FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris
To be fair they always say that. Everybody gets the "one time exception."
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FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
What's the trigger for sending the email?
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Megalopolis is baffling and plainly nuts but worth it
Is this post about the movie or about you?
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system
Interesting, I'm not sure that colorblindness can be severe enough for that to be a problem. I'm red/green colorblind, but I have no issue with stoplights or LEDs. Things onlystart to get hairy once the spectrum shifts closer to the browns such as forest green or burnished slate.
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Law enforcement is spying on Americans' mail, records show
I would rather live in a society where a "selfish person" still has an obligation to do the right thing and turns in an insane homicidal maniac rather than one where John Doe decides he has no obligation to save people's lives because Bob the psychopath happens to be his brother.
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Jike: The obscure social media app beloved by China's tech scene
Tell me you've never used a platform without bot moderation without telling me you've never used a platform without bot moderation.
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
Simple example: Android has a airplane mode toggle in the notification tray, iPhone does not. No surprise that once I put my elderly family on iPhones all problems of accidently enabling airplane mode magically went away.
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
This type of comment gets downvoted because its right on the border of incoherent rambling. You say there's no ux difference for the elderly between iPhones and Androids, I say you're dead wrong. I've invariably become the IT guy for most of my extended family, and all of the elderly members found an iPhone easier to manage. Once I got one of them to switch, they convinced the rest.
Your argument is basically pure conjecture, everyone in the thread was talking about their personal experience with elderly family members. And your argument is there is no difference between the two devices, based on surveys for the usage percentage of TikTok? Are you kidding me? Has the thought not occured to you that elderly people might be a minority and outlier in such a survey?
Even granting that 90% of elderly screen time is spent watching TikTok, that does absolutely nothing to prove your claim that there is no difference between Android or iPhone for this purpose. Someone above mentioned a simple example of the differences between the two. Androids have an airplane mode toggle in their notification tray while iPhones don't. This is pretty much the sole reason for elderly Android users constantly turning on airplane mode, a problem which is almost nonexistent with iPhone users.
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: How to manage phones and PCs for elderly parents?
1. It's your notification tray, you know, the thing that's been default behavior of swiping down on smartphones since their inception.
2. It's not one side or the other either. It used to be that anywhere you swiped down opened the notification tray. Now only the right side has a different effect, opening control center. The notification tray still takes over two-thirds of the swipe-down space at the top.
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: No one buys books
Terribly ironic of you to want to divert library funds to homeless when the homeless are some of the most faithful users of libraries in major cities. Homeless aid organizations even base their programs around libraries.
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Equinox.space
Space Station 13 is a much deeper take on a similar premise.
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: How to colorize Game Boy games – Backgrounds
Yeah, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek. What does it mean for a book to endorse making color illustrations of it's content? Why is the lack of endorsement for color illustrations in the Bible noteworthy when explicit endorsement for illustration is not really something we expect from any book.
FrontierProject | 1 year ago | on: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026
This was one of the foundational points of Gnosticism in early Christianity. It's worth noting that this position is considered heresy by most of the major established branches of Christian tradition.
FrontierProject | 2 years ago | on: Our Super-Secret Plan to Bring the Internet Back (Part 1)
I can personally say that this single image would preclude me from recommending this platform to 95% of my social circle.
FrontierProject | 2 years ago | on: How to colorize Game Boy games – Backgrounds
Do all the other illustrated books endorse the practice?
FrontierProject | 2 years ago | on: OpenAI and Elon Musk
You underestimate the amount of people who don't at all care whether or not their stroller goes splat as long as they're on asphalt they like the feel of.
FrontierProject | 2 years ago | on: Satoshi – Sirius emails 2009-2011
> You will literally be a living cult leader like no other in history. Think of all those BTC fanatics finally meeting their leader. See the way Elon fanatics follow Musk and multiply that by 100.
Didn't you just answer your own question? What sane person wants that?
FrontierProject | 2 years ago | on: Vision Pro Teardown – Why those fake eyes look so weird
MKBHD mentions in his review that the elastic strap is more of a marketing gimmick to make the headset look unique. The solo strap makes it really uncomfortable for long periods because all the pressure goes to the front of the face. They actually include a traditional double strap VR headband with it which is much more comfortable.
FrontierProject | 2 years ago | on: In loving memory of square checkbox
> Extra little borders defining window box corners from horizontal and vertical borders - a distinction that surely didn't need highlighting.
This actually designates an area where you can click and drag to resize the window. I'd argue that this behavior has become a ubiquitous expectation because of this design.
FrontierProject | 2 years ago | on: In loving memory of square checkbox
No.