Source: https://daverupert.com/2018/04/pitfalls-of-card-uis/
«In some ways this outcome is the opposite of what you were intending. You wanted a Card UI where everything was simple and uniform, but what you end up with is a CSS gallery website filled with baby websites.
The desire to reduce clicks increases complexity and raises the cognitive load.»
Wow….
Source: https://alis.me/x/everything-wrong-with-science-fiction-is-john-w-campbells-fault/
«Unfortunately, Lee Hardcastle’s Pingu’s The Thing aka THINGU may, in fact, be Campbell’s only decent contribution to the entire SFF genre; a nuclear-level take I will now attempt to nominally defend.»
Source: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1036343426797596672.html
(tl;dr: It’s not a matter of “getting them interested”. “They” are already interested. It’s a matter of not shutting folks out/down, and instead not assuming and just being nice/civil/respectful.)
https://beta.observablehq.com/@mbostock/world-airports-voronoi
Wow…. Thank you, Mastodon.
Ouch. But… at some point, we are responsible for our own actions. 😦
«The defense started to bring witnesses to the stand Wednesday, including Roy Oliver’s mother, Linda. She testified that her family was shattered when Oliver’s 3-year-old son, Tab, was diagnosed with autism. She asked the jury to consider the minimum sentence of five years, so Oliver could still be in his son’s life.
“But consider his son… he doesn’t need – my son was raised with a father in prison and deservedly so. That man deservedly needed to be in prison. And I know how hard it is to be a single mother,” Linda Oliver said.»
I saw this come across my radar screen a few days ago, but didn’t read it then, but it’s floated up again and I read it this time. Worthwhile. It’s not some gory thing that got done to an inmate, nor some piece of incredible cruelty on the part of the staff, but a sad glimpse into a part of life we don’t see very often.
Also, I’ve added this site to my NewBlur feed (which I rarely read, but at least it’ll be there).
Success has a thousand fathers.
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
This was a very interesting article I read recently. The claim is that modern CPU microchips are architected to present a fiction that they run the way CPUs (microcomputer CPUs, anyway) did 40+ years ago, and that said fiction has become very expensive to maintain.
Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-08-29/miami-s-other-water-problem
Seawater rise = groundwater rise.
«Lapointe adds that one of the ways researchers track septic-tank contamination is by tracking the levels of acetaminophen in the groundwater. “People’s medications are coming with that septic-tank effluent.”»
Mmmm, acetaminophen….
Sigh.
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/north-carolina-gerrymandering/568807/
«Federal judges have ruled—again—that the state’s congressional map is unconstitutional. But it just used that map to elect candidates for November.»
«In North Carolina, the certainty of more drama recalls an important issue that was highlighted by Judge James Wynn, who wrote for the panel’s majority. “We continue to lament that North Carolina voters now have been deprived of a constitutional congressional districting plan—and, therefore, constitutional representation in Congress—for six years and three election cycles,” he wrote. What does it mean for a state if three election cycles—potentially four—are considered invalid under the law? Is there any real recourse for voters who have been saddled with some form of illegitimate governance for most of the past decade?»
Here, Read This 