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New comment by diiaann in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

diiaann — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:14:32 +0000

After reading the article, my first thought was it is both Finney and Back posting under Satoshi. Others may have been involved too but not necessarily posting.

New comment by diiaann in "Sigma BF Camera"

diiaann — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:21:53 +0000

I think I’m a target customer? I don’t think this is rev for me but I think in the future I could be sold. I own an a7c because I value compactness. I was just in New Zealand and a lot of times I was pretty happy to take photos on my phone. As my purpose was to just be able to take an image in my head and translate that to an actual photo. There are definitely some shots that I needed a bit more technical setup which was great with the a7c but I really didn’t need nearly so many of the bells and whistles. I also don’t really want to have to edit in RAW, ideally I get a good enough image that I can just transfer to my phone and post straight to Instagram with little work.

New comment by diiaann in "Medieval"

diiaann — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 05:12:22 +0000

User research IFYKYK

New comment by diiaann in "The worst possible way to be rejected for a job"

diiaann — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 17:58:38 +0000

I think both phone call and Zoom call are worse than an automated email because 1) I have to find the time to be available for both and 2) More often than not I want to process in private.

A short, but still personalized email would be my preference. An offer to do a phone call or Zoom would also be humanizing but not necessary.

New comment by diiaann in "Balancing engineering cultures: Debate everything vs. just tell me what to build"

diiaann — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 03:48:24 +0000

The endless debates wear me out. Sometimes I just want the engineers to just do. It's labor for me to tell someone their idea is bad, both mentally and emotionally. At the beginning of the relationship, you have to engage in that labor to get people to trust you. But if it continues to break down, I try to figure out why and it's usually because another designer/PM were flippant in their choices.

New comment by diiaann in "InVision design collaboration services shutdown"

diiaann — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:07:10 +0000

About three years ago I joined a company that was on Sketch after working at a Figma company. I thought I was pretty tool agnostic but after starting work, I quickly realized how awful the Sketch workflow is.

It's awful collaborating and sharing files with Abstract. More and more plugins were unmaintained. And with the growth of WebGL, Figma was actually far speedier than Sketch. Sure if you're 1-2 person shop or a really big company with lots of specialized Sketch plugins, Sketch might be fine but on any other team are better off making the switch.

New comment by diiaann in "InVision design collaboration services shutdown"

diiaann — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 03:54:22 +0000

I completely agree with the above poster that Invision was trash at any real prototyping. When it came out, Axure and Justinmind had already had sophisticated control flow logic. It did have a sleeker commenting system and most people I knew were too lazy to make more robust prototypes.

New comment by diiaann in "“The most beautiful of all printed books,” the Kelmscott Chaucer"

diiaann — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:02:26 +0000

Wait, I thought an original was already digitized: http://www.rarebookroom.org/Control/chkwks/index.html

New comment by diiaann in "Healing of acute ACL tear on MRI following non-surgical bracing protocol [pdf]"

diiaann — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 03:14:14 +0000

The only thing that's tough about this approach is you work hard at physical therapy but still you end up being the percentage that still needs surgery. Then once you get surgery you have to start all over again. I delayed ACLR personally because of a multi ligament tear and the toughest part was the burnout of starting back up again after surgery.

New comment by diiaann in "The UX Research Reckoning is Here"

diiaann — Tue, 30 May 2023 15:17:54 +0000

I graduated from a HCI program and the problem I continue to see is we turn to UXR in all situations of indecisiveness and not necessarily when it makes sense. UXR is best applied to situations when you have little room to be wrong. It also matters what you are trying to research, not everything lends itself to being researched. In Silicon Valley these past years, companies could be afford to be wrong all the time, whether it was because of overall usefulness or the fact they could afford to throw developer resources.

New comment by diiaann in "How to sell tickets fairly"

diiaann — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 06:19:01 +0000

I went to Roland Garros and this is how they did it. You also were allowed to return the ticket to the pool and the event resold it at face value.

New comment by diiaann in "Newer, better sunscreens have not been approved by the FDA"

diiaann — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:51:03 +0000

In the article it briefly mentions L’Oreal. They have a patent on another set of filters mexoryl and mexoryl xl, both are great and allowed by the FDA. You can buy it with their La Roche Posay brand.

New comment by diiaann in "I've used all the notebooks"

diiaann — Sun, 01 May 2022 05:31:54 +0000

Also good! I'm a designer that doodles so I prefer no rules.

New comment by diiaann in "I've used all the notebooks"

diiaann — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 21:44:50 +0000

I love the Leuchtturm but I find that I too like something more disposable. My preference now is the Kokuyo Dot Grid which you can get in a spiral bound or loose pages.

See: https://stationerymanor.com/collections/kokuyo/products/koku...

New comment by diiaann in "What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast"

diiaann — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 19:59:16 +0000

Not having a big company signed is not inherently bad. Going after small business can be a valid strategy (i.e. Salesforce) but it sounds like there wasn't healthy growth or the right relationships to support this path.

New comment by diiaann in "Why not hire part-time developers?"

diiaann — Sun, 27 Feb 2022 19:55:10 +0000

I've worked with part time developers. Sometimes it works really well, sometimes it doesn't.

If someone wants to work part time with you and don't have any other contracts, they rarely want to do work during predictable hours. If they get blocked outside of business hours, it's ideal if you have someone who can unblock them when they happen to be working. Or you could also work out on some predetermined working hours.

New comment by diiaann in "How bad is my gas stove?"

diiaann — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 08:11:01 +0000

My gas stove has an XLO mode, it actually will cycle on and off automatically. Makes a little clicking noise, but it's very effective for the lowest of simmers.

New comment by diiaann in "How bad is my gas stove?"

diiaann — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 08:10:17 +0000

I can sympathize with the desire to have gas but what I can't accept is people who want massive BTU stoves with inadequate ventilation or worse none. Honestly, I'm surprised that a lot of building codes are so lax.

My preferred setup would be 4 induction burners with one or two gas burners. I understand if you have a house without gas, it does't feel worthwhile to just have one or two burners. Induction would be the daily drivers, i.e. boiling water. The gas would for occasions where I want tighter heat control or want to use a pot/pan that doesn't work with induction.

New comment by diiaann in "Novak Djokovic's Visa Cancelled by Australian Minister for Immigration"

diiaann — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 08:21:12 +0000

Djokovic won the original challenge on procedural grounds that the process was incorrect, not that his exemption/documentation was valid. He was never exculpated. And let's not forget that Djokovic screwed this up for himself.

New comment by diiaann in "Tetr.io"

diiaann — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 05:50:30 +0000

Too much shaking in spectating, I'm actually getting motion sick.