The chances of being struck by lightning are exceedingly slim. But if you're venturing out on a mountain top in early summer your odds skyrocket. So shouldn't we widely inform people who are doing so of the dangers and what to be aware of?
I would've loved to have been a fly on the wall throughout the various discussions as this idea made its way across the Apple org.
That this was the dominant topic during the keynote of their annual developer event doesn't seem to bode well for the state of the ecosystem. Especially combined with how cutting the sarcasm was for the new version numbering and new macOS name announcement(s).
*facepalm* You're correct. I misread it every time, including the first time I scanned your comment. (A truly strange experience since that is not a common occurrence for me. I simply never saw a "v" there.)
You complain about oversimplification, then in the same breath complain about "random political stuff" being included. How is that not hypocritical, at best? This medical breakthrough would literally have not been possible without "politics". Get your head out of the sand. No one should be able to escape learning how their politics affects them or the society they are a part of. And if you want to enjoy the benefits of that society, then you don't get to complain about being reminded of how those benefits were achieved.
Pandering to people's fragile political sensibilities is how the U.S. got to this point where millions of citizens voted against their own self-interest because they thought candidates running on anti-intellectual, anti-science platforms was worth the zero sum "win".
Enjoy your weekends, eight hour workdays, clean air, and clean water—whether you like that those were all political or not!
Do you think katabasis' proposal is unhealthy for a society? It strikes me as healthy for parents to keep their kids at ideological home during an information pandemic, to provide access to educational material and shelter from social media.
> Weird is a brand new thing, but: Think of it as if WordPress and Notion had a Linktree-shaped baby. That is to say, a WordPress-type website engine with the editing experience of Notion and the simplicity of Linktree.
I really dislike the Wordpress ecosystem and I find Notions popularity baffling as it has been a really terrible experience for me when other people use it and send their Notion documents to me as requirements documents. So, not me?
> Aside from what I called out in my sibling comment these two are pretty snide to me
- "Snide" is subjective.
- It's a blog post not a news article or scholarly report.
- The topic is a business run by people who ostensibly make decisions based on their faith to justify actions which cause various harm to others. Taking a critical view of those actions and the motivations is reasonable.
A snide comment is one that disparages or belittles another person, so I don't think it can be subjective.
Edit add:
I find this entire line of reasoning to be odd:
>It's a blog post not a news article or scholarly report. - The topic is a business run by people who ostensibly make decisions based on their faith to justify actions which cause various harm to others. Taking a critical view of those actions and the motivations is reasonable.
I am being asked to take a critical look at Hobby Lobby, the reasons are outlined in the linked Substack. However, if I have any questions or criticisms of the Substack article, please note that it is not a professional work it is just a guy with a microphone.
If I can't trust the source material, how can I trust the claims?
One person's "disparagement" is another's valid criticism. You can see this come up constantly in lawsuits.
All I'm saying is it's a random site on the internet for a person who is a "Certified Bonafide Expert of Miscellanea"—no one is asking you to "trust the source material". If you think that aspects of the post bring into question the validity of the point being made, that's your right. I just think it's a weird expectation. The author even speaks to that:
https://substack.com/@meghanboilard/note/c-102976235
This reminds me of the time a few years ago when mind mapping sites and apps exploded into popularity among the... "technorati" and sort of slightly seep into the wider online awareness but then seemingly, just as quickly, disappear into the background noise of the internet (I'm terminally online to a degree, especially when it comes to tech news—and have a pretty decent general awareness of pop culture trends—and can't recall having seen the topic referenced since the trend faded. But perhaps I'm just not in the right circles?)
None of these mind map, zoom first interfaces actually help with creating a global understanding.
People take an occasionally helpful "view" for navigating items and then mistakenly believe it should be turned into an active interface for creation and editing.
Graph/Mindmap views should only ever be a view and maybe a linking layer for nested text lists, actively operating in these interfaces is worse for global understanding and systems thinking.
I suspect this is because mind maps don't actually map to how our brain stores information.
Visual programming and even tools like KNIME work for stepwise workflow creation but they are not a good UI for new thinking, it's too much UI for novel idea generation and brainstorming, these interfaces are also useful for quickly understanding a DB structure.
That's why they never take off and remain a niche tool for the small number of people who have brain structures that find them useful or are willing to bend themselves to an arbitrary interface.
https://www.cdc.gov/lightning/data-research/index.html