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New comment by davidivadavid in "Midjourney Medical"

davidivadavid — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:41:33 +0000

True, though those things don't have to be mutually exclusive.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Midjourney Medical"

davidivadavid — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:47:30 +0000

2 inches / sec * 60 sec = 120 inches = 10 ft ? It also doesn't seem like it scans your head from what I've seen.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Midjourney Medical"

davidivadavid — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:29:27 +0000

That's definitely an important point to consider, in fact something I think everyone in these conversations should be cognizant of, and also why it makes me believe the actual conversation should move to whether the device improves false positives/negatives rates or not (or at least has a chance to), which then might warrant wider access/use.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Midjourney Medical"

davidivadavid — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:18:17 +0000

That's basically the only thing I'm interested in reading about this. Based on my complete lack of radiology knowledge, I'd say the images look... a bit blurry or something? So, what would be an example of something this would not allow a radiologist/doctor to see?

Without those kinds of details, radiologists just expose themselves to: oh so you're telling me this doesn't work as well as the machines you paid ~millions of dollars for and are currently charging your clients a lot to use? Mmm I wonder why.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Magnifica Humanitas"

davidivadavid — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:50:45 +0000

That book cover goes so hard.

New comment by davidivadavid in "There are now more ETFs than stocks in the US"

davidivadavid — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:56:04 +0000

"There are more subsets of a set than elements."

New comment by davidivadavid in "Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms"

davidivadavid — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:42:40 +0000

Right. Because something is reducible, modulo a bunch of stuff you're not looking at, to a simplistic model, doesn't make it "just" that. Use of the word "just" is often a good tell you're about to read something naive.

New comment by davidivadavid in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

davidivadavid — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:21:37 +0000

Fun book that covers part of that, Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence. [0]

[0] https://www.urbanomic.com/book/machine-decision-is-not-final...

New comment by davidivadavid in "When Is "Next Friday"?"

davidivadavid — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:59:49 +0000

A similar confusion exists in French, but we have an extra locution, "en huit", to clarify when necessary. It's far from widely followed, however. Too bad, I would love it if "next" could just mean "next."

https://www.antidote.info/fr/blogue/enquetes/quand-est-ce-le...

New comment by davidivadavid in "French e, è, é, ê, ë – what's the difference?"

davidivadavid — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:02:52 +0000

French and English are roughly on par for how terrible they are at this.

Relevant concept here is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_depth

Source: native French speaker and professional translator.

New comment by davidivadavid in "The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter"

davidivadavid — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:45:11 +0000

If you want something a bit more "serious" on this, check out The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Bogna Konior. [0]

[0] https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-dark-fo...

New comment by davidivadavid in "Brutalist Southbank Centre Listed"

davidivadavid — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:15:45 +0000

Looking at Youtube videos of Barbican apartment visits for 15 minutes will tell you this poster is projecting quite a bit.

New comment by davidivadavid in "White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue""

davidivadavid — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:14:13 +0000

The number of tech or tech-adjacent people that have completely torched their reputation in the last few weeks is staggering. I hope they get publicly shamed.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Design Thinking Books (2024)"

davidivadavid — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:50:07 +0000

"Bible of design" might be a bit excessive. It's a good design 101 book. Definitely longer than it should be, and kind of fumbles the explanation of "affordances", which the author had to clarify later. It's representative of "design thinking" as a historically well-situated concept in design, but that's not necessarily a good thing in itself.

It really depends what you're looking for. If you want something deeper, more abstract, I would recommend going straight to something like Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander, which I think typically appeals to the more abstraction-oriented part of the mind of engineers. If you want to get more actionable, practical day to day recipes, Refactoring UI as suggested somewhere else in the thread is a decent suggestion.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump"

davidivadavid — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:51:41 +0000

It is sophistry because that's not the point. Of course there are things that matter more than awards. But pretending like there's some world where we're trading the integrity of awards to solve important problems is a laughable fantasy.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Impeccable Style"

davidivadavid — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:18:19 +0000

Works now! Another free suggestion: when you drag a bit fast, since the animation is a bit slow, sometimes the boundary between before/after will barely move before your cursor makes it to the edge and reset to the middle, which is a bit jarring / doesn't let me really see anything. Should either make the animation faster, or put the reset threshold outside of the container somehow.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Machado gives Nobel peace prize medal to Trump"

davidivadavid — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:08:14 +0000

It is sophistry. Common problem around here is that a lot of tech people are too busy thinking they're incredibly smart and always need to be playing 5D chess instead of being decent human beings. I hate to blame Paul Graham for that, but holy shit that /r/iamverysmart shit needs to stop.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Impeccable Style"

davidivadavid — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:49:46 +0000

Concept seems fun, and I'm expecting we'll see a bunch of those in the next few weeks/months. UX of that specific page seems broken, however, as the container for the explanation of each "function" doesn't scroll along with the rest of the content (stays stuck at the top) and makes it impossible to see.

New comment by davidivadavid in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

davidivadavid — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:37:19 +0000

I'm not intimately familiar with the UI/UX principles behind Liquid Glass so I could be wrong, but the main difference I see here is that in the second screenshot, on the Reeder app on the left, the "floating" section is used for emphasis on the main content area (right hand side), while in the Finder screenshot on the right, it's the navigation menu on the left that is floating, and brings unneeded emphasis to itself.

Looking at it for 30s, I still don't understand what Apple was trying to do. What am I supposed to believe happens to the table as it goes under that floating menu? It clearly doesn't seem to continue all the way to the left edge of the window. Why not? If not, why bother with that whole floating menu concept if the underlying content arbitrarily stops at the menu?

The most surprising part to me is how people keep calling that nonsense "skeuomorphic" when it doesn't replicate any kind of physical intuition known to mankind. It's just made up physics that looks dumb.

New comment by davidivadavid in "Craft software that makes people feel something"

davidivadavid — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:31:19 +0000

The point is that "normal users" don't care about niche hobbies in general either.