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New comment by noodles_nomore in "Deutschlandticket: Germany’s €49 ticket pushes passenger numbers up 25%"

noodles_nomore — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 18:03:39 +0000

Haltet euch da raus. Euer Circus geht mich nichts an. Wenn ihr mir einen Gefallen tun wollt, seid einfach ehrlich mit eurem Boss. Ich muss jetzt lernen.

So sehr ich auch dankbar dafür bin, dass ihr mich über Kevin informiert habt (wenn das denn überhaupt wahr ist), tut mir Leid, aber ihr habt euch das selber eingebrockt.

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Ask HN: For advice: I'm a mathematician looking for a plan B outside of academia"

noodles_nomore — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 13:47:41 +0000

I'd expect that any kind of logistics would need tight bounds on min-max 'performance', and not be up to the whims of artificial stupidity. Am I wrong?

New comment by noodles_nomore in "How too much daydreaming affected me"

noodles_nomore — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:51:40 +0000

Please explain how you made this connection.

Don't Learn Value from Society

noodles_nomore — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 14:57:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/07/13/dont-learn-your-values-from-society/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36835933

Points: 18

# Comments: 23

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Ask HN: What is the most memorable game you played?"

noodles_nomore — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:05:34 +0000

Desktop Dungeons blows my mind because it is so incredibly well balanced and I have no idea how it can be. It's a puzzly kind of "coffee break roguelike." It marries an emphasis on the puzzly aspect of gameplay (e.g. enemies don't move) to the typical rogue-like fashion of explosive combinatoric possibility in a perfect way that just doesn't make sense. The result is that you'll often find yourself looking at impossible-seeming situations and still finding a way through. I've not had as much relief-extacy with any other game, including adrenaline-trembling hands, despite -- or maybe because of -- the fact that it's entirely turn-based.

Don't Learn Value from Society

noodles_nomore — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 13:10:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/07/13/dont-learn-your-values-from-society/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36771569

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Schizoid Personality Disorder"

noodles_nomore — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 21:23:20 +0000

Thanks for posting this. It's better than I remember.

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Turning Joe Rogan down was the right thing to do"

noodles_nomore — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 16:44:58 +0000

Refusing a good faith debate with an audience of millions of people is silly. Insisting that a good faith debate has to be done in real time is silly. The only salvation for this rotten society is a return to literacy.

New comment by noodles_nomore in "US Patent Office proposes rule to make it much harder to kill bad patents"

noodles_nomore — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:38:28 +0000

The legal system is a game that is played for profit. Being able to sue anyone for anything is advantageous for the big dogs. So it's imperative that as many laws as possible cover as much seemingly innocuous human conduct as possible with the highest stakes possible. Unrestricted expansion of intellectual property, the ability to lay claim to arbitrary regions of the ideosphere, makes perfect sense.

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Killing Community"

noodles_nomore — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:11:39 +0000

That's exactly right. You've been successfully filtered.

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft"

noodles_nomore — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 20:21:49 +0000

I can't believe Microsoft would do this, *huff* *puff*. What an outrage!

How I Experience Web Today

noodles_nomore — Mon, 29 May 2023 16:55:26 +0000

Article URL: https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36115671

Points: 50

# Comments: 17

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

noodles_nomore — Mon, 29 May 2023 14:19:43 +0000

In the 90s people worked really hard to draft up universal standards of what makes UI usable and intuitive. Most of it tends to be ignored nowadays. Try teaching an old person how to use a smart phone some time. Just some bullet points:

* Apps feel generally disorganized. Buttons are unlabled. Many things are hidden somewhere between layers of unlabled buttons. In the past you could count on the menu bar giving you quick access to anything.

* Lack of functionality / composability. Avoidance of the file system. Tunnel menus that you have to take one step at a time.

* Every program has UI that works and looks differently, made worse because even the same programs redesign their own UI periodically.

* Flat design. Lack of 'affordances'. Buttons don't look like buttons, draggable things don't look like they're draggable. E.g. scroll bars in the past had this serration to suggest interaction. This leads to hidden features and surprises, where things that seem like static images suddenly hide important functionality.

* Lack of configurability. Configurable Toolbars, arrangeable view panes, tabs etc. And unnecessary limits even when you can configure things. Like, Firefox only has a list of preset zoom levels, to get finer zoom levels you have to go into about:config. Or the fact that it limits the size of tabs to a rather large minimum. For no reason at all.

* Lack of consistent (or even discoverable) keyboard navigation. Rebinding short cuts is not a thing anyone seems to care about anymore.

* Readability, use of space. This applies more to the web, but grey text, ultra-narrow columns, inconsistent scaling.

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

noodles_nomore — Mon, 29 May 2023 13:39:53 +0000

The article tries really hard to avoid the thing everyone outside this field seems to know: Concurrent with this 15 year golden age, UX has become universally terrible.

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Dreams are the default for intelligence"

noodles_nomore — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 23:40:14 +0000

I had chronic sleep paralysis for many years. One thing I eventually figured out is that I still had control over my breathing, and I could hyper-ventilate myself awake. Sleep pararalysis then stopped either because I aquired that skill or because I stopped eating gluten.

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Algebraic Path Finding"

noodles_nomore — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:56:38 +0000

'Dynamic Programming' has to be the worst name for a concept in all of computer science. I can never remember what it refers to. Then, now and then, I come across something interesting that makes it seem like a big deal, look it up, roll my eyes and immediately forget it again.

One Half a Manifesto (2000)

noodles_nomore — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 08:36:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.edge.org/conversation/jaron_lanier-one-half-a-manifesto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35300681

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Futures of Text (2015)

noodles_nomore — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:35:00 +0000

Article URL: https://whoo.ps/2015/02/23/futures-of-text

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35287699

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Block loses 20% of value as Hindenburg Research alleges fraud"

noodles_nomore — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:43:46 +0000

facilitate: 1. To make easy or easier. From French faciliter, from Latin facilis ("easy").

New comment by noodles_nomore in "Associations between infant screen use, EEG markers, and cognitive outcomes"

noodles_nomore — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:28:15 +0000

What you're describing is a dopamine rush. I get the same thing when I watch videos of games I was addicted to once. It's not the device itself that causes it.

As a counter-experience: I'm over thirty and only got a modern smartphone a few years ago. The thing is awful. The touch interface is finicky, even after long use. Holding the thing for an extended amount of time is uncomfortable, even after long use. UI design seems universally terrible. All the apps I tried were disorganized and didn't quite serve the purpose I had expected, but they did always give me way too many unlabeled buttons and random pop-ups to tap, and asked for my money/attention every few minutes. The Android OS is obscurantic and loves to give you completely meaningless things to tap: "Tap here to optimize your device", like fucking what? I downloaded a game that appealed to me with loot boxes and sexy characters, but after an initial "wow, phone hardware has come a long way," the novelty wore off very quickly. Frankly, I now loathe the thing. The amount of frustration I've had with it, and the idea that it will just become ever more mandatory as every asshole company and government office loves the idea of shoving you through exactly, for their purposes, calibrated UI that you can't control or argue with -- it outweighs any positive experience I've had from it by a large factor. I don't feel any magic feel-good screen powers, only irritation.