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Light mode gives some of us light-sensitive people migraines, unless the screen can be dimmed to the point where the contrast is terrible, and you are squinting, anyway. Additionally, with the extra brightness, colors are made louder, adding to the pain.
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You can't get it to embody Dieter Rams, and give your product a dressing down, and show you the two things you should have changed to improve the human experience, and then explain the gut reaction and immediate knowledge he has of ____ that led to the 10 seconds of fixes.
That's the gap.
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You can't get it to give you the focus group results of your product on 400 different users. You can't get it to give you the fabrication challenges or logistics challenges, or the labor or BoM or marketing challenges, and what you learned from slogging through the release / maintenance.
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So the challenge you will have is still in the abstract.
If you are a product designer, and you are making an electric can opener, you can ask AI to generate a dozen designs. You can ask it to give you a pro/con list. You can get it to tell you about Bauhaus, and its history...
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And I don't just mean code. In songwriting, you might be shown how to play a riff... beyond that, you might learn the scales/techniques in the abstract. By the time you have learned the craft, you know to use progressions to elicit responses in listeners. That's not a straight line.
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The challenge with AI for this isn't in the ability to source information, it’s that the jump requires architectural understanding, philosophical understanding... there is meta-knowledge that comes from making mistakes that can be expedited with focused leadership: from "how" to "what" to "why".
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... like, dynamic form generation, or schema-based dynamic page layouts, in Angular, as an ng-newb. Even just the "oh that's a zone quirk" or "just put a set-timeout on the dirty field swap", or opaque injector tokens...
The XKCD delta between GIS and bird-recognition exists even just a framework.
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"It's easy. I don't even see why you would want to do <perfectly reasonable thing 1> and <perfectly reasonable thing 2> together".
Personally, I find the core tenets to be great, and can lead to good systems... but then navigating specific X->Y problems as a React newbie can be just as difficult as
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It's kind of like JS... or CSS...
There are a bunch of different ways you can tackle things, where several of those paths are pretty straightforward, but if you inadvertently mix and match, it's going to hurt like retroactively making abspos sites responsive. And people you talk to can say
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You still want select redactions. The JFK files were just released, unredacted... and they doxxed a bunch of the investigators and experts on the case, over the decades, including current high-ranking politicians and officials, who had to scramble for new SSNs, etc.
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Meanwhile, measles encephalitis is a very real, very literal mind virus, which they welcome... because reasons...
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There shouldn't be stigma, but also, it shouldn't be a "movement".
Everyone dividing into their bubbles at the first sign of disagreement, as a "social norm" basically guarantees a fractured and divisive society.
But demanding people stay in abusive relationships, spouse or family is nonsense
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And the next "really cool AI will now take all of your images and let you converse with them" or whatever... also no. Also a very hard pass.
Free for Pixel users? Great. Fine. Automatically opted in? No.
I get it, you own my words and my memories. You don't need to tell me about them.
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It's adorable that this guy blocked me, because I refuted his "it's always been this way" junk, from his "AI overlords", suggesting, he's either a plant or a deeply fragile man who just learned that his AI isn't perfect.
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Sure. So Pew bears out my point. White Evangelicals and GOP vote lock-step.
The Southern Strategy was about winning the white supremacists. The Reagan campaign was about winning the evangelicals.
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So GoP pulled all racists for Nixon and bible-thumpers for Reagan.
That's how you got Limbaugh in the '90s.
That is how Strom Thurman was a revered elder statesman ...
"We have always just been this way" is only true if you were born after, and assume history is already over.
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The Reagan campaign turned it into an issue. The evangelicals who moralized the place of women in a family, and the place of sex in a society, along with think-tanks, turned it into a voting issue.
In the '80s.
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Yeah, AI doesn't need to understand any of that, to get an answer.
As of even the mid to late ’70s, polling on abortion and the Roe v Wade ruling was bipartisan.
Gerald Ford’s wife thought it was a great decision. Biden thought it went too far.
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In a just society, because taxes would be used to support everyone, to the benefit of everyone.
In a modern society, because police.
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This is the problem with history disappearing.
Not that it's being erased, but because the Internet is now just a massive pile of generated content, that is the haystack to the needle.
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Perhaps, you should ask your overlord to explain Dixiecrats, and The Southern Strategy.
Those seem to be terms that precede Limbaugh.
Then, you could try asking it how, and when, abortion became a right-wing voting issue.
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Who do you think caused the division?
If, going back to "the good old days", the majority of the US was some form of Christian, why, then, are the majority on the right?
Racism used to be a pretty bipartisan thing, in terms of policy. Why, then, has it been adopted by the right?
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Apologies for being flustered; just ... the great sitting out can't happen again, next time.
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Well, in this thread, you said he wasn't a friend... which, to be clear, I’m not going to argue. Or at minimum, even if he was, it's the friend that keeps terrible company, that you hope wakes up and walks away from the MLM scheme.
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Ok. Sure. Meanwhile, can you point to how the current populist conservative movements, winning or polling strong, in developed neoliberal nations, focused on aggrievement and "the other", are really all just Reaganomics, with no other platform differences, from liberals, whatsoever?
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...has similar economic policies.
Saying the industrial revolution was the same as WW2 Germany is just ... factually incorrect.
One may lead to the other, and may do so predictably, without extreme sociopolitical corrections...
But don't say there's no difference. Nihilism helps nothing, here.
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It's not.
And I don't even disagree with your last statement.
What got *the whole world* here is decades of the same behavior, and then the DNC actively stonewalling anybody who ran left of right of center.
That's not "don't work with people who aren't at your speed, yet". It's unfuck the system.
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Oh, don't worry. It reads text and images onscreen, just as well, so it can just as happily pick up on, parse, and catalogue your bank account number, and personal email contents, too...
One great way of beating end-to-end encryption is to capture it on-device in human-understandable form.
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And to be clear, my personal preference lies directly in the Sanders / AOC / Walz / Porter "speak to everyday people, about how we can make life better for everyday people" camp.
But if a competent, connected, erudite politician wants to help make that *easier*, now is not the time to say no.
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We, the globe, are back in a "gilded era" economy, on track for a "great depression" / "sell your kids into indentured servitude, for food to feed your other children" economy. When wheelbarrows of cash couldn't buy bread, there were two leaders that stood out. FDR and Hitler. Note their policies.
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people, being told that the strongman is going to make it all better, if they just hate the "right" people. "Them".
The whole world has moved so, so far beyond the things you are currently talking about. Yes, the Nazis were racist and sexist and transphobes... but also...
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And every time one of them actively makes austerity worse for the pocketbooks of the regular person, to trickle-up... the next person never even puts it back... put some of it back, maybe... but not all the way.
So you have pissed off, poor, desperate, underserved and intentionally undereducated
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Fascism works on aggrievement politics, and getting an ingroup riled up against outgroups by conflating the problems caused by the powerful with the outgroup, and preying on the hate / fear.
0 G7/G8 leaders have done anything about trickle-down neoliberalism, since Thatcher / Reagan / Mulroney.
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Look, not gonna say that the US isn't racist and sexist (because jesus christ), but that's not how Fascism works. France’s fascist party is partly included in their current coalition. It's run by a woman. Mussolini's fascist party controls Italy. A woman. Germany's fascists came 2nd. A woman.
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And despite not being a friend, having a capable ally, versus the current alternative...
you might as well say: "I don't care if the blackshirts and the jackboots are marching, I don't like that other guy's policies for socioeconomically disadvantaged youth. I'd rather they be wiped out, instead".
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Or rather, pick whether you would prefer to rally against the part of the left that you don't like, in 4 years... versus attempting to peacefully assemble against batons and riot shields, unmarked vans, and unidentified forces, instead.
Purity test time ended long ago. Everyone failed.
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Going back to what I was talking about with the lack of ergonomic change, once the demo becomes best-practice, I found that instead of combineReducers, and composing over sibling graph keys, composing over action types for a slice (basically pattern matching), often made it easier to split / extend.
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I think in the case of compositional interfaces, it might be better to have champions (/dev rel /etc) provide several example styles of use, lest people take the perfunctory "get up and running" and make it industry standard.
Not putting that on you; Redux isn't even an outlier. Also my point.
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I get the desire to not be prescriptive in the examples, in the effort to avoid accidentally setting "best practices", but what ends up happening is the lowest common denominator, bare bones example becomes defacto "best practice", via copy-paste proliferation, and nobody improves it until it hurts.
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That's not a bad mental model.
I think one of the challenges people are having with a by-hand approach is similar to the challenges that Redux ... became.
There are relatively few (compared to the whole) devs who take the initial paradigms and patterns, and then actively improve the ergonomics.
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I misread that as “o1” printed books, and scratched my head at the timeline, and at the lack of capital boom.
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And then fires 4000 people, at one time, for "poor performance" despite having 0 evidence that all 4000 were on performance-improvement plans with their managers at the exact same time (or at all) and many examples of glowing reviews and)/or being on maternity leave... "efficient visionary", indeed.
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We just have to remember, this time, not to create the conditions that make them next time...
Maybe leave a reminder for the people 4 generations from now, like "hey, if your parents/grandparents are getting rich and cocky and ruining your lives, this is going to happen again, again; be cool"
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Of course, the whole system failing them doesn't excuse them.
But it's not like we aren't seeing similar conditions to what made the initial brownshirts, or the blackshirts.
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There are groups of people who will happily destroy their own lives, if it means taking the people they have been told to hate, with them.
Generally, those kinds of people have been systemically underpaid, under-educated, and fed mountains of propaganda.