thelogicguy's comments

This is consistent with photo licensing, which is often scaled based on the potential number of viewers for both print and digital.

holy shit its adg, hope you're doing well brother

- ann

To be fair, asking the question is a bit of a waste of time as well

Genuine question: people use encryption to commit crimes. Should encryption be illegal?

I get nervous just pushing updates to my stupid little website. I simply cannot imagine.

This was more relevant before CC but I still tend to include EPS in exports as a fallback option.

For the aliens, the right image has much more realistic gradation. The one on the right looks like the grays have been crushed out of it. There's also a funky glow coming from the right edge of the alien.

I'd say the blur effects on the left images are much cleaner as well. There are some weird artifacts at the fringes of objects in the earlier version.

I feel like you could strip down a UI, stick a language model on a help menu and you'd be most of the way there with this already.

I have a minor hesitation here. The user inputs an endpoint, and the program is then supposed to connect a user with the tool to complete it. Solutions often have different ways of being reached with tradeoffs associated with each method.

Also, I wouldn't underestimate the ways in which, for some types of workers, the affordances of tools are part of the creative process. There's a way in which a product will be less thought through when the journey from conception to completion is cut short.

I don't necessarily disagree, but I think there's another way of seeing this here that goes: if some of your time is already accounted for by certain tasks, trying to regiment them out further ends up reinforcing the idea that you're losing time constantly. Scheduling out personal time in the same manner as working time pushes you to think about them in relative terms.

As a disclaimer, this is something I go back and forth on and I do tend to use time blocking myself because otherwise I find it hard to maintain direction over long periods of time.

I think what's missing from this is the ROI calculation. They see AI as having degraded quality compared to human authors, but the difference in quality doesn't produce enough profit to offset the cost of hiring a human staff.

Along with this, this type of hype conditions people to view the subject as a scam. The rampant comparisons to crypto are an example of it. People making those comparisons are largely talking about the people who talk about the technology rather than the technology itself.

This is the path I've been going down as well and frankly, I think that's pretty exciting.

This might be wishful thinking, but I'm coming to believe that AI like ChatGPT are capable of bringing out the absolutely worst qualities of massive social media sites and in that way might end up saving us from ourselves.

I think this is probably somewhat a pitfall of using this example as a lead.

Design rules like "fewer borders are better" don't tell the story well, but they're easy to teach people. It's harder and less grabby to say something like:

Over reliance on borders to separate types of content can lead to designs where contrast between elements is too sharp and it's harder to read through information. Designers should have a sense for information hierarchy and follow that through in their application. Have a point of view and use the visual design to express that. Tools you can use to create that hierarchy are things like borders, shadows, fills, scale, and space. Using all in concert, you can make a design that feels harmonious, but also allows users to freely navigate through the interface.

That advice is probably harder to grok, and isn't as punchy because it can't be used as a simple diagnostic (do we have fewer borders?), but it is realistic.

Personally I prefer Cthulucene https://www.e-flux.com/journal/75/67125/tentacular-thinking-...

A necessary conceit of the prisoner's dilemma is that they can't communicate, and therefore can't strategize together so that doesn't exactly apply here. It's just self preservation.