ralabaster (u/ralabaster)

ralabaster commented on The first atomic bomb created ‘forbidden’ quasicrystal discovermagazine.com/the-... · Posted by u/danboarder

ralabaster · 4 years ago

Oh, so now they’re ‘forbidden’? A few months ago they were only ‘impossible’.[1] I saved the article (which also was here on HN) at the time because it contains the conceit “science does what puny humans say is impossible,” but the people who say things are impossible are scientists themselves. Are we supposed to be impressed by that? Plagiarists, AKA journalists, get paid to copy other people’s work. Come to think of it, that’s what Stack Exchange is for, too…

[1]https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01332-0

ralabaster commented on The Greshm System [pdf] greshm.org/files/greshm.p... · Posted by u/Suncho

ralabaster · 5 years ago

Not sure of the point of naming after “bad money drives out the good.” A smirk, perhaps?

Let’s hope merchants don’t buy in, because the cattle don’t know the difference between “basic income” and “basically a Ponzi scheme.”

ralabaster commented on An oral history of the hamburger icon (2019) invisionapp.com/inside-de... · Posted by u/_Microft

gertrunde · 5 years ago

I'm not sure why, but I'm in that camp too. I can only assume that there is some piece of shared past computer system experience I don't share with the hamburger menu people.

That icon has just never really been associated with 'menu' for me, so my eyesight just glides over it as if it's not there, and it just doesn't register as a UI component. (And that vertical ellipsis is even worse, doubly so if it repeated in multiple locations within a UI.

ralabaster · 5 years ago

Your eyesight glides over it as if it’s not there? Oddly enough, that seems perfect from an uncluttered-design standpoint. Can you still find menus when they’re hidden behind invisible hamburgers, perhaps by association with the top of the page?