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Me: Bearded Zuck you have to stop. Your smoked meat's too tough. Your swag too different. Your open source LLM is too bad. they'll kill you
Bearded Zuck:
I am warning everyone to NOT buy one of these new Dyson cordless vacuums with the hard surface laser sight not because it’s a bad product but because it is so extremely good and addicting to find all the dirt that it makes you want to vacuum every goddamn day
NYT: Donald Trump watches 4-8 hours of TV per day, has trouble starting work before 9:30am, calls Gen. Kelly 12+ times per day, calls friends to brag about posting the “perfect tweet”, keeps 60” TV on during meetings and “hate-watches” Don Lemon on CNN.
Facebook wanted anonymized medical records from hospitals so they could hash it against Facebook profile data, effectively de-anonymizing it and linking it to real people. What in the everloving fuck is going on at Facebook?
Friend of mine used to do network security work for hedge funds and he told me one place he worked with bought access to satellite photos over the parking lots of all major retailers and then used ML to count the number of cars and could estimate quarterly earnings with precision
Just occurred to me that a general election debate between Trump and Andrew Yang would be pretty amazing. In contrast to Trump, Yang is so youthful and charismatic and energized and positive that it would be an unbelievable contrast.
My father-in-law is a builder. He is insanely gifted. We were looking at a pre-iOS 7 app together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to build it today. I will never forget his answer…
"We can’t, we don’t know how to do it."
They used 3D fucking software my god I've seen a dozen of these stupid ass engagement farming tweets all asking the same fucking question NO YOU CANT DO THIS IN FIGMA FOR FUCK SAKE ITS GOT A PARTICLE SYSTEM MY GOD OPEN YOUR EYES
Rep. Clyburn said that the intruders skipped over the office with his official nameplate on the door and went directly to the unmarked and unlisted office where he actually works. Which Republican gave out this information?
BREAKING: Rep. Mikie Sherrill said tonight that *members of Congress* led people through the Capitol on a "reconnaissance" mission one day before the riot. "I'm going to see they are held accountable, and if necessary, ensure they don't serve in Congress.”
Researcher created an algorithm that “removes water” from underwater imaging by reversing the water’s effects on light scattering. Really brilliant stuff.
Apple cooked so hard in their visionOS Figma file, here are some cool details:
1️⃣ Segmented Control edge effect uses a gradient stroke? Nope, that’s 4 Inner Shadows baby
2️⃣ Hover effect columnar mask with TWO radial gradient fills using COLOR DODGE blend mode 🔥
3️⃣ Search…
My god. The NRA donated $10,000 to support the shooting team that Nikolas Cruz was on where he learned how to shoot more accurately. The NRA literally made the Parkland shooter better able to shoot children.
My buddy is an electrician and told me a few months ago that he always leaves the screws in a vertical position on jobs as a sign of craftsmanship. Been thinking ever since what my “vertical screws” equivalent is for product design.
Apple’s SF Symbols app is dense with ridiculous design value, it’s criminal how few designers are aware the app (or the 5,000+ symbols included) even exists
Traditional input methods work because they're being used to choose from an array of options you can see:
Mouse = aim at features on screen
Keyboard = choose from available keys
Voice is seemingly unbounded (say whatever you want!) but functionally restricted by (1) what spoken…
Still blows my mind that Google basically cloned all of Microsoft Office as real-time collaborative web apps and just gave it to everybody for free. An unbelievable engineering feat that we all just take for granted.
It occured to me that Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s first “headphones for video” and if they are the equivalent to Apple’s first headphones for audio we’ve got a lot of exciting iterations ahead of us.
2019: Apple introduces SwiftUI
2023: You tell an AI chatbot to make an app for you and it writes all the SwiftUI code and you paste it into Xcode and hit compile and it all just works perfectly off the bat
Seriously, where do we even go from here?
TIL it’s likely that Disney stole the entire idea and plot of The Lion King from the 1960s anime series “Kimba the White Lion” with dozens of similar plot points, scenes and imagery. Yikes.
REPORTER: A Fox poll has you underwater against the main Democra--
TRUMP: "I don't believe it. I don't believe it. Every place I go we have lines outside."
The best product design advice I ever heard was to fall in love with the customer’s problem, not your solution. If you truly follow this, you’ll never get defensive or be offended by design criticism again.
Taylor Swift’s Miss Americana documentary on Netflix is just so great. She’s such a real and pure person, it’s like a soothing tonic in these shitty times.
Trump mega-supporter Robert Murray says his coal energy business will see a $60 million tax increase due to a drafting mistake in the Senate bill. A 500-page handwritten bill passed at 2am has mistakes in it? No way!
Some personal news! ✨
I’m excited to announce that starting next week I am joining the design team at Square. Huge thanks to my new team for making me feel so welcome.
This is a good and well designed feature. Big icons and clear text labels? Y'all are forgetting the entire point of UI design if you think this is a step backwards.
Good job Apple.