It’s true that ads almost always show 10:10, but there are plenty of learning materials online that have other times.

Reasonable, but not as good as a simple bar chart.

i’m not convinced that’s true though.

Ok, well the people I linked to have done actual usability studies to back up their claims. But, you have a feeling?

Because it’s easier for humans to read?

Huh?

With only 2 values? Why would you want that? And what makes you believe they’re as good as a bar chart for that?

I don’t think we know what the next war is going to be like. Yes, radio interference is a major challenge with the current generation, but there are already partial work-arounds like fiber.

Yeah, it’s unlikely that the next generation will be 100% remote controlled with no local autonomy because that requires a high bandwidth. But systems with a moderate amount of autonomy might be fine.

You should know that pie charts are widely seen as being very ineffective ways of communicating data.

I’ve never liked them. It’s a design that’s like “give me a rough approximation of the time” vs. a digital clock that gives you the precise time. And, if all you want is a rough approximation of the time, a digital clock is still probably better because you just read the first few digits.

When the hour hand is on 9, you can see at a glance it is two hours from 11 and three hours from 12 without needing to do the calculation in your head.

I don’t think most people need to do a mental calculation to know that 9 am is 3 hours from 12. That’s just a fact that’s easy to remember since you’re exposed to it so often.

When the hour hand is in the upper right, you know is it shortly after noon or midnight depending on how bright it is outside

And when the digital clock says “1” or “2” you know it’s either afternoon or the middle of the night. Even better, if you’re using 24 hour time you know precisely if it’s afternoon or early in the morning even if you’re in an underground bunker.

When looking at the minute hand, if you see something started at 2:10

Yes… you can just remember the “minutes” part of the time on a digital clock was too.

15 minutes is easy to figure out because it is a quarter of the circle.

15 minutes is easy to figure out on a digital clock too because it’s ultra simple math to just add or subtract 15 from a number below 60.

I wonder if the issue is that AIs just have no idea how to draw a clock. Or, is it that they’ve been trained on papers where doctors talk about the various issues patients sometimes have when drawing clocks.

I suspect it’s probably the first one. AIs seem to have a real problem with anything visually complicated. One of the easiest ways to spot AI slop is to look at the logos on t-shirts.

This is amazing. PDFs full of redacted legal docs are so far from people’s daily experiences. Even if they’re printouts of emails, it’s hard to slog through them. Pretending you’re logged into gmail as Epstein and can just browse around in his emails, that’s just a brilliant way to make this information more easily accessible.

I’ve noticed some glitches in how it presents things. It often doesn’t get the order of things right , like in one case one of Epstein’s flunkies emailed him asking “Have you seen this?” forwarding an email from someone else. The jmail site rendered it as Epstein receiving the forwarded email, then lots of replies to that. Often the order of things is wrong too. But, you can always click on “view original document” to see what it actually looked like.

Regardless of the content, whoever came up with this way of presenting the information deserves some kind of UI/UX award.

I don’t think the “pilot will be replaced by AI”. I think there will just be drones that look nothing like fighter jets. Some might have a certain amount of autonomy, which is vaguely similar to “AI”. Others will be controlled remotely. Still others will probably be a mix, like a swarm that’s human-controlled but where the individual drones in the swarm are somewhat autonomous.

What role does the jet have to fulfill? Fight off enemy planes in an invasion? If it’s the US that invades you wouldn’t want US tech, but it doesn’t really matter, the US would win. Russia invading? At this point they’re down to kites and helium balloons, right?

If it’s to fulfill a role within NATO, a Gripen is probably just as good as an F-35, because any enemy of NATO’s will almost certainly be many generations behind. China wouldn’t be, but neither Canada directly nor NATO is likely to get into a direct fighting war with China. Only maybe if Canada wanted to help defend Taiwan against Chinese aggression could that possibly happen. But, because Taiwan’s a small island, Canada’s Navy would probably be the main force involved.

In a few decades, things might already have changed. Missiles and drones might have made fighter jets essentially obsolete. So, it doesn’t make too much sense to buy something that’s massively expensive just because it’s the most up-to-date thing right now.

Nice, what was the “Host” in that case? www.cloudflare.com?

Interesting, good job cloudflare for at least being able to serve the correct error message.

This makes me curious, was there actually a cloudflare error page with the error on the cloudflare cloud? I’m used to seeing the one where the error is on the host. But, for an error where the error shows as being on cloudflare, cloudflare’s systems would have to be working enough to serve the error page where they show that their cloud is the issue, but broken enough to not be able to serve the cached content.

Even if the abstractions aren’t pointless, there’s a limit to how many levels of abstraction you can make sense of.

I’ve seen some projects that are very well engineered, with nice code, good comments, well named variables and functions. But, the levels of abstraction and nesting get so deep that you forget why you were digging by the time you get somewhere relevant.

What’s frustrating there is that you can’t blame someone else. It’s just a limit for how much your brain can contain.

At least “zero talent” makes more sense.

And you insist you’re an adult.