need to have boundaries but a part of me thinks the popularity of 'not being a people pleaser' is in the label 'people pleaser' and its negative connotation. I set boundaries and listen to my needs but also make a habit of doing good things for others... not for my own self-agrandising or relieving myself of guilt but to set the EXAMPLE of what is good and how I would like to be treated—I don't really care about people's perception of me unless it has some logical argument to it and a lesson in it. Today I felt like getting in touch with people I haven't caught up with in a while and it was great.. it's part of my character.. I like to feel connected. I am upset by the number of transnational people out there that only hold space for you (well try to hold space) when they need you. In short.. understanding your boundaries is good.. BUT making a habit of not being a label.. a perception that sharing your goodness is some wicked thing that saps you of energy.. maybe think carefully if a boundary is being crossed or not first. Some people do gain pleasure from doing good for others. I've certainly learned from going too far with kindness for my perception but that's how you find your boundary and way to being truly sincere.

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Australia is doubling fees for arts degrees"

DomenicoMazza — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:36:23 +0000

Wow what a false generalisation. As an academic across communication design and IT (i.e. humanities v science) I will say you are wrong. I have seen disengaged students across both major areas. It's not discipline specific and it not just the quality of degrees. Consider the readiness of students.

I completed a year long TAFE (TAFE is technical school, 5 days a week) like foundation course prior to studying communication design at university because I originally began a degree I quit after two weeks and it was too late to restart another degree. Myself (and other students) that competed this foundation year had a major advantage. We already learned the basic tools we would need and practiced concept development so university for us was a better space for us to learn an experiment. Considering teaching contact hours a year in a TAFE is like two in a uni. Guess what! This foundation course which ran for more than 20 years lost its public funding. Furthermore, the degree I had to apply a portfolio to enter now takes in much more students with no portfolio and more or less similar amount of full-time staff with casuals picking up the rest.

The problem is multi-faceted. The honest truth is any coalition government (this is the Aus Liberal Party for U.S. folk reading) is ideologically hell bent on removing public support of anything they can. On top of that they load other ideologies about the humanities being less important than the sciences. I'd start by not commodifying tertiary education and giving students the opportunity to explore and discover their flair with smaller and richer courses before going to uni.

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "ActivityPub Could Be the Future"

DomenicoMazza — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 06:46:40 +0000

To use your town square metaphor.. the pavement and the upkeep is paid by taxes.. so can our ISPs charge a bit extra to block advertising and data collection for us while we pay for online services that we use?

I don't think we are screwed.. so long as we talk about and create better experiences people will see better possibilities and options. I just feel like we have a soup of platforms provided as services and open standards for communication platforms have been left in the lurch for a bit. When's RCS messaging rolling out? When was the last update to RSS to include commenting, tagging or broadcast? Where's the ability to reliably host video on your own server without uploading it somewhere else?

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "How the design of a WWII plane led to the concept of user friendliness (2019)"

DomenicoMazza — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 03:28:49 +0000

Modern to me is novelty + usefulness. Touchscreens are modern when they do something better than an alternative. From a design perspective they’re great for dynamic display that requires (or benefits from) input... from a business view they save money on mechanical interfaces and can be used to offer new services to make money—this works out for users about as much as it doesn’t. I guess automakers are seeking to carve out a balance to stay ahead. Mechanical interfaces might come back as a retro luxury feature!

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "How the design of a WWII plane led to the concept of user friendliness (2019)"

DomenicoMazza — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:34:17 +0000

Touchscreens have their place but not to replace controls you can activate by feel alone and access with less distraction.

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "How the design of a WWII plane led to the concept of user friendliness (2019)"

DomenicoMazza — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:20:21 +0000

Paul Fitts mentioned in the article came up with Fitts’ Law to describe selection difficulty as a relationship between target size and distance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitts%27s_law

While reading I had a feeling Fitts was well known for something!

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Boom supersonic jet readies for rollout"

DomenicoMazza — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 23:32:31 +0000

If I recall correctly the Concorde used about 2 tonnes of fuel rolling on the ground alone.. I wonder how this new aircraft fares for fuel consumption?

I believe the Concorde is a marvel. You could travel faster than the rotation of the earth in it! However I don’t think we need more environmentally unsustainable travel.

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Digital Psychology"

DomenicoMazza — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 08:47:18 +0000

I don't really click with what you're saying. It sounds like a riddle to me.

To be clearer I could have said 'the only good reason'. Implying any other use that I can think of (while lucrative) is nefarious.

New comment by DomenicoMazza in "Digital Psychology"

DomenicoMazza — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 12:42:26 +0000

Possibly, they might also think the only purpose or use of psychology is for that effect. I'm studying psychology in my spare time and it is an amazing tool for unlocking human potential. The only reason to know about 'dark patterns' is to grow up and find better ways to capture value through digital media by actually doing something for the user.